similar to: pairlists (was: data manipulation function descriptions)

I would like to create a vector of pairlist (flag, binary_value) like: (variable ="TrendOff", value = 0) (variable ="MOdwt", value = 1) (variable ? "ZeroPadding", value =1) ................................................ I tried the following syntax but the emcompassing list (that I called "flags") is not made up of pairlists. Instead it

Dear list, I think I just stumbled across a bug in either 'relist()' and/or 'as.relistable()'. It seems that 'pairlists' can only be un- and relisted as long as they're not nested: Good: a <- as.relistable(as.pairlist(list(a=1, b=2))) a <- unlist(a) relist(a)# Works Bad: a <- as.relistable(as.pairlist(list(a=1, b=2, c=list(c.1=1, c.2=2)))) a <- unlist(a)

On Sat, Oct 15, 2016 at 2:00 AM, Martin Maechler <maechler at stat.math.ethz.ch> wrote: >>>>>> Michael Lawrence <lawrence.michael at gene.com> >>>>>> on Wed, 12 Oct 2016 15:21:13 -0700 writes: > > > Thanks, this was what I expected. There is a desire to > > eliminate the usage of pairlist from user code, which > >

Thanks, this was what I expected. There is a desire to eliminate the usage of pairlist from user code, which suggests the alternative of allowing for function arguments to be stored in lists. That's a much deeper change though. On Wed, Oct 12, 2016 at 12:31 PM, Henrik Bengtsson <henrik.bengtsson at gmail.com> wrote: > Michael, thanks for this info. > > I've stumbled upon

Hi Henrik, It would help to understand your use case for pairlists. Thanks, Michael On Wed, Oct 12, 2016 at 9:40 AM, Michael Lawrence <michafla at gene.com> wrote: > The coercion is probably the most viable workaround for now, as it's > consistent with what happens internally for calls. All pairlists/calls > are converted to list for subassignment, but only calls are

I've used the HDF5 library to bring some data into R. THe verbose output looks like this: > hdf5load("hdfGraphWed_Mar_16_13_33_37_2005.hdf",load=T,verbosity=1,tidy=T) Processing object: cprSeats ...... which is a Group Processing object: Seats 0 ...... its a dataset......Finished dataset Processing object: Seats 1 ...... its a dataset......Finished dataset Processing object:

Hi, I seem to not be able to assign NULL to an element of a pairlist without causing it to be coerced to a plain list. For example: > x <- pairlist(1, 2) > class(x) [1] "pairlist" > x[1] <- list(NULL) > class(x) [1] "list" This actually true for all [()<- assignments regardless of list value, e.g. > x <- pairlist(1, 2) > x[1] <- list(0) [1]

Hi, ?pairlist gives no explanation about what exactly is the difference between a pairlist and a list (except that a pairlist of length 0 is 'NULL'). So, what's a pairlist? class(.Options) [1] "pairlist" Some strange things about the "pairlist" type: > showClass("pairlist") Error in getClass(Class) : "pairlist" is not a defined class

This code which has worked for years in R but fails under R-devel: > R.version.string [1] "R Under development (unstable) (2012-07-25 r59963)" > > n <- 3 > f <- function(x) {} > formals(f) <- rep(formals(f), n) ## Error in rep(formals(f), n) : replication of pairlists is defunct The message suggests that the change was intentional. Why was this functionality

Full_Name: Glen Herrmannsfeldt Version: 2.2.1 OS: Linux Submission from: (NULL) (128.95.113.77) Following the discussion in "Writing R Extensions" in section 5.8.2, there is no indication that showArgs expects a pairlist() instead of a list(). I was trying .Call("showArgs",list(one=1,two=2,three=3)) for example, and getting many core dumps. It wasn't until reading

unlist(recursive=FALSE) returns NULL elements when passed a nested pairlist containing non-NULL data: x <- pairlist(pairlist(1:2)) unlist(x, recursive=FALSE) ## [[1]] ## NULL version 2.7.2 RC (2008-08-18 r46382) under linux I'm unaware of any motivation for constructing the above data structure, but if unlist is going to operate on it without error I would be surprised if that is the

Inspired by the exchange between Rolf Turner and Wacek Kusnierczyk, I thought I'd clear up for myself the exact relationship among the various sequence concepts in R, including not only generic vectors (lists) and atomic vectors, but also pairlists, factor sequences, date/time sequences, and difftime sequences. I tabulated type of sequence vs. property to see if I could make sense of all

Inspired by the exchange between Rolf Turner and Wacek Kusnierczyk, I thought I'd clear up for myself the exact relationship among the various sequence concepts in R, including not only generic vectors (lists) and atomic vectors, but also pairlists, factor sequences, date/time sequences, and difftime sequences. I tabulated type of sequence vs. property to see if I could make sense of all

Is this a feature/bug or am I missing something: R : Copyright 1999, The R Development Core Team Version 0.63.2 (January 12, 1999) ...... > ls() character(0) > x <- NULL > x$x1 <- rnorm(10) > x$x2 <- rnorm(10) > mode(x) [1] "pairlist" > as.data.frame(x) Error: can't coerce pairlist into a

Paul Gilbert <pgilbert@bank-banque-canada.ca> writes: > is.recursive(list(z, a=list(1:3)) ) > > R64.2:> [1] FALSE > Splus3.3> [1] T Yup, it's a bug. Cc'ed to r-bugs so that we don't forget. > is.recursive(list(1,2)) [1] FALSE > is.recursive(pairlist(1,2)) [1] TRUE [maybe Martin would want to add a check that is.whatever works identically on lists

Tested in R 2.8.1 Windows > ff <- formals(function(x)1) > ff1 <- as.list(function(x)1)[1] # ff1 acts the same as ff in the examples below, but is a list rather than a pairlist > dput( ff , control=c("warnIncomplete")) list(x = ) This string is not parsable, but dput does not give a warning as specified. > dput( ff ,

>>>>> Michael Lawrence <lawrence.michael at gene.com> >>>>> on Wed, 12 Oct 2016 15:21:13 -0700 writes: > Thanks, this was what I expected. There is a desire to > eliminate the usage of pairlist from user code, which > suggests the alternative of allowing for function > arguments to be stored in lists. That's a much deeper

On Wed, 19 Oct 2016, Henrik Bengtsson wrote: > On Sat, Oct 15, 2016 at 2:00 AM, Martin Maechler > <maechler at stat.math.ethz.ch> wrote: >>>>>>> Michael Lawrence <lawrence.michael at gene.com> >>>>>>> on Wed, 12 Oct 2016 15:21:13 -0700 writes: >> >> > Thanks, this was what I expected. There is a desire to >>

the help page says: 'is.list' returns 'TRUE' iff its argument is a 'list' _or_ a 'pairlist' of 'length' > 0, whereas 'is.pairlist' only returns 'TRUE' in the latter case. does the "latter case" mean a 'pairlist' of 'length' > 0? but > is.pairlist(pairlist()) [1] TRUE > length(pairlist())

Michael, thanks for this info. I've stumbled upon this in a case where I walk an R expression (the AST) and (optionally) modifies it (part of the globals package). In R expressions, a function definition uses a pairlist to represent the arguments. For example, > expr <- quote(function(x = 1) x) > str(as.list(expr)) List of 4 $ : symbol function $ :Dotted pair list of 1 ..$ x: