Re: [Rd] suggestion for ?factor

2010-08-09 Thread peter dalgaard
On Aug 9, 2010, at 5:37 PM, (Ted Harding) wrote: > Hi Folks. > May I suggest a small addition to ?factor -- this is not explicit > about how to force the ordering of levels in an ordered factor. > > One can guess it, but I think it would be a good idea to spell it out. > For example, one can do:

[Rd] suggestion for ?factor

2010-08-09 Thread Ted Harding
Hi Folks. May I suggest a small addition to ?factor -- this is not explicit about how to force the ordering of levels in an ordered factor. One can guess it, but I think it would be a good idea to spell it out. For example, one can do: X <- c("Alf","Bert","Chris","Dave") F <- factor(X,levels=

Re: [Rd] rbind on data.frame that contains a column that is also a data.frame

2010-08-09 Thread Claudia Beleites
Dear all, I also use matrices inside data.frames in my (S4) class "hyperSpec". So, yes, it would be great if commands like apply would work as straightforward as e.g. rbind does on such data.frames. The problem here seems to me different, though: Is it possible that the relevant difference betwe

[Rd] R readline not honoring RCustomCompletion

2010-08-09 Thread Rafael Laboissiere
This issue has been brought at least twice in R-help: https://stat.ethz.ch/pipermail/r-help/2008-September/173828.html https://stat.ethz.ch/pipermail/r-help/2009-May/197360.html Looking at the source in src/unix/sys-std.c, it seems that the definition of rl_readline_name as "RCustomCompletion" is