Re: [R] Lisp-like primitives in R

2007-09-08 Thread François Pinard
[Peter Dalgaard] [François Pinard] I meant that R might have implemented a Scheme engine [...] with a surface language [...] which is purposely not Scheme, but could have been. [...] one could dare dreaming that the Scheme engine in R be completed, and Scheme offered as an alternate extension

Re: [R] Lisp-like primitives in R

2007-09-07 Thread François Pinard
[Duncan Murdoch] You could also look at Ross Ihaka's paper that is online here: http://cran.r-project.org/doc/html/interface98-paper/paper.html Interesting read. Thanks for this reference! -- François Pinard http://pinard.progiciels-bpi.ca __ R

Re: [R] Lisp-like primitives in R

2007-09-07 Thread François Pinard
[Roland Rau] [François Pinard] I wonder what happened, for R to hide the underlying Scheme so fully, at least at the level of the surface language (despite there are hints). To further foster portability, we chose to write R in ANSI C Yes, of course. Scheme is also (often) implemented

Re: [R] Lisp-like primitives in R

2007-09-06 Thread François Pinard
). If R was ever to offer Lisp-like interfaces, RnRS (Scheme standards) might be considered, both for being simpler, and more in the spirit of what R already is. -- François Pinard http://pinard.progiciels-bpi.ca __ R-help@stat.math.ethz.ch mailing

Re: [R] R 2.5.1 - Rscript through tee

2007-08-31 Thread François Pinard
[Dirk Eddelbuettel] [François Pinard] #!/usr/bin/Rscript options(echo=TRUE) a - 1 Sys.sleep(3) a - 2 If I execute ./pp.R at the shell prompt, the output shows the timely progress of the script as expected. If I use ./pp.R | tee OUT instead, the output seems buffered

Re: [R] Synchronzing workspaces

2007-08-30 Thread François Pinard
have the similar experience? Not me. I use flash drives a lot to move .RData files around, without the slightest trouble. However, in my case, the involved machines are similar in their architecture and system, so I was not fearing trouble. -- François Pinard http://pinard.progiciels-bpi.ca

Re: [R] Excel (off-topic, sort of)

2007-08-29 Thread François Pinard
this (and consequently, Metapost as well). I still remember my surprise when I found out that Donald Knuth resorts to such sophisticated machinery for the sole purpose of designing font characters. Knuth surely did many wonderful things :-). -- François Pinard http://pinard.progiciels

Re: [R] Max vs summary inconsistency

2007-08-27 Thread François Pinard
limited. -- François Pinard http://pinard.progiciels-bpi.ca __ R-help@stat.math.ethz.ch 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

Re: [R] subset using noncontiguous variables by name (not index)

2007-08-26 Thread François Pinard
how one computes the expression piecemeal, that is, better than by building a string and parsing the result. -- François Pinard http://pinard.progiciels-bpi.ca __ R-help@stat.math.ethz.ch mailing list https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-help

[R] R 2.5.1 - Rscript through tee

2007-08-26 Thread François Pinard
;LC_ADDRESS=C;LC_TELEPHONE=C;LC_MEASUREMENT=fr_CA.UTF-8;LC_IDENTIFICATION=C Search Path: .GlobalEnv, package:stats, package:utils, package:datasets, fp.etc, package:graphics, package:grDevices, package:methods, Autoloads, package:base -- François Pinard http://pinard.progiciels-bpi.ca

Re: [R] Turning a logical vector into its indices without losing its length

2007-08-24 Thread François Pinard
) -- François Pinard http://pinard.progiciels-bpi.ca __ R-help@stat.math.ethz.ch 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

Re: [R] Does anyone.... worth a warning?!? No warning at all

2007-08-20 Thread François Pinard
to be productive with R as it stands, even knowing it could have been a bit better. -- François Pinard http://pinard.progiciels-bpi.ca __ R-help@stat.math.ethz.ch mailing list https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-help PLEASE do read the posting guide http

Re: [R] how to collapse a list of 1 column matrix to a matrix?

