[Rd] failure in `setClass' examples

2005-11-22 Thread Sebastian Luque
Hello, Below is what I got running the examples from `setClass'. Could somebody please help explain why the last `setIs' call is returning the warning and whether this is expected? R> setClass("track", + representation(x="numeric", y="numeric")) [1] "track" R> setClass("

Re: [Rd] failure in `setClass' examples

2005-11-22 Thread Sebastian Luque
John Chambers <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > There's nothing bad happening, and we should remove the setIs() example > from the setClass() documentation. > If you run example(setIs), you will see a slightly different version of > the same call to setIs(), but one that does not generate the warning

[Rd] chron vs. POSIX

2006-07-14 Thread Sebastian Luque
Hi, One of the big decisions when writing code is how to handle dates and times. Gabor Grothendieck provided an excellent overview of the issue in his R News 4/1 (2004) article, and many users and developers are probably using it as a guide. The proposed guideline is to use the simplest class re

Re: [Rd] chron vs. POSIX

2006-07-14 Thread Sebastian Luque
Dirk Eddelbuettel <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: On 14 July 2006 at 14:38, Sebastian Luque wrote: | If Gabor's recommendations are to be followed, wouldn't it make sense to | include chron in base R? Given that flexibility for handling time Future historians will provide a fulle

Re: [Rd] chron vs. POSIX

2006-07-14 Thread Sebastian Luque
[Sorry for my previous empty post] Dirk Eddelbuettel <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On 14 July 2006 at 14:38, Sebastian Luque wrote: > | If Gabor's recommendations are to be followed, wouldn't it make sense > | to include chron in base R? Given that flexibility fo