[Rd] Thai locale not working on Mac OSX (PR#9175)

2006-08-26 Thread hutcha . s
Full_Name: Hutcha Sriplung Version: R-2.3.1 OS: Mac OSX Submission from: (NULL) (61.90.155.1) I am using Mac OSX 10.4.7 and find that locale setting is not working properly. > Sys.getlocale() [1] "C" > Sys.setlocale(category="LC_ALL",locale="th_TH") [1] "C" When I change locale to some other l

Re: [Rd] "+" for character method...

2006-08-26 Thread Latchezar Dimitrov
Hello, I too have two comments here - please see between the lines bellow. I believe they go to the same direction though :-) > -Original Message- > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of John Chambers > Sent: Saturday, August 26, 2006 10:26 AM > To: Bill Dunlap

Re: [Rd] "+" for character method...

2006-08-26 Thread Gabor Grothendieck
There are several problems with %+% : - %whatever% should be open for use by the user and if R starts taking them over they won't be - %+% is ugly - %+% is not consistent with other languages (the C-based syntax of R is supposed to leverage off one's knowledge of other languages) Personally

Re: [Rd] "+" for character method...

2006-08-26 Thread Duncan Murdoch
On 8/26/2006 10:26 AM, John Chambers wrote: > Well, two comments, in two non-compatible directions. > > 1. I have to say that I find the idea of using "+" to paste character > strings together aesthetically ugly. > > IMO, one thing that makes functional object-based languages attractive > is t

Re: [Rd] "+" for character method...

2006-08-26 Thread Gabor Grothendieck
On 8/26/06, John Chambers <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > 1. I have to say that I find the idea of using "+" to paste character > strings together aesthetically ugly. > > IMO, one thing that makes functional object-based languages attractive > is that the generic function retains a consistent _functi

Re: [Rd] "+" for character method...

2006-08-26 Thread John Chambers
Well, two comments, in two non-compatible directions. 1. I have to say that I find the idea of using "+" to paste character strings together aesthetically ugly. IMO, one thing that makes functional object-based languages attractive is that the generic function retains a consistent _function_,