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, but:

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 CDR down And

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] 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,

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 because the ...-name has a

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 rip...@stats.ox.ac.uk 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.  

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

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 Ripleyrip...@stats.ox.ac.uk 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

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 murdoch.dun...@gmail.com wrote: On 11-07-06 9:25 AM, Kasper Daniel Hansen wrote: On Mon, Jul 4, 2011 at 8:08 AM, Prof Brian Ripleyrip...@stats.ox.ac.uk  wrote: In the near future all packages will have a name space.  If the sources do not

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,

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 murdoch.dun...@gmail.com wrote: On 11-07-06 9:25 AM, Kasper Daniel Hansen wrote: On Mon, Jul 4, 2011 at 8:08 AM, Prof Brian Ripleyrip...@stats.ox.ac.uk wrote: In the near future

[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 http://tolstoy.newcastle.edu.au/R/e14/devel/11/07/0656.html. I haven't seen any discussion of this. Would it be better to submit it as a bug so it doesn't get

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 simon.urba...@r-project.org 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