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...**] cause everything to become GPL, as we are using R itself to build the package? I can of course provide the C libs in this case as a separate install, but that adds complexity to the overall build and install process. Thanks, Jeff -- Jeffrey Ryan jeffrey.ryan@lemnica.com www.lemnica.com www.esotericR.com [[alternative HTML version deleted]]

Hi all, Is there any chance that readRDS and saveRDS might one day become read.rds and write.rds? That would make them more consistent with the other reading and writing functions. Hadley -- Assistant Professor / Dobelman Family Junior Chair Department of Statistics / Rice University http://had.co.nz/

The "R Language Definition" at http://cran.r-project.org/doc/manuals/R-lang.html states in the following section 4.3.2 Argument matching This subsection applies to closures but not to primitive functions. What are 'closures'? [[alternative HTML version deleted]]

i know RCurl pakage to retrieve web content,it has limited use, i want interactive package like (in perl--->Mechanize, In java--->Watij,Prowser,HTMLunit,HTTPunit, in Ruby---->Watir ,etc) this modules/packages opens appropriate browser,which can create queries,retrieves output, clicks buttons, fill up form automatically,searches keyword in search engine, Downloads many items from

My purpose in mentioning the Julia language (julialang.org) here is not to start a flame war. I find it to be a very interesting development and others who read this list may want to read about it too. It is still very much early days for this language - about the same stage as R was in 1995 or 1996 when only a few people knew about it - but Julia holds much potential. There is a thread about

R> seq(as.Date(Sys.Date()), by="-1 months", length=6) [1] "2012-01-31" "2011-12-31" "2011-12-01" "2011-10-31" "2011-10-01" "2011-08-31" R> Notice how October appears twice. Now, date arithmetic is gruesome but the documentation for seq.Date et al does not hint it wouldn't honour the by= argument. So a bug, or

Dear all, In R-devel (2011-09-23 r57050), I'm running into a serious problem with seek()ing on connections opened with gzfile(). A warning is generated and the file position does not seek to the requested location. It doesn't seem to occur all the time - I tried to create a small example file to illustrate it, but the problem didn't occur. However, it can be seen with a file I use for