Re: [Rd] requesting a new SIG mailing list

2012-02-14 Thread Rainer M Krug
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 13/02/12 17:30, Mauricio Zambrano-Bigiarini wrote: > Dear R developers, > > Due to the increasing use R in hydrology and other close-related > environmental sciences, I would like to ask if it would be possible > to create a new Special Interest G

Re: [Rd] requesting a new SIG mailing list

2012-02-14 Thread Mauricio Zambrano-Bigiarini
On 14/02/12 09:36, Rainer M Krug wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 13/02/12 17:30, Mauricio Zambrano-Bigiarini wrote: Dear R developers, Due to the increasing use R in hydrology and other close-related environmental sciences, I would like to ask if it would be possible to

[Rd] method using several (and different) arguments in turn

2012-02-14 Thread james.foadi
Dear R-developers community, I have the following generic: setGeneric( name="newsample", def=function(x,y,z,a,b,c,...){standardGeneric("newsample")} And I can build several methods for this generic. One useful thing is to use "newsample" with only one of the

Re: [Rd] requesting a new SIG mailing list

2012-02-14 Thread Prof Brian Ripley
Have you asked the maintainers of those lists? Or the person who would have to do the work to set the list up (Martin Maechler, who is currently on vacation, or colleagues at ETHZ)? My suspicion is that there would be too little traffic to make a separate list worthwhile to administer. (You

Re: [Rd] method using several (and different) arguments in turn

2012-02-14 Thread Martin Morgan
On 02/14/2012 08:43 AM, james.fo...@diamond.ac.uk wrote: Dear R-developers community, I have the following generic: setGeneric( name="newsample", def=function(x,y,z,a,b,c,...){standardGeneric("newsample")} And I can build several methods for this generic.

Re: [Rd] requesting a new SIG mailing list

2012-02-14 Thread Mauricio Zambrano-Bigiarini
On 14/02/12 17:45, Prof Brian Ripley wrote: Have you asked the maintainers of those lists? Or the person who would have to do the work to set the list up (Martin Maechler, who is currently on vacation, or colleagues at ETHZ)? No, I haven't done yet, but I'll do it, to know which list is the rig

Re: [Rd] requesting a new SIG mailing list

2012-02-14 Thread Sarah Goslee
Hello, I'm one of the maintainers of the r-sig-ecology list, and I think it would be entirely appropriate to include hydrology within the scope of the list. There hasn't been much hydrologic discussion, as you noted, but not because we wish to exclude it. Sarah On Tue, Feb 14, 2012 at 11:31 AM,

Re: [Rd] method using several (and different) arguments in turn

2012-02-14 Thread james.foadi
Dear Martin, I could not entirely follow your suggestion. I can see how you define two classes inheriting from TypeOfSample, and how these two classes have two associated methods (incidentally, I'm unfamiliar with the: function(type,x=numeric(),...)to do. J expression. What is type?

Re: [Rd] Task views

2012-02-14 Thread Ravi Varadhan
A couple of (lengthier!) suggestions: "topic-area resources" or "task-oriented resources" Ravi From: r-devel-boun...@r-project.org [r-devel-boun...@r-project.org] on behalf of Patrick Burns [pbu...@pburns.seanet.com] Sent: Monday, February 13, 2012 4:32 A

[Rd] read.spss issues

2012-02-14 Thread Jeroen Ooms
Someone supplied me with a small SPSS datafile that caused a buffer overflow and then a crash when reading it in R. It seems like a pretty serious issue to me. Unfortunately I can't supply the dataset at hand and I have a hard time reproducing it with a toy example. But I found at least 2 issues th