Re: [Rd] feature request: multi-language support

2004-01-16 Thread Byron Ellis
Perhaps something like this? /help/ though, perhaps, you might actually want a more general //help,html,etc and then a locale option that specifies the preference of language availability (someone might prefer german, then french and then english or something like)? On Jan 15, 2004, at 6:0

Re: [Rd] R crash (PR#6438)

2004-01-16 Thread stefano iacus
Thanks for spotting this, I know how to fix it. stefano On Venerdì, gen 16, 2004, at 19:41 Europe/Rome, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Full_Name: Steven T. Stoddard Version: 1.8.1 OS: OS X 10.3.2 Submission from: (NULL) (68.77.32.31) Using fix(data.frame) causes an immediate bus error and crashes R.

Re: [Rd] Another wishlist for R

2004-01-16 Thread Douglas Bates
Kevin Wright <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > 12. Wanted: General-purpose mixed-models function/package > The nlme library is very nice for mixed-effects models with nested > effects, but it is not very general-purpose. Even Bates/Pinheiro have said > several times in posts to R-help/S-n

[Rd] R crash (PR#6438)

2004-01-16 Thread sstoddar
Full_Name: Steven T. Stoddard Version: 1.8.1 OS: OS X 10.3.2 Submission from: (NULL) (68.77.32.31) Using fix(data.frame) causes an immediate bus error and crashes R. This happens regardless of the size of the data.frame and occurred in an earlier version of RAqua as well. This did not happen on

Re: [Rd] Another wishlist for R

2004-01-16 Thread Thomas Lumley
On Fri, 16 Jan 2004, Kevin Wright wrote: > > 10. More uniformity in quoting arguments. > Uniformity outweighs cleverness/exceptions ("The Art of Unix Programming"). > Functions accepting non-quoted arguments > is.function(obj) > args(predict) > rm(a) > help(help) >

[Rd] Another wishlist for R

2004-01-16 Thread Kevin Wright
First, a big thanks to all of the developers and users that have worked to make R such useful software. It is only because I find the software so useful that I have the following opinions. A recent post to R-devel listed the 'Top 10 Features' for one person. I found it to be quite an interesting

Re: [Rd] local variables (PR#6436)

2004-01-16 Thread Prof Brian Ripley
On Fri, 16 Jan 2004, Duncan Murdoch wrote: > On Fri, 16 Jan 2004 11:12:31 +0100 (CET), you wrote: > > >It seems that R (unlike S-plus) allows assignments to elements of a > >vector objects even when the object do not exists locally (inside a > >fucntion) in cases where an object of the same nam

Re: [Rd] local variables (PR#6436)

2004-01-16 Thread Duncan Murdoch
On Fri, 16 Jan 2004 11:12:31 +0100 (CET), you wrote: >It seems that R (unlike S-plus) allows assignments to elements of a >vector objects even when the object do not exists locally (inside a >fucntion) in cases where an object of the same name exists globally. I >guess this is not really desir

[Rd] local variables (PR#6436)

2004-01-16 Thread jarle . tufto
It seems that R (unlike S-plus) allows assignments to elements of a vector objects even when the object do not exists locally (inside a fucntion) in cases where an object of the same name exists globally. I guess this is not really desired behaviour: R v1.8.0 > a Error: Object "a" not found