BDR == Prof Brian Ripley [EMAIL PROTECTED]
on Fri, 30 May 2008 22:34:28 +0100 (BST) writes:
BDR I think it is ESS that is parsing this as a help
BDR request (so it can divert it to an ESS buffer).
BDR Looks like this is an ESS issue, not an R one.
yes, indeed, hence much more
(Comment near the bottom of the text.)
Seth Falcon wrote:
* On 2008-06-01 at 11:30 -0400 John Chambers wrote:
My impression (but just as a user, not an implementer) is that the
NAMESPACE mechanism is intended to search for anything, not just for
methods, as follows:
- look in the
A number of the help pages have been revised, so far only on the r-devel
version, although the great majority of the revisions apply to 2.7.0 as
well.
Much of the existing documentation is out of date, some of it badly.
Also, a goal of the revision is that readers could start with
Mike Prager [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
I was at a loss to understand the use of / until I looked in
An Introduction [!] to R, where I found the explanation.
My request is that more complete material on model formulae be
lifted from Introduction to R (or elsewhere) and put into the
main
Recently I posted to this list with a question about using the Intel 10.1
compilers in building R and one response was basically, why in the heck
would you want to do that? The answer is that my sysadmin believes that
there will be a performance boost with the Intel vs. Gnu compilers on our
Linux
From the help pages I see that there is a configure.args argument to
install.packages, and I am using that successfully. I do not see anything
similar for update.packages(). Does each package keep track of the
configure.args used to build in initially and pass this on to subsequent
updates or I am
Dear R-devel -
I have investigated the report I made at
https://stat.ethz.ch/pipermail/r-devel/2008-May/049683.html some more,
and believe I have enough information to warrant an update. My
sessionInfo() immediately after starting R is at the bottom of this message.
I decided to first
