[Rd] Bug in the "reformulate" function in stats package

J C Nash pro|jcn@@h @end|ng |rom gm@||@com
Fri Mar 29 16:54:47 CET 2019


The main thing is to post the "small reproducible example".

My (rather long term experience) can be written

  if (exists("reproducible example") ) {
     DeveloperFixHappens()
  } else {
     NULL
  }

JN

On 2019-03-29 11:38 a.m., Saren Tasciyan wrote:
> Well, first I can't sign in bugzilla myself, that is why I wrote here first. Also, I don't know if I have the time at
> the moment to provide tests, multiple examples or more. If that is not ok or welcomed, that is fine, I can come back,
> whenever I have more time to properly report the bug.
> 
> I didn't find the existing bug report, sorry for that.
> 
> Yes, it is related. My problem was that I have column names with spaces and current solution doesn't solve it. I have a
> solution, which works for me and maybe also for others.
> 
> Either, someone can register me to bugzilla or I can post it here, which could give some direction to developers. I
> don't mind whichever is preferred here.
> 
> Best,
> 
> Saren
> 
> 
> On 29.03.19 09:29, Martin Maechler wrote:
>>>>>>> Saren Tasciyan
>>>>>>>      on Thu, 28 Mar 2019 17:02:10 +0100 writes:
>>      > Hi,
>>      > I have found a bug in reformulate function and have a solution for it. I
>>      > was wondering, where I can submit it?
>>
>>      > Best,
>>      > Saren
>>
>>
>> Well, you could have given a small reproducible example
>> depicting the bug, notably when posting here:
>> Just a prose text with no R code or other technical content is
>> almost always not really appropriate fo the R-devel mailing list.
>>
>> Further, in such a case you should google a bit and hopefully
>> have found
>>         https://www.r-project.org/bugs.html
>>
>> which also mention reproducibility (and many more useful things).
>>
>> Then it also tells you about R's bug repository, also called
>> "R's bugzilla" at https://bugs.r-project.org/
>>
>> and if you are diligent (but here, I'd say bugzilla is
>> (configured?) far from ideal), you'd also find bug PR#17359
>>
>>     https://bugs.r-project.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=17359
>>
>> which was reported already on Nov 2017 .. and only fixed
>> yesterday (in the "cleanup old bugs" process that happens
>> often before the big new spring release of R).
>>
>> So is your bug the same as that one?
>>
>> Martin
>>
>>      > --
>>      > Saren Tasciyan
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