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",
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
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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
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
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
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