From simon.urbanek at r-project.org  Wed Oct 19 15:20:55 2011
From: simon.urbanek at r-project.org (Simon Urbanek)
Date: Wed, 19 Oct 2011 09:20:55 -0400
Subject: [Rd] readRDS and saveRDS
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On Oct 18, 2011, at 8:32 PM, Herv? Pag?s wrote:

> On 11-10-18 04:00 PM, Kevin Wright wrote:
>> Hadley,
>> 
>> Any chance of changing fun.aggregate to FUN and value_var to value.var?
>> 
>> aggregate(.., FUN, ...)
>> acast(..., fun.aggregate, ...)
>> 
>> cast(..., value.var)
>> acast(..., value_var)
>> 
>> Side note: My fantasy for R 3.0 would be to fix the obvious inconsistencies
>> in function names/arguments, use Roxygen format for the documentation,
>> change the egregious [ , , drop=TRUE] to FALSE and paste(..., sep=""),
>> install packages on the fly, and improve consistency for functions dealing
>> with colors (hex, 0-1, 0-255, etc).
> 
> Sounds like a dream ;-) Please add to that list dropping the
> stringsAsFactors "feature" and fixing
> c(factor(c("a", "b")), factor(c("c", "a"))).
> 

Can you, please, post any such ideas for making S/R consistent, especially if it breaks backward compatibility, to the Aleph mailing list? Comments from non-R users that find R inconsistent are also welcome if they substantiate their claims.
http://lists.rforge.net/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/aleph-devel
(If you have a better idea where to collect it in a single place, I'm all ear).
I'd like to collect as many such ideas as possible so we don't forget something in unlikely case Aleph gets off the ground. :)

Thanks,
Simon



> Thanks!
> H.
> 
>> 
>> Kevin
>> 
>> 
>> On Tue, Oct 18, 2011 at 8:37 AM, Hadley Wickham<hadley at rice.edu>  wrote:
>> 
>>> Hi all,
>>> 
>>> Is there any chance that readRDS and saveRDS might one day become
>>> read.rds and write.rds?  That would make them more consistent with the
>>> other reading and writing functions.
>>> 
>>> Hadley
>>> 
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>>> Department of Statistics / Rice University
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[Rd] readRDS and saveRDS
Simon Urbanek