Re: [Rd] dimnames incoherence?

2020-02-21 Thread William Dunlap via R-devel
If we change the behavior NULL--[[--assignment from `[[<-`(NULL, 1, "a" ) # gives "a" (*not* a list) to `[[<-`(NULL, 1, "a" ) # gives list("a") then we have more consistency there *and* your bug is fixed too. Of course, in other situations back-compatibility would be brok

Re: [Rd] trivial typo in man page Quote.Rd

2020-02-21 Thread Martin Maechler
> Ben Bolker > on Fri, 21 Feb 2020 10:53:32 -0500 writes: > Attn: someone on R-core: > "ran" should be "can". > Also, thanks for this feature! > Index: Quotes.Rd > === > --- Quotes.Rd (revis

[Rd] trivial typo in man page Quote.Rd

2020-02-21 Thread Ben Bolker
Attn: someone on R-core: "ran" should be "can". Also, thanks for this feature! Index: Quotes.Rd === --- Quotes.Rd (revision 77845) +++ Quotes.Rd (working copy) @@ -74,7 +74,7 @@ Raw character constants are also availa

Re: [Rd] [External] Support for Dashes in the Raw String Delimiter

2020-02-21 Thread luke-tierney
r"{single quote ' and double quote " and one at the end "}" [1] "single quote ' and double quote \" and one at the end \"" See ?Quotes for details. The C++ syntax, on which the R syntax is based, is strictly more powerful than the Python approach: it allows a raw string to contain _any_ sequenc

[Rd] capabilities(), was [R-pkg-devel] ... No protocol specified (OS X only)

2020-02-21 Thread Martin Maechler
Diverting (from R-package-devel) to R-devel, as it is now about extending R : > Jeroen Ooms on Thu, 20 Feb 2020 20:34:14 +0100 writes: > On Tue, Feb 18, 2020 at 1:29 AM Dominic Comtois > wrote: >> >> Hello, >> >> On my package's check results ( >> https://cran