[Rd] typo in ?eapply

Hervé Pagès hpages at fhcrc.org
Wed Nov 10 19:42:53 CET 2010


On 11/10/2010 10:38 AM, Hervé Pagès wrote:
> On 11/10/2010 05:02 AM, Prof Brian Ripley wrote:
>> On Tue, 9 Nov 2010, Hervé Pagès wrote:
>>
>>> Hi,
>>>
>>> Found in ?eapply (in current R-devel):
>>>
>>> \value{
>>> A named (unless \code{USE.NAMES = FALSE}) list. Note that the order of
>>> the components is arbitrary for hashed environments: currently it will
>>> be in the order the name-value pairs were added for unhashed
>>> ^^^^^^^^
>>> hashed?
>>> environments.
>>> }
>>>
>>> This looks like a typo.
>>
>> Only to someone who does not understand hashing. Please try it for
>> yourself:
>>
>> e <- new.env(hash=TRUE)
>> assign("a", 1, e)
>> assign("ab", 2, e)
>> assign("abcde", 2, e)
>> assign("ac", 3, e)
>> assign("b", 4, e)
>> names(eapply(e, mean))
>>
>> (and I get
>> [1] "a" "b" "abcde" "ab" "ac"
>> )
>
> The statement is about unhashed environment:
>
>  > e <- new.env(hash=TRUE)
>  > assign("b", 1L, e)
>  > assign("a", 2L, e)
>  > eapply(e, identity)
> $a
> [1] 2
>
> $b
> [1] 1
>
> so it doesn't look like it's true either.

Sorry I try again:

 > e <- new.env(hash=FALSE)
 > assign("b", 1L, e)
 > assign("a", 2L, e)
 > eapply(e, identity)
$a
[1] 2

$b
[1] 1

pfffff!! Sorry for the noise... :-b

H.


>
> Thanks,
> H.
>
>
>>
>>>
>>> Thanks,
>>> H.
>>>
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>>> Hervé Pagès
>>>
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Hervé Pagès

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