Re: [Rd] download.file does not process gz files correctly (truncates them?)

2018-05-06 Thread Henrik Bengtsson
Thanks for the comments, feedback, and improvements. I still argue that the current behavior cause more harm than it helps. First of all, it increases the risk for code that does not work on all platforms, which I'd say is one of the strengths and design goals of R. To write cross-platform code,

[Rd] Sys.timezone (timedatectl) unnecessarily warns loudly

2018-05-06 Thread Jan Gorecki
Dear R-devels, timedatectl binary used by Sys.timezone does not always work reliably. If it doesn't the warning is raised, unnecessarily because later on Sys.timezone gets timezone successfully from /etc/timezone. This obviously might not be true for different linux OSes, but it solves the issue f

Re: [Rd] length of `...`

2018-05-06 Thread Suharto Anggono Suharto Anggono via R-devel
Does anyone notice r-devel thread "stopifnot() does not stop at first non-TRUE argument" starting with https://stat.ethz.ch/pipermail/r-devel/2017-May/074179.html ? I have mentioned (function(...)nargs())(...) in https://stat.ethz.ch/pipermail/r-devel/2017-May/074294.html . Something like ..elt