Re: [R] Can't load doSMP from REvolutionR in regular R2.11.0

2010-04-29 Thread David M Smith
-mingw32 which is different from what revoIPC used.  I could just use REvolutionR, but all my R peripherals were set up to work  with the regular R2.11.0.  So, I really want to make this work.  Anyideas? -- David M Smith da...@revolution-computing.com VP of Marketing, REvolution Computing  http

Re: [R] Can't load doSMP from REvolutionR in regular R2.11.0

2010-04-29 Thread David M Smith
is that R2.11.0 was built using i386-pc-mingw32 which is different from what revoIPC used.  I could just use REvolutionR, but all my R peripherals were set up to work  with the regular R2.11.0.  So, I really want to make this work.  Anyideas? -- David M Smith VP of Marketing, REvolution Computing

Re: [R] dopar parallel assignments

2010-04-29 Thread David M Smith
__ R-help@r-project.org mailing list https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-help PLEASE do read the posting guide http://www.R-project.org/posting-guide.html and provide commented, minimal, self-contained, reproducible code. -- David M Smith da...@revolution-computing.com VP of Marketing

[R] Revolutions blog: March Roundup

2010-04-13 Thread David M Smith
and please keep sending suggestions to me at da...@revolution-computing.com . Don't forget you can also follow the blog using an RSS reader like Google Reader, or by following me on Twitter (I'm @revodavid). Kind regards to all, # David Smith -- David M Smith da...@revolution-computing.com VP

Re: [R] Using R in a corporate envinronment

2010-03-10 Thread David M Smith
, # David Smith -- David M Smith da...@revolution-computing.com VP of Marketing, REvolution Computing http://blog.revolution-computing.com Tel: +1 (650) 330-0553 x205 (Palo Alto, CA, USA) Download REvolution R free: www.revolution-computing.com/downloads/revolution-r.php On Wed, Mar 10, 2010 at 10:07

[R] REvolutions blog: February Roundup

2010-03-05 Thread David M Smith
regards to all, # David Smith -- David M Smith da...@revolution-computing.com VP of Marketing, REvolution Computing  http://blog.revolution-computing.com Tel: +1 (650) 330-0553 x205 (Palo Alto, CA, USA) Download REvolution R free: www.revolution-computing.com/downloads/revolution-r.php

[R] Revolutions blog: January Roundup

2010-02-01 Thread David M Smith
). -- David M Smith da...@revolution-computing.com VP of Marketing, REvolution Computing  http://blog.revolution-computing.com Tel: +1 (650) 330-0553 x205 (Palo Alto, CA, USA) Download REvolution R free: www.revolution-computing.com/downloads/revolution-r.php

[R] Revolutions blog: December roundup

2010-01-11 Thread David M Smith
As always, thanks for the comments and please keep sending suggestions to me at da...@revolution-computing.com . Don't forget you can also follow the blog using an RSS reader like Google Reader, or by following me on Twitter (I'm @revodavid). Cheers to all, # David Smith -- David M Smith da

[R] Revolutions blog: November roundup

2009-12-03 Thread David M Smith
/roundups/ As always, thanks for the comments and please keep sending suggestions to me at da...@revolution-computing.com . Don't forget you can also follow the blog using an RSS reader like Google Reader, or by following me on Twitter (I'm @revodavid). Cheers to all, # David Smith -- David M Smith da

Re: [R] Reading from Google Docs

2009-11-25 Thread David M Smith
of the other functionality of RGoogleDocs, this isn't going to help I'm afraid. # David -- David M Smith da...@revolution-computing.com VP of Community, REvolution Computing http://blog.revolution-computing.com Tel: +1 (206) 577-4778 x3203 (Palo Alto, CA, USA) Download REvolution R free

[R] Revolutions blog: October roundup

2009-11-03 Thread David M Smith
like Google Reader, or by following me on Twitter (I'm @revodavid). Cheers to all, # David Smith -- David M Smith da...@revolution-computing.com VP of Community, REvolution Computing  http://blog.revolution-computing.com Tel: +1 (206) 577-4778 x3203 (Palo Alto, CA, USA) Download REvolution R free

Re: [R] How to make R packages?

2009-10-23 Thread David M Smith
, with a tutorial that works in Linux. You can find it here; http://epub.ub.uni-muenchen.de/6175/ with some additional commentary here: http://blog.revolution-computing.com/2009/08/creating-r-packages-a-tutorial-draft.html # David Smith -- David M Smith da...@revolution-computing.com VP of Community

Re: [R] R on Linux, and R on Windows , any difference in maturity+stability?

2009-10-06 Thread David M Smith
) # 8GB vector sum(v) [1] 0 The same is true of 64-bit versions of R on other platforms, too. # David Smith -- David M Smith da...@revolution-computing.com Director of Community, REvolution Computing www.revolution-computing.com Tel: +1 (206) 577-4778 x3203 (San Francisco, USA) Check out our

Re: [R] R on Linux, and R on Windows , any difference in maturity+stability?

2009-10-06 Thread David M Smith
need to use 64-bit Windows and want to use R, the supported distribution REvolution R Enterprise has worked very well for many users. # David Smith -- David M Smith da...@revolution-computing.com Director of Community, REvolution Computing www.revolution-computing.com Tel: +1 (206) 577-4778 x3203

Re: [R] Ubuntu, Revolutions, R

2009-10-05 Thread David M Smith
else. I can see what they say on their website, but I'm interested in getting other opinions too. Thanks! -- David M Smith da...@revolution-computing.com Director of Community, REvolution Computing www.revolution-computing.com Tel: +1 (206) 577-4778 x3203 (San Francisco, USA) Check out our

Re: [R] multicore - no parallel

2009-10-04 Thread David M Smith
-computing.com. # David Smith -- David M Smith da...@revolution-computing.com Director of Community, REvolution Computing www.revolution-computing.com Tel: +1 (206) 577-4778 x3203 (San Francisco, USA) Check out our upcoming events schedule at www.revolution-computing.com/events

[R] Revolutions blog: September roundup

2009-10-01 Thread David M Smith
, or by following me on Twitter (I'm @revodavid). Cheers to all, # David Smith -- David M Smith da...@revolution-computing.com Director of Community, REvolution Computing www.revolution-computing.com Tel: +1 (206) 577-4778 x3203 (San Francisco, USA) Check out our upcoming events schedule

Re: [R] more strange behavior of Revolution R 1.3.0

2009-09-24 Thread David M Smith
and provide commented, minimal, self-contained, reproducible code. -- David M Smith da...@revolution-computing.com Director of Community, REvolution Computing www.revolution-computing.com Tel: +1 (206) 577-4778 x3203 (San Francisco, USA) Check out our upcoming events schedule at www.revolution

Re: [R] Which one shall I use? '=' or '-'?

2009-09-17 Thread David M Smith
://www.R-project.org/posting-guide.html and provide commented, minimal, self-contained, reproducible code. -- David M Smith da...@revolution-computing.com Director of Community, REvolution Computing www.revolution-computing.com Tel: +1 (206) 577-4778 x3203 (San Francisco, USA) Check out our

[R] Revolutions blog: August roundup

2009-09-02 Thread David M Smith
-- David M Smith da...@revolution-computing.com Director of Community, REvolution Computing www.revolution-computing.com Tel: +1 (206) 577-4778 x3203 (San Francisco, USA) Check out our upcoming events schedule at www.revolution-computing.com/events __ R

Re: [R] Grouping data in a data frame: is there an efficient way to do it?

2009-09-02 Thread David M Smith
. -- David M Smith da...@revolution-computing.com Director of Community, REvolution Computing www.revolution-computing.com Tel: +1 (206) 577-4778 x3203 (San Francisco, USA) Check out our upcoming events schedule at www.revolution-computing.com/events [[alternative HTML version deleted

Re: [R] Combining: R + Condor in 2009 ? (+foreach maybe?)

