[Rd] requesting a mentor for R development

2011-06-20 Thread Paul Johnson
I'd like to learn the process of revising R functions & packages and then submitting proposed patches to the R Core team. Would someone be willing to mentor me through one example? For starters, consider an example. I'd like to revise the t.test function to return the stderr value to the user.

Re: [Rd] arbitrary size data frame or other stcucts, curious about issues invovled.

2011-06-20 Thread Jay Emerson
Mike, Neither bigmemory nor ff are "drop in" solutions -- though useful, they are primarily for data storage and management and allowing convenient access to subsets of the data. Direct analysis of the full objects via most R functions is not possible. There are many issues that could be discus

[Rd] Quote the path of graphics output in Sweave when it contains spaces

2011-06-20 Thread Yihui Xie
Hi, I'm aware of the definition of a "valid filename" in .SweaveValidFilenameRegexp, but I think it might be better to quote the filename when it contains spaces instead of just giving a warning. This should bring us safer LaTeX code (although I never use spaces in paths). Here is the simple patc

Re: [Rd] Quote the path of graphics output in Sweave when it contains spaces

2011-06-20 Thread Duncan Murdoch
On 11-06-20 5:57 PM, Yihui Xie wrote: Hi, I'm aware of the definition of a "valid filename" in .SweaveValidFilenameRegexp, but I think it might be better to quote the filename when it contains spaces instead of just giving a warning. This should bring us safer LaTeX code (although I never use sp