Re: [Rd] listof

2014-08-03 Thread Michael Friendly
An interesting topic, but I'll only respond with my own experience, and that is, while 'listof' could be usefully extended there was not enough meat on the bones to want to do so. I think this is a limitation of the S3 class/method structure, as I see it. In several packages (effects, heplots, ca

Re: [Rd] Parsing and deparsing of escaped unicode characters

2014-08-03 Thread Yihui Xie
The behavior depends on the specific locale. When these characters are deparsed in a Chinese locale, they work fine, but in an English locale, they will get escaped: > x <- "I like \u5BFF\u53F8" > x [1] "I like 寿司" > deparse(x) [1] "\"I like 寿司\"" > sessionInfo() R version 3.1.1 (2014-07-10) Platf