Re: [Rd] R 2.1.1: read.table processes C-style escapes (PR#8037)

2005-07-26 Thread Gordon Smyth
>To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] >From: Gordon Smyth <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >Subject: R 2.1.1: read.table processes C-style escapes >Date: Wed, 27 Jul 2005 12:51:45 +1000 > >In R 2.1.1, the default behaviour of scan() was changed to process all >C-style escapes, even when a delimiter was specified using the '

[Rd] R 2.1.1: read.table processes C-style escapes (PR#8037)

2005-07-26 Thread smyth
In R 2.1.1, the default behaviour of scan() was changed to process all C-style escapes, even when a delimiter was specified using the 'sep' argument. A new argument 'allowEscapes' was introduced to turn this processing off. Because read.table() calls scan(), read.table() inherits the new defaul

Re: [Rd] Error registering finalizer

2005-07-26 Thread Paul Roebuck
On Tue, 26 Jul 2005, Paul Roebuck wrote: > What exactly is a reference object? I'm getting this error > message attempting to register a finalizer: > > can only weakly reference/finalize reference objects Still don't have an explanation for the above but the code now works with the follow

[Rd] Error registering finalizer

2005-07-26 Thread Paul Roebuck
What exactly is a reference object? I'm getting this error message attempting to register a finalizer: can only weakly reference/finalize reference objects I don't see any problem with the code... Here's what appears to be the relevant portions. setClass("PDNNObject", represent

[Rd] evaluating variance functions in nlme

2005-07-26 Thread Nicholas Lewin-Koh
Hi, I guess this is a final plea, and maybe this should go to R-help but here goes. I am writing a set of functions for calibration and prediction, and to calculate standard errors and intervals I need the variance function to be evaluated at new prediction points. So for instance fit<-gnls(Y~SSl

Re: [Rd] docu buglets for ar and friends

2005-07-26 Thread Prof Brian Ripley
On Mon, 25 Jul 2005, Kjetil Brinchmann Halvorsen wrote: > This is R2.1.1 > > The documantation opened by > ?ar, section for returned value, does not document all the components of > the returned > list. In addition to the 13 components documented, it also contains the > component > $frequency > Th

[Rd] docu buglets for ar and friends

2005-07-26 Thread Kjetil Brinchmann Halvorsen
This is R2.1.1 The documantation opened by ?ar, section for returned value, does not document all the components of the returned list. In addition to the 13 components documented, it also contains the component $frequency This also applies to the help page opened by ?ar.ols -- Kjetil Halvorse

Re: [Rd] beginner finds a bug - crash induced. (PR#8035)

2005-07-26 Thread maechler
Well, you say yourself it wasn't reproducible. So it could have been anything that "crashed" you R , cosmic radiation, a bolt of lightning reversing a bit in your computer memory ,... :-) many things rather than a bug in R. But before dropping this report completely, can you try for(i in 1:1000

Re: [Rd] density() fails if x contains Inf or -Inf (PR#8033)

2005-07-26 Thread Prof Brian Ripley
The underlying problem here BTW is that sum is promoting logical to double not integer, unlike the rest of its Summary group. This is an unintentional side effect of a bug fix a while back, and I have now corrected it. On Mon, 25 Jul 2005 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Full_Name: Michael Beer > V