Re: [Rd] Poor documentation for "adj" and text()

2018-09-13 Thread frederik
Hello Core Team, I sent this patch over a year ago. It looks like it was sent in response to another user's complaint which echoed some of my own observations about problems in the documentation for 'text'. Did anyone have a chance to look it over? I'd like to get it out of my queue. Thanks, Fre

[Rd] Possible bug with chromatic adaptation in grDevices::convertColor

2018-09-13 Thread brodie gaslam via R-devel
It appears that the chromatic adaptation feature of `grDevices::convertColor`is broken, and likely has been for many years.  While a little surprising, it is an obscure enough feature that there is some possibility this is actually broken, as opposed to user error on my part.  If it turns out to

Re: [Rd] Environments and parallel processing

2018-09-13 Thread Clark Fitzgerald
+1 to what Gabor and Ralf said. In this case the memory address can be misleading. My understanding is that the environments in all the processes, 1 parent and 2 child, have the *same* memory address, but once you write to them the operating system makes copies and maps the address to a *different

Re: [Rd] Bug 17432 in readLines with R >= 3.5.0 still a problem

2018-09-13 Thread Michael Lawrence
Thanks, I responded to this on bugzilla. On Wed, Sep 12, 2018 at 9:04 AM Chris Culnane wrote: > > Bug 17432 (https://bugs.r-project.org/bugzilla3/show_bug.cgi?id=17432) is > still a problem when using pipes for IPC. > > The bug is evident when calling R from another process and trying to > commu

Re: [Rd] Modification-proposal for %% (modulo) when supplied with double

2018-09-13 Thread Emil Bode
Okay, thanks for your reactions. I realized it's not something being "broken", just that it's a situation where my intuition messes things up, and that in this situation it's not as easy as using all.equal, which is my usual approach when working with floats. But maybe I underestimated the impact