2007-08-19 Thread François Pinard
was already taken :-) For example: a = list(x=matrix(1:3, 3, 1), y=matrix(4:6, 3, 1)) a $x [,1] [1,]1 [2,]2 [3,]3 $y [,1] [1,]4 [2,]5 [3,]6 do.call(cbind, a) [,1] [,2] [1,]14 [2,]25 [3,]36 -- François Pinard http

Re: [R] how to collapse a list of 1 column matrix to a matrix?

2007-08-19 Thread François Pinard
(yet I did not recently check) that do.call, which.min, and a flurry of other useful functions, are introduced in various R tutorials. If you plan to use R seriously, it might be worth scrutinizing a few of those. Keep happy! -- François Pinard http

Re: [R] Combine matrix

2007-08-16 Thread François Pinard
3 11 19 27 35 a 1 6 11 16 21 4 12 20 28 36 b 2 7 12 17 22 5 13 21 29 37 b 2 7 12 17 22 6 14 22 30 38 b 2 7 12 17 22 7 15 23 31 39 b 2 7 12 17 22 8 16 24 32 40 does it is clear? is there a function that automate this operation? Like, maybe: cbind(a[rownames(b),], b) -- François

Re: [R] function to find coodinates in an array

2007-08-16 Thread François Pinard
, given this artificial example: X - sample(1:24) dim(X) - c(2, 3, 4) you would want: library(reshape) melt(X)[order(X), -4] so getting the indices in a three columns data frame. -- François Pinard http://pinard.progiciels-bpi.ca __ R

Re: [R] help with counting how many times each value occur in each column

2007-08-10 Thread François Pinard
[Gabor Grothendieck] table(col(mat), mat) Clever, simple, and elegant! :-) -- François Pinard http://pinard.progiciels-bpi.ca __ R-help@stat.math.ethz.ch mailing list https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-help PLEASE do read the posting guide

Re: [R] help with counting how many times each value occur in each column

2007-08-10 Thread François Pinard
columns afterwards. -- François Pinard http://pinard.progiciels-bpi.ca __ R-help@stat.math.ethz.ch 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

Re: [R] Bind together two vectors of different length...

2007-07-30 Thread François Pinard
this in R? Either of: A[!A %in% B] - NA A[!A %in% B] - 0 depending on what you want your N/A symbol to be. -- François Pinard http://pinard.progiciels-bpi.ca __ R-help@stat.math.ethz.ch mailing list https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-help PLEASE

Re: [R] avoiding timconsuming for loop renaming identifiers

2007-07-20 Thread François Pinard
different schools in this 60 obs dataset. I need to thave sequential identifiers, 1,2,3,4,5,...,143. Hello, Toby. Maybe: dta$id - cumsum(c(1, diff(dta$school_id) != 0)) -- François Pinard http://pinard.progiciels-bpi.ca __ R-help@stat.math.ethz.ch

Re: [R] A More efficient method?

2007-07-04 Thread François Pinard
an arbitrarily large number of categories, one may go through a recoding vector, like this for the example above: Cat - c('a', 'a', 'a', 'b', 'b', 'b', 'a', 'a', 'b') C1 - c(a=-1, b=1)[Cat] C1 a a a b b b a a b -1 -1 -1 1 1 1 -1 -1 1 -- François Pinard http://pinard.progiciels

Re: [R] Off topic:Spam on R-help increase?

2007-03-10 Thread François Pinard
of thanks from me! -- François Pinard http://pinard.progiciels-bpi.ca __ R-help@stat.math.ethz.ch 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

Re: [R] Conflict in .Rprofile documentation FAQ vs. Help?

