similar to: R-beta: Re: S Compatibility

Ross Ihaka <ihaka at stat.auckland.ac.nz> wrote: [ in response to discussions about S compatibility ] > Some things we almost certainly won't be changing. Scoping is one of > these (although I have to confess that I have made the pitch to Robert > that we should drop our scoping in favour of the S version - he > sensibly said "no"). I have a question/comment on

Peter Dalgaard writes: > Ross Ihaka <ihaka at stat.auckland.ac.nz> writes: > > Many of the incompatibilities result from us not being familiar with > > some of the inner mysteries of S - these are generally pretty easy to > > fix. Some incompatibilities however result from the fact that R > > started life as a kind of Lisp interpreter. These can be quite a bit

Peter Dalgaard writes: > > Its something we definitely need (almost as much as REAL libraries). > > If only there were another 24 hours in each day ... > No problem. You just need someone as smart as you are to chip in with > the development. Or four people half as smart ;^) Or half the time of someone twice as smart ... Did I see you putting your hand up? :-) > There

Bill Venables writes: > Are the scoping differences between R and S set out precisely and > definitively somewhere? This would be useful. In the source code perhaps? :-) You can find a pretty precise description in the article Robert and I did in JCGS. Actually its pretty simple. Functions have access to the variables which were in effect when the function was defined. f <-

At 03:28 30/04/97, ihaka at stat.auckland.ac.nz wrote: >Bill Venables writes: > (As a complete side-issue, Brian Ripley and I have a kind of > convention: we refer to the language as "S" and the commercial > product as "S-PLUS". There is a useful distinction to be made.) > >This is generally what I try to do too. > >However, I suspect though that most

There's a non-compatibility between R and S-plus with the default argument of the locator() function. R has locator(n=1) S-plus has locator(n=500, type="n", noclick=F) S's default is ``better'' I think, insofar as it means in 99% of the cases ``user clicks <left> as many times as wanted and then clicks <right> to end'' Ross Ihaka and his grad

In their paper, "Lexical Scope and Statistical Computing", the authors ( Gentleman and Ihaka ) go to great length explaining why R's use of lexical scoping creates advantages when doing statistical computations. If anyone has or is familiar with this paper, could they provide the main program code for how the "newton" function would be called in their example on page 500

Hello! First of all I would like to thank very much Guido Masarotto for the latest Win32 version of R. I've installed it painlessly on WinNT 4 Workstation, and it is loading and running fast. The only problems I've had thus far are demos 6 to 8 ("recursion", "scoping", and "is.things"), which cause a memory protection fault. I've a question regarding the

Ross Ihaka writes: > Peter Dalgaard writes: ************************ > > What he probably would tell you is that the FSF has a substantial "red > > tape" procedure for code contributions to ensure that nobody can claim > > to own parts of the code and thereby block the use of the entire > > product. You can't put code under GPL if you don't own it,

>>>>> "Martyn" == Martyn Plummer <plummer@iarc.fr> writes: Martyn> I will do this if you haven't been overrun with volunteers Martyn> already ;) No, you are the first to answer. Thank you very much in advance! --------------------- Martyn> Some time ago you asked about a basic time series Martyn> library for R. Did anything come

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I want to cite R for an article. What is the right thing to do? Shall I include "Notes on R" or is there a better way? -- mailto:koloska at rcs.urz.tu-dresden.de http://rcswww.urz.tu-dresden.de/~koloska/ -- -- right now the web page is in german only but this will change as time goes by ;-)

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(1) ?cbind claims The generic functions `cbind' and `rbind' take a sequence of vector and/or matrix arguments and combine them as the columns or rows, respectively, of a matrix. Note: The method dispatching is not done via `UseMethod(..)', but by C-internal dispatching. Therefore, there's no need for, e.g., `rbind.default'. but my cbind.ts

https://bugzilla.netfilter.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1318 Bug ID: 1318 Summary: Fragmented packet filtering is broken iptables compatibility tools Product: nftables Version: unspecified Hardware: x86_64 OS: other Status: NEW Severity: normal Priority: P5 Component:

Hi, I asked this question 2 years ago, and would like to know if the answer has changed. In S-Plus, I build databases of many large objects. In any given analysis, I only need a few of those objects, but attach'ing the whole database is fine since objects are only read as needed. How can I do the same thing in R, without reading the entire database? One possibility is to treat

An updated version of the R FAQ to accompany the new 0.60 release is now available at the usual site, http://www.ci.tuwien.ac.at/~hornik/R/R-FAQ.html A plain text version of the FAQ is appended below. -kh ****** snip snip snip ************************************************** R FAQ Kurt Hornik v0.60-6, 1997/12/08 This document contains answers to some of the most frequently asked

An updated version of the R FAQ to accompany the new 0.60 release is now available at the usual site, http://www.ci.tuwien.ac.at/~hornik/R/R-FAQ.html A plain text version of the FAQ is appended below. -kh ****** snip snip snip ************************************************** R FAQ Kurt Hornik v0.60-6, 1997/12/08 This document contains answers to some of the most frequently asked

An updated version of the R FAQ to accompany the new 0.60 release is now available at the usual site, http://www.ci.tuwien.ac.at/~hornik/R/R-FAQ.html A plain text version of the FAQ is appended below. -kh ****** snip snip snip ************************************************** R FAQ Kurt Hornik v0.60-6, 1997/12/08 This document contains answers to some of the most frequently asked

I appeal to those entrusted with the keeping of the R flame, the S flame, and the S-Plus flame to relate a bit of history. How did S, S-Plus, and R get their names? Going from S to S-Plus appears clear, a commercial company purchased rights to S, developed a product that they wanted to indicate was related to S, but was more fully developed. This leaves me with only a rumor how S got its original