[Rd] snark of the day: new "features" (??) in Mathematica 7

2010-01-11 Thread Ben Bolker
who wants to write rgl code to do these? http://tinyurl.com/yzojfn2 http://tinyurl.com/ylrz2p8 :-) Ben Bolker signature.asc Description: OpenPGP digital signature __ R-devel@r-project.org mailing list https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-

Re: [Rd] available.packages and 2.10.0

2010-01-11 Thread Uwe Ligges
On 10.01.2010 12:58, Patrick Burns wrote: I'm confused about how to change a repository so that it doesn't hit the bug in 'available.packages' in 2.10.0 that was fixed in 2.10.1. I presume it involves adding fields to the PACKAGES file. I think an empty field an the PACKAGES file with only

Re: [Rd] snark of the day: new "features" (??) in Mathematica 7

2010-01-11 Thread Douglas Bates
On Mon, Jan 11, 2010 at 10:34 AM, Ben Bolker wrote: >  who wants to write rgl code to do these? > http://tinyurl.com/yzojfn2 > http://tinyurl.com/ylrz2p8 >  :-) I think that on this one we should follow Nancy Reagan's advice and "Just say no". I wonder if they have read Tufte's descriptions o

Re: [Rd] snark of the day: new "features" (??) in Mathematica 7

2010-01-11 Thread Marc Schwartz
On Jan 11, 2010, at 11:00 AM, Douglas Bates wrote: On Mon, Jan 11, 2010 at 10:34 AM, Ben Bolker wrote: who wants to write rgl code to do these? http://tinyurl.com/yzojfn2 http://tinyurl.com/ylrz2p8 :-) I think that on this one we should follow Nancy Reagan's advice and "Just say no"

Re: [Rd] snark of the day: new "features" (??) in Mathematica 7

2010-01-11 Thread Peter Dalgaard
Marc Schwartz wrote: On Jan 11, 2010, at 11:00 AM, Douglas Bates wrote: On Mon, Jan 11, 2010 at 10:34 AM, Ben Bolker wrote: who wants to write rgl code to do these? http://tinyurl.com/yzojfn2 http://tinyurl.com/ylrz2p8 :-) I think that on this one we should follow Nancy Reagan's ad

[Rd] Wishlist: Function 'difftime' to honor 'tzone' attribute (PR#14182)

2010-01-11 Thread suharto_anggono
Full_Name: Suharto Anggono Version: 2.8.1 OS: Windows Submission from: (NULL) (125.165.84.118) PR#14076 inspired me to write this. > t1 <- as.POSIXct("1970-01-01 00:00:00", tz="GMT") > t2 <- as.POSIXlt("1970-01-01 00:00:00", tz="GMT") > t1 - t2 Time difference of 7 hours Above, t1 and t2 repres

[Rd] Documentation: format of read.table help text (PR#14180)

2010-01-11 Thread henrik . parn
Dear R developers, I find the format of descriptions of the arguments in the read.table help text slightly inconsistent. For example, the logical arguments comes in seven different formats, more or less explicit about the consequences of a TRUE (or FALSE): 1. check.names logical. If TRUE then