2007-01-15 Thread François Pinard
the R online help system, many examples are marked so they are not run. I naively thought they were not run for friendly reasons, like for example, not inordinately impacting the user's environment. Should I read you as saying that those examples are not to be believed? -- François Pinard

Re: [R] A question about R environment

2007-01-10 Thread François Pinard
on any R implementation, for little things only meant for myself, and too simple to warrant publication anyway? Keep happy, all. -- François Pinard http://pinard.progiciels-bpi.ca __ R-help@stat.math.ethz.ch

Re: [R] scripts with littler

2007-01-08 Thread François Pinard
the first and second line. -- François Pinard http://pinard.progiciels-bpi.ca __ R-help@stat.math.ethz.ch mailing list https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-help PLEASE do read the posting guide http://www.R-project.org/posting-guide.html

Re: [R] scripts with littler / subroutines

2007-01-08 Thread François Pinard
[John Lawrence Aspden] Another difficulty I'm having is creating a common function (foo, say) to share between two scripts. In your previous message, you were telling us that you want to load from your home directory. You might put the common functions there, maybe? -- François Pinard http

Re: [R] A question about R environment

2007-01-08 Thread François Pinard
$xsel.eval fp.etc$xs - fp.etc$xsel.source attach(fp.etc, warn=FALSE) }) } # vim: ft=r -- François Pinard http://pinard.progiciels-bpi.ca __ R-help@stat.math.ethz.ch mailing list https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-help PLEASE do

Re: [R] read.fwf and header

2006-11-01 Thread François Pinard
. They will resist the fashion of the day for complexity, and survive in the long run. -- François Pinard http://pinard.progiciels-bpi.ca __ R-help@stat.math.ethz.ch mailing list https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-help PLEASE do read the posting

Re: [R] Suitability of R for Algorithm simulations

2006-10-22 Thread François Pinard
for such problems, and also not so well adapted to quasi-parallelism between interacting processes having each their own behaviour. Of course, seasoned R users might have much more sound opinions than mine on this topic! :-) -- François Pinard http://pinard.progiciels-bpi.ca

Re: [R] Suitability of R for Algorithm simulations

2006-10-04 Thread François Pinard
for such problems, and also not so well adapted to quasi-parallelism between interacting processes having each their own behaviour. Of course, seasoned R users might have much more sound opinions than mine on this topic! :-) -- François Pinard http://pinard.progiciels-bpi.ca

Re: [R] FW: Large datasets in R

2006-07-18 Thread François Pinard
rapidly, to increase precision by not so much. By merely tuning a few parameters, these people may easily pump nearly all the available cycles out the supercomputers given to them, and they do so without hesitation. Moore's Law will never succeed at calming their starving hunger! :-). -- François

Re: [R] [Rd] R as shell script

2006-07-14 Thread François Pinard
:-). Simple enough! Make sure you `cat' or `print' explicitly whatever has to be written on standard output: for one, I usually prefer full control in scripts over automatic printing of given expressions. -- François Pinard http://pinard.progiciels-bpi.ca

Re: [R] incomplete final line found by readLines on ...

2006-06-30 Thread François Pinard
[Taka Matzmoto] Is there any way to prevent [this] warning message. Hi, Taka. The easiest might be using the suppressWarnings wrapper. See ?suppressWarnings for more information. -- François Pinard http://pinard.progiciels-bpi.ca __ R-help

Re: [R] how to rotate a triangle image(ZMAT) ?

2006-06-27 Thread François Pinard
)] - NA return(-100*x+0*y+100*z) } x = seq(1, 0, by = -0.01) y = seq(1, 0, by = -0.01) zmat = outer(x, y, f) image(zmat, col=terrain.colors(10)) contour(zmat, add=T) Another idea is to exchange x, y in the outer call, and maybe also use rev() on one of them. -- François Pinard http

Re: [R] Install R 2.3.1 on SUSE Linux

2006-06-15 Thread François Pinard
-fortran-4.0.2_20050901-3 -- François Pinard http://pinard.progiciels-bpi.ca __ R-help@stat.math.ethz.ch mailing list https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-help PLEASE do read the posting guide! http://www.R-project.org/posting-guide.html

Re: [R] flipping a plot vertically?

