date:20040227

[Rd] Regular expressions large strings (PR#6617)

2004-02-27 Thread mjw

A possible regex bug when working with large strings. The following code snippet t5 - paste( c( # === TEST, rep(' ', 2452294) ), collapse='') str( sub(^.*TEST, xyz, t5) ) str( sub(^.*TEST, xyz, substr(t5,0,200)) ) doesn't behave right; on one machine, the second and third lines print

[Rd] Re: [R] Is there a way to deactivate partial matching in R?

2004-02-27 Thread Prof Brian Ripley

[Moved to R-devel, as that is where `wishlist' items fit best.] It is not currently possible. Furthermore, the R base code is riddled with uses of partial argument matching (check out the uses of rep(), for example) and partial list matching, although from time to time I try to eradicate a

Re: [Rd] package 'stats' needs import directive for 1.9.0?

2004-02-27 Thread Swinton, Jonathan

From: Prof Brian Ripley [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [Rd] package 'stats' needs import directive for 1.9.0? To: Heywood, Giles [EMAIL PROTECTED] Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED] ... I suggest you don't try: there are already quite a few 1.9.0-specific versions of packages on CRAN, and 1.8.x will

Re: [Rd] Packages in R Java

2004-02-27 Thread A.J. Rossini

Marsland, John [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Yes, lots of packages do use C/Fortran code ... it would be great if there were more packages that are pure R especially since the advent of S4 classes and namespaces. Even with those, quite often we have to move code to C/C++/Fortran for efficiency.

Re: [Rd] package 'stats' needs import directive for 1.9.0?

2004-02-27 Thread Thomas Lumley

On Fri, 27 Feb 2004, Swinton, Jonathan wrote: From: Prof Brian Ripley [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [Rd] package 'stats' needs import directive for 1.9.0? To: Heywood, Giles [EMAIL PROTECTED] Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED] ... I suggest you don't try: there are already quite a few

Re: [Rd] package 'stats' needs import directive for 1.9.0?

2004-02-27 Thread Prof Brian Ripley

On Fri, 27 Feb 2004, Paul Gilbert wrote: Prof Brian Ripley wrote: On Fri, 27 Feb 2004, Swinton, Jonathan wrote: From: Prof Brian Ripley [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [Rd] package 'stats' needs import directive for 1.9.0? To: Heywood, Giles [EMAIL PROTECTED] Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: [Rd] package 'stats' needs import directive for 1.9.0?

2004-02-27 Thread Paul Gilbert

Prof Brian Ripley wrote: On Fri, 27 Feb 2004, Paul Gilbert wrote: Prof Brian Ripley wrote: On Fri, 27 Feb 2004, Swinton, Jonathan wrote: From: Prof Brian Ripley [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [Rd] package 'stats' needs import directive for 1.9.0? To: Heywood, Giles [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: [Rd] package 'stats' needs import directive for 1.9.0?

2004-02-27 Thread Paul Gilbert

Prof Brian Ripley wrote: On Fri, 27 Feb 2004, Swinton, Jonathan wrote: From: Prof Brian Ripley [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [Rd] package 'stats' needs import directive for 1.9.0? To: Heywood, Giles [EMAIL PROTECTED] Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED] ... I suggest you don't try: there are already

Re: [Rd] package 'stats' needs import directive for 1.9.0?

2004-02-27 Thread Prof Brian Ripley

On Fri, 27 Feb 2004, Paul Gilbert wrote: [...] This would conflict (and override?) the S3 generic in base, which I don't think is allowed in 1.9.0. Until recently I have been overriding the start function in base (and some others) with my own S3 generic, and have just gone through a

Re: [Rd] Script editor for Windows GUI

2004-02-27 Thread Luke Tierney

On Thu, 26 Feb 2004, Simon Urbanek wrote: On Feb 26, 2004, at 11:58 AM, Marsland, John wrote: Is you project based upon the SJava package, because we have had lots of problems with the callback interface? No, we are not using SJava for obvious reasons. I tried hard to fix it, but