[Rd] "by" speed improvement (PR#11064)

2008-04-01 Thread simon . debernard
Full_Name: Simon de Bernard Version: 2.7.0 (44733) OS: MacOS Submission from: (NULL) (140.77.34.213) "by" usually takes forever even on a "not so large" data structure. If one can do with a matrix instead of a data.frame, defining by.matrix as by.data.frame modified to convert data back to a dat

Re: [Rd] callCC in 2.7.0

2008-04-01 Thread Dr. Ferdinand Jamitzky
Anyway something like "yield" would be very nice to have. Would it be hard to implement? It could be in a similar way to scala where you can define for-comprehensions. I really miss them in R. best wishes ferdinand On Tue, Apr 1, 2008 at 12:32 PM, Luke Tierney <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > No. Fir

Re: [Rd] callCC in 2.7.0

2008-04-01 Thread Gabor Grothendieck
Can I suggest some clarification of the help page for callCC plainly stating that it is intended to exit from a deeply nested set of calls. On a casual reading I thought the exact same thing as f.jamitsky. On Tue, Apr 1, 2008 at 6:32 AM, Luke Tierney <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > No. First class

Re: [Rd] callCC in 2.7.0

2008-04-01 Thread Luke Tierney
No. First class continuations of the kind provided in scheme can be used as a means to implement generators, but downward-only continuations as currently provided in R are not sufficient for that. This version is intended only as a non-local exit mechanism. Best, luke On Mon, 31 Mar 2008, f.jam

Re: [Rd] (PR#11054) "Writing R Extensions": bad example with CAR

2008-04-01 Thread anders
Dear Prof Ripley, Prof Brian Ripley wrote: > But it is not taken 'verbatim from src/main/print.c' (at least not in > that version of R), and the code is not run with USE_RINTERNALS defined > when write-barrier checking is enabled. > > The example has been updated to match the current code in 2.

Re: [Rd] tests Rin and Rout

2008-04-01 Thread cgenolin
>> hmm, I see 219 out 1378 CRAN packages having a 'tests' >> subdirectory, so it seems you have been a bit unlucky. ;-) > > > > How unlucky exactly? > > > > fisher.test(matrix(c(0,20,219,1159),2,2)) > Hey, no, I desagree ! I random 10, the 10 first I take the ten first package. So this in not ran

Re: [Rd] (PR#11054) "Writing R Extensions": bad example with CAR

2008-04-01 Thread anders
Prof Brian Ripley wrote: > I didn't say 'USE_RINTERNALS is not needed' for your code: I said it was > not used for the code that was run. I see. My original point was that the text of the "Writing R extension" manual advises against using 'USE_RINTERNALS' but then gives an example that only wor

Re: [Rd] callCC in 2.7.0

2008-04-01 Thread f.jamitzky
callcc is similar to the "yield" keyword in python and c# it lets you define e.g. a generator of lists of numbers. Gabor Grothendieck wrote: > > Would anyone like to explain if callCC in R 2.7.0 gives > anything that on.exit does not already provide? > > It seems that the exit condition once

Re: [Rd] tests Rin and Rout

2008-04-01 Thread cgenolin
Martin Maechler <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> a écrit : >> "CG" == Christophe Genolini <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >> on Mon, 31 Mar 2008 00:31:55 +0200 writes: > >>> >>> Generally I find it's good to look at examples that work. >>> For examples of packages using tests, look at source >