[Rd] Status of "**" operator
Hi All, I was just sent some older R code from circa 2004, which contains the use of the "**" operator, which is parsed as "^". From looking at ?"**", I see the following in the Note section: "** is translated in the parser to ^, but this was undocumented for many years. It appears as an index entry in Becker et al (1988), pointing to the help for Deprecated but is not actually mentioned on that page. Even though it had been deprecated in S for 20 years, it was still accepted in R in 2008." In using R 4.1.0: > 2**3 [1] 8 the operator is still accepted in 2021. Thus, has there been any discussion regarding the deprecation of this operator, or should the help file at least be updated to reflect the status in 2021? Thanks, Marc Schwartz __ R-devel@r-project.org mailing list https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-devel
Re: [Rd] {splines} package gone missing?
Randall, On 20 May 2021 at 07:12, Ben Bolker wrote: | splines is 'recommended' ( not sure about capitalization), not "base' If you install 'r-base' rather than just the narrower 'r-base-core' you also get 'r-recommended'. So please do that, or just do sudo apt install r-recommended The granularity offered is thought of as a feature even if it stares at you right now with very humongous insect eyes... Dirk -- https://dirk.eddelbuettel.com | @eddelbuettel | e...@debian.org __ R-devel@r-project.org mailing list https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-devel
Re: [Rd] {splines} package gone missing?
Thanks everyone. We are already back up and running. We just did a redo of the install and started from scratch. Actually, not quite from scratch since the packages in /usr/local that I had updated were not harmed. I’m guessing this was all a side effect of an attempt to clean up from someone previously having installed contributed packages in amongst the base packages. I’m guess splines got caught in the dragnet when cleaning up the mess. —rjp > On May 21, 2021, at 1:07 PM, Dirk Eddelbuettel wrote: > > > Randall, > > On 20 May 2021 at 07:12, Ben Bolker wrote: > | splines is 'recommended' ( not sure about capitalization), not "base' > > If you install 'r-base' rather than just the narrower 'r-base-core' you > also get 'r-recommended'. So please do that, or just do > > sudo apt install r-recommended > > The granularity offered is thought of as a feature even if it stares at you > right now with very humongous insect eyes... > > Dirk > > -- > https://urldefense.proofpoint.com/v2/url?u=https-3A__dirk.eddelbuettel.com&d=DwICAg&c=4rZ6NPIETe-LE5i2KBR4rw&r=S6U-baLhvGcJ7iUQX_KZ6K2om1TTOeUI_-mjRpTrm00&m=l1obx7tzJNQb2j6J4_wfeDktT--xuNcUP2IrIfMN5go&s=PcRNlKxDRkHI7d0Wt3SK1T5PjhYO3YJMXiy0MsXJvXE&e= > | @eddelbuettel | e...@debian.org __ R-devel@r-project.org mailing list https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-devel
