On Thu, 19 Jul 2007, Peter Dalgaard wrote:
> Prof Brian Ripley wrote:
>> On Thu, 19 Jul 2007, Peter Dalgaard wrote:
>>
>>
>>> ONKELINX, Thierry wrote:
>>>
>>>> The problem also exists in a clean workspace. But I've found the
>>>> troublemaker. I had set options(OutDec = ","). Resetting this to
>>>> options(OutDec = ".") solved the problem.
>>>>
>>>> Thanks,
>>>>
>>>> Thierry
>>>>
>>>>
>>> Oups. That sounds like there's a bug somewhere. Can you cook up a
>>> minimal example which shows the behaviour?
>>>
>>
>> Any use of summary.lm will do it (e.g. example(lm)). The problem is in
>> printCoefmat, at
>>
>> x0 <- (xm[okP] == 0) != (as.numeric(Cf[okP]) == 0)
>>
>> and yes, it looks like an infelicity to me.
>>
>>
> Ick. Any better ideas than
>
> printsAs0 <- scan(con <- textConnection(Cf[okP), dec=options("outDec")) ;
> close(con)
> x0 <- (xm[okP] == 0) != printsAs0
>
> ?
Yes, several. That assumes that getOption("OutDec") (which is what you
need) is a single char since scan() does. If so, chartr() will do the job
and more generally sub() would. Alternatively, we could figure out what
representations of zero are possible and grep for them.
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