[Rd] Documentation bug in complex.Rd (PR#8218)

2005-10-19 Thread berwin
Dear all, I noticed a documentation error in complex.Rd. A patch that corrects the error is as follows: [bossiaea:R-devel-src]$ svn diff Index: src/library/base/man/complex.Rd === --- src/library/base/man/complex.Rd (revision

[Rd] can't start csh (scripts) (PR#8220)

2005-10-19 Thread Jens . Gloeckler
Dear R developers, after upgrading from R 2.1.1 to 2.2.0 I can't start csh (scripts) anymore. While the following commands work fine system(tcsh -c pwd) /hom1/users/gloeckler system(bash -c pwd) /hom1/users/gloeckler system(ksh -c pwd) /hom1/users/gloeckler csh (in contrast to

Re: [Rd] [ subscripting sometimes loses names (PR#8192)

2005-10-19 Thread maechler
Andy, that's interesting, but honestly your posting only *talked* about your perceptions of bogous behavior of R and gave link to a quite extensive S source file --- which re-defines basic functions so it's not a file I'd just want to source into my R session. Proper R bug reports provide short

Re: [Rd] extending lattice to S4 classes

2005-10-19 Thread Deepayan Sarkar
On 10/18/05, ernesto [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Prof Brian Ripley wrote: I think you are confusing us: xyplot is an S3 generic with no 'data' argument. It is xyplot.formula that you want to add dispatch on its 'data' argument. I don't really see why you want to mix S3 and S4 systems,

Re: [Rd] is.na- problem

2005-10-19 Thread Rich FitzJohn
Hi, It does seem to be working as advertised, but not particulary intuitively. From ?is.na The generic function 'is.na-' sets elements to 'NA' In fact: xx - c(NA, 1) is.na(xx) - 2 xx [1] NA NA or is.na(xx) - 5 [1] NA 1 NA NA NA Looks like this was introduced in 1.4.0; from NEWS: o

Re: [Rd] is.na- problem

2005-10-19 Thread Marc Schwartz
On Thu, 2005-10-20 at 01:13 +0100, Ted Harding wrote: On 19-Oct-05 Gabor Grothendieck wrote: In the following the first element of xx should have been set to 0 but remains NA. Any comments? xx - c(NA,1) is.na(xx) - 0 xx [1] NA 1 R.version.string # Windows XP [1] R version

Re: [Rd] is.na- problem

2005-10-19 Thread Gabor Grothendieck
On 10/19/05, Marc Schwartz [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Thu, 2005-10-20 at 01:13 +0100, Ted Harding wrote: On 19-Oct-05 Gabor Grothendieck wrote: In the following the first element of xx should have been set to 0 but remains NA. Any comments? xx - c(NA,1) is.na(xx) - 0 xx

Re: [Rd] is.na- problem

2005-10-19 Thread Marc Schwartz
On Wed, 2005-10-19 at 21:09 -0400, Gabor Grothendieck wrote: On 10/19/05, Marc Schwartz [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Thu, 2005-10-20 at 01:13 +0100, Ted Harding wrote: On 19-Oct-05 Gabor Grothendieck wrote: In the following the first element of xx should have been set to 0 but remains

Re: [Rd] cross-compiling tools

2005-10-19 Thread Kasper Daniel Hansen
I have been told (off-list) that cross-compiling c++ no longer works. Because of this, the c++ stuff is left out from the new tar ball. And I have also been corrected: most of the work on the cross- compiling tools were in fact done by Brian Ripley. Kasper On Oct 18, 2005, at 10:45 AM, A.J.

Re: [Rd] [R-gui] R GUI considerations (was: R, Wine, and multi-threadedness)

2005-10-19 Thread James Wettenhall
Hi Peter and everyone, [Hmmm, didn't I say I was not really interested in spending time getting into these discussions anymore? Oh well, I can't help myself. ;-) ] Why would you want a GUI for something like R in the first place? It is a programming language. That is its force. Nothing beats

Re: [Rd] cross-compiling tools

2005-10-19 Thread A.J. Rossini
Though thanks to the obtuseness of the documentation, the makefile Jun wrote has helped a great deal of folks. While some have been appreciative, certain other folks have only bothered to make snide, hostile remarks and not bothered to be polite enough to suggest changes that might have prevented