> -Original Message-
> From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Thomas Lumley
> Sent: Monday, January 14, 2008 11:24 AM
> To: François Pinard
> Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED]; [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> Subject: Re: [Rd] Possible bug in R 2.6.1 (PR#10565
On Mon, 14 Jan 2008, [iso-8859-1] François Pinard wrote:
> [Brian Ripley]
>
>> I do often wonder why people are 'sure you know for certain' (to quote the
>> FAQ) that something as elementary as this would be a bug for so many
>> years. It indicates a lack of respect for the R developers.
>
> Not
[Brian Ripley]
>I do often wonder why people are 'sure you know for certain' (to quote the
>FAQ) that something as elementary as this would be a bug for so many
>years. It indicates a lack of respect for the R developers.
Not at all. A bug report may be naive, or even wrong, and still be
dri
On Fri, 11 Jan 2008, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> Colleagues,
>
> =20
>
> In using the paste command I have to spell out the collapse option:
>
> =20
>
>> paste(1:3,coll=3D"a")
>
> [1] "1 a" "2 a" "3 a"
>
>> paste(1:3,collapse=3D"a")
>
> [1] "1a2a3"
>
> =20
>
> My understanding is that the abbreviat
Colleagues,
=20
In using the paste command I have to spell out the collapse option:
=20
> paste(1:3,coll=3D"a")
[1] "1 a" "2 a" "3 a"
> paste(1:3,collapse=3D"a")
[1] "1a2a3"
=20
My understanding is that the abbreviation coll should be adequate.
Actually, even collaps isn't enough:
=20
pa
