[Rd] readRDS and saveRDS

Hervé Pagès hpages at fhcrc.org
Wed Oct 19 02:32:27 CEST 2011


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"))).

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
>>
>> --
>> Assistant Professor / Dobelman Family Junior Chair
>> Department of Statistics / Rice University
>> http://had.co.nz/
>>
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