2009-09-01 Thread David M Smith
://www.talgalili.com http://www.biostatistics.co.il -- David M Smith da...@revolution-computing.com Director of Community, REvolution Computing www.revolution-computing.com Tel: +1 (206) 577-4778 x3203 (San Francisco, USA) Check out our upcoming events schedule at www.revolution-computing.com/events

Re: [R] Offtopic, HT vs. HH in coin flips

2009-08-31 Thread David M Smith
code. __ R-help@r-project.org mailing list https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-help PLEASE do read the posting guide http://www.R-project.org/posting-guide.html and provide commented, minimal, self-contained, reproducible code. -- David M

Re: [R] create separate plots by factors

2009-08-10 Thread David M Smith
Scientist, Climate Impacts Group University of Washington -- David M Smith da...@revolution-computing.com Director of Community, REvolution Computing www.revolution-computing.com Tel: +1 (206) 577-4778 x3203 (San Francisco, USA) Check out our upcoming events schedule at www.revolution

[R] Revolutions blog: July Roundup

2009-08-04 Thread David M Smith
to everyone who provided comments and tips and please keep them coming to da...@revolution-computing.com . (If you sent me a suggestion and haven't had a response yet, I'm *almost* through my email backlog - apologies for the delay.) Regards to all, # David Smith -- David M Smith da...@revolution

Re: [R] R User Group listings

2009-07-30 Thread David M Smith
it if there is sufficient interest. John Nash -- David M Smith da...@revolution-computing.com Director of Community, REvolution Computing www.revolution-computing.com Tel: +1 (206) 577-4778 x3203 (San Francisco, USA) Check out our upcoming events schedule at www.revolution-computing.com/events

Re: [R] I might be dumb : a simple question about foreach

2009-07-20 Thread David M Smith
. -- David M Smith da...@revolution-computing.com Director of Community, REvolution Computing www.revolution-computing.com Tel: +1 (206) 577-4778 x3203 (San Francisco, USA) Check out our upcoming events schedule at www.revolution-computing.com/events [[alternative HTML version deleted

Re: [R] Are there any bloggers amoung us going to useR 2009 ?

2009-07-01 Thread David M Smith
I'm going to both UseR! (in Rennes) and DSC (in Copenhagen), and will be blogging about the talks and other interesting things I learn here: http://blog.revolution-computing.com/ # David Smith -- David M Smith da...@revolution-computing.com Director of Community, REvolution Computing

[R] Revolutions blog: June roundup

2009-07-01 Thread David M Smith
Smith -- David M Smith da...@revolution-computing.com Director of Community, REvolution Computing www.revolution-computing.com Tel: +1 (206) 577-4778 x3203 (San Francisco, USA) Check out our upcoming events schedule at www.revolution-computing.com/events

[R] [R-pkgs] Parallel programming packages iterators, foreach and doMC released

2009-07-01 Thread David M Smith
: http://bit.ly/tygLz -- David M Smith da...@revolution-computing.com Director of Community, REvolution Computing www.revolution-computing.com Tel: +1 (206) 577-4778 x3203 (San Francisco, USA) Check out our upcoming events schedule at www.revolution-computing.com/events

Re: [R] parallel R?

2009-06-26 Thread David M Smith
example using foreach here: http://blog.revolution-computing.com/2009/05/parallelized-backtesting-with-foreach.html # David Smith -- David M Smith da...@revolution-computing.com Director of Community, REvolution Computing www.revolution-computing.com Tel: +1 (206) 577-4778 x3203 (San Francisco

Re: [R] Software lifecycle for R releases (aka practical limits of support for older versions)

2009-06-25 Thread David M Smith
Enterprise, for example. More info here: http://www.revolution-computing.com/products/revolution-enterprise.php # David Smith -- David M Smith da...@revolution-computing.com Director of Community, REvolution Computing www.revolution-computing.com Tel: +1 (206) 577-4778 x3203 (San Francisco, USA

Re: [R] What has happened to the R-Help Google Groups Archive? Alternative?

2009-06-22 Thread David M Smith
with this sort of info. Thank you kindly, Tony Breyal -- David M Smith da...@revolution-computing.com Director of Community, REvolution Computing www.revolution-computing.com Tel: +1 (206) 577-4778 x3203 (San Francisco, USA) Check out our upcoming events schedule at www.revolution-computing.com/events

[R] Last month on the Revolutions blog

2009-05-01 Thread David M Smith
related to R. http://blog.revolution-computing.com/calendar.html Comments and suggestions about the blog are welcome! (My email is da...@revolution-computing.com ). Regards to all, # David Smith -- David M Smith da...@revolution-computing.com Director of Community, REvolution Computing

