Re: [Rd] foreign:::writeForeignSAS patch not released?

Hi, Thank you to R-core since this issue is solved. Both CRAN and R-devel_2019-12-03_r77513.tar.gz have version 0.8-72 of the foreign package which includes the improvements to foreign:::writeForeignSAS. Thank you again, Stephen -Original Message- Sent: Tuesday, June 04, 2019 8:27 AM H

Re: [Rd] error in parallel:::sendMaster

Hi all, With the help of Tomas, I was able to track the issue down: Prior to R v3.6.0 the parallel package passes an uninitialized variable as the file descriptor argument to the close system call. In my particular R session this uninitialized variable (reproducibly) was holding the value 7,

[Rd] Assumption of Gaussian innovations in function stats::arima

Hi, if I read the help to function stats::arima carefully enough, I have not found any mentioning of the assumption that the innovations e[t] (notation from the help file) be Gaussian. I think this assumption should be included. In particular, the returned information on the log likelihood would