Re: [Rd] A bug in the R Mersenne Twister (RNG) code?

2016-09-06 Thread Martin Maechler
> Dirk Eddelbuettel > on Wed, 31 Aug 2016 10:30:07 -0500 writes: > On 30 August 2016 at 18:29, Duncan Murdoch wrote: > I don't see evidence of a bug. There have been several > versions of the MT; we may be using a different version > than you are. Ours is the 1999

[Rd] The use of match.fun

2016-09-06 Thread Joris Meys
Dear gurus, I was utterly surprised to learn that one of my examples illustrating the need of match.fun() doesn't give me the expected result. center <- function(x,FUN) FUN(x) center(1:10, mean) mean <- 4 center(1:10, mean) Used to give me the error message "could not find function FUN". Now it

Re: [Rd] The use of match.fun

2016-09-06 Thread Adrian Dușa
I am not able to replicate this: > center <- function(x,FUN) FUN(x) > center(1:10, mean) [1] 5.5 > mean <- 4 > center(1:10, mean) Error in center(1:10, mean) : could not find function "FUN" Using a fresh install of version 3.3.1 under MacOS, and tested before with 3.3.0 with the same result. On

Re: [Rd] The use of match.fun

2016-09-06 Thread Joris Meys
Sorry, I am being a daft idiot again. Turns out that somehow I had an object FUN in my global environment, which explains why I didn't get the result I expected. So please ignore my question and burn my mail on a stake. Cheers Joris On Tue, Sep 6, 2016 at 3:35 PM, Adrian Dușa wrote: > I am not

[Rd] R (development) changes in arith, logic, relop with (0-extent) arrays

2016-09-06 Thread Martin Maechler
Yesterday, changes to R's development version were committed, relating to arithmetic, logic ('&' and '|') and comparison/relational ('<', '==') binary operators which in NEWS are described as SIGNIFICANT USER-VISIBLE CHANGES: [.] • Arithmetic, logic (‘&’, ‘|’) and