On 10 May 2011 at 23:41, Christoph Knapp wrote: | Thanks the first question was answered by Mathieu. Let me rephrase the first question. If I have a R script written under windows I encounter sometimes the problem that function names are not the same as in linux. See zip.unpack which works perfectly under windows but not under linux. Is there a better method to find functions named different in different OS than asking the mailing list?
There are 2000+ function in 'base R'. Most of them are portable. Many of us who have been writing portable code know which ones to avoid. In a first instance, your best best is almost always the builtin-help, e.g. help(rnorm) will be the same on all system. Some things are by their very nature more OS-dependent, but R does a pretty good job of abstracting most of it away .... As for zip.unpack, it would appear that R on Linux does not have it. I see zip.file.extract so maybe you can use that. Dirk | Christoph | ________________________________________ | From: Ross Boylan [[email protected]] | Sent: Wednesday, May 11, 2011 11:21 | To: Christoph Knapp | Cc: [email protected]; [email protected] | Subject: Re: [R-sig-Debian] translation from windows to linux | | On Tue, 2011-05-10 at 23:02 +0000, Christoph Knapp wrote: | > Hi all, | > I started recently to use R with linux(ubuntu) but I often get code written under windows or mac. I have two questions. When I encounter a function which is not in R linux what is the best way to find the right linux function for it? So next time I can help myself. I browsed the web for a long time and could not find anything to the the function | > | It would be helpful if you could say exactly what the situation is in | which you get the error. You refer to R linux and ask for linux | functions, which sounds as if you want an OS leve function call. | I think you mean that while in R you have some code that calls a | function, and the function is undefined. | | > zip.unpack. | if that's the offending function, where did the code that invoked it | come from? | > | > Thats actually my second question. Does anyone know the right linux function to unzip zip archive in R linux. | > | > Thanks | > | > Christoph | > | > [[alternative HTML version deleted]] | > | > _______________________________________________ | > R-SIG-Debian mailing list | > [email protected] | > https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-sig-debian | | | _______________________________________________ | R-SIG-Debian mailing list | [email protected] | https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-sig-debian -- Gauss once played himself in a zero-sum game and won $50. -- #11 at http://www.gaussfacts.com _______________________________________________ R-SIG-Debian mailing list [email protected] https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-sig-debian
