Just responding to some of the issues in this long post:
(1) Don't rely on the printed form of an object to decide whether or not
they are identical. The function str() is very useful in this regard,
and sometimes also unclass(). To see whether two object are identical,
use the function ident
Running under Windows XP 64 bit, as.POSIXlt()/as.POSIXct() seem
to think that US time zones (EST5EDT, MST7MDT) switched from daylight
savings back to standard time on Oct 28, 2007, whereas the switch
is actually on Sun Nov 04, 2007.
Examples:
> Sys.timezone()
[1] "Mountain Daylight Time"
> as.P
"lpt1" through "lpt9" and "com1" through "com9" are in fact "special"
file names under various versions of Microsoft Windows. However, "R
Extensions" says only that "lpt1" through "lpt4" and "com1" through
"com3" cannot be used as filenames, and "R CMD check" checks for just
these filenames.
This is a multi-part message in MIME format.
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DESCRIPTION OF PROBLEM:
Output from format.default sometimes has whitespace around it when using
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Fair enough. But for the benefit of the unfortunate souls having to
work in Windows, it would be nice if the documentation were as explicit
as possible about what is and is not known about particular issues
(while still being concise). How about the following:
NEW:
#ifdef windows
The valu
[I started a new bug report for this issue because it was not the
primary issue in the original discussion, which was PR#7899]
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> Tony Plate wrote:
> [snip]
>>[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
>>[snip]
>>>Note that ?seek currently tells us "The value returned by
>>>seek(where
