Re: [Rd] V2.9.0 changes [Sec=Unclassified]

2009-06-24 Thread Troy Robertson
Yes, I had looked at R.oo, S4 and proto before beginning coding. I had initially assumed that S4 was an enhancement of or replacement to R.oo that was implemented at a lower level and had decided to go with the 'future' of OO in R. These assumptions were not necessarily correct. Troy Troy

Re: [Rd] V2.9.0 changes [Sec=Unclassified]

2009-06-24 Thread Troy Robertson
Thanks Martin, Yes I can see that a slot can be initialised as an environment, and data stored within that environment but it seems to then require an additional layer of indirection to access data members within the environment and negates the use of slots in the first place. The same goes

Re: [Rd] V2.9.0 changes [Sec=Unclassified]

2009-06-24 Thread Martin Maechler
TR == Troy Robertson troy.robert...@aad.gov.au on Wed, 24 Jun 2009 16:35:29 +1000 writes: TR Yes, I had looked at R.oo, S4 and proto before beginning coding. I had initially assumed that S4 was an enhancement of or replacement to R.oo that was implemented at a lower level and had

Re: [Rd] Documentation/software inconsistency in `:` and seq

2009-06-24 Thread Martin Maechler
Hi Stavros, SM == Stavros Macrakis macra...@alum.mit.edu on Tue, 23 Jun 2009 15:53:30 -0400 writes: SM In 2.8.1/Windows: SM According to ? : SM Details: SM For numeric arguments 'from:to' is equivalent to 'seq(from, to)' ... that *is* definitely true asseq(from,to)

Re: [Rd] V2.9.0 changes [Sec=Unclassified]

2009-06-24 Thread Peter Dalgaard
Martin Maechler wrote: But then, as professional statisticians, we should consider the famous Prediction is very difficult, especially about the future attributed to Physics Nobel Prize winner Niels Bohr. ...and quotations are even more difficult! A number of people are known NOT to be

Re: [Rd] loadNamespace and useDynLib

2009-06-24 Thread Uwe Ligges
Kasper Daniel Hansen wrote: I am considering a package with a namespace (Rgraphviz from Bioc). I essentially want to have some error handling for loading the dll, something like wrapping it into tryCatch or similar (reason: see below). Right now I am loading the dynamic libraries by

Re: [Rd] loadNamespace and useDynLib

2009-06-24 Thread Gabor Grothendieck
I've also experienced this problem with RGraphviz and suggest you expand the message to: Graphviz version x found at c:\...whatever...\graphviz.dll but version y found at http://whatever required. Another approach would be to check that the file size, file name, checksum or some other attribute

[Rd] Quotations (was Re: V2.9.0 changes [Sec=Unclassified])

2009-06-24 Thread Kevin R. Coombes
Also attributed (incorrectly) to both Yogi Berra and Mark Twain. The Twain attribution leads (because he published numerous essays and short stories in The Galaxy magazine) to one possible (and documentable) source: [I]f we found a character in a novel represented as habitually uttering

Re: [Rd] Documentation/software inconsistency in `:` and seq

2009-06-24 Thread Stavros Macrakis
On Wed, Jun 24, 2009 at 5:28 AM, Martin Maechler maech...@stat.math.ethz.ch wrote:    SM But of course 2.5 is not an integer or equal to one. Interestingly, because of an earlier posting on the topic, two days ago (*), I have fixed the help page (and very slightly also the code) of : Sorry

[Rd] RGui Configuration editor crashes when using an unlisted font (PR#13780)

2009-06-24 Thread richard . cotton
Full_Name: Richard Cotton Version: 2.9.0 OS: Windows XP, SP2, 32 bit Submission from: (NULL) (87.102.99.18) To reproduce the crash: 1. Create an RConsole file for your user account. 2. Close R. 3. Manually edit the font line to include a font that is not on the standard list of available

Re: [Rd] V2.9.0 changes [Sec=Unclassified]

2009-06-24 Thread Henrik Bengtsson
On Wed, Jun 24, 2009 at 4:27 AM, Martin Maechlermaech...@stat.math.ethz.ch wrote: TR == Troy Robertson troy.robert...@aad.gov.au     on Wed, 24 Jun 2009 16:35:29 +1000 writes:    TR Yes, I had looked at R.oo, S4 and proto before beginning coding. I had initially assumed that S4 was an