Re: [Rd] R Language Definition: Subsetting matrices with negative indices is *not* an error

2015-05-09 Thread peter dalgaard
> On 09 May 2015, at 02:53 , Henrik Bengtsson wrote: > > Hi, > > I spotted what looks like another(*) mistake in 'R Language > Definition' on how subsetting should work. In Section 'Indexing > matrices and arrays' > [http://cran.r-project.org/doc/manuals/r-release/R-lang.html#Indexing-matrices

Re: [Rd] R Language Definition: Subsetting matrices with negative indices is *not* an error

2015-05-09 Thread Henrik Bengtsson
On Sat, May 9, 2015 at 12:55 AM, peter dalgaard wrote: > >> On 09 May 2015, at 02:53 , Henrik Bengtsson >> wrote: >> >> Hi, >> >> I spotted what looks like another(*) mistake in 'R Language >> Definition' on how subsetting should work. In Section 'Indexing >> matrices and arrays' >> [http://cra

Re: [Rd] R Language Definition: Subsetting matrices with negative indices is *not* an error

2015-05-09 Thread Bert Gunter
Ah, the woes of English word order -- even this native English speaker frequently gets messed up! (but maybe I'm just a bear of little brain). Best, Bert Bert Gunter Genentech Nonclinical Biostatistics (650) 467-7374 "Data is not information. Information is not knowledge. And knowledge is certa

[Rd] PATCH: library(..., quietly=TRUE) still outputs "Loading required package: ..." (forgot to pass down 'quietly')

2015-05-09 Thread Henrik Bengtsson
Calling library(..., quietly=TRUE) may still output: Loading required package: in some cases, e.g. > library("R.utils", quietly=TRUE) Loading required package: R.methodsS3 [...] I traced this to base:::.getRequiredPackages2(), which forgets to pass 'quietly' to an internal library() call:

Re: [Rd] R Language Definition: Subsetting matrices with negative indices is *not* an error

2015-05-09 Thread peter dalgaard
> On 09 May 2015, at 22:33 , Henrik Bengtsson wrote: > > On Sat, May 9, 2015 at 12:55 AM, peter dalgaard wrote: >> >> >> Rephrasing would seem to be in order > > Ah... definitely a "parse error" (I read it as a new paragraph). I > second rephrasing this; your ""Indexing matrices may not