R help - Feb 2006 - EpiR.base - namespace changes

Hi,

as some might have noticed over the last few days a variing but large number of
unit tests failed. This should now be resolved.

The changes made to the namespace exports aim at provideing a clear,
maintainable (and thus minimal) set of public methods availabel for use by other
packages and at the R prompt.
Changes are motivated by recent changes in R devel which indicate a series of
issues we have to overcome for the R 2.3.0 release.

For the future, please
 - check the NAMESPACE file to find out which functions and methods are public
   and use them, only.
   (If you have to rely on a private method do so via the prefix EpiR.base:::
    although this is not advised and not guaranteed to work at all times.)

  - make an effort to check for meaningful method names for new methods,
    check if a similar name has already been in use for the same task and
    reuse it in order to keep the method list concise.

Package maintainers for the remaining packages should update their NAMESPACE
files over the next few weeks.


Regards,

  Matthias

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Matthias Burger                     Project Manager/ Biostatistician
Epigenomics AG    Kleine Praesidentenstr. 1    10178 Berlin, Germany
phone:+49-30-24345-371                          fax:+49-30-24345-555
http://www.epigenomics.com           matthias.burger at epigenomics.com

Please ignore my posting, was not meant to be sent to this list.

Appologies for the distraction.

Regards,

  Matthias

-- 
Matthias Burger                     Project Manager/ Biostatistician
Epigenomics AG    Kleine Praesidentenstr. 1    10178 Berlin, Germany
phone:+49-30-24345-371                          fax:+49-30-24345-555
http://www.epigenomics.com           matthias.burger at epigenomics.com

Hi,

I want to use sprintf with vectors whose lengths vary.
As an example: x = c(2,4,6,10)
sprintf("%i%5f%5f%5f",x[1],x[2],x[3],x[4]) works. But if I have to
compute
the length of x within a function then I cannot list all for format codes 
and sprintf apparently will not accept just "x" - it wants one value
for
each format code as in the above example. Does anyone know a way to handle 
this? And is there a way to repeat the format code like in Fortran (e.g. 
5F4.1)? Thanks.

Jeff B.