Re: [Rd] [R] Semantics of sequences in R

2009-02-24 Thread Mark Difford
Dimitris Rizopoulos wrote: >> in my opinion the point of the whole discussion could be summarized by >> the question, what >> is a design flaw? This is totally subjective, and it happens almost >> everywhere in life. This [what constitutes a design flaw, and the suggestion that all design flaw

[Rd] Box.test reference correction (PR#13554)

2009-02-24 Thread solymos
Full_Name: Peter Solymos Version: 2.8.1 OS: Windows Submission from: (NULL) (129.128.141.92) The help page of the Box.test function (stats) states that the Ljung-Box test was published in: Ljung, G. M. and Box, G. E. P. (1978), On a measure of lack of fit in time series models. Biometrika 65, 55

Re: [Rd] [R] Semantics of sequences in R

2009-02-24 Thread Mark Difford
... My earlier email requires too much reading between the lines. This one puts the finger more closely on the issues: There are historical inconsistencies and there are design flaws. Naturally, there often is an overlap, but there is also a clear area of excellence. These are largely different th

[Rd] invalid comparison in numeric sequence (PR#13551)

2009-02-24 Thread alexandre . courtiol
Full_Name: alex Version: 2.8.1 OS: Ubuntu / MacOSX Submission from: (NULL) (162.38.183.51) > 0.6==0.6 [1] TRUE > seq(0,1,0.1)==0.4 [1] FALSE FALSE FALSE FALSE TRUE FALSE FALSE FALSE FALSE FALSE FALSE > seq(0,1,0.1)==0.6 [1] FALSE FALSE FALSE FALSE FALSE FALSE FALSE FALSE FALSE FALSE FALSE > se

[Rd] wishlist boxplot (PR#13553)

2009-02-24 Thread ligges
[CCing Martin and Brian who had both done most svn commits of boxplot.R so far] A very minor wishlist item that I should have already reported years ago: All the time when I need presentation/publication quality boxplots, I add par(lend=1) in my code in order to suppress the ugly median line

Re: [Rd] [R] Semantics of sequences in R

2009-02-24 Thread Martin Maechler
> "WK" == Wacek Kusnierczyk > on Tue, 24 Feb 2009 11:31:13 +0100 writes: WK> Dimitris Rizopoulos wrote: >> in my opinion the point of the whole discussion could be summarized by >> the question, what is a design flaw? This is totally subjective, and >> it happens almos

Re: [Rd] [R] Semantics of sequences in R

2009-02-24 Thread Ted Harding
On 24-Feb-09 13:14:36, Berwin A Turlach wrote: > G'day Dimitris, > > On Tue, 24 Feb 2009 11:19:15 +0100 > Dimitris Rizopoulos wrote: > >> in my opinion the point of the whole discussion could be summarized >> by the question, what is a design flaw? This is totally subjective, >> and it happens a

[Rd] [SoC09-Idea] Movement Ecology add-ons for adehabitat package

2009-02-24 Thread Damiano G. Preatoni
Hi all, here's a proposal for a SoC project on wildlife movement patterns analysis. A MSc student is available to anwser the call, of course. The idea has already been briefly discussed with the mantainer of the adehabitat package and the AniMov project community. Short description Develop so

Re: [Rd] [R] Semantics of sequences in R

2009-02-24 Thread Berwin A Turlach
G'day Dimitris, On Tue, 24 Feb 2009 11:19:15 +0100 Dimitris Rizopoulos wrote: > in my opinion the point of the whole discussion could be summarized > by the question, what is a design flaw? This is totally subjective, > and it happens almost everywhere in life. [...] Beautifully summarised and

[Rd] sys.source and encoding

2009-02-24 Thread romain . francois
Hello, The sys.source function does not have an encoding argument, and does not accept a connection (created by file): > sys.source("syssource.R") Error in parse(n = -1, file = file) : invalid multibyte character in parser at line 2 Here we could simply pass encoding or ... to parse, the next

Re: [Rd] [R] Semantics of sequences in R

2009-02-24 Thread Wacek Kusnierczyk
Dimitris Rizopoulos wrote: > in my opinion the point of the whole discussion could be summarized by > the question, what is a design flaw? This is totally subjective, and > it happens almost everywhere in life. Take human languages as an > example and in particular, English. I do not know the histo

Re: [Rd] [R] Semantics of sequences in R

2009-02-24 Thread Wacek Kusnierczyk
Berwin A Turlach wrote: > > I am well aware of those fortunes and maybe you missed the one: > > >> fortune("Watson") >> > > Getting flamed for asking dumb questions on a public mailing list is > all part of growing up and being a man/woman. >-- Michael Watson (in a discussion on whether

Re: [Rd] [R] Semantics of sequences in R

2009-02-24 Thread Dimitris Rizopoulos
Berwin A Turlach wrote: On Tue, 24 Feb 2009 09:39:51 +0100 Wacek Kusnierczyk wrote: Berwin A Turlach wrote: [...] why not read some fortunes? I am well aware of those fortunes and maybe you missed the one: fortune("Watson") Getting flamed for asking dumb questions on a public mailing

Re: [Rd] [R] Semantics of sequences in R

2009-02-24 Thread Berwin A Turlach
On Tue, 24 Feb 2009 09:39:51 +0100 Wacek Kusnierczyk wrote: > Berwin A Turlach wrote: [...] > why not read some fortunes? I am well aware of those fortunes and maybe you missed the one: > fortune("Watson") Getting flamed for asking dumb questions on a public mailing list is all part of growing

Re: [Rd] [R] are arithmetic comparison operators binary?

2009-02-24 Thread Wacek Kusnierczyk
Wacek Kusnierczyk wrote: > > The patch for src/main/arithmetic.c was prepared as follows: > > svn co https://svn.R-project.org/R/trunk/ > cd trunk > tools/rsync-recommended > # modifications made to src/main/character.c > svn diff > do_grep.diff > > The patched sources were successfully compiled an

Re: [Rd] [R] are arithmetic comparison operators binary?

2009-02-24 Thread Wacek Kusnierczyk
Martin Maechler wrote: > > >> Thank you, Wacek, > >> though .. "wrong mailing list" > >> > > WK> apologies. i was actually asking for explanation, assuming that it > WK> might be my misunderstanding, rather than reporting a bug. > > ( yes; but it is really a technical topic,

Re: [Rd] [R] Semantics of sequences in R

2009-02-24 Thread Wacek Kusnierczyk
Berwin A Turlach wrote: > >> i am sending *no* patch for this. the issue has to be first discussed >> on the design level, and only then, if accepted, should anyone -- me, >> for example -- make an attempt to implement it. tell me you want to >> listen to what i have to say, and we can discuss.

Re: [Rd] [R] are arithmetic comparison operators binary?

2009-02-24 Thread Martin Maechler
> "WK" == Wacek Kusnierczyk > on Mon, 23 Feb 2009 19:29:31 +0100 writes: WK> Martin Maechler wrote: >>> "WK" == Wacek Kusnierczyk >>> on Mon, 23 Feb 2009 12:06:32 +0100 writes: >>> >> >> Thank you, Wacek, >> though .. "wrong mailing list"

Re: [Rd] [R] Semantics of sequences in R

2009-02-24 Thread Berwin A Turlach
On Mon, 23 Feb 2009 20:27:23 +0100 Wacek Kusnierczyk wrote: > Berwin A Turlach wrote: > >> [...] > >> judging from your question, you couldn't possibly see sorting > >> routines in other languages. > >> > > > > Quite likely, or the other languages that I regularly use (C, > > Fortran) have