Re: [Rd] Is it possible to simply the use of NULL slots (or at least improve the help files)?

2020-09-23 Thread Abby Spurdle
Sorry, the title should be "simplify", and the third paragraph should say "I can't". (Don't know how I missed these). __ R-devel@r-project.org mailing list https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-devel

[Rd] Is it possible to simply the use of NULL slots (or at least improve the help files)?

2020-09-23 Thread Abby Spurdle
As far as I can tell, there's no trivial way to set arbitrary S4 slots to NULL. Most of the online examples I can find, use setClassUnion and are about 10 years old. Which, in my opinion, is defective. There's nothing "robust" about making something that should be trivially simple, really complica

Re: [Rd] [R] jitter-bug? problematic behaviour of the jitter function

2020-09-23 Thread Rui Barradas
Hello, R 4.0.2 on Ubuntu 20.04, sessionInfo at end. This came up in r-help, I'm answering to the OP and also posting to r-devel since I believe it is more appropriate there. I can confirm this. The original instructions are the first and the last, but even with smaller numbers the error shows

Re: [Rd] New URL redirect checks

2020-09-23 Thread J C Nash
Does this issue fit in the more general one of centralized vs partitioned checks? I've suggested before that the CRAN team seems (and I'll be honest and admit I don't have a good knowledge of how they work) to favour an all-in-one checking, whereas it might be helpful to developers and also widen t