[Rd] Why is as.function() slower than eval(call("function"())?

2017-08-04 Thread Gregory Werbin
(Apologies if this is better suited for R-help.) On my system (macOS Sierra, late 2014 MacBook Pro; R 3.4.1, Homebrew build), I found that it is faster to construct a function using eval(call("function", ...)) than using as.function(list(...)). Example: make_fn_1 <- function(a, b) eval(call

Re: [Rd] "plot.ts" doesn't respect the value of "pch" (+ blocked from Bugzilla signups)

2016-08-25 Thread Gregory Werbin
plete and misleading. I filed this is as a bug because it's undocumented, and inconsistent with how other arguments typically passed through `plot.default` are handled. I'll be happy to do the patch myself -- I just need to know which thing to patch (the source or the docs). Greg

[Rd] "plot.ts" doesn't respect the value of "pch" (+ blocked from Bugzilla signups)

2016-08-24 Thread Gregory Werbin
I did a search on Bugzilla for "plot.ts" and didn't find anything on this issue. I tried to sign up for Bugzilla to report it, but my e-mail address didn't pass your "syntax checking" for a legal e-mail address. The bug is easily reproducible on my machine as follows: ## start # generate some