Re: [Rd] (not just!) Windows R CMD build pkg leftovers

2005-12-02 Thread Prof Brian Ripley
On Thu, 1 Dec 2005, Martin Morgan wrote: Perhaps this earlier post slipped through the cracks? My apologies if it's still 'in process', or I missed a response, or if the contribution isn't helpful. Have patience, it is `in process'. But if you consider such things important (and clearly you

[Rd] Enlightenment sought and a possible buglet in vector.Rd

2005-12-02 Thread Berwin A Turlach
Dear all, First, I recently had reasons to read the help page of as.vector() and noticed in the example section the following example: x - c(a = 1, b = 2) is.vector(x) as.vector(x) all.equal(x, as.vector(x)) ## FALSE However, in all versions of R in which I executed this

Re: [Rd] Enlightenment sought and a possible buglet in vector.Rd

2005-12-02 Thread Prof Brian Ripley
On Fri, 2 Dec 2005, Berwin A Turlach wrote: [...] The second behaviour that I cannot explain was produced by code written by somebody else, namely: foo function(x){ z - x/4 while( abs(z*z*z-x) 1e-10 ){ z - (2*z+x/z^2)/3 } } The

[Rd] all.equal() for mismatching names {was Enlightenment sought...}

2005-12-02 Thread Martin Maechler
BeT == Berwin A Turlach [EMAIL PROTECTED] on Fri, 2 Dec 2005 18:31:13 +0800 writes: BeT First, I recently had reasons to read the help page of as.vector() and BeT noticed in the example section the following example: BeT x - c(a = 1, b = 2) BeT is.vector(x) BeT

[Rd] t() dropping NULL dimnames {was all.equal() for mismatching names...}

2005-12-02 Thread Martin Maechler
MM == Martin Maechler [EMAIL PROTECTED] on Fri, 2 Dec 2005 14:44:22 +0100 writes: BeT == Berwin A Turlach [EMAIL PROTECTED] on Fri, 2 Dec 2005 18:31:13 +0800 writes: BeT First, I recently had reasons to read the help page of as.vector() and BeT noticed in the example section

Re: [Rd] t() dropping NULL dimnames {was all.equal() for mismatching names...}

2005-12-02 Thread Andrew Piskorski
On Fri, Dec 02, 2005 at 05:56:31PM +0100, Martin Maechler wrote: BeT x - c(a = 1, b = 2) BeT is.vector(x) BeT as.vector(x) BeT all.equal(x, as.vector(x)) ## FALSE BeT However, in all versions of R in which I executed this example, the BeT all.equal command returned