Re: [R] My surprising experience in trying out REvolution's R

2009-04-24 Thread David M Smith
of course). Anyone has any insight on this? Anyway, my high hope was dashed. -- David M Smith da...@revolution-computing.com Director of Community, REvolution Computing www.revolution-computing.com Tel: +1 (206) 577-4778 x3203 (San Francisco, USA) Check out our upcoming events schedule

Re: [R] Floating simulation error

2009-04-23 Thread David M Smith
guide http://www.R-project.org/posting-guide.html and provide commented, minimal, self-contained, reproducible code. -- David M Smith da...@revolution-computing.com Director of Community, REvolution Computing www.revolution-computing.com Tel: +1 (206) 577-4778 x3203 (San Francisco, USA

Re: [R] My surprising experience in trying out REvolution's R

2009-04-23 Thread David M Smith
with slightly less speed. The above has been replicated a few times (as a statistician of course). Anyone has any insight on this? Anyway, my high hope was dashed. -- David M Smith da...@revolution-computing.com Director of Community, REvolution Computing www.revolution-computing.com Tel: +1

Re: [R] My surprising experience in trying out REvolution's R

2009-04-21 Thread David M Smith
,... e.g. in relatively small problems, Revolution's overhead may consume more time and resources than the problem warrants. In others, you may see many fold improvements. Very dangerous to generalize from an example or two (as I recently experienced to my own chagrin). -- David M Smith da

Re: [R] what is R best for; what should one learn in addition to R

2009-04-20 Thread David M Smith
. # David Smith -- David M Smith da...@revolution-computing.com Director of Community, REvolution Computing www.revolution-computing.com Tel: +1 (206) 577-4778 x3203 (San Francisco, USA) Check out our upcoming events schedule at www.revolution-computing.com/events

[R] Last month on the Revolutions blog

2009-03-31 Thread David M Smith
are welcome! (My email is da...@revolution-computing.com ). Regards to all, # David Smith -- David M Smith da...@revolution-computing.com Director of Community, REvolution Computing www.revolution-computing.com Tel: +1 (206) 577-4778 x3203 (San Francisco, USA) Check out our upcoming events schedule

Re: [R] how to save a plot in a given size in inches or centimeters

2009-03-23 Thread David M Smith
/2009/01/10-tips-for-making-your-r-graphics-look-their-best.html for some examples. I'm guessing you want to print your graphic in which case jpeg() probably isn't the best choice (it rarely is for statistical graphics). See that same post for some other suggestions. # David Smith -- David M Smith

Re: [R] R with MKL

2009-03-18 Thread David M Smith
REvolution R (our distribution of R, currently based on R 2.7.2). You can download binary distribitions for Windows (32-bit) or MacOS here: http://www.revolution-computing.com/downloads/revolution-r.php # David Smith -- David M Smith da...@revolution-computing.com Director of Community, REvolution

Re: [R] numeric equality

2009-03-18 Thread David M Smith
shouldn't rely on the equality operator when dealing with floating point values in any numerical software, including R. I write about this in detail at: http://blog.revolution-computing.com/2009/03/when-is-a-zero-not-a-zero.html which will hopefully clear up your questions. # David Smith -- David M

Re: [R] Is there any difference between - and =

2009-03-12 Thread David M Smith
the need to perform assignments in function calls before, but I'll avoid them now knowing about potential for mischief from lazy evaluation. Thanks. http://blog.revolution-computing.com/2008/12/use-equals-or-arrow-for-assignment.html # David Smith -- David M Smith da...@revolution-computing.com

Re: [R] Is there any difference between - and =

2009-03-11 Thread David M Smith
-for-assignment.html # David Smith -- David M Smith da...@revolution-computing.com Director of Community, REvolution Computing www.revolution-computing.com Tel: +1 (206) 577-4778 x3203 (Seattle, USA) __ R-help@r-project.org mailing list https

[R] Two new R courses in April (US)

2009-03-11 Thread David M Smith
-- David M Smith da...@revolution-computing.com Director of Community, REvolution Computing www.revolution-computing.com Tel: +1 (206) 577-4778 x3203 (Seattle, USA) __ R-help@r-project.org mailing list https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-help PLEASE do read

Re: [R] simple graphing question

2009-02-23 Thread David M Smith
data the standard dotchart function should do what you need. See the code for the chart in the graph gallery (or here: http://tinyurl.com/dby3jd ). # David Smith -- David M Smith da...@revolution-computing.com Director of Community, REvolution Computing www.revolution-computing.com Tel: +1 (206

Re: [R] does R plus 3.3 need vista ?