2006-06-15 Thread François Pinard
, LOWEST) argument, that is, listing the maximum before the minimum. For example: plot(1:10, ylim=c(10, 1)) -- François Pinard http://pinard.progiciels-bpi.ca __ R-help@stat.math.ethz.ch mailing list https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-help PLEASE

Re: [R] Re-binning histogram data

2006-06-08 Thread François Pinard
itself slowly over time, and is not so much in need of forceful evangelists. :-) -- François Pinard http://pinard.progiciels-bpi.ca __ R-help@stat.math.ethz.ch mailing list https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-help PLEASE do read the posting guide

Re: [R] Edit function

2006-06-07 Thread François Pinard
that ignores all warnings. My exegesis :-) for that sentence would be that the context does not survive the error, and so, the warn option is not changed. -- François Pinard http://pinard.progiciels-bpi.ca __ R-help@stat.math.ethz.ch mailing list

Re: [R] How can you buy R?

2006-05-18 Thread François Pinard
on this side, who knows... :-) -- François Pinard http://pinard.progiciels-bpi.ca __ R-help@stat.math.ethz.ch mailing list https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-help PLEASE do read the posting guide! http://www.R-project.org/posting-guide.html

Re: [R] text plots?

2006-05-12 Thread François Pinard
not know how easy (or not) it would be writing a dumb device for R, but I wish that if someone ever contributes it, it will be accepted by the core team. -- François Pinard http://pinard.progiciels-bpi.ca __ R-help@stat.math.ethz.ch mailing list

Re: [R] command completion?

2006-05-10 Thread François Pinard
! :-) -- François Pinard http://pinard.progiciels-bpi.ca __ R-help@stat.math.ethz.ch mailing list https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-help PLEASE do read the posting guide! http://www.R-project.org/posting-guide.html

Re: [R] On the speed of apply and alternatives?

2006-05-09 Thread François Pinard
or another (currently done within quantile). -- François Pinard http://pinard.progiciels-bpi.ca __ R-help@stat.math.ethz.ch mailing list https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-help PLEASE do read the posting guide! http://www.R-project.org/posting

Re: [R] screen wrapping

2006-05-04 Thread François Pinard
[Robert Citek] How can I increase/decrease the line length for screen wrapping? Check ?options, and within in, width, it might be what you want. -- François Pinard http://pinard.progiciels-bpi.ca __ R-help@stat.math.ethz.ch mailing list https

Re: [R] install R under suse: packages dependency

2006-05-03 Thread François Pinard
under SuSE 10.0, and needs nothing which is not already available on the distribution media. Should I say, I'm still impressed (even astonished) that R installation succeeds so easily, given the size and complexity of the distribution. -- François Pinard http://pinard.progiciels-bpi.ca

Re: [R] plot cdf

2006-04-27 Thread François Pinard
[Romain Francois] [...] it would be useful to add an option 'ask' in 'example', maybe with a default to TRUE in interactive mode Seconded. `example(...)' would be more friendly for the average use. -- François Pinard http://pinard.progiciels-bpi.ca

Re: [R] deleting rows with the same ID if any meet a condition

2006-04-27 Thread François Pinard
2 1 2 2 1 You might try: subset(x3, !x1 %in% x1[which(x2==2)]) -- François Pinard http://pinard.progiciels-bpi.ca __ R-help@stat.math.ethz.ch mailing list https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-help PLEASE do read the posting guide! http

Re: [R] Is there a way....

2006-04-26 Thread François Pinard
within your ~/.Rprofile file. P.S. - By the way, much congratulations and thanks to the R Core team for the recent publication of R 2.3.0. -- François Pinard http://pinard.progiciels-bpi.ca __ R-help@stat.math.ethz.ch mailing list https

Re: [R] how to draw a circle

2006-04-22 Thread François Pinard
[Jian Zhang] how to draw a circle (e.g. radius=10cm) of one point? And how to choose these points in the circle? There also are ellipse functions in both packages car and ellipse. -- François Pinard http://pinard.progiciels-bpi.ca __ R-help

Re: [R] I am surprised (and a little irritated)

2006-04-19 Thread François Pinard
, given the size and complexity of R sources, components, and all release engineering. I'm always quite impressed that such software works! There is a tremendous amount of work behind a successful distribution, which many of us do not suspect enough! :-) It forces admiration. -- François Pinard

Re: [R] R and ViM

2006-04-18 Thread François Pinard
. This is convenient for quick mathematical jobs, and quite in the spirit of Vim (fast and easy start/exit, instead of long running like Emacs). -- François Pinard http://pinard.progiciels-bpi.ca __ R-help@stat.math.ethz.ch mailing list https://stat.ethz.ch

Re: [R] What does rbind(iris[,,1], iris[,,2], iris[,,3]) do?

