[Rd] getParseData() for imaginary numbers

2013-09-18 Thread Yihui Xie
Hi, The imaginary unit is gone in the 'text' column in the returned data frame from getParseData(), e.g. in the example below, perhaps the text should be 1i instead of 1: > p=parse(text='1i') > getParseData(p) line1 col1 line2 col2 id parent token terminal text 1 11 12 1

[Rd] Design for classes with database connection

2013-09-18 Thread Simon Zehnder
Dear R-Devels, I am designing right now a package intended to simplify the handling of market microstructure data (tick data, order data, etc). As these data is most times pretty huge and needs to be reordered quite often (e.g. if several security data is batched together or if only a certain t

[Rd] dbeta may hang R session for very large values of the shape parameters

2013-09-18 Thread Kosmidis, Ioannis
Dear all, we received a bug report for betareg, that in some cases the optim call in betareg.fit would hang the R session and the command cannot be interrupted by Ctrl-C… We narrowed down the problem to the dbeta function which is used for the log likelihood evaluation in betareg.fit. Partic

[Rd] Vignette problem and CRAN policies

2013-09-18 Thread Spencer Graves
Hello, All: The vignette with the sos package used "upquote.sty", required for R Journal when it was published in 2009. Current CRAN policy disallows "upquote.sty", and I've so far not found a way to pass "R CMD check" with sos without upquote.sty. I changed sos.Rnw per an email exc