Duncan Murdoch wrote:
> R is designed to be flexible, and to let people change its behaviour.
> Using that flexibility is what all users should do. Improving the user
> experience is what front-end writers should do. I don't find it
> inadvisable at all.
Well, that's a big whopping U-turn.
Hi Duncan,
What you say is entirely sensible.
Yes, it's primarily the silent part that seems problematic to me.
Messages about masking are uninteresting until one encounters a problem,
and then they may provide an important clue to the source of the problem.
As to this specific case: It's
Hi John.
I suspect most good front ends do similar things. For example, on
MacOS, R.app messes up "history()". I've never used ESS, but I imagine
one could find examples where it acts differently than base R: isn't
that the point?
One hopes all differences are improvements, but sometimes
Dear Duncan,
On 2020-08-17 9:03 a.m., Duncan Murdoch wrote:
On 17/08/2020 7:54 a.m., Ivan Calandra wrote:
Dear useRs,
Following the recent activity on the list, I have been made aware of
this discussion:
https://stat.ethz.ch/pipermail/r-help/2020-May/466788.html
I used to install all
Thank you Duncan for the very detailed and clear answer!
Best,
Ivan
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On 17/08/2020 7:54 a.m., Ivan Calandra wrote:
Dear useRs,
Following the recent activity on the list, I have been made aware of
this discussion:
https://stat.ethz.ch/pipermail/r-help/2020-May/466788.html
I used to install all packages in R, but for simplicity (I use RStudio
for all purposes), I
Dear useRs,
Following the recent activity on the list, I have been made aware of
this discussion:
https://stat.ethz.ch/pipermail/r-help/2020-May/466788.html
I used to install all packages in R, but for simplicity (I use RStudio
for all purposes), I now do it in RStudio. Now I am left wondering
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