Martin Mächler

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- Can you give an example and reference for _"The Ubuntu Linux distribution uses the IEC prefixes since 2010"_ ? Personally, I find the 'KiB' notation quite ugly. I see...

Well, that version uses `list(...)` as pre R-3.5.0 did too ... not delivering what its documentation promised: Expressions are evaluated "one by one" and the evaluation stops with an error...

That was really very useful. whos() is now a "must know" for me. Interesting that my julia version of April 26, was "way too old" and e.g. couldn't get data(.,.)...

Henrik, in my Matrix package, I have an extensive TODO file (in emacs org format) and have had questions like this one on my todo list for too long, notably...

I agree. Getting this to CRAN had been one of my initial motivations for getting involved here. It may need some work (configuration / checking of Julia's availability/...) that you...

Updating R and Bioconductor ... probably meant *newly* installing many of the 100++ packages you are using *and* that solved the issue. I'm close to 100% sure this will solve...

In all my talks on the issue, I had emphasized that humans can *much better* format code than algorithms. (and sometimes I add .. at most half jokingly): If you...

Honestly, I'm baffled about the effect of that relatively small S4 / methods package change (I have authored). I'm busy almost all day (again), but am happy to help, as...

@lsilvest : thank you in advance; @jaganmn may be interested as in R Bugzilla's [PR#18823](https://bugs.r-project.org/show_bug.cgi?id=18823) which lead to the methods package fix .. that seems to have "broken" `nanotime` (or...

Yes, @jaganmn's proposed change makes a lot of sense, just from code reading and does solve the problem. So, `nanotime` is "good" again after my commit svn r88055 (the CRAN...