Re: [Rd] Patch idea: an environment variable for setting the user ID

2019-01-25 Thread Will L
Thanks, Kurt. I think I now have enough time to write a patch. What are the steps? I have read https://www.r-project.org/bugs.html#how-to-submit-patches but I do not seem to have permission to create a Bugzilla account at https://bugs.r-project.org/bugzilla/. Will On Mon, Nov 12, 2018 at 2:46 A

[Rd] Inconsistent documentation of the return value of .getXlevels()

2019-01-25 Thread Davis Vaughan
Hi all, I would like to report an inconsistency in the documentation regarding .getXlevels(). The return value states that: ".getXlevels returns a named character vector, or NULL." This is not consistent with what is actually returned, as seen further below in this message. I would suggest statin

[Rd] Bug or undocumented behavior in normalizePath() with file system links on windows

2019-01-25 Thread David Korfkamp
Hello, I discovered a bug or undocumented behavior in normalizePath steps to reproduce: execute normalizePath on a folder link on windows. When you are on a non-english windows box, you likely have links in place for windows' default folders, e.g. "C:\Programme" linking to "C:\Program Files" o