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I found this part in the documentation of 'factor'. 'factor(x, exclude=NULL)' applied to a factor is a no-operation unless there are unused levels: in that case, a factor with the reduced level set is returned. If 'exclude' is used it should also be a factor with the same level set as 'x' or a set of codes for the levels to be excluded.

I have suggestions for function 'diff.default' in R. Suggestion 1: If the input is matrix, always return matrix, even if empty. What happens in R 2.15.2: > rbind(1:2) # matrix [,1] [,2] [1,] 1 2 > diff(rbind(1:2)) # not matrix integer(0) > sessionInfo() R version 2.15.2 (2012-10-26) Platform: i386-w64-mingw32/i386 (32-bit) locale: [1] LC_COLLATE=English_United

\b is word boundary. But, unexpectedly, strsplit("dia ma", "\\b") splits character by character. > strsplit("dia ma", "\\b") [[1]] [1] "d" "i" "a" " " "m" "a" > strsplit("dia ma", "\\b", perl=TRUE) [[1]] [1] "d" "i" "a" " "

In R 3.3.0 (also in R 2.7.2), the documentation on 'factor', in "Details" section, has this statement. 'factor(x, exclude = NULL)' applied to a factor is a no-operation unless there are unused levels: in that case, a factor with the reduced level set is returned. It is not true for a factor 'x' that has NA. In that case, if levels of 'x' doesn't

> .Internal(inspect(1:10)) @300e4e8 13 INTSXP g0c0 [NAM(3)] 1 : 10 (compact) > .Internal(inspect(seq(1,10))) @3b6e1f8 13 INTSXP g0c4 [] (len=10, tl=0) 1,2,3,4,5,... > system.time(1:1e7) user system elapsed 0 0 0 > system.time(seq(1,1e7)) user system elapsed 0.05 0.00 0.04 It seems that result of function 'seq' doesn't use compact

This is just info. I recently got something like this. > x <- factor(c("A","A","B","B"), levels=c("A","B")) > y <- factor(c("a","b","a","b"), levels=c("a","b")) > table(x, y)[, "a"] / table(x) x A B 0.5 0.5 attr(,"class") [1]

In the code for 'aggregate.formula', there is if (as.character(formula[[2L]] == ".")) I believe that it is meant to be if (as.character(formula[[2L]]) == ".") However, if (as.character(formula[[2L]] == ".")) gives the expected result. Tracing: - formula[[2L]] == "." is equivalent to as.character(formula[[2L]]) == "." From the help page for

Thanks -- I'll commit a fix after some testing. Best, luke On 04/29/2018 06:22 AM, Duncan Murdoch wrote: > On 28/04/2018 11:11 PM, Suharto Anggono Suharto Anggono via R-devel wrote: >>> .Internal(inspect(1:10)) >> @300e4e8 13 INTSXP g0c0 [NAM(3)]? 1 : 10 (compact) >>> .Internal(inspect(seq(1,10))) >> @3b6e1f8 13 INTSXP g0c4 [] (len=10, tl=0) 1,2,3,4,5,...

By "an argument named 'use.names' is included for concatenation", I meant something like this, that someone might try. > c(as.Date("2016-01-01"), use.names=FALSE) use.names "2016-01-01" "1970-01-01" See, 'use.names' is in the output. That's precisely because 'c.Date' doesn't have 'use.names', so

Removal of ans[nas] <- NA from the code of function 'ifelse' in R is not committed (yet). Why? -------------------------------------------- On Mon, 28/11/16, Martin Maechler <maechler at stat.math.ethz.ch> wrote: Subject: Re: [Rd] ifelse() woes ... can we agree on a ifelse2() ? Cc: R-devel at r-project.org, maechler at stat.math.ethz.ch Date: Monday, 28 November, 2016, 10:00

Yes, they work now. I mentioned them partly because the commit description said overflow for large n and partly to be considered for regression tests. -------------------------------------------- On Sat, 19/8/17, Martin Maechler <maechler at stat.math.ethz.ch> wrote: Subject: Re: [Rd] Issues of R_pretty in src/appl/pretty.c Cc: r-devel at r-project.org Date: Saturday, 19 August, 2017,

useNA <- if (missing(useNA) && !missing(exclude) && !(NA %in% exclude)) "ifany" An example where it change 'table' result for non-factor input, from https://stat.ethz.ch/pipermail/r-help/2005-April/069053.html : x <- c(1,2,3,3,NA) table(as.integer(x), exclude=NaN) I bring the example up, in case that the change in result is not intended.

>>>>> Martin Maechler <maechler at stat.math.ethz.ch> >>>>> on Mon, 15 Aug 2016 11:07:43 +0200 writes: >>>>> Suharto Anggono Suharto Anggono <suharto_anggono at yahoo.com> >>>>> on Sun, 14 Aug 2016 03:42:08 +0000 writes: >> useNA <- if (missing(useNA) && !missing(exclude) && !(NA %in%

I am trying once again. By just changing f <- match(xlevs[f], nlevs) to f <- match(xlevs, nlevs)[f] , function 'factor' in R devel could be made more consistent and back-compatible. Why not picking it? -------------------------------------------- On Sat, 25/11/17, Suharto Anggono Suharto Anggono <suharto_anggono at yahoo.com> wrote: Subject: Re: [Rd] Function

In R 2.15.2 (and not before), in the definition of function 'diffinv.vector' in package stats, there is difference <- as.integer(differences) I believe differences <- as.integer(differences) is intended, because 'difference' is not referenced anywhere. However, without conversion of 'differences' to integer, 'diffinv.vector' in R 2.15.2 works OK. Also,

Here is a patch to function 'stopifnot' that adds 'evaluated' argument and makes 'exprs' argument in 'stopifnot' like 'exprs' argument in 'withAutoprint'. --- stop.R 2019-05-30 14:01:15.282197286 +0000 +++ stop_new.R 2019-05-30 14:01:51.372187466 +0000 @@ -31,7 +31,7 @@ .Internal(stop(call., .makeMessage(..., domain = domain))) }

Looking at the code of function 'table' in R devel r71227, I see that the part "remove NA level if it was added only for excluded in factor(a, exclude=.)" is not quite right. In is.na(a) <- match(a0, c(exclude,NA), nomatch=0L) , I think that what is intended is a[a0 %in% c(exclude,NA)] <- NA . So, it should be is.na(a) <- match(a0, c(exclude,NA),

On 'factor', I meant the case where 'levels' is not specified, where 'unique' is called. > factor(c(complex(real=NaN), complex(imaginary=NaN))) [1] NaN+0i <NA> Levels: NaN+0i Look at <NA> in the result above. Yes, it happens in earlier versions of R, too. On matching both NA and NaN, another consequence is that length(unique(.)) may depend on order.

http://stackoverflow.com/questions/6065724/assigning-value-to-a-variable-that-has-a-dot-in-the-name made me realize this. The context is 'a' is assigned to ret$log.id, but then ret$log returns "a" and ret$l also returns "a". There is a comment from Charles on the question: "Also see options(warnPartialMatchDollar=T) if you want to track these." But, in

>From an example in http://www.uni-muenster.de/ZIV.BennoSueselbeck/s-html/helpfiles/nargs.html , number of arguments in '...' can be obtained by (function(...)nargs())(...) . I now realize that sys.call() doesn't expand '...' when the function is called with '...'. It just returns the call as is. If 'stopifnot' uses sys.call() instead of match.call() , the