signif() is primitive in 2.6.x, and so uses positional matching (almost all primitives do).
See the NEWS file for the announcement of the change. On Sat, 2 Feb 2008, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Full_Name: Ben Hansen > Version: 2.6.1 > OS: Windows > Submission from: (NULL) (66.93.3.101) > > > Hi, > > In R 2.6.0 or 2.6.1 on Windows, I get the following upon opening the GUI (no > previous commands or special settings): >> signif(digits=4, x=1/3) > [1] 4 > > It seems to be taking 4 to be the "x" argument, the number to be rounded. > However, my understanding (perhaps mistaken) was that it should respond as > follows: >> signif(digits=4, x=1/3) > [1] 0.3333 > > (This last is what I get from R 2.5.0 running on the same machine, and what > I'm > used to getting using earlier versions.) Similar things happen with round(). > > I haven't yet had the opportunity to investigate whether I'd see the same > behavior on other platforms. > > Best wishes, > Ben > > ______________________________________________ > R-devel@r-project.org mailing list > https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-devel > -- Brian D. Ripley, [EMAIL PROTECTED] Professor of Applied Statistics, http://www.stats.ox.ac.uk/~ripley/ University of Oxford, Tel: +44 1865 272861 (self) 1 South Parks Road, +44 1865 272866 (PA) Oxford OX1 3TG, UK Fax: +44 1865 272595 ______________________________________________ R-devel@r-project.org mailing list https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-devel
