[Rd] as.POSIXlt.factor and '...'

I noticed a difference in how as.POSIXct handled the 'format' argument when 'x' is character versus when 'x' is a factor. For example: myFormat <- "%d-%m-%Y" myDateStr <- format(Sys.Date()+1:5,myFormat) as.POSIXct(myDateStr, format=myFormat) as.POSIXct(factor(myDateStr), format=myFormat) It seem

Re: [Rd] R-forge out?

On 29/12/2010 12:44 PM, Paul Gilbert wrote: Is anyone else having trouble connecting to R-forge svn? (Perhaps I missed an outage announcement, or is it bad weather?) I've also had trouble since yesterday. The main web page also appears to be down... Duncan Murdoch ___

[Rd] R-forge out?

Is anyone else having trouble connecting to R-forge svn? (Perhaps I missed an outage announcement, or is it bad weather?) Paul La version française suit le texte anglais. -

[Rd] Want non-ASCII characters in data package

Hi, I have a data frame that includes several names that (if typeset correctly) require accented characters not available in the ASCII character set. I'd like to include this data frame as example data in an R package. I'd also like the R CMD check warning about the use of non-ASCII charac

Re: [Rd] aperm() should retain class of input object

> Michael Friendly > on Wed, 29 Dec 2010 08:33:07 -0500 writes: > On 12/28/2010 9:43 AM, Tim Hesterberg wrote: >> Having aperm() return an object of the same class is dangerous, there >> are undoubtedly classes for which that is not appropriate, producing an >> illegal

Re: [Rd] aperm() should retain class of input object

On 12/28/2010 9:43 AM, Tim Hesterberg wrote: Having aperm() return an object of the same class is dangerous, there are undoubtedly classes for which that is not appropriate, producing an illegal object for that class or quietly giving incorrect results. OK. I can see that my initial proposal wou