Re: [Rd] interrupting R from a GUI

2009-01-16 Thread Felix Andrews
2009/1/16 Prof Brian Ripley : > On Fri, 16 Jan 2009, Felix Andrews wrote: > >> list(...), >> >> I am looking for a way to interrupt R from a callback: specifically, >> to interrupt plotting (typically on a cairoDevice, but would be good >> if it worked with other devices too). Of course, one can in

[Rd] 2009 Wish list for R

2009-01-16 Thread Gabor Grothendieck
2009 Wish list for R (no particular order): - some way of placing backslashes in literal strings without escaping them. Useful for latex, regular expressions and Windows file paths. This seems to come up from time to time on the lists. Ruby, python, Perl and other scripting languages have

Re: [Rd] x <- 1:2; dim(x) <- 2? A vector or not?

2009-01-16 Thread Tony Plate
Martin Maechler wrote: "PatB" == Patrick Burns on Tue, 13 Jan 2009 17:00:40 + writes: PatB> Henrik Bengtsson wrote: >> Hi. >> >> On Mon, Jan 12, 2009 at 11:58 PM, Prof Brian Ripley >> wrote: >> >>> What you have is a one-dimensional array: t

Re: [Rd] x <- 1:2; dim(x) <- 2? A vector or not?

2009-01-16 Thread Martin Maechler
> "PatB" == Patrick Burns > on Tue, 13 Jan 2009 17:00:40 + writes: PatB> Henrik Bengtsson wrote: >> Hi. >> >> On Mon, Jan 12, 2009 at 11:58 PM, Prof Brian Ripley >> wrote: >> >>> What you have is a one-dimensional array: they crop up >>> in R mos