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bug[let] in format.default(.) [Splus 3.2]
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Martin Maechler)
Thu Feb 2 04:37:59 1995
From: Martin Maechler <maechler@stat.math.ethz.ch>
Date: Thu, 2 Feb 1995 10:20:48 +0100
To: s-news@utstat.toronto.edu
Cc: support@statsci.com
Reply-To: Martin Maechler <maechler@stat.math.ethz.ch>
You may have noticed the humongous amount of possibilities available
with the new format(.) function in S-plus 3.2.
The new flexibility is great,
[maybe even as big es becoming confusing to the average user...]
The following shows problem(s) of format.default(.)
which should more carefully check things
(incompatibilities of arguments):
### (The following is 'sourceable' into S) :
find(format)
## [1] "/usr/local/splus3.2/splus/.Functions"
format(x, dig=3, nsmall=2)
## [1] " 0.00 " " 0.03 " " 0.31 " " 3.14 " " 31.40 " " 314.00 "
## [7] "3140.00 " " 3.14e4" " 3.14e5"
##--- Here comes THE BUG: ----
format(x, dig=3, nsmall=3)
# Error in rep.int: No missing values allowed in "times": rep.int(1:xlen, times)
# Dumped
## Yes, it may well be true that 'nsmall=3' does not make sense with 'dig=3',
## IN THIS CASE, but the following is ok :
format(x[1:7], dig=3, nsmall=3)
##[1] " 0.003" " 0.031" " 0.314" " 3.140" " 31.400" " 314.000" "3140.000"
