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getAnywhere and functions starting with "." (PR#7684)

3 messages · Mark Bravington, Brian Ripley, Peter Dalgaard

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Mark Bravington
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R-devels NEWS file, section BUG FIXES:

Good, thanks.

It seems quite common for bugs to be reported after they have been fixed
in R-devel. This is likely to occur when-- as in the 'getAnywhere'
case-- there's no record of the bug in Bug Tracking (I do check before
submitting).

Checking R-devel news can be cumbersome-- I couldn't reach the ftp site
yesterday, for example, and it's not always feasible to download 12MB--
and many users won't be set up to handle it.

To avoid wasting R-core's time over repeat posts, is there some mileage
in R-core adding "fixed in Rdevel" bug reports into the Bug Tracking
system, even if there is no prior bug report?

Mark


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Brian Ripley
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Were you unaware that the NEWS file is browsable at

 	https://svn.r-project.org/R/trunk/NEWS

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On Sat, 12 Feb 2005 Mark.Bravington@csiro.au wrote:

            

      
      
      
    

        
It is common for bugs to be reported after they have been discussed on 
the R-devel list and fixed, as here.

            

      
      
      
    

        
To avoid wasting R-core's time, do consult the latest version or at least 
its NEWS file.

  
    

      
      
    

  


  


      

    

    

      
      

        


  

        

      Peter Dalgaard
    

    

      
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Prof Brian Ripley <ripley@stats.ox.ac.uk> writes:

            

      
      
      
    

        
(At least if the SVN server has not tied itself in a knot again...)

Also note that the Subversion log at developer.r-project.org has all
commits, with somewhat informative comments, e.g.

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r33006 | pd | 2005-02-03 18:23:41 -0500 (Thu, 03 Feb 2005) | 1 line
Changed paths:
   M /trunk/NEWS
   M /trunk/src/library/utils/R/objects.R

getAnywhere got confused
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