Re: [Rd] SUGGESTION: Force install.packages() to use ASCII encoding when parse():ing code?

2014-12-12 Thread Jan Kim
On Fri, Dec 12, 2014 at 04:58:52PM +, Barry Rowlingson wrote: > On Fri, Dec 12, 2014 at 12:34 PM, Jan Kim wrote: > > > it's just a matter of time that people get characters into their code that > > are different but indistinguishable in the font they use (I've see

Re: [Rd] SUGGESTION: Force install.packages() to use ASCII encoding when parse():ing code?

2014-12-12 Thread Jan Kim
On Fri, Dec 12, 2014 at 06:01:22AM -0500, Duncan Murdoch wrote: > On 12/12/2014, 4:12 AM, Bj??rn-Helge Mevik wrote: > > Duncan Murdoch writes: > > > >> users of other languages may want to have messages and variable names > >> in their native language, and ASCII might not be enough for that. > >

Re: [Rd] type.convert and doubles

2014-04-29 Thread Jan Kim
On Tue, Apr 29, 2014 at 10:41:19AM +0200, Martin Maechler wrote: > > > > on Tue, 29 Apr 2014 08:25:41 + writes: > > > [...snip...] > > Martin Maecher wrote: > > >> > I have now committed svn rev 65507 --- to R-devel only for now --- > >> > the above: exact =