2006-04-13 Thread François Pinard
[Gabor Grothendieck] What you are referring to iris is called iris3 in R so just replace iris with iris3. iris3 is a 3d array in R whereas iris is a data frame. Thanks for this calm and simple reply. Some could learn from you! :-) -- François Pinard http://pinard.progiciels-bpi.ca

Re: [R] strange matrix behaviour: is there a matrix with one row?

2006-04-07 Thread François Pinard
a matrix again ?'[' explains it. Using your example: is.matrix(y[-c(1, 2), , drop=FALSE]) [1] TRUE is.matrix(y[-c(1, 2, 3), , drop=FALSE]) [1] TRUE is.matrix(y[-c(1, 2, 3, 4), , drop=FALSE]) [1] TRUE -- François Pinard http://pinard.progiciels-bpi.ca

Re: [R] argv[0] --- again

2006-04-03 Thread François Pinard
[ivo welch] how about people on [...] linux or unix [...] See ?commandArgs. -- François Pinard http://pinard.progiciels-bpi.ca __ R-help@stat.math.ethz.ch mailing list https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-help PLEASE do read the posting guide

Re: [R] Remove [1] ... from output

2006-03-28 Thread François Pinard
? You may use cat instead of print. No need to paste then. -- François Pinard http://pinard.progiciels-bpi.ca __ R-help@stat.math.ethz.ch mailing list https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-help PLEASE do read the posting guide! http://www.R-project.org

[R] Replies on this list [was: removing NA from a data frame]

2006-03-20 Thread François Pinard
of the constant fear some have of seeing this list abused. There are ways for not being abused, which do not require becoming abusive ourselves. We should deepen such ways in our own habits. -- François Pinard http://pinard.progiciels-bpi.ca __ R-help

Re: [R] error function

2006-03-06 Thread François Pinard
[Kjetil Brinchmann Halvorsen] erf [in] package (CRAN) NORMT3, as help.search(error function) could have told [you] It does not for me. I would presume one needs NORMT3 installed first, and NORMT3 is seemingly not part of standard base R installation. -- François Pinard http

Re: [R] Remove gray grid from levelplot

2006-03-06 Thread François Pinard
else for JPEG images). Just a few thoughts. Keep happy, all! -- François Pinard http://pinard.progiciels-bpi.ca __ R-help@stat.math.ethz.ch mailing list https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-help PLEASE do read the posting

Re: [R] Newton-Raphson with analytical derivatives

2006-03-03 Thread François Pinard
, the few remaining lines is Newton-Raphson over an expression. Don't take this too seriously, it was a mere toy with this to get an initial feel of the R language. :-) -- François Pinard http://pinard.progiciels-bpi.ca __ R-help@stat.math.ethz.ch

Re: [R] prehistoric versions of R -- 1995!

2006-02-09 Thread François Pinard
-alpha, which itself quotes a message written in 1994. -- François Pinard http://pinard.progiciels-bpi.ca __ R-help@stat.math.ethz.ch mailing list https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-help PLEASE do read the posting guide! http://www.R-project.org

Re: [R] qqplot

2006-02-07 Thread François Pinard
[Vincent Negre] [...] I do not understand how qqplot() compute quantiles. Just type ``qqplot`` (without the parentheses) at the R prompt, to see the source code. ``qqplot`` does not especially compute quantiles, which are rather obtained directly through sorting its arguments. -- François

Re: [R] Difficulty with qqline in logarithmic context

2006-02-03 Thread François Pinard
, François Pinard wrote: Hi, R friends. I had some difficulty with the following code: qqnorm(freq, log='y') qqline(freq) as the line drawn was seemingly random. The exact data I used appears below. After wandering a bit within the source code for abline, I figured out I should rather write

