On 12/01/2009 6:12 PM, Terry Therneau wrote:
Context:
R version 2.7.1 (2008-06-23)
I don't know when this was upgraded in the department, I just ran into the
aberrent behavior today.
Problem:
Our group BY CHOICE does not change character variables into factors by
default. I can get
> PS. Here are two interrelated reasons we don't autoconvert:
>
> 1. Subject id. Factors give no advantage for a unique id, and some clear
> problems. In particular when one creates as subset - everyone over 60 say -
> there is no good reason to remember all the ids you didn't select.
> 2. Subj
Context:
R version 2.7.1 (2008-06-23)
I don't know when this was upgraded in the department, I just ran into the
aberrent behavior today.
Problem:
Our group BY CHOICE does not change character variables into factors by
default. I can get into a long arguement as to why later, and wi
Thank you Brian,
for this detailed answer. I think you are right with the new rules.
Before contacting the maintainers I will try to collect some more
information about the observed failure. Without setting the environment
variable MAKE to gmake, I get excatly the same break when installing
M
Ran into the follow intermediate case in an external package (w/
recent R v2.8.1 patched and R v2.9.0 devel):
> x <- 1:2
> dim(x) <- 2
> dim(x)
[1] 2
> x
[1] 1 2
> str(x)
int [, 1:2] 1 2
> nrow(x)
[1] 2
> ncol(x)
[1] NA
> is.vector(x)
[1] FALSE
> is.matrix(x)
[1] FALSE
> is.array(x)
[1] TRUE
> x[
On 1/9/2009 11:59 AM, Duncan Murdoch wrote:
I finally upgraded to Firefox 3.05 from 2.x, and now I can reproduce a
bug a colleague has been complaining about but which I hadn't been able
to reproduce before. In Windows, set Firefox as the default browser.
Then in Rgui (seems to affect all vers
Thank you very much for your help and advice!
Prof Brian Ripley schrieb:
> On Sun, 11 Jan 2009, Daniel Sabanés Bové wrote:
>
>> Yes, I set the encoding to UTF-8 in my .Rprofile. Sorry that I didn't
>
> You really don't want to do that: it adds a considerable overhead and
> relies on a bug-free ico
Yes, I set the encoding to UTF-8 in my .Rprofile. Sorry that I didn't
mention it already. So the complete stand-alone test code which fails in
R --vanilla is the following:
### code begin
options (encoding = "utf-8")
testChunk <- paste(rep("a", 1 + 1), ## delete "+ 1" to be successful
