[Rd] What is pairlist in R-ints.pdf?

2010-03-03 Thread blue sky
R-ints.pdf mentions pairlist with the reference to mit-scheme. However, it is not clear to me what 'pairlist' exactly refers to, as I don't find the definition for it. Does a 'pairlist' in R equivalent to a pair or a list (which is essentially a pair whose cdr is a list) in mit-scheme? ___

[Rd] How S3method() is implemented and called? And when to use it?

2010-02-14 Thread blue sky
R-exts.pdf discribes S3method a little bit. But I want to understand more on how it is called, implemented and when to use it. I don't find it in an R session. But I see S3method() in some NAMESPACE files. > S3method Error: object 'S3method' not found > ?S3method No documentation for 'S3method' i

Re: [Rd] long integer in R?

2010-02-13 Thread blue sky
> a) restriction of representable integers. Today's platforms use 32-bit > integers, but on 16-bit platforms is used to be 16-bit hence the "almost". Just to make sure if I understand you correctly. So there are no 64-bit intergers on any platform? __

Re: [Rd] long integer in R?

2010-02-13 Thread blue sky
On Fri, Feb 12, 2010 at 12:06 PM, Simon Urbanek wrote: > > On Feb 12, 2010, at 12:33 , blue sky wrote: > >> R-exts.pdf dosen't list many types that are supported in C++, for example, >> long. Are there storage.mode corresponds to those extra types? >> > > Th

[Rd] long integer in R?

2010-02-12 Thread blue sky
R-exts.pdf dosen't list many types that are supported in C++, for example, long. Are there storage.mode corresponds to those extra types? __ R-devel@r-project.org mailing list https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-devel

Re: [Rd] filenames with special characters in the R/ directory of a package?

2010-02-12 Thread blue sky
t other names can be used > for files to be not installed. > > > On Fri, 12 Feb 2010, Barry Rowlingson wrote: > >> On Fri, Feb 12, 2010 at 5:35 AM, blue sky wrote: >>> >>> According to R-exts.pdf (page 3): >>> For maximal portab

[Rd] filenames with special characters in the R/ directory of a package?

2010-02-11 Thread blue sky
According to R-exts.pdf (page 3): For maximal portability filenames should only contain only ASCII characters not excluded already (that is A-Za-z0-9._!#$%&+,;=...@^(){}’[] I have some files with special characters like '[' and '%' e.g. '[.set.R'. I also have some functions that also have those sp