[Rd] Circumventing code/documentation mismatches ('R CMD check')

2011-07-04 Thread Johannes Graumann
Hello, As prompted by B. Ripley (see below), I am transfering this over from R-User ... For a package I am writing a function that looks like test <- function(Argument1=NA){ # Prerequisite testing if(!(is.na(Argument1))){ if(!(is.character(Argument1))){

Re: [Rd] Recent and upcoming changes to R-devel

2011-07-04 Thread Mark.Bravington
I may have misunderstood, but: Please could we have an optional installation that does not *not* byte-compile base and recommended? Reason: it's not possible to debug byte-compiled code-- at least not with the 'debug' package, which is quite widely used. I quite often end up using 'mtrace' on

Re: [Rd] speeding up perception

2011-07-04 Thread Tim Hesterberg
I've written a "dataframe" package that replaces existing methods for data frame creation and subscripting with versions that use less memory. For example, as.data.frame(a vector) makes 4 copies of the data in R 2.9.2, and 1 copy with the package. There is a small speed gain. I and others have b

Re: [Rd] speeding up perception

2011-07-04 Thread Simon Urbanek
Timothée, On Jul 4, 2011, at 2:47 AM, Timothée Carayol wrote: > Hi -- > > It's my first post on this list; as a relatively new user with little > knowledge of R internals, I am a bit intimidated by the depth of some > of the discussions here, so please spare me if I say something > incredibly si

Re: [Rd] speeding up perception

2011-07-04 Thread Timothée Carayol
Hi -- It's my first post on this list; as a relatively new user with little knowledge of R internals, I am a bit intimidated by the depth of some of the discussions here, so please spare me if I say something incredibly silly. I feel that someone at this point should mention Matthew Dowle's excel

Re: [Rd] Recent and upcoming changes to R-devel

2011-07-04 Thread Prof Brian Ripley
On Mon, 4 Jul 2011, Martin Morgan wrote: On 07/04/2011 05:08 AM, Prof Brian Ripley wrote: There was an R-core meeting the week before last, and various planned changes will appear in R-devel over the next few weeks. These are changes planned for R 2.14.0 scheduled for Oct 31. As we are sick of

Re: [Rd] Recent and upcoming changes to R-devel

2011-07-04 Thread Martin Morgan
On 07/04/2011 05:08 AM, Prof Brian Ripley wrote: There was an R-core meeting the week before last, and various planned changes will appear in R-devel over the next few weeks. These are changes planned for R 2.14.0 scheduled for Oct 31. As we are sick of people referring to R-devel as '2.14' or '

[Rd] Recent and upcoming changes to R-devel

2011-07-04 Thread Prof Brian Ripley
There was an R-core meeting the week before last, and various planned changes will appear in R-devel over the next few weeks. These are changes planned for R 2.14.0 scheduled for Oct 31. As we are sick of people referring to R-devel as '2.14' or '2.14.0', that version number will not be used