Re: [Rd] x - 1:2; dim(x) - 2? A vector or not?

2009-01-16 Thread Martin Maechler
PatB == Patrick Burns pbu...@pburns.seanet.com on Tue, 13 Jan 2009 17:00:40 + writes: PatB Henrik Bengtsson wrote: Hi. On Mon, Jan 12, 2009 at 11:58 PM, Prof Brian Ripley rip...@stats.ox.ac.uk wrote: What you have is a one-dimensional array: they crop

Re: [Rd] x - 1:2; dim(x) - 2? A vector or not?

2009-01-16 Thread Tony Plate
Martin Maechler wrote: PatB == Patrick Burns pbu...@pburns.seanet.com on Tue, 13 Jan 2009 17:00:40 + writes: PatB Henrik Bengtsson wrote: Hi. On Mon, Jan 12, 2009 at 11:58 PM, Prof Brian Ripley rip...@stats.ox.ac.uk wrote: What you have

[Rd] 2009 Wish list for R

2009-01-16 Thread Gabor Grothendieck
2009 Wish list for R (no particular order): - some way of placing backslashes in literal strings without escaping them. Useful for latex, regular expressions and Windows file paths. This seems to come up from time to time on the lists. Ruby, python, Perl and other scripting languages have

Re: [Rd] interrupting R from a GUI

2009-01-16 Thread Felix Andrews
2009/1/16 Prof Brian Ripley rip...@stats.ox.ac.uk: On Fri, 16 Jan 2009, Felix Andrews wrote: list(...), I am looking for a way to interrupt R from a callback: specifically, to interrupt plotting (typically on a cairoDevice, but would be good if it worked with other devices too). Of course,