[Rd] Bug with Sys.glob?

2007-04-01 Thread ronggui
When I run the example command of Sys.glob(), R crashes. > Sys.glob(file.path(R.home(), "library", "*", "R", "*.rdx")) > version _ platform i386-pc-mingw32 arch i386 os mingw32 system i386, mingw32 status alpha major 2 minor

[Rd] Non-unique column names in data frames

2007-04-01 Thread John Fox
Dear r-devel members, It's just been brought to my attention that R permits non-unique column names in data frames -- e.g., via assignment to names() or colnames(). This behaviour is consistent with the help files (as I discovered), but it's not consistent with the behaviour of rownames() and row.

Re: [Rd] checking existence of active bindings

2007-04-01 Thread Martin Elff
On Wednesday 28 March 2007 23:56, Tony Plate wrote: > Is there any way to check whether an active binding exists without > actually calling the active binding? I'd like to be able to do > something like exists("x", ...) and know whether "x" exists without > actually fetching its value if it is an

Re: [Rd] new warnings related to the extractor "$" with R 2.5.0alpha

2007-04-01 Thread Renaud Lancelot
Thank you for this explanation. As the package maintainer for aod (second warning message), I found where the warning came from and will post an update soon. Kind regards, Renaud 2007/4/1, Prof Brian Ripley <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > On Sun, 1 Apr 2007, Renaud Lancelot wrote: > > > Dear all, > > > >

Re: [Rd] new warnings related to the extractor "$" with R 2.5.0alpha

2007-04-01 Thread Prof Brian Ripley
On Sun, 1 Apr 2007, Renaud Lancelot wrote: > Dear all, > > I just installed R 2.5.0alpha and noticed new warnings related to the > extractor "$" when using contributed packages. For instance: > >> library(RODBC) > Warning message: > $ operator is not valid for atomic vectors, returning NULL > >> l

[Rd] new warnings related to the extractor "$" with R 2.5.0alpha

2007-04-01 Thread Renaud Lancelot
Dear all, I just installed R 2.5.0alpha and noticed new warnings related to the extractor "$" when using contributed packages. For instance: > library(RODBC) Warning message: $ operator is not valid for atomic vectors, returning NULL > library(aod) Package aod, version 1.1-18 > data(orob2) > m1