Re: [Rd] does subset.data.frame need to accept extra arguments?

2013-07-11 Thread Hadley Wickham
> It needs to have ... in the formal argument list because the generic > subset() does. > > It could enforce a run-time warning that some arguments were being skipped > (by testing length(list(...)) for example), but then NextMethod might fail, > in a case where an object has a complicated class ve

Re: [Rd] does subset.data.frame need to accept extra arguments?

2013-07-11 Thread Duncan Murdoch
On 13-07-11 12:59 PM, Hadley Wickham wrote: It needs to have ... in the formal argument list because the generic subset() does. It could enforce a run-time warning that some arguments were being skipped (by testing length(list(...)) for example), but then NextMethod might fail, in a case where a

[Rd] robustbase compilation problem: probably boneheaded? maybe 32-bit?

2013-07-11 Thread Ben Bolker
With a recent SVN build (R Under development (unstable) (2013-07-10 r63264) -- "Unsuffered Consequences"), I'm having trouble installing the robustbase package. The bottom line is that I *think* it's a 32-bit-system problem, but I could easily be mistaken. robustbase is passing its package check

Re: [Rd] robustbase compilation problem: probably boneheaded? maybe 32-bit?

2013-07-11 Thread Simon Urbanek
On Jul 11, 2013, at 10:57 PM, Ben Bolker wrote: > > With a recent SVN build (R Under development (unstable) (2013-07-10 > r63264) -- "Unsuffered Consequences"), I'm having trouble installing the > robustbase package. The bottom line is that I *think* it's a > 32-bit-system problem, but I could