From p.dalgaard@kubism.ku.dk  Tue Aug  5 10:55:58 1997
From: p.dalgaard@kubism.ku.dk (Peter Dalgaard BSA)
Date: 05 Aug 1997 11:55:58 +0200
Subject: R-alpha: Version 0.50-a1 patches
In-Reply-To: Ross Ihaka's message of Tue, 5 Aug 1997 17:00:03 +1200 (NZST)
References: <199708050500.RAA08160@stat1.stat.auckland.ac.nz>
Message-ID: <x2sowp3qdt.fsf@bush.kubism.ku.dk>

Ross Ihaka <ihaka@stat.auckland.ac.nz> writes:

> 
> A set of patches for R-0.50-a1 is now available as
> 	ftp://stat.auckland.ac.nz/pub/R/R-0.50-a1.patch1.gz
> The patches mainly fix problems reported since R-0.50-a1 but some
> older problems are also fixed.
..
>  o  It was observed that
> 	> D(expression(z * (log(z) /z)), "z")
>     returns
> 	(log(z)/z) + z * (1/z/z - log(z)/z^2)
>     This is exactly what S-Pus produces.

Heyheyheyheeeyyy, no need to resort to name calling, next thing,
you'll be talking about Windoze, HP-SUX, and Slowlaris! ;)

>  o  New functions "as.ordered", "data.class" and "scale" from, Kurt
>     Hornik added.
[The end]

Hmm. The "move .RData before writing to it" fix didn't seem to make
it. It's a one-liner (in the most primitive version), and really quite
important. Actually, the problem is worse than I thought initially:
.RData can get zapped to a zero-length file whenever you destroy the
xterm window containing R, not only on system shutdown. This happens
on both of my Linux boxes, but it's probably a quite generic race
condition.

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R-alpha: Version 0.50-a1 patches
Peter Dalgaard BSA