Greg,
I am curious what they suggest you use multiple NaN values for. Or, is it
simply like how text messages on your phone started because standard size
packets were bigger than what some uses required so they piggy-backed messages
on the "empty" space.
If by NaN you include the various flavo
As a side note, for floating point values, the IEEE 754 standard provides for a
large set of NaN values, making it possible to have multiple types of NAs for
floating point values...
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> On May 25, 2021, at 3:03 PM, Avi Gross via R-devel
> wrote:
>
> That helps get more unde
You've already been told how to solve this: just add attributes to the
objects. Use the standard NA to indicate that there is some kind of
missingness, and the attribute to describe exactly what it is. Stick a
class on those objects and define methods so that subsetting and
arithmetic preserv
Dear Avi,
That was quite a lengthy email...
What you write makes sense of course. I try hard not to deviate from the
base R, and thought my solution does just that but apparently no such luck.
I suspect, however, that something will have to eventually change: since
one of the R building blocks (s
That helps get more understanding of what you want to do, Adrian. Getting
anyone to switch is always a challenge but changing R enough to tempt them may
be a bigger challenge. His is an old story. I was the first adopter for C++ in
my area and at first had to have my code be built with an all C
Hello,
Since bugzilla #17277
(https://bugs.r-project.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=17277) was
resolved all.equal.POSIXt now compares timezone attributes. Comment 4
(https://bugs.r-project.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=17277#c4) in that
ticket makes reference that both arguments check.tz (which appea
On Tue, May 25, 2021 at 4:14 PM wrote:
> [...]
>
> Yes, it should be discarded.
>
> You can of course do what you like in code you keep to yourself. But
> please do not distribute code that does this. via CRAN or any other
> means. It will only create problems for those maintaining R.
>
> > After
On Tue, 25 May 2021, Adrian Dușa wrote:
Dear Avi,
Thank you so much for the extended messages, I read them carefully.
While partially offering a solution (I've already been there), it creates
additional work for the user, and some of that is unnecessary.
What I am trying to achieve is best des
Dear Avi,
Thank you so much for the extended messages, I read them carefully.
While partially offering a solution (I've already been there), it creates
additional work for the user, and some of that is unnecessary.
What I am trying to achieve is best described in this draft vignette:
devtools::i
