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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/

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Hi all, In preparation for teaching a class next week, I've been reviewing R's standard modelling algebra. I've used it for a long time and have a pretty good intuitive feel for how it works, but would like to understand more of the technical details. The best (online) reference I've found so far is the section in "An Introduction to R"

Reproducible example: dir.create("test") .libPaths("test") install.packages("relations", type = "source") Fails with: ... * installing *source* package ?relations? ... ... ** testing if installed package can be loaded *** arch - i386 Error : package ?sets? required by ?relations? could not be found Error: loading failed Execution halted *** arch - x86_64

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/

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Hi all, There seems to be rather a large speed disparity in subsetting when working with a whole data frame vs. working with just columns individually: df <- as.data.frame(replicate(10, runif(1e5))) ord <- order(df[[1]]) system.time(df[ord, ]) # user system elapsed # 0.043 0.007 0.059 system.time(lapply(df, function(x) x[ord])) # user system elapsed # 0.022 0.008 0.029

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, 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 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/

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, 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, 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/

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, Am I using the correct syntax to set a custom R_LIBS when running R CMD INSTALL from the command line? I get: R_LIBS=/Users/hadley/R-dev R CMD INSTALL aL3xa-rapport-08e68ca/ # Desktop : R_LIBS=/Users/hadley/R-dev R CMD INSTALL aL3xa-rapport-08e68ca/ # * installing to library ?/Users/hadley/R? # ERROR: dependency ?ascii? is not available for package ?rapport? But: ls

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, Can anyone help me understand why an implicit print (i.e. just typing df at the console), is so much slower than an explicit print (i.e. print(df)) in the example below? I see the difference in both Rstudio and in a terminal. # Construct large df as quickly as possible dummy <- 1:18e6 df <- lapply(1:10, function(x) dummy) names(df) <- letters[1:10] class(df) <-

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, 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, The help for delayedAssign suggests that you can use substitute to access the expression associated with a promise, and the help for substitute says: "If it is a promise object, i.e., a formal argument to a function or explicitly created using ?delayedAssign()?, the expression slot of the promise replaces the symbol. But this doesn't seem to work: > a <- 1 > b <- 2