Re: [Rd] Internal error in 'ls' for pathological environments (PR#14036)

2009-11-01 Thread ggrothendieck
On Sun, Nov 1, 2009 at 6:02 AM, Peter Dalgaard w= rote: > macra...@alum.mit.edu wrote: >> >> nchar(with(list(2),ls())) gives an internal error. This is of course >> a peculiar call (no names in the list), but the error is not caught >> cleanly. >> >> It is not clear from the documentation whether

[Rd] Date + difftime (PR#13369)

2008-12-03 Thread ggrothendieck
Full_Name: G. Grothendieck Version: 2.8.0 OS: Vista Submission from: (NULL) (69.63.52.10) Get rid of the annoying warning. This is supposed to be valid according to ?Ops.Date (shown at end): > today <- Sys.Date() > tomorrow <- today + 1 > dt <- tomorrow - today > today + dt [1] "2008-12-05" Wa

[Rd] Axis gives error message (PR#13259)

2008-11-06 Thread ggrothendieck
Full_Name: G. Grothendieck Version: R version 2.8.0 Patched (2008-10-21 r46766) OS: Vista Submission from: (NULL) (69.63.56.110) Was posted here on r-devel https://stat.ethz.ch/pipermail/r-devel/2008-November/051173.html but got no replies. __ R-deve

Re: [Rd] Multiplication (PR#8466)

2006-01-06 Thread ggrothendieck
On 1/6/06, Thomas Lumley <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Fri, 6 Jan 2006, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > > hi - in version 2.1 the command > > > > >-2^2 > > > > gives > > > > -4 > > > > as the answer. (-2)^2 is evaluated correctly. > > So is -2^2. The precedence of ^ is higher than that of unary mi

Re: [Rd] 0/1 vector for indexing leads to funny behaviour (PR#8389) (maybe a documentation deficiency?)

2005-12-13 Thread ggrothendieck
The other place its discussed is in 3.4.1 of the R Language Definition: http://finzi.psych.upenn.edu/R/doc/manual/R-lang.html#Indexing-by-vectors On 12/13/05, Tony Plate <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Yes, 0/1 (numeric) are intended to be used as index vectors -- and they > have the semantics of nu

[Rd] Packages | Install >Cancel gives error msg in Windows GUI (PR#8000)

2005-07-08 Thread ggrothendieck
Full_Name: G. Grothendieck Version: R version 2.1.1, 2005-06-23 OS: Windows XP Submission from: (NULL) (216.59.244.202) In the Windows GUI, choosing the Packages Menu, then Install and then clicking on Cancel gives an error message saying that nothing was specified to be installed: > utils:::m

[Rd] by should use match.fun (PR#7936)

2005-06-14 Thread ggrothendieck
Full_Name: G. Grothendieck Version: R version 2.1.0, 2005-06-10 OS: Windows XP Submission from: (NULL) (216.59.226.184) This is an inconsistency between by and similar functions. The 'by' function should have an initial line of: FUN <- match.fun(FUN) All other similar functions including app

[Rd] italic (PR#7932)

2005-06-11 Thread ggrothendieck
Full_Name: G. Grothendieck Version: R version 2.1.0, 2005-05-14 OS: Windows XP Submission from: (NULL) (216.59.254.207) This code: > plot(1:10) > text(5,5,lab=expression(italic(22*"33"))) has the effect of italicizing 33 (which is a character string) but not 22 (which is not). I would have tho