On Oct 1, 2007, at 10:28 PM, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> ?pairlist gives no explanation about what exactly is the difference
> between a pairlist and a list (except that a pairlist of length 0
> is 'NULL'). So, what's a pairlist?
>
I read "traditional _dotted pair_ lists (as in LISP)" there -
?list has a little bit of information. As far as I know, historically,
the more inefficient one (pairlist()) came first, where R inherits its
structure and implementation from LISP ; list() came later as a new
implementation of a list-like object which is more efficient and faster
in various manne
The following is a patch (svn diff) for the R CMD build script that
calculates exclude patterns after the tar/untar step rather than before. The
perl find() function, used in the calculation of the exclude patterns,
ignores symlinks, which meant that directory symlinks were not considered
for exclu
anjalishitole wrote:
>
> Full_Name: Anjali Shitole
> Version: R 2.5.1
> OS:
> Submission from: (NULL) (202.141.157.91)
>
> [snip]
>
> Please help me to overcome this error.
>
>
Dear Mr. Shitole,
* this problem is not a bug, please don't post it as such
* this problem is inappropria
