[Bioc-devel] Noticed some XDouble* functionality missing in IRanges

[Steve Lianoglou]

On Thu, Jun 9, 2011 at 1:16 PM, Michael Lawrence
<lawrence.michael at gene.com> wrote:
>
>
> On Thu, Jun 9, 2011 at 10:00 AM, Steve Lianoglou
> <mailinglist.honeypot at gmail.com> wrote:
>>
>> Greetings,
>>
>> I tried to slice a "normal" numeric/double vector and was a bit
>> surprised to get an error.
>>
>> I see some support for doing this baked in, eg. the
>> src/XDoubleViews_utils.c :: XDouble_slice function, but it's not
>> exposed to the useR yet.
>>
>> Would anybody mind if I start building up support for XDouble's to be
>> more inline with the support available in XIntegers? I'm just planning
>> to add XDoubleView-class.R and XDoubleViews-utils.R files that
>> essentially mimic their XIntegerView sister files.
>>
>> Out of curiosity, was there a reason this wasn't done other than no
>> one had to scratch this itch yet?
>
> That's pretty much it. Just waiting for someone with the energy and a
> use-case.

Well, I've got at least one of those, so ... will do.

-steve

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