On Thu, 4 Jul 2024 at 11:44, Ivan Krylov via R-devel <r-devel@r-project.org> wrote:
> Hello R-devel, > > I would like to suggest a couple of updates for the R FAQ. > > https://CRAN.R-project.org/bin/linux/suse is currently empty and the > directory has mtime from 2012, so it probably doesn't help to reference > it in FAQ 2.6. > And now that we are at it, I would like to suggest also a mention to https://cran.r-project.org/bin/linux/fedora/ Iñaki > There seems to be increased interest in using variables as variable > names [1,2], so it might be useful to expand 7.21 a little. Can an R > FAQ entry link to R-intro section 6.1? > > Index: doc/manual/R-FAQ.texi > =================================================================== > --- doc/manual/R-FAQ.texi (revision 86871) > +++ doc/manual/R-FAQ.texi (working copy) > @@ -503,9 +503,6 @@ > @abbr{RPM}s for @I{RedHat Enterprise Linux} and compatible distributions > (e.g., > @I{Centos}, Scientific Linux, Oracle Linux). > > -See @url{https://CRAN.R-project.org/bin/linux/suse/README.html} for > -information about @abbr{RPM}s for openSUSE. > - > No other binary distributions are currently publicly available via > @CRAN{}. > > @@ -2624,8 +2621,31 @@ > @end example > > @noindent > -without any of this messing about. > +without any of this messing about. This becomes especially true if you > +are finding yourself creating and trying to programmatically access > +groups of related variables such as @code{result1}, @code{result2}, > +@code{result3}, and so on: instead of fighting against the language to > +use > > +@example > +# 'i'th result <- process('i'th dataset) > +assign(paste0("result", i), process(get(paste0("dataset", i)))) > +@end example > + > +it is much easier to put the related variables in lists and use > + > +@example > +result[[i]] <- process(dataset[[i]]) > +@end example > + > +and, eventually, > + > +@example > +result <- lapply(dataset, process) > +@end example > + > +which is easy to replace with @code{parLapply} for parallel processing. > + > @node Why do lattice/trellis graphics not work? > @section Why do lattice/trellis graphics not work? > > > > -- > Best regards, > Ivan > > ______________________________________________ > R-devel@r-project.org mailing list > https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-devel > -- Iñaki Úcar [[alternative HTML version deleted]] ______________________________________________ R-devel@r-project.org mailing list https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-devel
