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This may be an FAQ, but a (perfunctory) search failed to turn it up. Suppose I have a function foo(...){<something>} and I want to obtain, inside foo, the names of items comprising the ``...''. E.g. if I call foo(melvin,clyde,irving) I want to be able to loop through the ``...'' and successively obtain the text strings "melvin", "clyde", and

On 5/11/19 3:41 AM, Hadley Wickham wrote: > For what it's worth, I don't think this strategy can work in general, > because a class might have attributes that depend on its data/contents > (e.g. https://vctrs.r-lib.org/articles/s3-vector.html#cached-sum). I > don't think these are particularly common in practice, but it's > dangerous to assume that you can restore a

On 04/11/2019 4:40 p.m., Pages, Herve wrote: > Hi Rolf, > > On 11/4/19 12:28, Rolf Turner wrote: >> >> On 5/11/19 3:41 AM, Hadley Wickham wrote: >> >>> For what it's worth, I don't think this strategy can work in general, >>> because a class might have attributes that depend on its data/contents >>> (e.g. >>>

If one specifies new options in a package, using the options() function, where does/should one document these new options? E.g. suppose that I put the line options(melvin=42) in a file zzz.R in the R directory of the package source, where the package contains functions foo(), bar(), clyde(), and irving() which all query options("melvin") and take some action based on the value of

I'm having that problem where I am sometimes using an object that's from a previous workspace when I don't want to be doing that. I was thinking of putting rm(objects=ls()) in my first.R function But, the problem with doing this, is that it doesn't prompt you with "are you sure" and there could be very rare cases where I don't want to delete the workspace ? Is there a

Dear R list members I am trying to improve a boxplot with 2 data sets. I run somethinkg like boxplot(data1 ~ month, add=F, col = "red", ...) boxplot(data2 ~ month, add=T, col = "blue", ...) The problem is that the data from February are missing for data2, so R think that must take little more space between the data classes in data 2 and then both data gropus are not aligned.

R CMD check tells me * checking R code for possible problems ... NOTE agexact.fit.rds: ... may be used in an incorrect context: ?optim(init, agfitfn, ...)? Warning: <anonymous>: ... may be used in an incorrect context: ?optim(init, agfitfn, ...)? Can anyone tell me what this message means? My searches haven't turned up anything useful. This is with R 2.7 and 2.9. The message

Greetings to all -- I am having a silly problem that I just can't solve. Someone has given me an .RData file will hundreds of data frames. Each data frame has a column named ResultValue, currently character when it should be numeric. I want to loop through all of the data frames to change the variable to numeric, but I cannot figure out how to do it. My best guess was along the lines of:

Hello List, i have been agonizing over this for days, any reply would be greatly appreciated! Situation:___________________________________ My original dataset is a .csv dataset (w/ 2M records) with 4 variables: job_id (Primary key, won't be used for analysis, just used for join tables), sector_id (categorical variable, for 19 industry sectors), sqft (con't variable for square

Dear forum, I would like to use the kernel2d or spkernel2d in the Splancs-package, but it does not recognize my polygon data. "Error in kernel2d(as.points(ptsbin), polygonprov, h0 = 2, nx = 100, : " is the error message. Invalid poly argument The data are defined as follows: polgonprov<-list(x=polyprov$X, y=polyprov$Y) with X and Y coordinates in the Lambert1972

Just now I again had occasion to want nested describe lists in a documentation file. I found that the bug which I reported on 18 October, 2001 still persists. I checked on the bug report at the R web page, and found that the notes say ``Not a problem in R 1.4.0 (2001-12-08)''. Well, it's still a problem for me --- using R 1.4.1. (Details: platform sparc-sun-solaris2.7 arch

I am trying to build a function in a context where the environment concept would appear to be useful. But I'm a bit foggy about this concept and would appreciate some pointers and advice. Basically the function I'm building, say foo(x,t), is a function of two variables). Depending on the value of t, foo will return one of the values f1(x), f2(x), ..., fk(x), where each of f1, ..., fk is

I had an error message while running a macro from Yudi Pawitan's web site: > source("ex2-13.r") Error in parse(file, n, text, prompt) : syntax error on line 2 Inspecting ex2-13.r I found that the error was generated by another source() command. Clearly R does not like nested source()s, which is fair enough when you think about it. Still it's something that you might want

Hi, I have a problem with a package I have developed in that functions do not get loaded due to older versions of the functions being in the .GlobalEnv? fetched from .Rdata files stored from previous saved workspaces. I need to be able to fix this somehow when I load the package. I do not want to mess up the search order to fix the problem. How I got myself into this mess is that I started

I recently tried to write a new method for "[", to be applied to data frames, so that the object returned would retain (all) attributes of the columns, including attributes that my code had created. I thrashed around for quite a while, and then got some help from Rui Barradas who showed me how to do it, in the following manner: `[.myclass` <- function(x, i, j, drop = if

Hi, I'm a biologist, so please forgive me if my question sounds absurd! I have 3 parameters x1, x2, x3 and a response variable y.The sample size is 75. I tried to do the following: mylm<-lm(y~ x1 + x2 + x3, data="mydata") but i can only get stats from anova for the first 2 variables. The third comes up as NA. The degrees of freedom for the third variable are 0. Is there

I'm experiencing a new and annoying phenomenon which seems to consist of an unfortunate interaction between R-1.7.0 and netscape version 7. When I invoke help.start(), a netscape window duly appears with the browser pointed at the file .../R/doc/html/index.html as one would hope and expect. However if I then ask for help on a function, e.g. > help(glm) the help does NOT get displayed

I'm getting an anomalous result from using the itemize command in a documentation file. My usage is something like \itemize{ \item Melvin \item Irving \item Clyde \item Fred } (This was place inside ``\details{ }''.) (Previously I had enclosed the text following each item in braces but that gave even worse results.) The package appears to install OK; i.e. the command R

For reasons that are best known to myself [ ;-) ] I have a value of .Random.seed saved (via dput()) in a file ``.Random.seed.save''. In my .Rprofile I have the lines: .Random.seed <- dget(".Random.seed.save") Junk <- dget(".Random.seed.save") print(all.equal(.Random.seed,dget(".Random.seed.save")))

I recently upgraded both of my samba servers (mirrors of each other) to 3.0.4, my log files now fill with the following messages (hundred lines per day): Jun 24 13:55:33 Clyde smbd[8597]: [2004/06/24 13:55:33, 0] lib/util_str.c:safe_strcpy_fn(602) Jun 24 13:55:33 Clyde smbd[8597]: ERROR: string overflow by 1 (9 - 8) in safe_strcpy [LIBRA~V$.DOC] Jun 24 14:20:34 Clyde smbd[8597]: [2004/06/24