Re: [Rd] type.convert and doubles

2014-04-22 Thread Martin Maechler
> McGehee, Robert > on Mon, 21 Apr 2014 09:24:13 -0400 writes: > Agreed. Perhaps even a global option would make sense. We > already have an option with a similar spirit: > 'options(³stringsAsFactors"=T/F)'. Perhaps > 'options(³exactNumericAsString²=T/F)' [or something

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

2014-04-22 Thread Thomas Rusch
Hi Martin, I use R CMD Sweave often as well, so thanks for looking into this. I have now tested some of my scripts with R-devel revision 65449 (2014-04-22) on 64-Bit Linux Mint 14. I can confirm Marc's report that running R CMD Sweave no longer deletes graphic files and retains created non-t

Re: [Rd] type.convert and doubles

2014-04-22 Thread Therneau, Terry M., Ph.D.
"No global options" I don't have an opinion about type.convert, but I must object to Martin's sweeping statement about global options, and stringsAsFactors in particular. There have been only a few decisions in Splus/R that were so bad that our biostat group modified the core routines in order

Re: [Rd] type.convert and doubles

2014-04-22 Thread Milan Bouchet-Valat
Le mardi 22 avril 2014 à 12:18 -0500, Therneau, Terry M., Ph.D. a écrit : > "No global options" > I don't have an opinion about type.convert, but I must object to Martin's > sweeping > statement about global options, and stringsAsFactors in particular. There > have been only > a few decisions

Re: [Rd] type.convert and doubles

2014-04-22 Thread Martin Maechler
> Therneau, Terry M , Ph D > on Tue, 22 Apr 2014 12:18:55 -0500 writes: > "No global options" > I don't have an opinion about type.convert, but I must object to Martin's sweeping > statement about global options, and stringsAsFactors in particular. There have been only