[Rd] Wish list

2006-01-01 Thread Gabor Grothendieck
This is my New Year wishlist for R features. One common thread is that I find I sometimes use languages other than R including javascript, Windows batch and gawk. Others have mentioned other languages too. It would be nice if, in those cases I could use R simplifying development into a single en

Re: [Rd] Wish list

2006-01-01 Thread Duncan Murdoch
On 1/1/2006 8:47 AM, Gabor Grothendieck wrote: > This is my New Year wishlist for R features. One > common thread is that I find I sometimes use languages > other than R including javascript, Windows batch and > gawk. Others have mentioned other languages too. It > would be nice if, in those cas

Re: [Rd] Wish list

2006-01-01 Thread Gabor Grothendieck
On 1/1/06, Duncan Murdoch <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On 1/1/2006 8:47 AM, Gabor Grothendieck wrote: > > This is my New Year wishlist for R features. One > > common thread is that I find I sometimes use languages > > other than R including javascript, Windows batch and > > gawk. Others have ment

Re: [Rd] Wish list

2006-01-01 Thread Duncan Temple Lang
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Gabor Grothendieck wrote: > This is my New Year wishlist for R features. One > common thread is that I find I sometimes use languages > other than R including javascript, Windows batch and > gawk. Others have mentioned other languages too. It > wo

Re: [Rd] Enhancement request: anonymous connections

2006-01-01 Thread Duncan Murdoch
On 12/28/2005 9:50 AM, Seth Falcon wrote: > On 27 Dec 2005, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > >>This is a bug in load, isn't it? load() opens the connection but >>doesn't close it. > > > Well, it may be that load needs a small fix, but that doesn't fix > anonymous connections in general, IMO. No it d

Re: [Rd] Enhancement request: anonymous connections

2006-01-01 Thread Prof Brian Ripley
On Sun, 1 Jan 2006, Duncan Murdoch wrote: > On 12/28/2005 9:50 AM, Seth Falcon wrote: >> On 27 Dec 2005, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: >> >>> This is a bug in load, isn't it? load() opens the connection but >>> doesn't close it. >> >> >> Well, it may be that load needs a small fix, but that doesn't fi

Re: [Rd] Wish list

2006-01-01 Thread M. Edward (Ed) Borasky
Duncan Temple Lang wrote: >And while we are on the topic of wishlists... >Generally (i.e. not directed specifically to Gabor), >the suggestions are very welcome, but so are contributions. >And for issues such as making the existing R available on handhelds, >that is a programming task. > Hasn't so

Re: [Rd] Enhancement request: anonymous connections

2006-01-01 Thread Duncan Murdoch
On 1/1/2006 1:05 PM, Prof Brian Ripley wrote: > On Sun, 1 Jan 2006, Duncan Murdoch wrote: > > >>On 12/28/2005 9:50 AM, Seth Falcon wrote: >> >>>On 27 Dec 2005, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: >>> >>> This is a bug in load, isn't it? load() opens the connection but doesn't close it. >>> >>> >>>W

[Rd] sealed namespaces and lockEnvironment

2006-01-01 Thread Mark.Bravington
Dear R-devel I'm experimenting with easy-to-use ways for a package maintainer to modify a"live" package-- i.e. while it's loaded & in use. One difficulty is that packages with namespaces are usually sealed with 'lockEnvironment', which means you can't add/remove objects. After some effort, I've

Re: [Rd] R on Zaurus (was: Wish list)

2006-01-01 Thread Andrew Robinson
On Sun, Jan 01, 2006 at 11:08:42AM -0800, M. Edward (Ed) Borasky wrote: > > Hasn't someone ported R to the Sharp Zaurus, Yes, Simon Pickering did this. I ran his version of R on a Zaurus two years ago. His site implies that development is still underway. http://people.bath.ac.uk/enpsgp/Zaur