[Rd] proposed change to 'sample'

There is a weakness in the 'sample' function that is highlighted in the help file. The 'x' argument can be either the vector from which to sample, or the maximum value of the sequence from which to sample. This can be ambiguous if the length of 'x' is one. I propose adding an argument that allo

Re: [Rd] [R] Use of .Fortran

On 06/20/2010 04:02 AM, David Scott wrote: Thanks very much to all who replied. I went with Brian's approach, and eventually, despite all my attempts to foul it up, I did get it to work successfully. For the record here are the details. The subroutine is: subroutine SSFcoef(nmax,nu,A)

Re: [Rd] C Interface

Thanks for all replies. I'll use inlining until I have figured out how to build a proper package. Michael [[alternative HTML version deleted]] __ R-devel@r-project.org mailing list https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-devel

[Rd] How to debug: Cons memory exhausted

Hello, I get an error when binary structures from a pipe 'Error: cons memory exhausted (limit reached?)' (but R does not crash) This is probably due to some bug in my code, but occurs after reading about 85K pairs of RAWSXP objects (each < 20 bytes). I do not have any explicit calls to malloc/ca

Re: [Rd] proposed change to 'sample'

> -Original Message- > From: r-devel-boun...@r-project.org > [mailto:r-devel-boun...@r-project.org] On Behalf Of Patrick Burns > Sent: Sunday, June 20, 2010 3:08 AM > To: r-devel@r-project.org > Subject: [Rd] proposed change to 'sample' > > There is a weakness in the 'sample' > function t

Re: [Rd] proposed change to 'sample'

William Dunlap wrote: >> -Original Message- >> From: r-devel-boun...@r-project.org >> [mailto:r-devel-boun...@r-project.org] On Behalf Of Patrick Burns >> >> I propose adding an argument that allows >> the user (programmer) to avoid that >> ambiguity: >> >> function (x, size, replace

Re: [Rd] more powerful iconv

Couple more thoughts about iconv, (1) The 'embedded nul' error is thrown by mkCharLenCE, after the real conversion is complete. The converted string exists in memory, though not in a form that R can currently represent as a STRSXP. Hence the error when passed to mkCharLenCE. (2) The patch I subm

Re: [Rd] proposed change to 'sample'

> I would be more inclined to make sampling from a vector the normal case, > and default x to say 1:max(n, size), forcing users to say sample(n=5) if > sampling from x=1:5 is desired. This could be a manageable change; the > deprecation sequence is a bit painful to think through, though. Don't we

Re: [Rd] proposed change to 'sample'

> -Original Message- > From: Peter Dalgaard [mailto:pda...@gmail.com] > Sent: Sunday, June 20, 2010 2:12 PM > To: William Dunlap > Cc: Patrick Burns; r-devel@r-project.org > Subject: Re: [Rd] proposed change to 'sample' > > William Dunlap wrote: > >> -Original Message- > >> From:

Re: [Rd] proposed change to 'sample'

Hadley Wickham wrote: >> I would be more inclined to make sampling from a vector the normal case, >> and default x to say 1:max(n, size), forcing users to say sample(n=5) if >> sampling from x=1:5 is desired. This could be a manageable change; the >> deprecation sequence is a bit painful to think t