similar to: Multi-line comments in R

I was wondering why the decision was made long ago to never implement multi-line comments in R. I feel there are several argument to be made for why the R language should have multi-line comments. 1. Many programming languages (including some which are commonly used for statistics, such as python, matlab and SAS) have this feature. 2. Convenience - some editors may not support commenting out a

I'm often wanting to develop functions whilst manipulating data. But I don't want to end up with a .RData full of functions and data. It might be that I have functions that are re-usable but not worth sticking in a package. So I've tried to come up with a paradigm for function development that more closely follows the way Matlab and Python do it (partly inspired by a confused Matlab

On Mon, Feb 29, 2016 at 6:17 PM, John Chambers <jmc at r-project.org> wrote: > The Wikipedia statement may be a bit misleading. > > S was never open source. Source versions would only have been available with a nondisclosure agreement, and relatively few copies would have been distributed in source. There was a small but valuable "beta test" network, mainly university

On Thu, Jul 26, 2018 at 12:22 AM, G?bor Cs?rdi <csardi.gabor at gmail.com> wrote: > I am trying to control a background R session, connected via a fifo / > named pipe. Is the fifo significant here? If I read the same R code from a file via `<` I get the input echoed (R 3.4.4, Ubuntu). Barry

I don't think anyone denies that you *could* make an EXE to do all that. The discussion is on *how easy* it should be to create a single file that contains an initial "main" function plus a set of bundled code (potentially as a package) and which when run will install its package code (which is contained in itself, its not in a repo), install dependencies, and run the main()

Hello list, Is there any way to perform a block comment in R? In C++, anything in between a /* and */ is considered a comment, and it allows programmers to comment out chunks of code for testing and debugging. Is there such a feature in R? Cheers, Wee-Jin

A colleague is receiving some data from another person. That person reads the data in SAS and it takes 30s and uses 64k RAM. That person then tries to read the data in R and it takes 10 minutes and uses a gigabyte of RAM. Person then goes on to say: It's not that I think SAS is such great software, it's not. But I really hate badly designed software. R is designed by

If you index a vector with a vector that has NA in it, you get NA back: > x=101:107 > x[c(NA,4,NA)] [1] NA 104 NA > x[c(4,NA)] [1] 104 NA All well and good. ?"[" says, under NAs in indexing: When extracting, a numerical, logical or character ?NA? index picks an unknown element and so returns ?NA? in the corresponding element of a logical, integer,

On Thu, 26 Jul 2018, G?bor Cs?rdi wrote: > On Thu, Jul 26, 2018 at 12:25 PM Barry Rowlingson > <b.rowlingson at lancaster.ac.uk> wrote: >> >> On Thu, Jul 26, 2018 at 12:22 AM, G?bor Cs?rdi <csardi.gabor at gmail.com> wrote: >>> I am trying to control a background R session, connected via a fifo / >>> named pipe. >> >> Is the fifo

I see some value in Duncan?s proposal to implement this as an extra package instead of a change to base R, if only to see if the idea has legs. I?m minded to do so myself using your suggestion, but is there a particular reason why you recommend using the remotes package instead of devtools? The latter seems to have the same functions I would need, and I believe it is more widely installed that

Full_Name: Barry Rowlingson Version: 1.6.0 OS: RH8 i386 Submission from: (NULL) (148.88.136.205) Strange things happen if I premultiply a difftime() object with a number. Example: > d1 <- difftime(Sys.time(),Sys.time()) > d2 <- 1 * difftime(Sys.time(),Sys.time()) > d3 <- difftime(Sys.time(),Sys.time()) * 1 > d1 Time difference of 0 secs - thats fine > d2 [1] 0

A little while ago here we had a short discussion about Task Views - I think ignited by someone saying 'how many times do I have to say "have you read the Optimisation Task View?"?' and I poured some fuel on that fire by saying "Task Views" was a stupid name. Anyway, I did say that Task Views were rather brilliant, but were let down by their hidden position on the R

In response to an earlier discussion about finding the fastest/best/nearest CRAN site, I geocoded (using my geonames package) the locations of the CRAN sites returned by getCRANmirrors. I've mapped them here: http://www.maths.lancs.ac.uk/~rowlings/R/Cranography/ The geocoding may have got it wrong, so if CRAN site maintainers want to send me a real lat-long (in WGS 84 aka EPSG:4326) I'll

On Mon, Sep 17, 2018 at 5:22 PM, G?bor Cs?rdi <csardi.gabor at gmail.com> wrote: > I would say it is a mis-feature. If the 'x' argument of diag() is a > vector of length 1, then it creates an identity matrix of that size, > instead of creating a 1x1 matrix with the given value: > > ? diag(3) > [,1] [,2] [,3] > [1,] 1 0 0 > [2,] 0 1 0

Hi folks, OS - Ubuntu 10.04 On R I create a datafile named "data". I can evoke it on R with; > data On R Commander Data -> Active data set -> Select active data set -> (data) OK only one data set there "data" -> View data set I can read it -> Edit data set showing 25 rows of data. Clicking the box shows a thick border around it. But I couldn't

How do people go about synchronizing multiple workspaces on different workstations? I tend to wind up with projects spread around the various machines I work on. I find that placing the directories on a server and reading them remotely tends to slow things down. thanks, Eric -- Eric Turkheimer, PhD Department of Psychology University of Virginia PO Box 400400 Charlottesville, VA 22904-4400

Hello there fellow R-users, I have received some data which comes in the following format: example1<-"200301" The first 4 digits correspond to the year and the remaining 2 digits correspond to the week of the year. I have tried to convert this to a date by using strptime as follows: strptime(example1,format="%Y%U") where U (looking up strptime) is the week of the

After accusing someone of typing 'install.packages("weather")' instead of 'install.packages("webmaps")', I discovered that R-forge really is currently returning the wrong source tarball for packages after 'Repitools' in the alphabet. The data returned from available.package in install.packages goes out of sync at 'Repitools': RemoteREngine

On Mon, Mar 8, 2010 at 8:46 PM, Barry Rowlingson <b.rowlingson at lancaster.ac.uk> wrote: > On Mon, Mar 8, 2010 at 6:44 PM, Ma Ismail - NewYork-MEAG-NY > <ima at meag-ny.com> wrote: >> Hi, >> >> A few of the developers on our Quant team are using R for data calculation and to generate a [snip] > ?I've noticed a lot of financial corporates getting into R

Full_Name: Barry Rowlingson Version: R-1.2.0 OS: RH7/i386 Submission from: (NULL) (148.88.0.11) demo(is.things) fails with: > is.ALL(NULL) Error in as.POSIXct.default(x) : Don't know how to convert `x' to class "POSIXct" In addition: Warning message: is.nan() applied to non-(list or vector) in: fn(obj) - this seems to be because it is calling: > is.na.POSIXlt(NULL)