seek helppage. Possible clarification?
It's usual to put values in the Value: section, and indeed it is described there. I am not sure why I would expect it in Details: too. Looks like `positive' is out-of-date, though.
On 27 Nov 2001, A.J. Rossini wrote:
seek(zz,where=NewPosition) returns the OldPosition of connection zz (of the appropriate "pointer", i.e. read or write). Currently, the docs have:
Details:
`seek' with `where = NA' returns the current byte offset of a
connection (from the beginning), and with a positive `where'
argument the connection is re-positioned (if possible) to the
specified position.
One possible change would be to:
Details:
`seek' with `where = NA' returns the current byte offset of a
connection (from the beginning), and with a positive `where'
argument the connection is re-positioned (if possible) to the
specified position, returning the previous position.
(since seek() seems to return "current/previous position", at least for the variants I seem to use). best, -tony -- A.J. Rossini Rsrch. Asst. Prof. of Biostatistics U. of Washington Biostatistics rossini@u.washington.edu FHCRC/SCHARP/HIV Vaccine Trials Net rossini@scharp.org -------------- http://software.biostat.washington.edu/ -------------- FHCRC: M-W: 206-667-7025 (fax=4812)|Voicemail is pretty sketchy/use Email UW: T-Th: 206-543-1044 (fax=3286)|Change last 4 digits of phone to FAX Rosen: (Mullins' Lab) Fridays, and I'm unreachable except by email. -.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.- r-devel mailing list -- Read http://www.ci.tuwien.ac.at/~hornik/R/R-FAQ.html Send "info", "help", or "[un]subscribe" (in the "body", not the subject !) To: r-devel-request@stat.math.ethz.ch _._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._
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