[Rd] Another wish (?) for R 4.0.0: print(*, width = )

2020-01-07 Thread Martin Maechler
One of the things I often wish R would work with: When calling print() explicitly --- as I do not so rarely, e.g., specifying digits = --- it sometimes seems awkward that from the printing options() , one can specify 'digits' and it has default digits = NULL which is documented to be equivalent

Re: [Rd] standard naming for components of R data structures

2020-01-07 Thread Steve Dutky
Thank you: the R Language Definition is very helpful. On Mon, Jan 6, 2020 at 3:18 PM Abby Spurdle wrote: > Do you just need something on pen and paper? > (In which case, I don't see why it needs to be "standard"). > > Or do you need something that can be used with bison/yacc/cup/etc to > produce

Re: [Rd] Another wish (?) for R 4.0.0: print(*, width = )

2020-01-07 Thread brodie gaslam via R-devel
For whatever my 2c are worth I think this would be nice.  I'm still uncomfortable at having to call `options` in my package `diffobj` to set output width. And since the topic is here, what about `show`?  Feels like it should accept `...` so that it too could be given some set of standard or no

Re: [Rd] Another wish (?) for R 4.0.0: print(*, width = )

2020-01-07 Thread Henrik Bengtsson
On Tue, Jan 7, 2020 at 6:14 AM brodie gaslam via R-devel wrote: > > For whatever my 2c are worth I think this would be nice. I'm still > uncomfortable at having to call `options` in my package `diffobj` to set > output width. Adding a few more cents: It might be worth considering "who" should

Re: [Rd] Another wish (?) for R 4.0.0: print(*, width = )

2020-01-07 Thread Pages, Herve
On 1/7/20 06:13, brodie gaslam via R-devel wrote: ... > Happy new decade. *** caught segfault *** conflicting decade boundaries Traceback: 1: new_decade <- 2020:2029 2: previous_decade <- 2011:2020 3: previous_previous_decade <- 2001:2010 4: current_millenium <- 2001:3000 5: previous_

Re: [Rd] Another wish (?) for R 4.0.0: print(*, width = )

2020-01-07 Thread Iñaki Ucar
On Wed, 8 Jan 2020 at 02:05, Pages, Herve wrote: > > On 1/7/20 06:13, brodie gaslam via R-devel wrote: > ... > > Happy new decade. > > *** caught segfault *** > conflicting decade boundaries https://xkcd.com/2249/ ;-) > > Traceback: > 1: new_decade <- 2020:2029 > 2: previous_decade <- 2011