[Rd] Expected error with help.search in R 3.2.0

2015-06-13 Thread David Winsemius
Using the Mavericks/Yosemite version of R 3.2.0, I see this: utils::help.search(linear models) Error in help(db[i, topic], package = db[i, Package], lib.loc = lib, : 'topic' should be a name, length-one character vector or reserved word Using R 3.1.2 on a SnowLeapard branch does not produce

Re: [Rd] RFC: Declaring foo.bar as nonS3method() ?!

2015-06-13 Thread John Fox
Dear Martin et al., Thank you for considering so thoroughly the issue that I raised. Best, John On Sat, 13 Jun 2015 13:35:41 +0200 Martin Maechler maech...@stat.math.ethz.ch wrote: Luke Tierney luke-tier...@uiowa.edu on Fri, 12 Jun 2015 10:30:29 -0500 writes: The notes

Re: [R-pkg-devel] apparent S3 methods note in R CMD check

2015-06-13 Thread Martin Maechler
Uwe Ligges lig...@statistik.tu-dortmund.de on Fri, 12 Jun 2015 22:58:17 +0200 writes: On 12.06.2015 18:22, Roebuck,Paul L wrote: Actually, between this and other things coming from 'R CMD check' these days, I disagree that this is reasonable at all - it's a hack

Re: [Rd] RFC: Declaring foo.bar as nonS3method() ?!

2015-06-13 Thread Martin Maechler
Luke Tierney luke-tier...@uiowa.edu on Fri, 12 Jun 2015 10:30:29 -0500 writes: The notes available off the devloper page https://developer.r-project.org/ describe some of the rationale for the S3 method search design. One thing that has changed since then is that all

Re: [R-pkg-devel] use of `dev.new` across platforms in RStudio

2015-06-13 Thread Martin Maechler
Alex Chubaty alex.chub...@gmail.com on Fri, 12 Jun 2015 14:41:56 -0700 writes: Dear list members, Use of platform-specific code to open new plot devices (e.g., `quartz`, `x11`) is discouraged in favour of using `dev.new`; however, this does not work in RStudio. A

[Rd] Lack of protection bug in current R release candidate

2015-06-13 Thread Radford Neal
The current R release candidate has a lack of protect bug (of very long standing) with respect to the R_print.na_string and R_print.na_string_noquote fields of the static R_print structure declared in Print.h. This shows up very occassionally as incorrect output from the following lines in