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Dear Martin, Thank you for the well-reasoned response. I realized I was rather late to make this suggestion for 4.0.0, changing a somewhat low-level function that can indeed affect packages. I was just reviewing some R user scripts that were using type.convert(), mainly on data frames. In all cases, people were passing as.is=TRUE, so I was reminded that I would not be the only user who would

Hi Simon, thank you for the concise reply. Do you mean the reported behavior of drop() is not a bug? It looks like a borderline bug to me (see below), but I'm not the judge of that. If this is the intended behavior and serves an actual purpose, then that could be explicitly documented in a \note{} on the help page. Such a note would slightly reduce the surprise of users running into this

Full_Name: Arni Magnusson Version: 1.6.2 OS: Windows XP Submission from: (NULL) (210.48.49.68) Hi there. I'm experiencing unexpected behaviour from as.POSIXct: > as.POSIXct("1969-12-24") [1] "1969-12-23 23:00:00 New Zealand Standard Time" > as.POSIXlt("1969-12-24") [1] "1969-12-24" > as.POSIXlt("1969-12-24")+1 [1] "1969-12-23

If read.table() is defaulting to "character" instead of "factor" data type, shouldn't type.convert() also default to "character" in R 4.0.0? This would seem like a good time to change the default to type.convert(as.is=TRUE), to align it with the new default in read.table and data.frame. I think many R >=4.0.0 users would be happy with as.is=TRUE as the default

One descriptive statistic that is conspicuously missing from core R is the statistical mode - the most frequent value in a discrete distribution. I would like to propose adding the attached 'statmode' (or a similar function) to the 'stats' package. Currently, it can be quite cumbersome to calculate the mode of a distribution in R, both for experts and beginners. The lack of a

I present you with a function that solves a problem that has bugged me for many years. I think the problem may be general enough to at least consider adding this function, or a revamped version of it, to the 'stats' package, with the other multinomial functions reside. I'm using R to export data to text files, which are input data for an external model written in C++. Parts of the

Hi all, I would like to propose the attached function ASCIIfy() to be added to the 'tools' package. Non-ASCII characters in character vectors can be problematic for R packages, but sometimes they cannot be avoided. To make packages portable and build without 'R CMD check' warnings, my solution has been to convert problematic characters in functions and datasets to escaped

I have been reading about autocorrelation in linear models over the last couple of days, and I have to say the more I read, the more confused I get. Beyond confusion lies enlightenment, so I'm tempted to ask R-Help for guidance. Most authors are mainly worried about autocorrelation in the residuals, but some authors are also worried about autocorrelation within Y and within X vectors

I'm relaying a question from my institute's sysadmin: Would it be possible to modify update.packages() and related functions so that 'lib.loc' accepts integer values to specify a library from the .libPaths() vector? Many Linux users want to update all user packages (inside the R_LIBS_USER directory, e.g. ~/r/library) and none of the system packages (inside the /usr directory,

The write.csv() function is currently implemented as function (..., col.names=NA, sep=",", qmethod="double") { write.table(..., col.names=NA, sep=",", qmethod="double") } Surely, it should be function (..., col.names=NA, sep=",", qmethod="double") { write.table(..., col.names=col.names, sep=sep,

Dear r-bugs, I'd like to be able to draw boxplots with solid or dotted whisker lines. The lty argument is currently ignored by boxplot(), and indeed hardwired in bxp(). It's not very difficult to customize these functions to generate various types of boxplots, but generally it might be an idea to allow the user to pass a few more graphical arguments to boxplot(). The approach might as

Dear r-devel, Among the R functions I have written and later shared with colleagues, there are five that I hope will become a part of the R base package. The tasks are neither specific nor marginal, so rather than creating one more 'misc' package, I would be happy if the R Development Core Team would adopt these functions and hammer them into shape. The functions are available from

Dear R users, I encounter a problem regarding space control in xyplot. Basically, I want to control spaces between label, tick and axis. I remember there is a function called mgp in general plot. Is there a similar function for xyplot or xYplot? Below is my basic code: myplotkid<-xyplot(expected_offspringnumber~afr|decade,groups=SES,data1,

Dear r-devel, I have implemented a function to create color palettes with improved contrast and logical order, compared with the built-in ones: source("arni.colors.R") # code is given below barplot(rep(1,100), col=arni.colors(100), space=0, border=0, axes=F) par(mfrow=c(2,1)) # rainbow() has too much green... barplot(rep(1,50), col=rev(rainbow(50,end=0.7)), space=0, border=0,

This relates to a message from Christophe Pallier to r-help some time ago. Like myself, he finds aggregate very useful, but the interface a little cumbersome. I've implemented a more compact formula interface, found at the bottom of this message: data(ToothGrowth) # I used to aggregate like this: aggregate(list(len=ToothGrowth$len),

Dear r-bugs, The 'see also' link in help(area,html=T) is broken, see line 91 in library/MASS/html/area.html: "../../integrate/html/integrate.html" should be "../../base/html/integrate.html" Regards, Arni OS: Windows XP R: 1.7.1 MASS: 7.1-8

I'd like to suggest changes to three help pages, regarding the use of pch=NA to suppress plotting symbols. See below. Arni R 2.0.1 on WinXP === help(bxp) === The argument outpch=" " needs to be replaced with outpch=NA in two places. I actually wrote this part of the documentation myself at one point, but have now realized that pch=NA and pch=" " are not the same:

In Windows XP, the matrix() function crashes the program when 'dimnames' is an empty list: matrix(1:4, nrow=2, dimnames=list()) # R has encountered a problem and needs to close ... This bug is specific to WinXP, as Linux64 handles this situation more gracefully: matrix(1:4, nrow=2, dimnames=list()) Error in matrix(1:4, nrow = 2, dimnames = list()) : invalid type

Hello. First post, though I have read scores. Mostly i can solve my problems reading the archives, but I lack the vocabulary to ask this one right. Any social faux pais, I apologize. I am sure this is a very basic question and I am embarrassed to ask, but I spent several hours scouring the archives and trying various suggestions, but I am too new to get any of them to work. I am trying to

This should be simple but I am struggling. I like to easily switch in xyplot between a linear or logarithmic y-axis by setting a logical flag logY to False or True. This switch changes the scales argument of xyplot. I found out that the original two-dimentional data (Conc vs Time in my case) are converted to log10(Conc) if log=TRUE in scales, but it appears that functions like panel.curve need to