Re: [Rd] order() (PR#9039)

2006-06-28 Thread ripley
The issue here is rather that sort.list() does not implement complex vectors: order() uses sort.list() for speed if it has a single argument. How sort() and order() collate complex numbers seems to be undocumented in R. I was taught that they were unsorted, and there are several possible sort

Re: [Rd] [R] assign / environment side effect on R 2.4.0

2006-06-28 Thread Prof Brian Ripley
That is quite a different point, and nothing to do with 'R 2.4.0' or any recent version of R. The example envfun <- function(L) { p <- parent.frame() assign("test", L$test, p) environment(p$test) <- p } solver <- function(L) envfun(L) L <- list(test = function() 1 + 2) environment(L$te

[Rd] Password security problem in RODBC package (PR#9038)

2006-06-28 Thread bwmoore22
The RODBC package retains the unencrypted user ID and password used on the odbcConnect() statement as part of the database object. This unencrypted user ID and password are then saved with the .RData and .RHist files where they can potentially be discovered by other users. To recreate: 0) R ve

Re: [Rd] UTF-8 and .Rd files

2006-06-28 Thread Paul Gilbert
I've been following this thread hoping for the definitive answer... Peter Dalgaard wrote: > Well, I do tend to think that we should just use utf, assuming that > people have the relevant glyphs. If they don't, then they might get > little hollow rectangles but so what? My problem is that I

Re: [Rd] UTF-8 and .Rd files

2006-06-28 Thread Peter Dalgaard
Paul Gilbert <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > I've been following this thread hoping for the definitive answer... > > Peter Dalgaard wrote: > > > Well, I do tend to think that we should just use utf, assuming that > > people have the relevant glyphs. If they don't, then they might get > > littl

[Rd] An offer: R packages in Gentoo Land?

2006-06-28 Thread Allen S. Rout
Greetings. I love R, we run Gentoo. I want to maintain R packages in the same methods I use for the rest of them; in Gentoo this is in "the portage tree", or in "a portage overlay". I am working towards something I consider suitable for production release, and wanted to ask if there are convent