Dear R developers,
Recently, I was busy comparing different versions of several packages.
Tired of going back and forth between R and diff, I created a simple
file comparison function in R that I found quite useful. For an
efficient and familiar interface I called it diff.character() and ran
. Looking forward to the
4.0.0 official release - all positive changes!
All the best,
Arni
From: Martin Maechler
Sent: Monday, April 20, 2020 6:23:31 PM
To: Arni Magnusson
Cc: r-devel@r-project.org
Subject: Re: [Rd] stringsAsFactors and type.convert()
>>&g
If read.table() is defaulting to "character" instead of "factor" data type,
shouldn't type.convert() also default to "character" in R 4.0.0?
This would seem like a good time to change the default to
type.convert(as.is=TRUE), to align it with the new default in read.table and
data.frame. I
Thanks Duncan, for considering ASCIIfy. I understand your reasoning.
This is a recurring pattern - I propose functions for core R, and Greg
catches them from freefall :)
I'm delighted with ASCIIfy being hosted in gtools. The R and Rd should be
ready as is.
Cheers,
Arni
{fallback}{an output character to use, when input characters
cannot be converted.}
}
\value{
A character vector like \code{x}, except non-ASCII characters have
been replaced with \samp{\x00} or \samp{\u} codes.
}
\author{Arni Magnusson.}
\note{
To render single backslashes, use
Thank you, Kevin, for the feedback.
1. The mode is not so interesting for continuous data. I would much
rather use something like density().
Absolutely. The help page for statmode() says it is for discrete data, and
points to density() for continuous data.
2. Both the iris and barley data
One descriptive statistic that is conspicuously missing from core R is the
statistical mode - the most frequent value in a discrete distribution.
I would like to propose adding the attached 'statmode' (or a similar
function) to the 'stats' package.
Currently, it can be quite cumbersome to
to a
vector, while retaining its names. Or I may well be missing something
obvious.
Best regards,
Arni
On Wed, 8 Sep 2010, Simon Urbanek wrote:
wrong address - did you mean R-devel?
Simon
On Sep 6, 2010, at 8:35 AM, Arni Magnusson wrote:
Bug or not, I was surprised by this behavior
contain \code{NA} values. The default is to ignore missing
values in the given variables.}
\item{\dots}{further arguments passed to \code{matplot} and
\code{polygon}.}
}
\value{
Matrix of cumulative sums that was used for plotting.
}
\author{
Arni Magnusson.
}
\seealso
I'm relaying a question from my institute's sysadmin:
Would it be possible to modify update.packages() and related functions so
that 'lib.loc' accepts integer values to specify a library from the
.libPaths() vector?
Many Linux users want to update all user packages (inside the R_LIBS_USER
.
Modified Sainte-Laguë is used in Norway and Sweden.
Sainte-Laguë is used in Bosnia and Herzegovina, Kosovo, Latvia, and
New Zealand.
}
\author{Arni Magnusson.}
\references{
Balinski, M. and V. RamÃrez. 1999. Parametric methods of
apportionment, rounding and production. \emph
, the first paragraph should end with where the other multinomial
functions reside.
Revision 2,
Arni
On Thu, 11 Feb 2010, Arni Magnusson wrote:
I present you with a function that solves a problem that has bugged me
for many years. I think the problem may be general enough to at least
consider
Thank you Prof. Ripley, for examining this issue. I have two more
questions on this topic, if I may.
(1) Truncated column names
With your explanations I can see that the problem of missing column names
originates in cbind() and the 'deparse.level' bug we have just discovered.
I had tried
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