> "Duncan" == Duncan Murdoch <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> on Mon, 30 Jan 2006 09:58:23 -0500 writes:
Duncan> On 1/30/2006 4:16 AM, Martin Maechler wrote:
>>> "Duncan" == Duncan Murdoch <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> on
>>> Sun, 29 Jan 2006 16:35:50 -0500 writes:
>>
Duncan> On
On 1/30/2006 4:16 AM, Martin Maechler wrote:
>> "Duncan" == Duncan Murdoch <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
>> on Sun, 29 Jan 2006 16:35:50 -0500 writes:
>
> Duncan> On 1/29/2006 1:29 PM, Prof Brian Ripley wrote:
> >> On Sun, 29 Jan 2006, Marc Schwartz wrote:
> >>
> >>> I would arg
> "Duncan" == Duncan Murdoch <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> on Sun, 29 Jan 2006 16:35:50 -0500 writes:
Duncan> On 1/29/2006 1:29 PM, Prof Brian Ripley wrote:
>> On Sun, 29 Jan 2006, Marc Schwartz wrote:
>>
>>> I would argue against this.
>>>
>>> If this were the defaul
On 1/29/06, Duncan Murdoch <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> On 1/29/2006 5:20 PM, Gabor Grothendieck wrote:
> > On 1/29/06, Duncan Murdoch <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> >> On 1/29/2006 1:24 PM, Gabor Grothendieck wrote:
> >> > Normally one expects stdin to be the default on command line
> >> > program
On 1/29/2006 5:20 PM, Gabor Grothendieck wrote:
> On 1/29/06, Duncan Murdoch <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>> On 1/29/2006 1:24 PM, Gabor Grothendieck wrote:
>> > Normally one expects stdin to be the default on command line
>> > programs and something like file.choose to be the default on GUI
>> >
On 1/29/06, Duncan Murdoch <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> On 1/29/2006 1:24 PM, Gabor Grothendieck wrote:
> > Normally one expects stdin to be the default on command line
> > programs and something like file.choose to be the default on GUI
> > programs and this would break that expectation.
>
> We
On 1/29/2006 1:24 PM, Gabor Grothendieck wrote:
> Normally one expects stdin to be the default on command line
> programs and something like file.choose to be the default on GUI
> programs and this would break that expectation.
We don't currently meet that expectation, so I don't think it would
On 1/29/2006 1:29 PM, Prof Brian Ripley wrote:
> On Sun, 29 Jan 2006, Marc Schwartz wrote:
>
>> I would argue against this.
>>
>> If this were the default, that is requiring user interaction, it would
>> break a fair amount of code that I (and I am sure a lot of others have)
>> where automation is
Duncan,
OK. I mis-understood the proposal. My error.
Thanks for the clarification.
Marc
On Sun, 2006-01-29 at 13:08 -0500, Duncan Murdoch wrote:
> On 1/29/2006 12:55 PM, Marc Schwartz wrote:
> > I would argue against this.
> >
> > If this were the default, that is requiring user interaction, i
On Sun, 29 Jan 2006, Marc Schwartz wrote:
I would argue against this.
If this were the default, that is requiring user interaction, it would
break a fair amount of code that I (and I am sure a lot of others have)
where automation is critical.
I don't see how. The current default is
read.ta
On 1/29/2006 12:55 PM, Marc Schwartz wrote:
> I would argue against this.
>
> If this were the default, that is requiring user interaction, it would
> break a fair amount of code that I (and I am sure a lot of others have)
> where automation is critical.
I don't see how this change could affect a
I would argue against this.
If this were the default, that is requiring user interaction, it would
break a fair amount of code that I (and I am sure a lot of others have)
where automation is critical.
A lot of the issues seem to be user errors, file permission errors,
hidden extensions as is poin
(Moved from R-help).
This comes up often enough that I'm starting to think most functions
that take filename arguments should have file.choose() as the default
value. Then one could do
read.table()
and have a dialog box pop up in Windows, or some other prompt for a
filename in other platform
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