Gabe,
> Also, I would expect the year 1e50 and the "year" Inf to be functionally
> equivalent in meaning (and largely meaningless) in context.
indeed.
thanks, Greg
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Greg,
I see what you mean, but on the other hand, that's not how we think about
real numbers working either, and doubles have that behavior generally. It
might be possible to put checks in (with a potentially non-trivial overhead
cost) to disallow that kind of thing, but again R (and everyone else
Are you sure it's not available in patched? It's definitely in the
source since 6/1.
Michael
On Wed, Jun 13, 2018 at 2:19 AM, Martin Maechler
wrote:
>> Michael Lawrence
>> on Tue, 12 Jun 2018 19:27:49 -0700 writes:
>
> > Hi Jen, This was already resolved for R 3.5.1 by just
>
Thanks for the report, I can reproduce. In Rgui, the output of
"print(cars)" is incorrect, the line numbers appear as part of the
command prompt string (printed in reverse order, without newlines),
while the rest of the output is correctly displayed. This is a bug, I
will have a closer look
B
> Michael Lawrence
> on Tue, 12 Jun 2018 19:27:49 -0700 writes:
> Hi Jen, This was already resolved for R 3.5.1 by just
> disabling buffering on terminal file connections like stdin.
and before R 3.5.1 exists, *and*
as the change is also not yet available in R patched (!)
thi
