Re: [Rd] evaluating variance functions in nlme

2005-07-27 Thread Spencer Graves
Yes, this probably should go to R-help, and before you do that, I suggest you PLEASE do read the posting guide! http://www.R-project.org/posting-guide.html. It can increase the likelihood you will get a useful reply relatively quickly. I tried the your two calls to "gnls",

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

2005-07-27 Thread Gordon Smyth
At 05:21 PM 27/07/2005, Prof Brian Ripley wrote: >On Wed, 27 Jul 2005, Gordon Smyth wrote: > >>Thanks for the reply. Apologies for checking only R patched rather than >>R-devel. >> >>I guess that this means that someone must have a use for >>allowEscapes=TRUE when read reading a file in table for

Re: [Rd] (no subject)

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

2005-07-27 Thread Prof Brian Ripley
On Wed, 27 Jul 2005, Gordon Smyth wrote: > Thanks for the reply. Apologies for checking only R patched rather than > R-devel. > > I guess that this means that someone must have a use for allowEscapes=TRUE > when read reading a file in table format into a data frame. It is hard to > imagine. Oc

Re: [Rd] Error registering finalizer

2005-07-27 Thread Prof Brian Ripley
On Tue, 26 Jul 2005, Paul Roebuck wrote: > 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

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

2005-07-27 Thread Gordon Smyth
Thanks for the reply. Apologies for checking only R patched rather than R-devel. I guess that this means that someone must have a use for allowEscapes=TRUE when read reading a file in table format into a data frame. It is hard to imagine. Gordon At 04:59 PM 27/07/2005, Prof Brian Ripley wrote

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

2005-07-27 Thread Prof Brian Ripley
This seems of historical interest only. allowEscapes is currently (in R-devel, where development happens) an argument to read.table. We do ask people to check the current version! On Wed, 27 Jul 2005, Gordon Smyth wrote: > >> To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] >> From: Gordon Smyth <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >> S