At the time of writing:
*Writing R Extensions:*
...the âEnhancesâ field lists packages âenhancedâ by the package at
hand...
*Bioconductor:*
Enhances: is for packages such as Rmpi or parallel that enhance the
performance of the current package, but are not strictly needed for its
The behavior depends on the specific locale. When these characters are
deparsed in a Chinese locale, they work fine, but in an English
locale, they will get escaped:
x - I like \u5BFF\u53F8
x
[1] I like 寿司
deparse(x)
[1] \I like 寿司\
sessionInfo()
R version 3.1.1 (2014-07-10)
Platform:
An interesting topic, but I'll only respond with my own experience,
and that is, while 'listof' could be usefully extended there was not
enough meat on the bones to want to do so. I think this is a limitation
of the S3 class/method structure, as I see it.
In several packages (effects, heplots,
