On Thu, Nov 21, 2013 at 1:17 AM, Scott Kostyshak <skost...@princeton.edu> wrote: > Attached is a patch with suggestions for the R-lang manual at r64277. > > Below are a few comments (some are implemented in the patch): > > In the section "Objects", there is a table introduced by "The > following table describes the possible values returned by typeof". One > of the results is "any". Can "any" be returned by "typeof()" ? > > Regarding the "Recycling rules" section, > > -One exception is that when adding vectors to matrices, a warning is not > -given if the lengths are incompatible. > -@c Is that a bug? > - > > was this a bug that was fixed? I see the following behavior: > >> myvec <- 1:3 >> mymat <- matrix(1:12, ncol=2) >> myvec <- 1:5 >> myvec + mymat > [,1] [,2] > [1,] 2 9 > [2,] 4 11 > [3,] 6 13 > [4,] 8 15 > [5,] 10 12 > [6,] 7 14 > Warning message: > In myvec + mymat : > longer object length is not a multiple of shorter object length >> > > Regarding > > -The arguments in the call to the generic are rematched with the > -arguments for the method using the standard argument matching mechanism. > -The first argument, i.e.@: the object, will have been evaluated. > - > > this information is duplicated. See a few paragraphs up "When the > method is invoked it is called..." > > Scott > > > -- > Scott Kostyshak > Economics PhD Candidate > Princeton University
The patch still applies cleanly (one offset) on r65090. Best, Scott -- Scott Kostyshak Economics PhD Candidate Princeton University ______________________________________________ R-devel@r-project.org mailing list https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-devel
