Re: [Rd] format bug and patch

2013-08-16 Thread Prof Brian Ripley
On 16/08/2013 20:47, Aleksey Vorona wrote: On 8/16/13, Duncan Murdoch wrote: On 13-08-15 6:07 PM, Aleksey Vorona wrote: Dear R-team, I've been using R for a while and decided to contribute some bug fixes. The first bug I tried to solve was https://bugs.r-project.org/bugzilla3/show_bug.cgi?id=

Re: [Rd] format bug and patch

2013-08-16 Thread Aleksey Vorona
On 8/16/13, Duncan Murdoch wrote: > On 13-08-15 6:07 PM, Aleksey Vorona wrote: >> Dear R-team, >> >> I've been using R for a while and decided to contribute some bug >> fixes. The first bug I tried to solve was >> https://bugs.r-project.org/bugzilla3/show_bug.cgi?id=15411 >> >> I have attached a p

Re: [Rd] as.Date.character speed improvement suggestion

2013-08-16 Thread Simon Urbanek
On Aug 16, 2013, at 1:54 PM, McGehee, Robert wrote: > R-Devel, > I store and retrieve a large amount of financial data (millions of rows) in a > PostgreSQL database keyed by date (and represented in R by class Date). > Unfortunately, I frequently find that a great deal of processing time is >

[Rd] as.Date.character speed improvement suggestion

2013-08-16 Thread McGehee, Robert
R-Devel, I store and retrieve a large amount of financial data (millions of rows) in a PostgreSQL database keyed by date (and represented in R by class Date). Unfortunately, I frequently find that a great deal of processing time is spent converting dates from character representations to Date cl

Re: [Rd] format bug and patch

2013-08-16 Thread Duncan Murdoch
On 13-08-15 6:07 PM, Aleksey Vorona wrote: Dear R-team, I've been using R for a while and decided to contribute some bug fixes. The first bug I tried to solve was https://bugs.r-project.org/bugzilla3/show_bug.cgi?id=15411 I have attached a patch with the fix to the bug and would love to hear co

Re: [Rd] local variable assignment: first copies from higher frame?

2013-08-16 Thread Murat Tasan
ah, that makes perfect sense in the functional programming sense of things. thanks! On Wed, Aug 14, 2013 at 10:19 PM, Peter Meilstrup wrote: > Not anything that complicated -- your answer is in the R language definition > under 'Subset assignment' and the part in "Function calls" that describes >

[Rd] format bug and patch

2013-08-16 Thread Aleksey Vorona
Dear R-team, I've been using R for a while and decided to contribute some bug fixes. The first bug I tried to solve was https://bugs.r-project.org/bugzilla3/show_bug.cgi?id=15411 I have attached a patch with the fix to the bug and would love to hear comments about its quality. Also, while testin