Re: [Rd] Rscript on Windows

2007-02-17 Thread Duncan Murdoch
On 2/16/2007 9:35 AM, Gabor Grothendieck wrote: I mentioned this twice already and no one answered;however, I am mentioning this a third time since its a serious deficiency. I agree this would be a reasonable addition, but I wouldn't class it as a serious deficiency, and I don't plan to

Re: [Rd] Rscript on Windows

2007-02-17 Thread Gabor Grothendieck
I think its best if core mods are done by the core group while others focus on work that can be done external to the core. Thus, what I have done is to enhance the batchfiles distribution with 3 new batchfiles: Rscript.bat, #Rscript.bat and runR.bat which will be part of the next distribution of

Re: [Rd] Rscript on Windows

2007-02-17 Thread Duncan Murdoch
On 2/17/2007 7:31 AM, Gabor Grothendieck wrote: I think its best if core mods are done by the core group while others focus on work that can be done external to the core. Fair enough, but then you also have to accept that the core group is going to set the priorities. As far as I know

Re: [Rd] Rscript on Windows

2007-02-17 Thread Gabor Grothendieck
Surely R has higher standards than that. How about quality and completeness of implementation? Every other major scripting language has implemented this for good reason and its a glaring omission. On 2/17/07, Duncan Murdoch [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On 2/17/2007 7:31 AM, Gabor Grothendieck

Re: [Rd] Rscript on Windows

2007-02-17 Thread elw
Surely R has higher standards than that. How about quality and completeness of implementation? Every other major scripting language has implemented this for good reason and its a glaring omission. Gabor, can we get a URL from you to a patch that implements this functionality? Thanks!

Re: [Rd] Rscript on Windows

2007-02-17 Thread Gavin Simpson
On Sat, 2007-02-17 at 09:31 -0500, Gabor Grothendieck wrote: Surely R has higher standards than that. How about quality and completeness of implementation? Every other major scripting language has implemented this for good reason and its a glaring omission. I think you are forgetting that

Re: [Rd] Rscript on Windows

2007-02-17 Thread Gabor Grothendieck
Just because its open source does not mean everyone should do everything. I suspect I have more expertise in Windows batch than the core developers and also suspect they have more knowledge of the core than I so its a good division of labor if I provide the batch files and they add -x since it

[Rd] S3 vs S4 classes

2007-02-17 Thread Rossi, Peter E.
I have developed a package, bayesm, which uses existing classes of objects. I would like to add a new class corresponding to objects from this package. I have been reading about classes and all sources tell me that I should use so-called new or S4 classes. However, a major purpose of defining

Re: [Rd] S3 vs S4 classes

2007-02-17 Thread Prof Brian Ripley
On Sat, 17 Feb 2007, Rossi, Peter E. wrote: I have developed a package, bayesm, which uses existing classes of objects. I would like to add a new class corresponding to objects from this package. I have been reading about classes and all sources tell me that I should use so-called new

Re: [Rd] Rscript on Windows

2007-02-17 Thread Duncan Murdoch
On 2/17/2007 10:57 AM, Gabor Grothendieck wrote: [ deletions ] Also I think that the success of R in the community is such that the core developers do have some responsibility to the community at large beyond their own needs. I'd agree with this, as long as you don't limit it to the core

Re: [Rd] S3 vs S4 classes

2007-02-17 Thread John Chambers
Rossi, Peter E. wrote: I have developed a package, bayesm, which uses existing classes of objects. I would like to add a new class corresponding to objects from this package. I have been reading about classes and all sources tell me that I should use so-called new or S4 classes.