[Rd] ifelse() woes ... can we agree on a ifelse2() ?

2016-08-06 Thread Martin Maechler
Dear R-devel readers, ( = people interested in the improvement and development of R). This is not the first time that this topic is raised. and I am in now state to promise that anything will result from this thread ... Still, I think the majority among us has agreed that 1) you should never use

Re: [Rd] ifelse() woes ... can we agree on a ifelse2() ?

2016-08-06 Thread Bob Rudis
have you tried seeing if `dplyr::if_else` behaves more to your liking? On Sat, Aug 6, 2016 at 10:20 AM Martin Maechler wrote: > Dear R-devel readers, > ( = people interested in the improvement and development of R). > > This is not the first time that this topic is raised. > and I am in now stat

Re: [Rd] ifelse() woes ... can we agree on a ifelse2() ?

2016-08-06 Thread Duncan Murdoch
On 06/08/2016 10:18 AM, Martin Maechler wrote: Dear R-devel readers, ( = people interested in the improvement and development of R). This is not the first time that this topic is raised. and I am in now state to promise that anything will result from this thread ... Still, I think the majority

[Rd] Quote symbol names under EXPORTS in tmp.def on Windows

2016-08-06 Thread Kyle Baron
I originally posted on this topic on a different thread: https://stat.ethz.ch/pipermail/r-devel/2016-August/072938.html These sources suggested that a safe practice might be to put double quotes around symbol names in EXPORTS in case the symbol name is the same as a linker keyword: - https://so