>Note also that R does have a User Guide, i.e., while there is plenty of
>excellent documentation,
>there is no single document which is a guide to the whole project.
Oops, I meant to write "R does not have a User Guide".
Just to explain this further, the citation() function asks me to cite a
At 05:22 PM 14/06/2005, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> > On Tue, 14 Jun 2005 08:42:59 +1000 (EST),
> > Gordon K Smyth (GKS) wrote:
>
> > On Tue, June 14, 2005 12:49 am, Thomas Lumley said:
> >> On Mon, 13 Jun 2005, Gordon K Smyth wrote:
> >>
> >>> This is just a note that R would get a
>[Rd] boxplot() defaults {was "boxplot in extreme cases"}
>Martin Maechler maechler at stat.math.ethz.ch
>Mon Nov 8 10:36:42 CET 2004
>
> AndyL> Try:
>
> AndyL> x <- list(x1=rep(c(0,1,2),c(10,20,40)),
> x2=rep(c(0,1,2),c(10,40,20)))
> AndyL> boxplot(x, pars=list(medpch=20, medcex=3))
>To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
>From: Gordon Smyth <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
>Subject: R 2.1.1: read.table processes C-style escapes
>Date: Wed, 27 Jul 2005 12:51:45 +1000
>
>In R 2.1.1, the default behaviour of scan() was changed to process all
>C-style escapes, even when a delimi
Thanks for the reply. Apologies for checking only R patched rather than
R-devel.
I guess that this means that someone must have a use for allowEscapes=TRUE
when read reading a file in table format into a data frame. It is hard to
imagine.
Gordon
At 04:59 PM 27/07/2005, Prof Brian Ripley wrote
At 05:21 PM 27/07/2005, Prof Brian Ripley wrote:
>On Wed, 27 Jul 2005, Gordon Smyth wrote:
>
>>Thanks for the reply. Apologies for checking only R patched rather than
>>R-devel.
>>
>>I guess that this means that someone must have a use for
>>allowEscapes=TR
I am trying to understand the behaviour of read.table() reading
delimited files (with header=TRUE and fill=TRUE) when there are more
(possibly spurious) columns than headings. I give below four small
data files, all of which have one or two extra columns added to one
line. Reading the first f
Is there a capability that you would like for the package which could
be achieved only if the package was transitioned to S4? If so,
explain this to the author. If not, why ask them to change?
Gordon
>[Rd] S4 Classes
>Daniel Gerlanc dgerlanc at gmail.com
>Thu Aug 10 23:37:15 CEST 2006
>
>Hello
