[Rd] Patch proposal for match.fun()

2006-05-27 Thread Berwin A Turlach
G'day all, some time ago I sent an email regarding the following behaviour of match.fun(): > x <- matrix(rnorm(200), ncol=2) > var <- "fred" > apply(x, 2, var) Error in get(x, envir, mode, inherits) : variable "fred" of mode "function" was not found and asked whether it would be desirable to ch

[Rd] Correction to ?alist (PR#8904)

2006-05-27 Thread pinard
Hi, people. ?alist says: 'alist' is like 'list', except in the handling of tagged arguments with no value. As written, this description is misleading. For example: > list(e=3+5) $e [1] 8 > alist(e=3+5) $e 3 + 5 We are not in the situation of tagged arguments

[Rd] Recommended package nlme: bug in predict.lme when an independent variable is a polynomial (PR#8905)

2006-05-27 Thread renaud . lancelot
Full_Name: Renaud Lancelot Version: Version 2.3.0 (2006-04-24) OS: MS Windows XP Pro SP2 Submission from: (NULL) (82.239.219.108) I think there is a bug in predict.lme, when a polynomial generated by poly() is used as an explanatory variable, and a new data.frame is used for predictions. I guess

Re: [Rd] typo in ?dimnames

2006-05-27 Thread Martin Maechler
> "Tobias" == Tobias Verbeke <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > on Fri, 26 May 2006 16:42:24 +0200 writes: Tobias> Dear list, Tobias> In ?dimnames, section `Value' I read: Tobias> For the '"data.frame"' method both dimnames must be non-null, and Tobias> the rownames must be contai