On 3/13/2007 7:46 PM, hadley wickham wrote: > On 3/13/07, Duncan Murdoch <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> On 3/13/2007 3:14 PM, hadley wickham wrote: >>> On 3/13/07, Peter Dalgaard <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >>>> Jenny Hodgson wrote: >>>>> I was using Version 2.3.1 for Windows (binary download version). Guess I >>>>> should be using the latest version, (but the reason is I'm writing up my >>>>> PhD and I thought my results would be more 'repeatable' if I didn't keep >>>>> changing my version of the software, I didn't really think there would >>>>> be any glitches as big as this). Sorry if this is a waste of your time. >>>>> And thanks very much for replying so quickly. >>>>> >>>>> Jenny >>>>> >>>>> >>>> Always a good idea to check the NEWS file: >>>> >>>> o add1.lm() had been broken by other changes for weighted fits. >>> Yes, but a little impractical. Has any one ever considered a standard >>> for the news file so changes could be extracted and included in online >>> documentation somewhere? >> It's in a structured format, and is online. The readNEWS() function can >> read it. It would be nice if someone would contribute a more friendly >> reader... >> >> Try >> >> readNEWS(url("http://cran.r-project.org/bin/windows/base/NEWS.R-2.5.0dev"), >> chop="keepAll")[[c("2.5","2.5.0","BUG FIXES")]] >> >> for the unfriendly but informative version. > > Oh, that's neat. One thing that would be very useful would be to > figure out what (if any) functions an news item refers to. A grep > against all function names in base packages wouldn't be too hard to > do.
I think we are reasonably consistent in referring to functions with parens following, e.g. add1.lm() above, so a search for patterns like that should find most of them. Duncan Murdoch > > I'll think about it, and how to render it nicely in a webpage. > > Hadley ______________________________________________ R-help@stat.math.ethz.ch mailing list https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-help PLEASE do read the posting guide http://www.R-project.org/posting-guide.html and provide commented, minimal, self-contained, reproducible code.