similar to: clearNames and unname

Hi all, Very surprising (to me!) and mystifying result from predict.glm(): the predictions vary depending on whether or not I use ns() or splines::ns(). Reprex follows: library(splines) set.seed(12345) dat <- data.frame(claim = rbinom(1000, 1, 0.5)) mns <- c(3.4, 3.6) sds <- c(0.24, 0.35) dat$wind <- exp(rnorm(nrow(dat), mean = mns[dat$claim + 1], sd = sds[dat$claim + 1])) dat <-

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/

Hi all, Is there a fast way to determine the number of lines in a file? I'm looking for something like count.lines analogous to count.fields. Hadley -- http://had.co.nz/

Hi all, Does anyone have a comprehensive list of recursive-type objects in R? is.recursive defines them as by exclusion: "most types of objects are regarded as recursive, except for vector types, ?NULL? and symbols (as given by ?as.name?)." I think this that means recursive objects are: * lists * pairlists * calls * expressions Did I miss anything? Hadley -- Assistant

Hi all, Are there base functions that do the equivalent of this? fliptb <- function(x) x[nrow(x):1, ] fliplr <- function(x) x[, nrow(x):1] Obviously not hard to implement (although it needs some more checks), just wondering if it had already been implemented. Hadley -- Assistant Professor / Dobelman Family Junior Chair Department of Statistics / Rice University http://had.co.nz/

Hi all, Does anyone have an R implementation of the queplot (K.?M. Goldberg and B.?Iglewicz. Bivariate extensions of the boxplot. Technometrics, 34(3):pp. 307?320, 1992)? I'm struggling with the estimation of the asymmetry parameters. Hadley -- Assistant Professor / Dobelman Family Junior Chair Department of Statistics / Rice University http://had.co.nz/

Hi all, all.equal is generally very useful when you want to find the differences between two objects. It breaks down however, when you have two long strings to compare: > all.equal(a, b) [1] "1 string mismatch" Does any one know of any good text diffing tools implemented in R? Thanks, Hadley -- Assistant Professor / Dobelman Family Junior Chair Department of Statistics / Rice

Hi Duncan, Thanks for your reply. Yes, it does seem to be specific to the CTYPE setting to Chinese on Windows. If I set it to English using Sys.setlocale() there is no problem, then back to Chinese and the authors disappear: Sys.setlocale("LC_ALL","English") citation("readr") #' To cite package ?readr? in publications use: #' #' Hadley Wickham, Jim

Hi all, Does any one know of any encryption/decryption algorithms in R? I'm not looking for anything robust - I want some way of printing output to the screen that the user can't read immediately, but can decrypt a little later. The main thing I don't want to the user to see is a number, so (e.g.) ROT13 isn't appropriate. Hadley -- Assistant Professor / Dobelman Family Junior

Recently I was trying to cite a package where the authors have ? and ? in their names. I found that on Windows the citation() function did not return the authors' names at all, but on Linux there was no problem (sessionInfos at the bottom): On Windows, no author names are returned: #--------------- > citation("readr") To cite package ?readr? in publications use: (2017).

Am I missing something obvious on how to draw multi-line plots in base graphics? In ggplot2, I can do: data(Oxboys, package = "nlme") library(ggplot2) qplot(age, height, data = Oxboys, geom = "line", group = Subject) But in base graphics, the best I can come up with is this: with(Oxboys, plot(age, height, type = "n")) lapply(split(Oxboys[c("age",

Hi all, What's the equivalent to length(unique(x)) == 1 if want to ignore small floating point differences? Should I look at diff(range(x)) or sd(x) or something else? What cut off should I use? If it helps to be explicit, I'm interested in detecting when a vector is constant for the purpose of visual display. In other words, if I rescale x to [0, 1] do I have enough precision to get

Hi all, Is there a method for escaping strings to be used regular expressions? i.e. if I have a user supplied string that I'd like to use as a fixed component is there a method that will turn (e.g.) ".$^" into "\\.\\$\\^" ? Thanks, Hadley -- http://had.co.nz/

Hi all, If a package suggests another package in its description, you can check it at runtime with requires. How do you do check if a package is available without loading it, if you only want to access one function in the package namespace. Thanks, Hadley -- Assistant Professor / Dobelman Family Junior Chair Department of Statistics / Rice University http://had.co.nz/

I get the same style of path as Hadley. This is on Windows 7 Home Premium with SP1. I start R by clicking on the R-2.31.0 icon. I'd assumed that it was a change that came with R-2.13.0! (On 32-bit Windows XP, which I have just checked, I do indeed get the 8.3 paths.) > R.home() [1] "C:/Programs/R/R-2.13.0" > sessionInfo() R version 2.13.0 (2011-04-13) Platform:

Hi all, Is there a tool in base R to extract matched expressions from a regular expression? i.e. given the regular expression "(.*?) (.*?) ([ehtr]{5})" is there a way to extract the character vector c("one", "two", "three") from the string "one two three" ? Thanks, Hadley -- http://had.co.nz/

Hi all, What's the official name for the value that represents a missing argument? e.g. formals(plot)$x str(formals(plot)$x) deparse(formals(plot)$x) is.symbol(formals(plot)$x) What's the correct way to create an object like this? (for example if you are manipulating the formals of a function to add an argument with no default value, as in http://stackoverflow.com/questions/3892580/).

Hi all, Does anyone have any suggestions for debugging the execution of examples by R CMD check? The examples work fine when I run them from a live R prompt, but I get errors when they are run by R CMD check. Thanks, Hadley -- Assistant Professor / Dobelman Family Junior Chair Department of Statistics / Rice University http://had.co.nz/

Hi all, It's possible to capture the expression associated with a promise (using substitute). Is there any way to capture the environment associated with a promise? Similarly, is there any way to tell if something is a promise without accidentally evaluating it? Thanks! Hadley -- RStudio / Rice University http://had.co.nz/

Hi all, I'm struggling with accessing a package dataset (munsell.map, stored in sysdata.rda) when that package is imported, not required. A simple reproducible example is: install.packages("munsell") munsell::mnsl("10B 4/6") # Error in match(col, munsell.map$name) : object 'munsell.map' not found library(munsell) munsell::mnsl("10B 4/6") # Function