Re: [Rd] Floating point precision / guard digits? (PR#13771)

2009-06-21 Thread landronimirc
On 6/20/09, Dr. D. P. Kreil wrote: > you can suggest an online resource to help me use the right vocabulary > and better understand the fundamental concepts, I am of course > There is in R the accuracy [1] package. It has a vignette (and paper) dealing with various computational errors (in R). L

Re: [Rd] Floating point precision / guard digits? (PR#13771)

2009-06-21 Thread Liviu Andronic
On 6/20/09, Dr. D. P. Kreil wrote: > you can suggest an online resource to help me use the right vocabulary > and better understand the fundamental concepts, I am of course > There is in R the accuracy [1] package. It has a vignette (and paper) dealing with various computational errors (in R). L

Re: [Rd] Changes to Rd handling in R-devel

2009-06-21 Thread Duncan Murdoch
On 19/06/2009 7:12 PM, Duncan Murdoch wrote: I've just committed some fairly big changes to R-devel. - There's a new tag \Sexpr which allows R code to be embedded within the Rd file, similar to Sweave, \RdOpts corresponds to \SweaveOpts. - The parser now mainly issues warnings, rather

Re: [Rd] Flag '#' in sprintf() format string "%#x"?

2009-06-21 Thread Göran Broström
Marc Schwartz wrote: On Jun 20, 2009, at 5:44 PM, Henrik Bengtsson wrote: Hi, this is a bit of FYI, but also a question. Is flag '#' in sprintf() format string "%#x" fully supported across platforms? Can that be assumed? I discovered thanks to the r-forge service, that this was not the ca