[R] Difficulty with qqline in logarithmic context

2006-02-01 Thread François Pinard
Search Path: .GlobalEnv, package:methods, package:stats, package:graphics, package:grDevices, package:utils, package:datasets, fp.etc, Autoloads, package:base -- François Pinard http://pinard.progiciels-bpi.ca __ R-help@stat.math.ethz.ch mailing list

Re: [R] R-help Digest, Vol 35, Issue 24

2006-01-25 Thread François Pinard
because of the starred paragraph above, that is, for wrong reasons. Best is, and this often occurs on the R list, when everything (facts, opinions) is being shared efficiently, without useless arguing. Then, threads quickly fade out. -- François Pinard http://pinard.progiciels-bpi.ca

Re: [R] R-help Digest, Vol 35, Issue 24

2006-01-24 Thread François Pinard
of others, improve ourselves, and so increase the value of our share. -- François Pinard http://pinard.progiciels-bpi.ca __ R-help@stat.math.ethz.ch mailing list https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-help PLEASE do read the posting guide! http://www.R

Re: [R] [Rd] Display an Image on a Plane

2006-01-20 Thread François Pinard
for computing the projection of the rectangle enclosing the image, than PIL (Python Imaging Library) for producing that precise trapezoidal deformation. Just sharing ideas, of course. Much likely that if I knew R better, I would use it more fully -- but that's a tautology! :-) -- François

Re: [R] Dynamic Programming in R

2006-01-19 Thread François Pinard
knows (I'm not sure): R might well offer a powerful environment for building a dynamic programming framework. -- François Pinard http://pinard.progiciels-bpi.ca __ R-help@stat.math.ethz.ch mailing list https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-help

Re: [R] Suggestion for big files [was: Re: A comment about R:]

2006-01-09 Thread François Pinard
[hadley wickham] [François Pinard] Selecting a sample is easy. Yet, I'm not aware of any SQL device for easily selecting a _random_ sample of the records of a given table. On the other hand, I'm no SQL specialist, others might know better. There are a number of such devices, which tend

Re: [R] Suggestion for big files [was: Re: A comment about R:]

2006-01-08 Thread François Pinard
[Brian Ripley] [François Pinard] [Brian Ripley] One problem [...] is that R's I/O is not line-oriented but stream-oriented. So selecting lines is not particularly easy in R. I understand that you mean random access to lines, instead of random selection of lines. That was not my point

Re: [R] Suggestion for big files [was: Re: A comment about R:]

2006-01-08 Thread François Pinard
-- but this is only an opinion: I'm rather demanding in the area of legibility, while many or most people are more courageous than me! :-). -- François Pinard http://pinard.progiciels-bpi.ca __ R-help@stat.math.ethz.ch mailing list https://stat.ethz.ch

Re: [R] Suggestion for big files [was: Re: A comment about R:]

2006-01-08 Thread François Pinard
, so it might be that pregenerating randomized IDs is not worth the trouble. Also given that whenever the database size changes, the list of pregenerated IDs is not valid anymore. -- François Pinard http://pinard.progiciels-bpi.ca __ R-help

Re: [R] A comment about R:

2006-01-08 Thread François Pinard
[Uwe Ligges] François Pinard wrote: [David Forrest] [...] A few end-to-end tutorials on some interesting analyses would be helpful. I'm in the process of learning R. While tutorials are undoubtedly very useful, and understanding that working and studying methods vary between individuals, what I

Re: [R] A comment about R:

2006-01-05 Thread François Pinard
] are designed for people in particular fields and turn out to be extremely useful. Undoubtedly! I envy you all, who know already! :-) -- François Pinard http://pinard.progiciels-bpi.ca __ R-help@stat.math.ethz.ch mailing list https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman

[R] Suggestion for big files [was: Re: A comment about R:]

2006-01-05 Thread François Pinard
. If such a sampling facility was built right within usual R reading routines (triggered by an extra argument, say), it could offer a compromise for processing large files, and also sometimes accelerate computations for big problems, even when memory is not at stake. -- François Pinard http://pinard.progiciels