2009-02-06 Thread David M Smith
/revolution-r.php It's supported on the following Windows platforms (from http://www.revolution-computing.com/forum/faq.php?faq=revr ): Windows Vista Home Premium Windows Vista Home Premium, Service Pack 1 Windows XP Professional, Service Pack 2 # David Smith -- David M Smith da...@revolution

Re: [R] See source code for survplot function in Design package

2009-02-05 Thread David M Smith
PLEASE do read the posting guide http://www.R-project.org/posting-guide.html and provide commented, minimal, self-contained, reproducible code. -- David M Smith da...@revolution-computing.com Director of Community, REvolution Computing www.revolution-computing.com Tel: +1 (206) 577-4778 x3203

Re: [R] How do I get my IT department to bless R?

2009-01-29 Thread David M Smith
successes (Linux, Apache, MySQL, ...) have come when there's a commercial company to back up the open source community. # David Smith -- David M Smith da...@revolution-computing.com Director of Community, REvolution Computing www.revolution-computing.com Tel: +1 (206) 577-4778 x3203 (Seattle, USA

Re: [R] commercially supported version of R for 64 -bit Windows?

2009-01-26 Thread David M Smith
program is launched it will be announced at http://blog.revolution-computing.com , but if anyone is interested in getting involved sooner please let me know. # David Smith -- David M Smith da...@revolution-computing.com Director of Community, REvolution Computing www.revolution-computing.com Tel: +1

Re: [R] R, clinical trials and the FDA

2009-01-15 Thread David M Smith
-with-r.html # David Smith -- David M Smith da...@revolution-computing.com Director of Community, REvolution Computing www.revolution-computing.com Tel: +1 (206) 577-4778 x3203 (Seattle, USA) __ R-help@r-project.org mailing list https://stat.ethz.ch

Re: [R] ATT Researchers and the New York Times

2009-01-09 Thread David M Smith
has published a followup on the NYT's website clarifying and expanding a number of details here: http://bits.blogs.nytimes.com/2009/01/08/r-you-ready-for-r/ You can also provide comments on his article there too, if you like. # David Smith -- David M Smith da...@revolution-computing.com Director

Re: [R] Regarding Books on R

2009-01-08 Thread David M Smith
in search -- David M Smith da...@revolution-computing.com Director of Community, REvolution Computing www.revolution-computing.com Tel: +1 (206) 577-4778 x3203 (Seattle, USA) __ R-help@r-project.org mailing list https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r

Re: [R] R in the NY Times

2009-01-07 Thread David M Smith
available online please let me know, and I'll do a round-up post in that section to make sure they're captured. By the way, we're writing about R and issues related to R daily at: http://blog.revolution-computing.com # David Smith -- David M Smith da...@revolution-computing.com Director

[R] Chance Magazine statistical graphics contest

2008-12-31 Thread David M Smith
-- David M Smith da...@revolution-computing.com Director of Community, REvolution Computing www.revolution-computing.com Tel: +1 (206) 577-4778 x3203 (Seattle, USA) __ R-help@r-project.org mailing list https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-help PLEASE

Re: [R] Compiling R for 64-bit Windows (was Re: increasing memory limit in Windows Server 2008 64-bit)

2008-12-02 Thread David M Smith
that there are idiosyncrasies amongst the different compilers and configurations on the Windows 64-bit platform; we're using the Intel compiler and your mileage may well vary with others. # David Smith -- David M Smith [EMAIL PROTECTED] Director of Community, REvolution Computing www.revolution-computing.com Tel: +1

Re: [R] Recommended R books by XLSolutions Corporation

2008-10-28 Thread David M Smith
individuals in a population have the same name (given that the common name was David Smith was only established after the fact), which makes it a complex form of the Birthday Problem. Hmmm. Any geneaologists want to chime in? # David M Smith -- David Smith [EMAIL PROTECTED] Director