Re: [Rd] t() dropping NULL dimnames {was "all.equal() for mismatching names..."}

2005-12-02 Thread Andrew Piskorski
On Fri, Dec 02, 2005 at 05:56:31PM +0100, Martin Maechler wrote: > BeT> x <- c(a = 1, b = 2) > BeT> is.vector(x) > BeT> as.vector(x) > BeT> all.equal(x, as.vector(x)) ## FALSE > BeT> However, in all versions of R in which I executed this example, the > BeT> all.equal comma

Re: [Rd] (PR#8363) R CMD INSTALL fails if cd prints stuff to stdout

2005-12-02 Thread ripley
What shells are these? You don't give an example that causes trouble, and in particular no way to reproduce this. The behaviour you describe is prohibited by the POSIX standard, so the problem would appear to be with the unnamed shell. I can see how it could happen if a user redefines 'cd', b

[Rd] t() dropping NULL dimnames {was "all.equal() for mismatching names..."}

2005-12-02 Thread Martin Maechler
> "MM" == Martin Maechler <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > on Fri, 2 Dec 2005 14:44:22 +0100 writes: > "BeT" == Berwin A Turlach <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > on Fri, 2 Dec 2005 18:31:13 +0800 writes: BeT> First, I recently had reasons to read the help page of as.vector() and BeT> no

[Rd] R CMD INSTALL fails if cd prints stuff to stdout ... (PR#8363)

2005-12-02 Thread p . lijnzaad
--Boundary_(ID_erFAa+o6kWefQxXf6GD2RA) Content-type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-disposition: inline Content-transfer-encoding: 7bit Dear all, I came across puzzling behaviour of R CMD INSTALL, which I tracked down to the fact that in some shells (or in some user customizations of th

[Rd] all.equal() for mismatching names {was "Enlightenment sought..."}

2005-12-02 Thread Martin Maechler
> "BeT" == Berwin A Turlach <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > on Fri, 2 Dec 2005 18:31:13 +0800 writes: BeT> First, I recently had reasons to read the help page of as.vector() and BeT> noticed in the example section the following example: BeT> x <- c(a = 1, b = 2) BeT> is.vector(x

Re: [Rd] Enlightenment sought and a possible buglet in vector.Rd

2005-12-02 Thread Prof Brian Ripley
On Fri, 2 Dec 2005, Berwin A Turlach wrote: > Secondly, I stumbled across two behaviours of R that I cannot explain > but would like to know why R behaves as it does. But since I expect > the explanations to be quite technical, I though that r-devel is the > more appropriate list to ask on than r

Re: [Rd] Enlightenment sought and a possible buglet in vector.Rd

2005-12-02 Thread Prof Brian Ripley
On Fri, 2 Dec 2005, Berwin A Turlach wrote: [...] > The second behaviour that I cannot explain was produced by code > written by somebody else, namely: > > > foo > function(x){ > z <- x/4 > while( abs(z*z*z-x) > 1e-10 ){ > z <- (2*z+x/z^2)/3 > } >

Re: [Rd] Bernie Now you can enjoy the convenience of ordering mitigating products from your house at a time that is convenient for you. (PR#8362)

2005-12-02 Thread darius
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[Rd] Enlightenment sought and a possible buglet in vector.Rd

2005-12-02 Thread Berwin A Turlach
Dear all, First, I recently had reasons to read the help page of as.vector() and noticed in the example section the following example: x <- c(a = 1, b = 2) is.vector(x) as.vector(x) all.equal(x, as.vector(x)) ## FALSE However, in all versions of R in which I executed this exa

Re: [Rd] (not just!) Windows R CMD build leftovers

2005-12-02 Thread Prof Brian Ripley
On Thu, 1 Dec 2005, Martin Morgan wrote: > Perhaps this earlier post slipped through the cracks? My apologies if > it's still 'in process', or I missed a response, or if the > contribution isn't helpful. Have patience, it is `in process'. But if you consider such things important (and clearly y