[Rd] lag() not returning a time series object

2014-04-19 Thread Joris Meys
Dear all, Before I file this as a bug, I wanted to check if I didn't miss something. The help page of lag() says that the function returns a time series object. It actually does return something that looks like a ts object (the attribute tsp is set). But when using a vector, the class "ts" is not

Re: [Rd] Can the output of Sys.getenv() be improved?

2014-04-19 Thread Martin Maechler
> William Dunlap > on Fri, 18 Apr 2014 16:50:22 + writes: >> Within an R session, type Sys.getenv() will list all the >> environment variables, but each one of them occupies >> about a page, so scrolling to find one is difficult. Is >> this because I don't know how

Re: [Rd] type.convert and doubles

2014-04-19 Thread Martin Maechler
> McGehee, Robert > on Thu, 17 Apr 2014 19:15:47 -0400 writes: >> This is all application specific and >> sort of beyond the scope of type.convert(), which now behaves as it >> has been documented to behave. > That's only a true statement because the documentation was

Re: [Rd] R 3.1.0: 'R CMD Sweave' deletes non tex files created upon batch mode exit

2014-04-19 Thread Martin Maechler
> Martin Maechler > on Thu, 17 Apr 2014 11:22:04 +0200 writes: [] > PS: I'm currently testing a patch where 'R CMD Sweave' will > revert to not deleting anything after running the R code by default. > Martin Maechler Some may have noted that R-devel, s

Re: [Rd] R 3.1.0: 'R CMD Sweave' deletes non tex files created upon batch mode exit

2014-04-19 Thread Marc Schwartz
On Apr 19, 2014, at 8:05 AM, Martin Maechler wrote: > >> Martin Maechler >>on Thu, 17 Apr 2014 11:22:04 +0200 writes: > > [] > >> PS: I'm currently testing a patch where 'R CMD Sweave' will >> revert to not deleting anything after running the R code by default. >

Re: [Rd] type.convert and doubles

2014-04-19 Thread Simon Urbanek
On Apr 19, 2014, at 9:00 AM, Martin Maechler wrote: >> McGehee, Robert >>on Thu, 17 Apr 2014 19:15:47 -0400 writes: > >>> This is all application specific and >>> sort of beyond the scope of type.convert(), which now behaves as it >>> has been documented to behave. > >> That's only

Re: [Rd] type.convert and doubles

2014-04-19 Thread Gabor Grothendieck
On Sat, Apr 19, 2014 at 1:06 PM, Simon Urbanek wrote: > On Apr 19, 2014, at 9:00 AM, Martin Maechler > wrote: > > I think there should be two separate discussions: > > a) have an option (argument to type.convert and possibly read.table) to > enable/disable this behavior. I'm strongly in favor o