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...ssential: I spent a while searching on this topic, and found myself unsure of the terminology. Tried a number of things, found nothing, now I'm not sure whether that's because I didn't know the right words. How would you phrase/define this problem? Kind regards, and thanks in advance, Sietse Sietse Brouwer ################# ## Code below. ## ## Two comment-signs for comments, one for output, none for input. ########################## ## (2) A working kludge ## ## I can kludge around it by using callTimes <- function(tom, harry) { timesArgs <- list(foo = tom, bar = harry)...

...This is a bug involving functions in core R package: graphics::hist.default, grDevices::nclass.FD, and base::pretty.default. It is not yet on Bugzilla. I cannot submit it myself, as I do not have an account. Could somebody else add it for me, perhaps? That would be much appreciated. Kind regards, Sietse Sietse Brouwer Summary ------- Floating point errors can cause a data vector to have an ultra-small inter-quartile range, which causes `grDevices::nclass.FD` to suggest an absurdly large number of breaks to `graphics::hist(breaks="FD")`. Because this large float becomes NA when convert...

...rces/lib/libRlapack.dylib locale: [1] en_US.UTF-8/en_US.UTF-8/en_US.UTF-8/C/en_US.UTF-8/en_US.UTF-8 attached base packages: [1] stats graphics grDevices utils [5] datasets methods base loaded via a namespace (and not attached): [1] compiler_3.4.0 tools_3.4.0 > On 2017-05-18 3:50 PM, Sietse Brouwer wrote: > Hello everybody, > > This is a bug involving functions in core R package: > graphics::hist.default, grDevices::nclass.FD, and > base::pretty.default. It is not yet on Bugzilla. I cannot submit it > myself, as I do not have an account. Could somebody else add it fo...

...The main reference I could find was to 'GNU news files', but that one's more about form than contents, too. So, the NEWS file that goes in the top of the package tree. Is there a standard format that should be followed; or should there be one? All answers appreciated. Kind regards, Sietse Brouwer == Three references to (R's) NEWS files == >From "Writing R Extensions": http://cran.r-project.org/doc/manuals/R-exts.html#Package-structure "For the conventions for files NEWS and ChangeLog in the GNU project see http://www.gnu.org/prep/standards/standards.html#Docu...