[Rd] Parallel compression support for saving to rds/rdata files?

2016-12-15 Thread Kenny Bell
Hi, I have tried to follow the instructions in the ``save`` documentation and it doesn't seem to work (see below): mydata <- do.call(rbind, rep(iris, 1)) con <- pipe("pigz -p8 > fname.gz", "wb"); save(mydata, file = con); close(con) # This runs R.utils::gunzip("fname.gz", "fname.RData", over

Re: [Rd] Parallel compression support for saving to rds/rdata files?

2016-12-15 Thread Simon Urbanek
> On Dec 15, 2016, at 12:08 AM, Kenny Bell wrote: > > Hi, > > I have tried to follow the instructions in the ``save`` documentation and > it doesn't seem to work (see below): > > mydata <- do.call(rbind, rep(iris, 1)) > con <- pipe("pigz -p8 > fname.gz", "wb"); > save(mydata, file = con);

[Rd] print.POSIXct doesn't seem to use tz argument, as per its example

2016-12-15 Thread Jennifer Lyon
On the documentation page for DateTimeClasses, in the Examples section, there are the following two lines: format(.leap.seconds) # the leap seconds in your time zone print(.leap.seconds, tz = "PST8PDT") # and in Seattle's The second line (using print) seems to ignore the tz argument, and

Re: [Rd] New leap second end of 2016 / beginning 2017 (depending on TZ)

2016-12-15 Thread Martin Maechler
> Martin Maechler > on Wed, 14 Dec 2016 17:04:22 +0100 writes: > As R is sophisticated enough to track leap seconds, > ?.leap.seconds > we'd need to update our codes real soon now again: > https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Leap_second > (and those of you who want se