Re: [Rd] Modulus Bug (PR#7409)

2004-12-09 Thread ripley
This is nothing to do with integers: 1e18 and 11 are doubles here. It is a result of rounding error: 1e18/11 is not representable accurately, and this should have been a warning to you that your calculations were unreasonable. The C code is double myfmod(double x1, double x2) { double q =

RE: [Rd] Problem with read.xport() from foreigh package (PR#7389)

2004-12-09 Thread Werner Engl
Dear R-devel list, This is to confirm Prof. Ripley's analysis of the read.xport issue. The section on missing data in TS140 is pertinent to numeric variables only. In SAS, character variables are of fixed length (between 1 and 200 for the xport format). Shorter strings are padded with

RE: [Rd] Problem with read.xport() from foreigh package (PR#7389)

2004-12-09 Thread Prof Brian Ripley
Have you looked at the latest version of foreign, 0.8-2? The issue has already been resolved, AFAIK. On Thu, 9 Dec 2004, Werner Engl wrote: Dear R-devel list, This is to confirm Prof. Ripley's analysis of the read.xport issue. The section on missing data in TS140 is pertinent to numeric

Re: [Rd] Modulus Bug (PR#7409)

2004-12-09 Thread Thomas Lumley
On Thu, 9 Dec 2004 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: This is nothing to do with integers: 1e18 and 11 are doubles here. It is a result of rounding error: 1e18/11 is not representable accurately, and this should have been a warning to you that your calculations were unreasonable. It was -- the poster

Re: [Rd] webpage link (to MacOSX check summaries) is broken (PR#7405)

2004-12-09 Thread stefano iacus
On Dec 6, 2004, at 12:42 PM, Kurt Hornik wrote: smyth writes: The link to MacOS X check summary on the page http://cran.r-project.org/src/contrib/PACKAGES.html is broken. Gordon, Thanks but ... this is really not a bug in R, but a problem with CRAN. Stefano: the link points to

Re: [Rd] Modulus Bug (PR#7409)

2004-12-09 Thread Prof Brian D Ripley
On Thu, 9 Dec 2004, Thomas Lumley wrote: On Thu, 9 Dec 2004 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: This is nothing to do with integers: 1e18 and 11 are doubles here. It is a result of rounding error: 1e18/11 is not representable accurately, and this should have been a warning to you that your

[Rd] wishlist -- names gives slotnames (PR#7410)

2004-12-09 Thread epurdom
Full_Name: Elizabeth Purdom Version: 1.9.1 OS: Windows XP Submission from: (NULL) (171.64.102.199) It would be nice if names(obj) would give slot names as well. Since for many people slots are new, the first thing that happens is you try to access what's in them and can't find how to do it. If

Re: [Rd] pausing between plots - waiting for graphics input

2004-12-09 Thread Duncan Murdoch
On Wed, 01 Dec 2004 10:32:57 +1300, Paul Murrell [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote : Hi Duncan Murdoch wrote: On Wed, 01 Dec 2004 08:55:27 +1300, Paul Murrell [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote : This sounds like the general problem of being able to capture keyboard input on a graphics device (a key-stroke

[Rd] Recent acquisition equals twice the power.

2004-12-09 Thread Kenneth Huynh
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[Rd] Broken Korean Language in New vesrion of R 2.0.1 (PR#7411)

2004-12-09 Thread poisson
Full_Name: Yoon Dong Lee Version: R 2.0.1 OS: Windows Submission from: (NULL) (203.252.165.51) Dear the manager; Recently, I found a small but big new bug in R 2.0.1. Korean Language is shown as broken in R Gui terminal. R 1.9.1 had not the problem, but R 2.0.1 makes the problem. Korean is

Re: [Rd] wishlist -- names gives slotnames (PR#7410)

2004-12-09 Thread maechler
ElizP == Elizabeth Purdom [EMAIL PROTECTED] on Thu, 9 Dec 2004 19:28:40 +0100 (CET) writes: ElizP Full_Name: Elizabeth Purdom Version: 1.9.1 OS: ElizP Windows XP Submission from: (NULL) (171.64.102.199) ElizP It would be nice if names(obj) would give slot names ElizP as