On Thu, Jul 26, 2012 at 4:24 PM, Dirk Eddelbuettel <e...@debian.org> wrote: > > On 26 July 2012 at 15:55, Gabor Grothendieck wrote: > | This code which has worked for years in R but fails under R-devel: > | > | > R.version.string > | [1] "R Under development (unstable) (2012-07-25 r59963)" > | > > | > n <- 3 > | > f <- function(x) {} > | > formals(f) <- rep(formals(f), n) ## > | Error in rep(formals(f), n) : replication of pairlists is defunct > | > | The message suggests that the change was intentional. > | Why was this functionality removed? > | What code should be used in its place? > > FWIW there are changes happening right now to rep() so that may be spillage > from code under development. To keep abreast of these changes, I follow the > RSS feed Duncan set up a few years ago -- it is also as html at > > http://developer.r-project.org/blosxom.cgi/R-devel > > and summarizes changes committed to the NEWS file, ie high-level changes > worth knowing about.
That page says: Calling ‘rep()’ or ‘rep.int()’ on a pairlist or other non-vector object is now an error. so it again seems to be intentional. -- Statistics & Software Consulting GKX Group, GKX Associates Inc. tel: 1-877-GKX-GROUP email: ggrothendieck at gmail.com ______________________________________________ R-devel@r-project.org mailing list https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-devel