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I think the rule is that you can do anything as long as you don't complain. If you want to complain, you must follow the instructions. -- Jari Oksanen in Re: [Rd] Keeping up to date with R-devel -- Patrick Burns pburns at pburns.seanet.com twitter: @burnsstat @portfolioprobe http://www.portfolioprobe.com/blog http://www.burns-stat.com (home of: 'Impatient R' 'The R

I've just realized that it could be handy to have a 'decreasing' argument in 'is.unsorted'. And I'm cheekily hoping someone else will implement it. It is easy enough to work around (with 'rev'), but would be less hassle with an argument. The case I have in mind uses 'is.unsorted' in 'stopifnot'. Pat -- Patrick Burns pburns at pburns.seanet.com

I suggest that there be an additional sentence in the explanation for the 'repos' argument in the help file for 'install.packages': If the repository is on a local drive, then the string should begin with \code{file:}, e.g., \code{"file:J:/Rrepos"}. Perhaps I'm missing some subtlety, but it makes things work in my case. Pat -- Patrick Burns pburns at

Here's a weird problem that I hope someone can give me some hints for. Actions: Build a package of all R functions -- no compiled code. No indication of anything being wrong. 'require' the newly built package. As far as the session is concerned, there is nothing in the package. This is being done in RStudio on Windows with R version 3.0.2. The package used to work. There was

This is Circle 8..1.13 of the R Inferno. On 05/08/2018 06:57, Rui Barradas wrote: > Thanks. > This is exactly the doubt I had. > > Rui Barradas > > ?s 05:26 de 05/08/2018, Kenny Bell escreveu: >> This should more clearly illustrate the issue: >> >> c(1, 2, 3, 4)[-seq_len(4)] >> #> numeric(0) >> c(1, 2, 3, 4)[-seq_len(3)] >> #> [1] 4

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Dear all, I'm having a problem understanding why a split does not occur with in the 2nd use of the function strsplit below: # text strings > txt <- c("sales to 23 August 2008 published 29 August", + "sales to 6 September 2008 published?11 September") # first use > strsplit(txt, 'published', fixed=TRUE) [[1]] [1] "sales to 23 August 2008 "

Dear R developers, ?help.search ...opens a tab in my browser (Firefox 3.5.6, Win XP): http://127.0.0.1:31642/library/utils/html/help.search.html When I click on the link for "?", (http://127.0.0.1:31642/library/utils/help/?) in the last line of "Details", I get an error message: "Server error: invalid response from R". Similarly, The link to "??"

Related to the following question on Stackoverflow: https://stackoverflow.com/questions/44723690/unexpected-behavior-of-sys-setlocale#44723690 It appears as if Sys.setlocale() does not update LC_TIME correctly for use in date formatting. Although R reports that LC_TIME is changed to the new setting after use of Sys.setlocale(), as.Date() still uses the old settings. The only way to update this is

Dear R-developers, A student asked me today of how to specify the limits of the x-axis. I knew that he should use xlim, but I tried to encourage him to have a try himself with the various help functions. I do not judge if he used the correct search strategy or right key words, but anyway here is what he tried: he looked at ?plot. There xlim is not mentioned. He checked ?par. There you find

Dear R-help, I want to download the text from a web page, however what i end up with is the html code. Is there some option that i am missing in the RCurl package? Or is there another way to achieve this? This is the code i am using: > library(RCurl) > my.url <- 'https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-help' > html.file <- getURI(my.url, ssl.verifyhost = FALSE,

Hello All, i was trying to simply run the readHTMLTable on the example published in the package. And on a page I was working on. So running: u = "http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_by_population" tables = readHTMLTable(u) returns the following error: Error in tb[["thead"]] : subscript out of bounds looking up this error on the web, didnt give me any hint. Is

Hi, I have the following function that I want to apply to a list of 14 matrices (1536 x 170) of binary data: DRes <- function(x, nr = 10000, metric = "mixed", ...) { require(analogue) require(ade4) m <- c() for (i in 1:nr) { set.seed(i) x1 <- x[, sample(dimnames(x)[[2]], length(x[1,])/2)] x2 <- x[, !dimnames(x)[[2]] %in% dimnames(x1)[[2]]] d1 <-

Hello, I came across a strange behavior of expand.grid (or at least strange to me). For certain values of one of my input variables - created by seq() - I have to use strings (e.g ==".6") to select a row of the object created by expand.grid(), for other values numerical (e.g. ==.8) and for some both work. Please find an example below. #Example x<- seq(0,1,1/10) y <-

A newbie here - please forgive me if this is a basic question. We have an in house package built in R 2.2.1 (yes we're a little behind the times at our firm)and would like to rebuild it using R 2.5.1. However, when I try and build the package from source, I keep getting this error: Error in as(slotVal, slotClass, strict = FALSE) : no method or default for coercing "POSIXt"

Dear R-help, The following code downloads an html document into variable 'doc' and then stores an internal representation into variable 'html.tree'. Even if the html code is malformed, this still works which is fantastic. However, as in the example below, i do get some ouput from R in the console which i would like to suppress somehow, so i can keep my window a bit cleaner. I

Dear all, while preparing some exercises I came across some highly surprising behaviour of file.exists(). The specific value "prn.us.txt" always returns TRUE, even though that file is nowhere to be found on my system. In a fresh R session 3.4.4 installed on Windows 10: > grep("prn.us.txt", dir(recursive = TRUE)) integer(0) > file.exists("prn.us.txt") [1] TRUE

Hello. I was writing some code that computes on the language and came across this. I can work around it, but thought you might like to know about it. > f <- function(x) { NULL } > a <- as.list(f)[[1]] > a # ie print(a) Error: argument "a" is missing, with no default Note it says *argument* "a", which is strange. In fact, and unsurprisingly, the bug lies with

Here are some data frames: df3.2 <- data.frame(1:3, 7:9) df4.2 <- data.frame(1:4, 7:10) df3.3 <- data.frame(1:3, 7:9, 10:12) df4.3 <- data.frame(1:4, 7:10, 10:13) df3.4 <- data.frame(1:3, 7:9, 10:12, 15:17) df4.4 <- data.frame(1:4, 7:10, 10:13, 15:18) Now here are some commands and their answers: > median(df3.2) [1] 2 8 > median(df4.2) [1] 2.5 8.5 > median(df3.3)

Hi, I have been using 'read.table' regularly to read tab-delimited text files with data. No problem, until now. Now I have a file that appeared to have read fine, and the data inside looks correct (structure etc), except I only had 15000+ rows out of the expected 24000. Using 'readLines' instead, and breaking up the data by tabs, gives me the expected result. I do not