[Rd] Stability and reliability of R (comment on Re: as.vector() broken on a matrix or array of type "list")

2018-09-26 Thread MacQueen, Don via R-devel
With regard to Martin's comment about the strength of (base) R: I have R code I wrote 15+ years ago that has been used regularly ever since with only a few minor changes needed due to changes in R. Within that code, I find particularly impressive for its stability a simple custom GUI that uses

Re: [Rd] svg ignores cex.axis in R3.5.1 on macOS

2018-09-05 Thread MacQueen, Don via R-devel
Seems ok on my system. Axis label size changes when cex.axis does. ## tested in the middle of another long session, so many additional packages are attached, including some personal packages not available elsewhere > sessionInfo() R version 3.5.1 (2018-07-02) Platform: x86_64-apple-darwin15.6.0

Re: [Rd] Date class shows Inf as NA; this confuses the use of is.na()

2018-06-08 Thread MacQueen, Don via R-devel
> as_date Error: object 'as_date' not found Must be from some not-named package... But don't confuse the format of an object when printed with its underlying value: > as.Date(Inf,origin = '1970-01-01') [1] NA > str(as.Date(Inf,origin = '1970-01-01')) Date[1:1], format: NA > as.numeric(as.Dat