Re: [Rd] Recent and upcoming changes to R-devel

2011-07-06 Thread Steve Lianoglou
On Wed, Jul 6, 2011 at 10:17 AM, Simon Urbanek wrote: > > On Jul 6, 2011, at 10:06 AM, Kasper Daniel Hansen wrote: [aggressive trimming] >>> It seems like something a front end could do to make assignInNamespace >>> easier to use to make working with namespaces easier. >> >> Indeed I find this cha

[Rd] apparent typo in heatmap docs: bump?

2011-07-06 Thread Ben Bolker
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 An apparent bug in the documentation for heatmap() was pointed out a few days ago . I haven't seen any discussion of this. Would it be better to submit it as a bug so it doesn't get lo

Re: [Rd] Recent and upcoming changes to R-devel

2011-07-06 Thread Simon Urbanek
On Jul 6, 2011, at 10:06 AM, Kasper Daniel Hansen wrote: > On Wed, Jul 6, 2011 at 9:42 AM, Duncan Murdoch > wrote: >> On 11-07-06 9:25 AM, Kasper Daniel Hansen wrote: >>> >>> On Mon, Jul 4, 2011 at 8:08 AM, Prof Brian Ripley >>> wrote: In the near future all packages will have a na

Re: [Rd] [datatable-help] speeding up perception

2011-07-06 Thread luke-tierney
On Wed, 6 Jul 2011, Simon Urbanek wrote: Interesting, and I stand corrected: x = data.frame(a=1:n,b=1:n) .Internal(inspect(x)) @103511c00 19 VECSXP g0c2 [OBJ,NAM(2),ATT] (len=2, tl=0) @102c7b000 13 INTSXP g0c7 [] (len=10, tl=0) 1,2,3,4,5,... @102af3000 13 INTSXP g0c7 [] (len=10, tl=

Re: [Rd] Recent and upcoming changes to R-devel

2011-07-06 Thread Kasper Daniel Hansen
On Wed, Jul 6, 2011 at 9:42 AM, Duncan Murdoch wrote: > On 11-07-06 9:25 AM, Kasper Daniel Hansen wrote: >> >> On Mon, Jul 4, 2011 at 8:08 AM, Prof Brian Ripley >>  wrote: >>> >>> In the near future all packages will have a name space.  If the sources >>> do >>> not contain one, a default NAMESPAC

Re: [Rd] Recent and upcoming changes to R-devel

2011-07-06 Thread Duncan Murdoch
On 11-07-06 9:25 AM, Kasper Daniel Hansen wrote: On Mon, Jul 4, 2011 at 8:08 AM, Prof Brian Ripley wrote: In the near future all packages will have a name space. If the sources do not contain one, a default NAMESPACE file will be added. This again will simplify the descriptions and also a lot

Re: [Rd] [datatable-help] speeding up perception

2011-07-06 Thread Simon Urbanek
Interesting, and I stand corrected: > x = data.frame(a=1:n,b=1:n) > .Internal(inspect(x)) @103511c00 19 VECSXP g0c2 [OBJ,NAM(2),ATT] (len=2, tl=0) @102c7b000 13 INTSXP g0c7 [] (len=10, tl=0) 1,2,3,4,5,... @102af3000 13 INTSXP g0c7 [] (len=10, tl=0) 1,2,3,4,5,... > x[1,1]=42L > .Intern

Re: [Rd] Recent and upcoming changes to R-devel

2011-07-06 Thread Kasper Daniel Hansen
On Mon, Jul 4, 2011 at 8:08 AM, Prof Brian Ripley wrote: > In the near future all packages will have a name space.  If the sources do > not contain one, a default NAMESPACE file will be added. This again will > simplify the descriptions and also a lot of internal code.  Maintainers of > packages w

Re: [Rd] Syntactically valid names

2011-07-06 Thread Hadley Wickham
> That's two different issues: > >> y <- list() >> y$... <- 2 >> y$..2 <- 3 >> y$break <- 4 > Error: unexpected 'break' in "y$break" > > Notice that there is nothing _syntactically_ wrong with ... & friends as > names: > >> quote(...<-4) > ... <- 4 > > It's the _evaluator_ that throws the error be

Re: [Rd] Recent and upcoming changes to R-devel

2011-07-06 Thread Duncan Murdoch
On 11-07-06 3:46 AM, Stephan Wahlbrink wrote: Duncan Murdoch wrote [2011-07-05 17:21]: On 05/07/2011 11:20 AM, Stephan Wahlbrink wrote: Dear developers, Duncan Murdoch wrote [2011-07-05 15:25]: On 05/07/2011 6:52 AM, Tobias Verbeke wrote: L.S. On 07/05/2011 02:16 AM, mark.braving...@csiro.a

Re: [Rd] [datatable-help] speeding up perception

2011-07-06 Thread Matthew Dowle
On Tue, 2011-07-05 at 21:11 -0400, Simon Urbanek wrote: > No subassignment function satisfies that condition, because you can always > call them directly. However, that doesn't stop the default method from making > that assumption, so I'm not sure it's an issue. > > David, Just to clarify - the

Re: [Rd] Syntactically valid names

2011-07-06 Thread peter dalgaard
On Jul 6, 2011, at 03:25 , Hadley Wickham wrote: >> What's wrong with that? They are names alright, just with special meanings. > > But you can't really use them for variables: > >> ... <- 4 >> ... > Error: '...' used in an incorrect context >> ..1 <- 4 >> ..1 > Error: 'nthcdr' needs a list to

Re: [Rd] Recent and upcoming changes to R-devel

2011-07-06 Thread Stephan Wahlbrink
Duncan Murdoch wrote [2011-07-05 17:21]: On 05/07/2011 11:20 AM, Stephan Wahlbrink wrote: Dear developers, Duncan Murdoch wrote [2011-07-05 15:25]: > On 05/07/2011 6:52 AM, Tobias Verbeke wrote: >> L.S. >> >> On 07/05/2011 02:16 AM, mark.braving...@csiro.au wrote: >> > I may have misunderstood,