Re: [Rd] Overwrite S3 methond from base package

2012-02-13 Thread Thaler,Thorn,LAUSANNE,Applied Mathematics
> In regard to "should", I think it is a > very very bad idea. > > The result that someone gets depends on > whether or not the new package is attached > in the session. That is a recipe for hours > (or days) of trying to figure out mysterious > behavior. I fully agree. However, there are 2 reas

Re: [Rd] Overwrite S3 methond from base package

2012-02-13 Thread Patrick Burns
The key question is: > So, is there any way to overwrite droplevels.factor and > droplevels.data.frame from the base package with my functions? There is "can" and there is "should". I don't know the answer to "can". In regard to "should", I think it is a very very bad idea. The result that so

[Rd] requesting a new SIG mailing list

2012-02-13 Thread Mauricio Zambrano-Bigiarini
Dear R developers, Due to the increasing use R in hydrology and other close-related environmental sciences, I would like to ask if it would be possible to create a new Special Interest Group mailing list, called 'R-sig-hydro', specially devoted those topics. If possible to do so, I'd offer mys

[Rd] Overwrite S3 methond from base package

2012-02-13 Thread Thaler,Thorn,LAUSANNE,Applied Mathematics
Dear all, I am developing a package, which bundles my most frequently used functions. One of those is a modified version of droplevels from the base package (basically, it preserves any contrast function which was used to create the factor, contrast matrices are not kept, for they could be wrong i

Re: [Rd] Task views

2012-02-13 Thread Patrick Burns
I feel compelled to rebuff Barry's attack on the word "Task Views". I think it is a fine description (I was not involved in originating it), though of course I'd be open to better suggestions. "Look at all these things you can do with R" is also nice but lacks a certain amount of brevity. Pat O

Re: [Rd] Can I use "..." in parallel:::clusterApplyLB?

2012-02-13 Thread Prof Brian Ripley
On 13/02/2012 06:51, Slava Razbash wrote: Hello, Can I do the following? Is parallel:::clusterApplyLB() designed to work like this? The code below is for illustrative purposes only. It is designed to work with standard R semantics. For ... those are quite complex, and you may have to force e

Re: [Rd] [R] Version control (git, mercurial) for R packages

2012-02-13 Thread Rainer M Krug
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 10/02/12 22:05, Davor Cubranic wrote: > On February 10, 2012 09:11:35 AM Rainer M Krug wrote: >> But what I was thinking about (in my other post as well) is to >> include github (or any other git repo provider) into r-forge for >> the automatic crea