On Sat, 25 Oct 2008, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Thanks both
The other item that might have a relationship to this
is the ability to a copy an object without evaluating it. This can't be
done entirely in R but can be done in C code from R:
Returning the internal R_MissingArg token was a bug. From the svn
logs it looks like I fixed this bug back in June (so has been in
R-devel for a while) along with fixing a bug in the way system.time
used to be defined. I no longer recall the details but suspect the
need to fix this arose in
On Fri, Oct 24, 2008 at 6:53 AM, Luke Tierney [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
There is already sone desire to have a
way of checking whether a binding contains a delayed evaluation, so
maybe something like a function bindingStatus that returns one of
active, missing, delayed or evaluated makes sense.
Thanks both
The other item that might have a relationship to this
is the ability to a copy an object without evaluating it. This can't be
done entirely in R but can be done in C code from R:
http://tolstoy.newcastle.edu.au/R/e2/devel/07/09/.html
For me, copying is even more important
There is an unannounced and non-backwards-compatible change to the behaviour of
'get' in R2.8.0. 'get'ting a missing value now causes an error, whereas
hitherto it's just returned a missing object. For example, in R2.8.0 this
happens:
test getto - function( x) get( 'x', sys.frame(1))
test
