similar to: Context problem with ... and rbind (PR#860)

The R help for cbind/rbind states: > For `cbind' (`rbind'), vectors of zero length are ignored unless > the result would have zero rows (columns), for S compatibility. > (Zero-extent matrices do not occur in S and are not ignored in R.) I presume this means the S language as defined in the Blue Book ("The ^New S Language", Becker Chambers & Wilks,

This message is in MIME format. The first part should be readable text, while the remaining parts are likely unreadable without MIME-aware tools. --27464147-159404577-1190380210=:1425 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=iso-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8BIT Please do read the documentation, which says The 'rbind' data frame method first drops all zero-column

In your data frames, 'y' is a category and the following comment in the code makes clear this is deliberate. if( !is.null(levels(xj)) ) { all.levs[[j]] <- levels(xj) facCol[j] <- TRUE # turn categories into factors } else facCol[j] <- is.factor(xj) The behaviour is compatible with S apart from the comment in the R help

On Fri, 6 Aug 1999 ihaka@stat.auckland.ac.nz wrote: > On Fri, Aug 06, 1999 at 12:08:05AM +0200, Peter Dalgaard BSA wrote: > > Ross Ihaka <ihaka@stat.auckland.ac.nz> writes: > > > > I played around with this earlier today. There's nothing special about > > dataframes, S does the same with any classed object. I.e. > > > >

On Mon, 28 Aug 2000, Rashid Nassar wrote: > Dear Professor Ripley, > > Thank you very much for your kind explanation. If I may lamely say > something in my defence, even as I apologize for my error: I mistook the > sentence "the (quoted) name of a function" to mean "optionally quoted" > because of the parentheses surrounding "quoted", and was

For the record. -----Original Message----- From: ripley@stats.ox.ac.uk [mailto:ripley@stats.ox.ac.uk] Sent: Tuesday, June 18, 2002 3:21 PM To: Warnes, Gregory R Cc: 'r-help@stat.math.ethz.ch' Subject: RE: [R] Problems with url/download and http_proxy The port is not supposed to be required, so rather than fix the docs can anyone fix the problem? On Tue, 18 Jun 2002, Warnes, Gregory R

This does seem to fix my problem: > Sys.getenv("http_proxy") http_proxy "http://gproxy1.pfizer.com/" > url("http://cran.r-project.org/src/contrib/PACKAGES",'r') description "http://cran.r-project.org/src/contrib/PACKAGES" class

(1) ?cbind claims The generic functions `cbind' and `rbind' take a sequence of vector and/or matrix arguments and combine them as the columns or rows, respectively, of a matrix. Note: The method dispatching is not done via `UseMethod(..)', but by C-internal dispatching. Therefore, there's no need for, e.g., `rbind.default'. but my cbind.ts

If these things bother you, could you please supply fixes? For some reason you omitted the part of the help page dealing with one of these (which is as documented), and I also think you are confusing `plot' and `device' sizes. The latter will be the displayed device surface, I believe. Nothing on the help page suggested that the fine details of the R read-only parameters will be as you

Thanks very much, Professor Ripley. Reid Huntsinger -----Original Message----- From: ripley at stats.ox.ac.uk [mailto:ripley at stats.ox.ac.uk] Sent: Tuesday, August 06, 2002 3:00 AM To: Huntsinger, Reid Cc: r-help at stat.math.ethz.ch Subject: Re: [R] pipe and binary i/o (on Linux) On Mon, 5 Aug 2002 ripley at stats.ox.ac.uk wrote: > pipe predates readBin, and no one has seen a

On Wed, 14 Aug 2002, Henrik Bengtsson wrote: > Sorry, but it was indeed the redirection of the standard output in > Cygwin/bash that cause the first problem, not R (I should stop doing > troubleshooting at 1:00 AM). So please forget about the problems reported in > R_CMD_check.out. However, it would still be nice if you still update R CMD > check to do join with "\n".

On 5 Aug 1999, Peter Dalgaard BSA wrote: > (1) The docs are clearly wrong (or perhaps rather, wishful thinking) Sorry, but always the docs are right and the implementation wrong. That's an axiom of professional computer programming (so I am told by several ex-professional computer programmers.) > (2) Cbind should be generic as in Splus > > (3) For the labels, one needs

This example is caused by R's messing with formula environments. That's explained in ?formula, but should it not be explained in ?model.frame ? Simple test: data <- data.frame(y=rnorm(100), x=1:100) testit <- function(formula) { weights <- runif(100) glm(formula, weights=weights, data=data) } testit(y ~ x) weights is looked for in the environment of the formula, not of

> Date: Mon, 22 May 2000 16:52:59 +0200 (CEST) > From: Martyn Plummer <plummer@iarc.fr> > To: ripley@stats.ox.ac.uk > Subject: Re: [Rd] RE:bug 548 graphics '*' (PR#549) > Cc: R-bugs@biostat.ku.dk, r-devel@stat.math.ethz.ch > > On 22-May-00 ripley@stats.ox.ac.uk wrote: > > A little more followup. The gtk() device uses gdk_string_width to > > find the

I can confirm this bug has been solved, by the expedient of removing the incorrect functions! I think the simplest way to get a bug closed is to send the correction to the original reporter for confirmation, then as Peter suggests send a follow-up to R-bugs. On Fri, 6 Apr 2001 p.dalgaard@biostat.ku.dk wrote: > Paul Gilbert <pgilbert@bank-banque-canada.ca> writes: > > > Peter

Filing response for the record -- Brian D. Ripley, ripley@stats.ox.ac.uk Professor of Applied Statistics, http://www.stats.ox.ac.uk/~ripley/ University of Oxford, Tel: +44 1865 272861 (self) 1 South Parks Road, +44 1865 272860 (secr) Oxford OX1 3TG, UK Fax: +44 1865 272595 ---------- Forwarded message ---------- Date: Thu, 21

There seems to be a bug in "dotplot" concerning the "cex" parameter. Setting cex has no effect on the character size of the labels of the points. This problem was posted to r-help today (Thu, 18 Jan 2001); the solution given by Brian Ripley (and Uwe Ligges) seems to work for me. Heinrich Rinner. > version _ platform i386-pc-mingw32 arch x86

The TITLE for the nnet package is garbled: it comes out as nnet Feed-forward neural networks and multinomial log-linear nnet Feed-forward neural networks and multinomial log-linear models The problem is in maketitle: auk% cat DESCRIPTION Bundle: VR Version: 6.1-9 Date: 2000/07/11 Depends: R (>= 1.1) Author: S original by Venables & Ripley. R port by Brian Ripley

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Confirmation from John Maindonald. -- Brian D. Ripley, ripley@stats.ox.ac.uk Professor of Applied Statistics, http://www.stats.ox.ac.uk/~ripley/ University of Oxford, Tel: +44 1865 272861 (self) 1 South Parks Road, +44 1865 272860 (secr) Oxford OX1 3TG, UK Fax: +44 1865 272595 ---------- Forwarded message ---------- Date: Fri, 3