Re: [R] Suggestion for big files [was: Re: A comment about R:]

2006-01-05 Thread François Pinard
, and if I then dared implementing it myself, would it be welcome? -- François Pinard http://pinard.progiciels-bpi.ca __ R-help@stat.math.ethz.ch mailing list https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-help PLEASE do read the posting guide! http://www.R

Re: [R] A comment about R:

2006-01-04 Thread François Pinard
of the current material. The mechanism should likely allow for added glue text, about everywhere reasonable, and for diagnosing any lone, unreachable page in the current reference. -- François Pinard http://pinard.progiciels-bpi.ca __ R-help@stat.math.ethz.ch

Re: [R] use of tapply?

2005-12-29 Thread François Pinard
^2 + y^2)) di$angle - with(di.c, atan2(y, x)) -- François Pinard http://pinard.progiciels-bpi.ca __ R-help@stat.math.ethz.ch mailing list https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-help PLEASE do read the posting guide! http://www.R-project.org

Re: [R] HOW to Create Movies with R with repeated plot()?

2005-07-27 Thread François Pinard
at an actual example of using R for mini-movies: http://pinard.progiciels-bpi.ca/plaisirs/animations/index.html I wrote this toy about the same week I started to learn R, and it was a hell of a good exercise for the poor little me! :-) -- François Pinard http://pinard.progiciels-bpi.ca

Re: [R] R: to the power

2005-07-16 Thread François Pinard
and be mislead; don't be, the engine is pretty solid. Peek at http://maxima.sourceforge.net if you think you need such a beast. Beware: to use it, you need either GCL or Clisp pre-installed. -- François Pinard http://pinard.progiciels-bpi.ca __ R-help

Re: [R] Rpy and RSPython

2005-06-10 Thread François Pinard
done.. Surely that for now, RPy is quite sufficient for my simple needs. -- François Pinard http://pinard.progiciels-bpi.ca __ R-help@stat.math.ethz.ch mailing list https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-help PLEASE do read the posting guide! http

Re: [R] R annoyances

2005-05-20 Thread François Pinard
extensions). R also holds interesting (useful and flexible) ideas about argument passing and matching, lazy evaluation, and environments. And surely other things as well. -- François Pinard http://pinard.progiciels-bpi.ca __ R-help@stat.math.ethz.ch

Re: [R] R_LIBS difficulty ?

2005-04-14 Thread François Pinard
[Prof Brian Ripley] [François Pinard] Now using this line within `~/.Renviron': R_LIBS=/home/pinard/etc/R my tiny package is correctly found by R. However, R does not seem to see any library within that directory if I rather use either of: R_LIBS=$HOME/etc/R R_LIBS=$HOME/etc/R

[R] R_LIBS difficulty ?

2005-04-10 Thread François Pinard
on SuSE 9.2. -- François Pinard http://pinard.progiciels-bpi.ca __ R-help@stat.math.ethz.ch mailing list https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-help PLEASE do read the posting guide! http://www.R-project.org/posting-guide.html

[R] R-generated animation of a polynomiograph

2005-04-08 Thread François Pinard
with this! -- François Pinard http://pinard.progiciels-bpi.ca __ R-help@stat.math.ethz.ch mailing list https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-help PLEASE do read the posting guide! http://www.R-project.org/posting-guide.html

[R] Polynomiographic function in R :-)

2005-04-06 Thread François Pinard
capabilities, and it also opens up all kind of ideas to toy with! :-) -- François Pinard http://pinard.progiciels-bpi.ca __ R-help@stat.math.ethz.ch mailing list https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-help PLEASE do read the posting guide! http://www.R

[R] R mailing list archive difficulty

2005-04-01 Thread François Pinard
, if possible, at the tedious work of getting those archives, so it sooner gets behind me, instead of ahead... Thanks to all. Enjoy the spring! :-) -- François Pinard http://pinard.progiciels-bpi.ca ---BeginMessage--- Robert King, hello! The page `http://www.r-project.org