This turned out to be nastier than expected, so it's good you pointed it
out.
The problem is not the serialized objects themselves, but the
restoration of the namespace, for package urca in your example.
Because the methods package had not been attached when the user data was
restored, the me
John Chambers wrote:
> Designing a "better data frame" is something many people have likely
> thought about; I certainly have.
>
> But data frames are so widely used and so central to models and other
> software that a major change needs to be done by the user community, or
> at least with maximum
On Sat, 2006-11-04 at 00:07 +0100, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> On Fri, 2006-11-03 at 14:14 -0800, Bill Dunlap wrote:
> > On Fri, 3 Nov 2006 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> >
> > > > > On Fri, 2006-11-03 at 21:15 +0100, Peter Dalgaard wrote:
> > > > > > > x <- quote(match.call())
> > > > > > > eval(x)
>
On Sat, 2006-11-04 at 02:08 +0100, Peter Dalgaard wrote:
> Bill Dunlap <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
>
> > On Fri, 3 Nov 2006 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> >
> > > > > On Fri, 2006-11-03 at 21:15 +0100, Peter Dalgaard wrote:
> > > > > > > x <- quote(match.call())
> > > > > > > eval(x)
> > > > > > ***
Designing a "better data frame" is something many people have likely
thought about; I certainly have.
But data frames are so widely used and so central to models and other
software that a major change needs to be done by the user community, or
at least with maximum feedback, IMO.
Also, my prio
> OTOH, it's interesting that some methods to "stick some S4
> objects into a data frame do work fine , at least for the
> following case (R-script below) -- and I wonder if we (R developers)
> shouldn't think about more explicitly supporting this,
> e.g., by stating something like
>
> >> If an S
Hi,
Martin Maechler wrote:
>> "Gregor" == Gregor Gorjanc <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
>> on Sat, 04 Nov 2006 02:09:13 +0100 writes:
>
> Gregor> Ferdinand Alimadhi wrote:
>
> >> tmp$comp <- [EMAIL PROTECTED] ?!
>
> Gregor> I "lose" class here and that is not what I
> Gregor>
> "Herve" == Herve Pages <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> on Fri, 03 Nov 2006 10:50:10 -0800 writes:
Herve> Hi Martin,
Herve> Thanks for the answer!
Herve> OK I can use data.matrix to convert a data frame to a numeric
Herve> matrix but that's another story. Basically I'm reporting
> "Gregor" == Gregor Gorjanc <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> on Sat, 04 Nov 2006 02:09:13 +0100 writes:
Gregor> Ferdinand Alimadhi wrote:
>> tmp$comp <- [EMAIL PROTECTED] ?!
Gregor> I "lose" class here and that is not what I
Gregor> want. Perhaps I should stick with list inst
