[Rd] Milestone: 9000 packages on CRAN

2016-08-22 Thread Henrik Bengtsson
An additional 1000 packages have been added to CRAN. This time, it took less than 6 months. Today (August 22, 2016), the Comprehensive R Archive Network (CRAN) [1] reports: “Currently, the CRAN package repository features 9004 available packages.” The rate with which new packages are added to CR

Re: [Rd] 'droplevels' inappropriate change

2016-08-22 Thread Martin Maechler
> Suharto Anggono Suharto Anggono via R-devel > on Sun, 21 Aug 2016 10:44:18 + writes: > In R devel r71124, if 'x' is a factor, droplevels(x) gives > factor(x, exclude = NULL) . In R 3.3.1, it gives > factor(x) . > If a factor 'x' has NA and levels of 'x' doesn't

Re: [Rd] Milestone: 9000 packages on CRAN

2016-08-22 Thread Bob Rudis
Hear! Hear! +100 for the shout out to the CRAN volunteers. Some of the most unsung heroes of the R universe. On Mon, Aug 22, 2016 at 5:16 AM, Henrik Bengtsson < henrik.bengts...@gmail.com> wrote: > An additional 1000 packages have been added to CRAN. This time, it > took less than 6 months. Toda

Re: [Rd] Milestone: 9000 packages on CRAN

2016-08-22 Thread Spencer Graves
The entirety of humanity lives a little better today, because of problems solved using CRAN software. Some of those problems would still await solution, because some of the people involved in developing and disseminating those solutions would not have been as effective or efficient witho

Re: [Rd] Milestone: 9000 packages on CRAN

2016-08-22 Thread Ravi Varadhan
Indeed! Ravi From: R-devel on behalf of Spencer Graves Sent: Monday, August 22, 2016 8:59 AM To: r-devel@r-project.org Subject: Re: [Rd] Milestone: 9000 packages on CRAN The entirety of humanity lives a little better today, because of problems

[Rd] CC on Bug 16932?

2016-08-22 Thread James Hiebert
Hi, I'm being affected by Bug 16932 (https://bugs.r-project.org/bugzilla3/show_bug.cgi?id=16932), and would like to comment on it and/or be CC'ed on it. Unfortunately I can't create a Bugzilla account... when I try, it tells me "The e-mail address you entered (hieb...@uvic.ca) didn't pass ou

Re: [Rd] CC on Bug 16932?

2016-08-22 Thread Duncan Murdoch
On 22/08/2016 5:30 PM, James Hiebert wrote: Hi, I'm being affected by Bug 16932 (https://bugs.r-project.org/bugzilla3/show_bug.cgi?id=16932), and would like to comment on it and/or be CC'ed on it. Unfortunately I can't create a Bugzilla account... when I try, it tells me "The e-mail address you