[Rd] Possible issue with coercion in sprintf()?

Dear R-Devel folks, I've just run into what initially struck me as a rather strange result, as follows: > sprintf('%d', c(1.0, NA)) [1] "1" "NA" > sprintf('%d', c(NA, 1.0)) Error in sprintf("%d", c(NA, 1)) : invalid format '%d'; use format %f, %e, %g or %a for numeric objects So if I pass sp

[Rd] problems with RdMacros in file DESCRIPTION

Hi, Field RdMacros was introduced in file DESCRIPTION to allow users to import LaTeX-like macros from other packages. Currently 'R CMD Check --as-cran' gives a NOTE: > Unknown, possibly mis-spelled, field in DESCRIPTION: > ‘RdMacros’ A small package demonstrating this is available at http:

Re: [Rd] Error in formatDL(nm, txt, indent = max(nchar(nm, "w")) + 3)

Hi, Bill et al.: On 2017-03-09 9:58 AM, William Dunlap wrote: It happens in the fda package because some of the headers are longer than typical (e.g., "Repository/R-Forge/DateTimeStamp") and formatDL dies if the indent argument is too large compared to the width argument. It might be nice to c

Re: [Rd] Error in formatDL(nm, txt, indent = max(nchar(nm, "w")) + 3)

It happens in the fda package because some of the headers are longer than typical (e.g., "Repository/R-Forge/DateTimeStamp") and formatDL dies if the indent argument is too large compared to the width argument. It might be nice to change formatDL so it never gave such an error, but did something r

Re: [Rd] Error in formatDL(nm, txt, indent = max(nchar(nm, "w")) + 3)

This error can arise when getOption("width") is too small. 80 seems to be the limit for me with R-3.3.2 on Windows. Bill Dunlap TIBCO Software wdunlap tibco.com On Wed, Mar 8, 2017 at 10:28 PM, Spencer Graves wrote: > Hello: > > > I tried "debug(help)" with the problem mentioned below. I