This is just the right place to post about this sort of thing. You can also always open an issue with specific problems like this. In this case, it happens that there's already an ongoing debate that's closely related in two issues:
- https://github.com/JuliaLang/julia/pull/5810 - https://github.com/JuliaLang/julia/issues/6212 On Thu, Mar 20, 2014 at 11:12 AM, Martin Maechler <[email protected]>wrote: > > > Yes, I'm a beginner in julia, (but an expert in R), > and have been trying things in julia, on and off, for more than a year.. > > Today I updated my julia (see versioninfo below), and also wanted to > update my (Statistics related) packages. > There was an issue that Pkg.add("RDatasets") did not work {package not > available}, and the same for "GLM", > but finally Pkg.add("Dataframes") cloned and installed everything > {ok, the above was the first "bug report" ...}. > > The main issue of this posting does look a bit more fundamental though: > > > julia> whos(Base) > ! Function > != Function > !== Function > $ Function > % Function > > .................. > .................. > > Filter DataType > GeneralizedSVD DataType > GeneralizedSchur DataType > Graphics Module > Hermitian DataType > Hessenberg DataType > > > > > *ERROR: no method size(UniformScaling{Int64}) in summary at show.jl:888 > in whos at show.jl:935 in whos at show.jl:940 * > julia> versioninfo() > Julia Version 0.3.0-prerelease+2118 > Commit 6ea7022* (2014-03-19 21:35 UTC)Platform Info: > System: Linux (x86_64-redhat-linux) > CPU: Intel(R) Core(TM) i7-4765T CPU @ 2.00GHz > WORD_SIZE: 64 > BLAS: libopenblas (USE64BITINT DYNAMIC_ARCH NO_AFFINITY) > LAPACK: libopenblas > LIBM: libopenlibm > > julia> > > ------------- > Please tell me if this is the wrong place to "post" or maybe how I could > have quickly searched all issues to see if this was already reported. > > Martin Maechler, ETH Zurich >
