On Oct 18, 2011, at 8:32 PM, Hervé Pagès wrote: > On 11-10-18 04:00 PM, Kevin Wright wrote: >> Hadley, >> >> Any chance of changing fun.aggregate to FUN and value_var to value.var? >> >> aggregate(.., FUN, ...) >> acast(..., fun.aggregate, ...) >> >> cast(..., value.var) >> acast(..., value_var) >> >> Side note: My fantasy for R 3.0 would be to fix the obvious inconsistencies >> in function names/arguments, use Roxygen format for the documentation, >> change the egregious [ , , drop=TRUE] to FALSE and paste(..., sep=""), >> install packages on the fly, and improve consistency for functions dealing >> with colors (hex, 0-1, 0-255, etc). > > Sounds like a dream ;-) Please add to that list dropping the > stringsAsFactors "feature" and fixing > c(factor(c("a", "b")), factor(c("c", "a"))). >
Can you, please, post any such ideas for making S/R consistent, especially if it breaks backward compatibility, to the Aleph mailing list? Comments from non-R users that find R inconsistent are also welcome if they substantiate their claims. http://lists.rforge.net/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/aleph-devel (If you have a better idea where to collect it in a single place, I'm all ear). I'd like to collect as many such ideas as possible so we don't forget something in unlikely case Aleph gets off the ground. :) Thanks, Simon > Thanks! > H. > >> >> Kevin >> >> >> On Tue, Oct 18, 2011 at 8:37 AM, Hadley Wickham<had...@rice.edu> wrote: >> >>> Hi all, >>> >>> Is there any chance that readRDS and saveRDS might one day become >>> read.rds and write.rds? That would make them more consistent with the >>> other reading and writing functions. >>> >>> Hadley >>> >>> -- >>> Assistant Professor / Dobelman Family Junior Chair >>> Department of Statistics / Rice University >>> http://had.co.nz/ >>> >>> ______________________________________________ >>> R-devel@r-project.org mailing list >>> https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-devel >>> >> >> [[alternative HTML version deleted]] >> >> ______________________________________________ >> R-devel@r-project.org mailing list >> https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-devel > > > -- > Hervé Pagès > > Program in Computational Biology > Division of Public Health Sciences > Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center > 1100 Fairview Ave. N, M1-B514 > P.O. Box 19024 > Seattle, WA 98109-1024 > > E-mail: hpa...@fhcrc.org > Phone: (206) 667-5791 > Fax: (206) 667-1319 > > ______________________________________________ > R-devel@r-project.org mailing list > https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-devel > > ______________________________________________ R-devel@r-project.org mailing list https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-devel