In order not to have more items in the BUGS list than necessary, I've gone through the list of open bugs and removed some of them for reasons given below: (Note that nothing really dies on R-bugs it just moves into trashcan, wishlist, or Something-fixed, so if you complain loudly enough they can be picked up again.) *Graphics* Remove three reports on panel.first() (2 + 1 answer with a different number) because one really cannot expect to do what they were trying to do. We may still want to use eval(panel.first) in plot.default, though. *Low-level* Jens O-A's: "as.matrix.data.frame() modifies content of character columns" was moved to Documentation-fixed. The behaviour is Splus compatible, so hardly fixable. *System-specific* SuSE RPM (non-)issue got cleared up by Albrecht earlier today, I believe. -->trashcan *TooMuchAtOnce* Two very old reports by Jim Lindsey and Rashid Nassar --> trashcan (because, as the title implies, they are very long and most of the items have been fixed or gone out of date). Please resubmit (in smaller pieces!) if you still think there are bugs. -- O__ ---- Peter Dalgaard Blegdamsvej 3 c/ /'_ --- Dept. of Biostatistics 2200 Cph. N (*) \(*) -- University of Copenhagen Denmark Ph: (+45) 35327918 ~~~~~~~~~~ - (p.dalgaard@biostat.ku.dk) FAX: (+45) 35327907 -.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.- r-devel mailing list -- Read http://www.ci.tuwien.ac.at/~hornik/R/R-FAQ.html Send "info", "help", or "[un]subscribe" (in the "body", not the subject !) To: r-devel-request@stat.math.ethz.ch _._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._
Peter, you wrote> Jens O-A's: > "as.matrix.data.frame() modifies content of character columns" > > was moved to Documentation-fixed. The behaviour is Splus compatible, > so hardly fixable.this is shocking bad news, as it means, that we stay with a severe bug, be it in S+ or not. It means, we can't be shure, that the CONTENT of a character data remains unchanged, if we rearange the data. x1 <- '"' x2 <- data.frame(I(x1)) x3 <- as.matrix(x2)> x1[1] "\""> x2[1,1][1] "\""> x3[1,1][1] "\\\"" I came across this, when I tried to write a function, which exports R data reliably to flatfiles. Of course I used as.matrix.data.frame as it is a basic function, but IF this bug remains in R, there can just be one consequence: NEVER use as.matrix, at least with character data AND REMEMBER not to use it. Very unhappy about this -.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.- r-devel mailing list -- Read http://www.ci.tuwien.ac.at/~hornik/R/R-FAQ.html Send "info", "help", or "[un]subscribe" (in the "body", not the subject !) To: r-devel-request@stat.math.ethz.ch _._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._
- sorry the previous mail went out by accidentaly hitting a key, here is the end - .. please rethink, if there is any way to get that fixed. I mean, do we really have to expect S+ code to break, because it relies on this bug? Regards Jens Oehlschlägel-Akiyoshi -.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.- r-devel mailing list -- Read http://www.ci.tuwien.ac.at/~hornik/R/R-FAQ.html Send "info", "help", or "[un]subscribe" (in the "body", not the subject !) To: r-devel-request@stat.math.ethz.ch _._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._