Re: [Rd] internal string comparison (Scollate)

2014-03-27 Thread Duncan Murdoch
On 14-03-27 3:01 PM, Kevin Ushey wrote: I too think it would be useful if R exported some version of its string sorting routines, since sorting strings while respecting locale, and doing so in a portable fashion while respecting the user's environment, is not trivial. R holds a fast, portable, we

Re: [Rd] internal string comparison (Scollate)

2014-03-27 Thread Kevin Ushey
I too think it would be useful if R exported some version of its string sorting routines, since sorting strings while respecting locale, and doing so in a portable fashion while respecting the user's environment, is not trivial. R holds a fast, portable, well-tested solution, and I think package de

Re: [Rd] internal string comparison (Scollate)

2014-03-27 Thread Dirk Eddelbuettel
On 26 March 2014 at 19:09, Romain François wrote: | That’s one part of the problem. Indeed I’d rather use something rather than | copy and paste it and run the risk of being outdated. The answer to that is We all would. But "they" won't let us by refusing to create more API access points. | tes

Re: [Rd] [Bioc-devel] Conflicting definitions for function redefined as S4 generics

2014-03-27 Thread Hervé Pagès
On 03/27/2014 02:13 AM, Ulrich Bodenhofer wrote: I fully agree, Michael, that this would be a great thing to have! I have often wondered why R and the standard packages are still sticking so much to the old-style S3 flavor though S4 is part of standard R. I acknowledge that backward compatibili

Re: [Rd] Conflicting definitions for function redefined as S4 generics

2014-03-27 Thread John Chambers
I'm sympathetic to the problem. But, whatever my opinion, it's not likely that the basic R paradigm with respect to S3/S4 methods will change much, and certainly not for a year. Meanwhile, let's remember the essential idea. Every function has a corresponding implicit generic form (well, parti

Re: [Rd] Proxy settings not honoured anymore

2014-03-27 Thread Renaud Gaujoux
All right, just ignore this silly post, things magically came back into place... :| On 27 March 2014 17:28, Renaud Gaujoux wrote: > Hi, > > it seems that my proxy settings are not picked up by the R console any > longer, although the environment variable http_proxy is set and > exported. > Is any

[Rd] Proxy settings not honoured anymore

2014-03-27 Thread Renaud Gaujoux
Hi, it seems that my proxy settings are not picked up by the R console any longer, although the environment variable http_proxy is set and exported. Is anybody experiencing this issue as well? Thank you. Bests, Renaud # System info (from R --vanilla) > sessionInfo() R version 3.0.3 (2014-03-06)

Re: [Rd] Conflicting definitions for function redefined as S4 generics

2014-03-27 Thread Ulrich Bodenhofer
I fully agree, Michael, that this would be a great thing to have! I have often wondered why R and the standard packages are still sticking so much to the old-style S3 flavor though S4 is part of standard R. I acknowledge that backward compatibility is important, but, as far as I got it, redefin