[Rd] rbind.data.frame converts character column to factor (PR#9917)

2007-09-21 Thread sebastien . villemot
Full_Name: Sébastien Villemot Version: 2.5.1 OS: Debian GNU/Linux (Testing aka Lenny) Submission from: (NULL) (193.51.127.120) Here is the transcript of a R session under version 2.5.1: x - data.frame(a = I(character(0))) typeof(x$a) [1] character x - rbind(x, list(a = foo)) typeof(x$a) [1]

Re: [Rd] Date vs date (long)

2007-09-21 Thread Terry Therneau
Peter et al Thanks for the comments on dates. Some of the respondents missed the point, by showing ways that I could work around the problems, when my main argument is that one shouldn't have to work around problems. So I hereto present round 2 of the debate. 1 Postulates a. In my 35

[Rd] Bug with Cor(..., method='spearman) and by() (PR#9921)

2007-09-21 Thread HDoran
I posted this on R help, and a few others responded indicating they too were able to replicate the error as a function of missing data. I believe this should not be the case and hence and reporting it here. ### Code provided on R-Help by Ivar Herfindal # Simulate data testdata -

Re: [Rd] How to test if R is running on a Mac

2007-09-21 Thread stefano iacus
what about system(uname) Darwin stefano On 19/set/07, at 16:34, Duncan Murdoch wrote: On 9/19/2007 9:41 AM, Gorjanc Gregor wrote: Hi! Is there any way to test if R is running on a Mac? I usually use value of .Platform$OS.type for windows or unix, but Mac falls in the latter group.

Re: [Rd] warning upon automatic close of connection

2007-09-21 Thread Gabor Grothendieck
I would like to follow up on the annoying warnings which are generated when connections are automatically closed. This is affecting several of my packages and is quite a nuisance. R does not give you a message every time it garbage collects, at least by default. Perhaps there could be a higher

Re: [Rd] (PR#9917) rbind.data.frame converts character column to

2007-09-21 Thread ripley
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