From macrakis at alum.mit.edu  Wed Jun 24 16:34:32 2009
From: macrakis at alum.mit.edu (Stavros Macrakis)
Date: Wed, 24 Jun 2009 10:34:32 -0400
Subject: [Rd] Documentation/software inconsistency in `:` and seq
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On Wed, Jun 24, 2009 at 5:28 AM, Martin Maechler
<maechler at stat.math.ethz.ch> wrote:
>
> ?? SM> But of course 2.5 is not an integer or equal to one.
>
> Interestingly, because of an earlier posting on the topic,
> two days ago (*), I have fixed the help page (and very slightly also
> the code) of ":"

Sorry for the redundant report -- I don't remember that post.

>
> ? ?SM> Currently, the default method returns a result of type '"integer"'
> ? ?SM> if 'from' is (numerically equal to an) integer
>
> ? ?SM> This is not correct:
>
> Yes, seq(from, to) ?{without further arguments} and "default"? 'from', indeed returns from:to
> and hence should probably either defer to the ":" help page or copy-paste from it.

Agreed.

>
> ?? SM> [[alternative HTML version deleted]]
> ? ? ? ?^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
>
> ?{I'm amazed that you still did not find out how to avoid the
> ? above, e.g., by following the posting guide ...}

I'm amazed you haven't upgraded from your ASR-33 with acoustic coupler :-)

        -s



[Rd] Documentation/software inconsistency in `:` and seq
Stavros Macrakis