> On 13 May 2015, at 19:31 , Radford Neal wrote:
>
>> From: Martin Maechler
>
>> diag() should not work only for pure matrices, but for all
>> "matrix-like" objects for which ``the usual methods'' work, such
>> as
>> as.vector(.), c(.)
>>
>> That's why there has been the c(.) in there.
>>
On Thu, May 14, 2015 at 1:27 AM, Kevin Ushey wrote:
[...]
> So maybe `cat` just doesn't set a status code, and so there's nothing
> for R to forward back (ergo -- NULL)?
>
cat definitely sets the status. IMHO every command sets the exit status, by
definition, at least on Unix/Linux.
/tmp$ touch
The difference in the return value of close(pipeConnectionObject)
seems to depend on whether the pipe connection was opened via
the pipe() or open() functions (close() returns NULL)
> con <- pipe("ls")
> open(con, "r")
> readLines(con, n=1)
[1] "1032.R"
> print(close(con))
NULL
Not sure if it helps for your use case, but I have an experimental package
for controlling bidirectional pipe streams from R. Just thought I'd mention
it. Its at
https://github.com/thk686/pipestreamr
THK
On Thu, May 14, 2015 at 9:30 AM, William Dunlap wrote:
> The difference in the return valu
On Thu, May 14, 2015 at 7:30 AM, William Dunlap wrote:
> The difference in the return value of close(pipeConnectionObject) seems to
> depend on whether the pipe connection was opened via the pipe() or open()
> functions (close() returns NULL) or via something like readLines() or scan()
> (close
Dear all,
I am writing a vignette that requires a file which I am not allowed to
distribute, but which the user can easily download manually. Moreover, it
is not possible to download this file automatically from R: downloading
requires a (free) registration that seems to work only through a browse
On May 14, 2015 15:04, "January Weiner" wrote:
>
> Dear all,
>
> I am writing a vignette that requires a file which I am not allowed to
> distribute, but which the user can easily download manually. Moreover, it
> is not possible to download this file automatically from R: downloading
> requires a
On 05/14/2015 04:33 PM, Henrik Bengtsson wrote:
On May 14, 2015 15:04, "January Weiner" wrote:
Dear all,
I am writing a vignette that requires a file which I am not allowed to
distribute, but which the user can easily download manually. Moreover, it
is not possible to download this file autom
The R Installation and Administration manual section A.1 states that glibc
should provide a suitable iconv function, but I can't get R's configure script
to accept/validate iconv on a Linux platform I need to support using glibc 2.20.
Is glibc is actually compatible (and/or is gnu libiconv essen
