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Hi All, The last line if the following code returns the error right below this paragraph. Essentially, I use the operator %:% to retrieve a variable in a nested frame. Then I want to use the same operator (with '<-') to change its value. I'm not sure if this is possible in R with %:% operator. Would you please help and let me how to correct the code if it is possible? Error in

I would like to assign an value to an element of a list contained in an environment. The list will contain vectors and matrices. Here's a simple example: # create toy environment testEnv = new.env(parent = emptyenv()) # create list that will be in the environment, then assign() it x = list(a=1,b=2) assign("xList",x,testEnv) # create new element, to be inserted into xList c = 5:7

Hi, this relates to the question "How to set a former environment?" asked yesterday. What is the best way to to return a function with a minimal environment from a function? Here is a dummy example: foo <- function(huge) { scale <- mean(huge) function(x) { scale * x } } fcn <- foo(1:10e5) The problem with this approach is that the environment of 'fcn' does not

I wish I had started with "I am disappointed that lm() doesn't continue its search for weights into the calling environment" or "the fact that lm() looks only in the formula environment and data frame for weights doesn't seem consistent with how other values are treated." But I did not. So I do apologize for both that and for negative tone on my part. Simplified

Thank you for your suggestion. I do know how to work around the issue. I usually build a fresh environment as a child of base-environment and then insurt the weights there. I was just trying to provide an example of the issue. emptyenv() can not be used, as it is needed for the eval (errors out even if weights are not used with "could not find function list"). For some applications

Dear R-Devel subscriber, first, let me express my thank to the R-Core team for the new release! I appreciate their efforts and time spent to enhance R. In accordance with the 'NEWS' file (see excerpt of it below), [... o Changed the environment tree to be rooted in an empty environment, available as emptyenv(). baseenv() has been modified to return an environment with emptyenv() as

Dear R-Devel subscriber, first, let me express my thank to the R-Core team for the new release! I appreciate their efforts and time spent to enhance R. In accordance with the 'NEWS' file (see excerpt of it below), [... o Changed the environment tree to be rooted in an empty environment, available as emptyenv(). baseenv() has been modified to return an environment with emptyenv() as

I've just committed some changes to R-devel which affect environments. Specifically: - using NULL as an environment is now deprecated: use baseenv() instead. (baseenv() is already available in R 2.2.0, where it returns NULL. For most purposes it retains the same meaning in R-devel.) If you do use NULL, it will be converted to baseenv(), and a warning printed. For example: > f

I'm testing some modifications in arima.c. I've noticed that a big internal array of double (rbar) is usually sparse and I'd like to add an option to store it as key-value mapping. Is there a library function or some other approach already used inside the R core for key-value mappings? Thanks, Matteo Bertini

Hi all, Is there a straight-forward, cross-platform way of determining if a user has all the tools needed to develop R packages (i.e. gcc etc)? It doesn't need to be 100%, but should give a rough idea. One idea I had was simply to see if system("R CMD install --help") worked. Hadley -- Assistant Professor / Dobelman Family Junior Chair Department of Statistics / Rice University

I understand why the following happens ($.proto delegates to get, which ascends the parent hierarchy up to globalenv()), but I still find it anti-intuitive: > z <- 1 > y <- proto(a=2) > y$z [1] 1 Although this is well-documented behavior; wouldn't it uphold the principle of least surprise to inherit instead from baseenv() or emptyenv()? (See attached patch.) Spurious

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, 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

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, 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, 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

Dear R-users, Is there a way I can prevent global variables to be visible within my functions? Sebastien

Hi all, I frequently find that I've failed to export something in my NAMESPACE and hence my package doesn't work when it's imported into another package. Does anyone have suggestion for debugging this type of problem? R CMD check passes without any ns related errors on both the importee and the importer. I've attached a reproducible example - if you install the development

readNEWS() states: Read R's ?NEWS? file or a similarly formatted one. This is an experimental feature, new in R 2.4.0 and may change in several ways and news() also indicates that this tool is supposed to work with non-R news files. However, I've not been able to get readNEWS to read a package news file, even when following the format indicated in news(). Looking at the

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/