Re: [Rd] R-devel: rownames of a data.frame

2006-12-05 Thread Martin Maechler
Gregor Gorjanc bfro.uni-lj.si> writes: > > Hello! > > Data.frames have new rownames funcionality, however in use of colnames<- > in R-devel "changes" this. Here is the example: > > > df1 <- data.frame(letters[1:5]) > > attributes(df1) > $names > [1] "letters.1.5." > > $row.names > [1] 1 2 3 4

[Rd] Entry for "sub"

2006-12-05 Thread Mike Prager
R Core Team-- Would it be reasonably easy for the function "sub" be given its own bookmark in the next edition of the R Reference Manual? I could not remember the name of any R function to do substring substitution, and it was not easy to find. It does appear in the index, but not in the bookmar

Re: [Rd] Library file for the R engine in Windows?

2006-12-05 Thread Christos Hatzis
Thank you. I am using the **free** Microsoft Visual C++ Toolkit 2003. The Rdll.lib library builds successfully following the instructions in README.packages. One potential caveat is that lib.exe that is needed to build the library from R.exp is not part of the free toolkit. However, a workaround

Re: [Rd] R 2.4.1 scheduled for December 18

2006-12-05 Thread Gregor Gorjanc
And small typo in postscript man page Index: src/library/grDevices/man/postscript.Rd === --- src/library/grDevices/man/postscript.Rd (revision 40125) +++ src/library/grDevices/man/postscript.Rd (working copy) @@ -195,7 +195,7

Re: [Rd] R 2.4.1 scheduled for December 18

2006-12-05 Thread Gregor Gorjanc
Gregor Gorjanc bfro.uni-lj.si> writes: > > Hi! > > If I am not wrong issue described at > > http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.comp.lang.r.devel/9667/focus=9667 > > did not get any attention. Thought it is true that using names() instead of > colnames() does not change mode of data.frame rownames.

Re: [Rd] Error importing data (PR#9409)

2006-12-05 Thread Uwe Ligges
Please, how do you define a "blank" value? The following works perfectly for me: File looks like: SpaceTabSpace 1Tab2 R> read.table(file, sep="\t") V1 V2 1 NA NA 2 1 2 Uwe Ligges [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Full_Name: Miguel Andrade > Version: 2.3.1 > OS: Linux > Submission from: (NULL