Re: [Rd] question

2009-03-08 Thread Wacek Kusnierczyk
ivo...@gmail.com wrote: Gentlemen---these are all very clever workarounds, but please forgive me for voicing my own opinion: IMHO, returning multiple values in a statistical language should really be part of the language itself. there should be a standard syntax of some sort, whatever it

Re: [Rd] Follow-up on the wish for a visibility flag with tryEval ?

2009-03-08 Thread Laurent Gautier
I guess that I should have been reminding that the thread referred to is mostly about C API-level utilities (and the subject for this thread should be mentioning more precisely *R_tryEval()* ). Wrapping evaluation from C-level in an R-level withVisible() call is certainly possible if this is

[Rd] [RFC] running octave, python from within R

2009-03-08 Thread Soeren Sonnenburg
Dear all, a Shogun 0.7.1 is out and available at http://www.shogun-toolbox.org which contains one new feature that might be of interest to R users. The eierlegendewollmilchsau interface. In case you don't know what this term stands for use google images :-) It is one file that will interface

Re: [Rd] patch for 'merge' docs

2009-03-08 Thread Kasper Daniel Hansen
Roger (I think) L is shorthand for some logical value, ie. TRUE or FALSE. That has always been pretty clear to me. Your patch was stripped. Kasper On Mar 8, 2009, at 18:20 , Roger D. Peng wrote: I've never quite understood the documentation for the 'all' argument to 'merge'. I'm pretty