Re: [Rd] where to send patches to R source code

2016-05-13 Thread Göran Broström
Dear Frederik, I can confirm that especially the first issue on your list (resizing the terminal) has "bothered me" badly for some time now: I'm on Ubuntu (usually). Göran Broström On 2016-05-13 00:23, frede...@ofb.net wrote: Hi Peter, Martin, and others, Thanks for your replies. - The b

Re: [Rd] objects intermittently shared between vignettes

2016-05-13 Thread Duncan Murdoch
On 12/05/2016 9:21 PM, Spencer Graves wrote: Hello: Is it widely known that objects not explicitly deleted from one vignette in a package can be available to a second in "R CMD build" and "R CMD check" but not when the second vignette is built manually, at least under RStudio on Mac OS

Re: [Rd] where to send patches to R source code

2016-05-13 Thread peter dalgaard
Actually, I think both Martin and I use reaadline R versions on a daily basis (Linux and OSX Terminal respectively). For my case, it is just that I rarely use the backwards search feature and I'm old enough that terminal widths other than 80 look odd to me so I don't resize much either. Of cours

Re: [Rd] where to send patches to R source code

2016-05-13 Thread Martin Maechler
> > on Thu, 12 May 2016 15:23:04 -0700 writes: > Hi Peter, Martin, and others, > Thanks for your replies. > - The bugs apply to all systems that use GNU Readline, not just Linux > or Arch Linux. yes... but > - Readline version 6.3 changed the signal handling s

Re: [Rd] R process killed when allocating too large matrix (Mac OS X)

2016-05-13 Thread Kirill Müller
On 12.05.2016 09:51, Martin Maechler wrote: > My ulimit package exposes this API ([1], should finally submit it to > CRAN); unfortunately this very API seems to be unsupported on OS X > [2,3]. Last time I looked into it, neither of the documented settings > achieved the desire

[Rd] LaTeX errors new with R 3.3.0

2016-05-13 Thread Spencer Graves
Hello: I could use help understanding an error reported by "R CMD build sos" that's new with R 3.3.0: Error in texi2dvi(file = file, pdf = TRUE, clean = clean, quiet = quiet, : Running 'texi2dvi' on 'sos.tex' failed. LaTeX errors: ! Undefined control sequence. l.1 \Sconcordance

Re: [Rd] LaTeX errors new with R 3.3.0

2016-05-13 Thread Duncan Murdoch
On 13/05/2016 10:41 AM, Spencer Graves wrote: Hello: I could use help understanding an error reported by "R CMD build sos" that's new with R 3.3.0: Error in texi2dvi(file = file, pdf = TRUE, clean = clean, quiet = quiet, : Running 'texi2dvi' on 'sos.tex' failed. LaTeX errors: ! U

Re: [Rd] complex NA's match(), etc: not back-compatible change proposal

2016-05-13 Thread Suharto Anggono Suharto Anggono via R-devel
That, for example, complex(real=NaN) and complex(imaginary=NaN) are regarded as equal makes it possible that length(unique(as.character(x))) > length(unique(x)) (current code of function 'factor' doesn't expect it). Yes, an argument for the behavior is that NA and NaN are of one kind. On my sys

Re: [Rd] recursion problem using do.call(rbind, list(..,,..))

2016-05-13 Thread Hadley Wickham
Hi Martin, I think this is a general problem with any function that does dispatch on ... - I think for well-defined behaviour you always need to dispatch on pairs, folding/reducing (like in your code) to get a single value. The downside of this approach is obviously performance: for n inputs, you