[Rd] random network disconnects

break } if (inherits(res, "try-error")) { if (ThrowError) { stop("file connection failed") } else { warning("file connection failed") } } } People have done network traces and such, but so far no

Re: [Rd] Is this a bug in `[`?

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[Rd] no objects apparent in built package

kage. This is being done in RStudio on Windows with R version 3.0.2. The package used to work. There was a very minor change to one function when the package started not working. The zip files that don't work are the same size as the one that does work. Thanks for any suggestions. Pat

[Rd] suggested addition to 'install.packages' help file

x27;m missing some subtlety, but it makes things work in my case. Pat -- Patrick Burns pbu...@pburns.seanet.com twitter: @burnsstat @portfolioprobe http://www.portfolioprobe.com/blog http://www.burns-stat.com (home of: 'Impatient R' 'The R Inferno' 'Tao Te Programming

[Rd] wishlist: decreasing argument to is.unsorted

in mind uses 'is.unsorted' in 'stopifnot'. Pat -- Patrick Burns pbu...@pburns.seanet.com twitter: @burnsstat @portfolioprobe http://www.portfolioprobe.com/blog http://www.burns-stat.com (home of: 'Impatient R' 'The R Inferno' 'Tao Te Programming

Re: [Rd] as.name and namespaces

7;s third method, but it seems like it assumes the solution. Moving functions around is unappetizing for my use -- this is for testing and keeping things as faithful to real use is a good thing. Pat On 23/04/2013 21:18, Duncan Murdoch wrote: On 13-04-23 3:51 PM, Patrick Burns wrote: Okay, that

Re: [Rd] as.name and namespaces

Okay, that's a good reason why it shouldn't. Why it should is that I want to substitute the first element of a call to be a function including the namespace. Pat On 23/04/2013 18:32, peter dalgaard wrote: On Apr 23, 2013, at 19:23 , Patrick Burns wrote: 'as.name' does

[Rd] as.name and namespaces

'as.name' doesn't recognize a name with its namespace extension as a name: > as.name("lm") lm > as.name("stats::lm") `stats::lm` > as.name("stats:::lm") `stats:::lm` Is there a reason why it shouldn't? Pat -- Patrick Burns pbu...

Re: [Rd] ifelse can't return a list? Please explain (R-2.15.3)

st(a, b, c) else list(x, y, z) myvar [[1]] [1] 4 [[2]] [1] 5 [[3]] [1] 6 -- Patrick Burns pbu...@pburns.seanet.com twitter: @burnsstat @portfolioprobe http://www.portfolioprobe.com/blog http://www.burns-stat.com (home of: 'Impatient R' 'The R Inferno' 'Tao Te Prog

[Rd] fortune?

Brian Ripley: If things are not readily available in R it is always good to pause and reflect if there might be a good reason. In the R-help thread: How to get the t-stat for arima()? Pat -- Patrick Burns pbu...@pburns.seanet.com twitter: @burnsstat @portfolioprobe http

[Rd] Fortune?

I think the rule is that you can do anything as long as you don't complain. If you want to complain, you must follow the instructions. -- Jari Oksanen in Re: [Rd] Keeping up to date with R-devel -- Patrick Burns pbu...@pburns.seanet.com twitter: @burnsstat @portfolioprobe

[Rd] double bracket stripping names

LC_CTYPE=English_United Kingdom.1252 [3] LC_MONETARY=English_United Kingdom.1252 [4] LC_NUMERIC=C [5] LC_TIME=English_United Kingdom.1252 attached base packages: [1] stats graphics grDevices utils datasets methods base -- Patrick Burns pbu...@pburns.seanet.com twitter: @

[Rd] get and exists are not vectorized

Both 'exists' and 'get' silently ignore all but the first element. My view is that 'get' should do what it currently does except it should warn about ignoring subsequent elements if there are any. I don't see a reason why 'exists' shouldn't be

[Rd] no carriage returns in BATCH output from 2.15.0

on purpose? Pat -- Patrick Burns pbu...@pburns.seanet.com twitter: @portfolioprobe http://www.portfolioprobe.com/blog http://www.burns-stat.com (home of 'Some hints for the R beginner' and 'The R Inferno') __ R-devel@r-project.org mai

Re: [Rd] Overwrite S3 methond from base package

on my own? Thanks for your help. Kind Regards, Thorn __ R-devel@r-project.org mailing list https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-devel -- Patrick Burns pbu...@pburns.seanet.com twitter: @portfolioprobe http://www.portfolioprobe.com/blog http://www.burns-stat.com (ho

Re: [Rd] Task views

ertain amount of brevity. Pat On 12/02/2012 10:43, Barry Rowlingson wrote: On Sat, Feb 11, 2012 at 5:55 PM, Patrick Burns wrote: Now it could be that people are not trying very hard to solve their own problems, but to be fair it is a pretty gruelling process to find the Task Views. May I sugge

[Rd] Task views (was: Re: [R] Schwefel Function Optimization)

but to be fair it is a pretty gruelling process to find the Task Views. May I suggest that there be a "Task Views" item on the left sidebar of the R website in the Documentation section? -- Patrick Burns pbu...@pburns.seanet.com twitter: @portfolioprobe http://www.portfolioprobe.

Re: [Rd] strange behavior from cex="*"

.15.0 >>> >>> __ >>> R-devel@r-project.org mailing list >>> https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-devel >> > > -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- > Version: GnuPG v1.4.10 (GNU/Linux) > Comment: Using GnuPG with Mozilla - http

Re: [Rd] Efficiency of factor objects

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Re: [Rd] median and data frames

uot;)) } Pat On 29/04/2011 15:25, Martin Maechler wrote: Paul Johnson on Thu, 28 Apr 2011 00:20:27 -0500 writes: > On Wed, Apr 27, 2011 at 12:44 PM, Patrick Burns >wrote: >> Here are some data frames: >> >> df3.2<- data.frame(1

[Rd] median and data frames

packages: [1] xts_0.8-0 zoo_1.6-5 loaded via a namespace (and not attached): [1] grid_2.13.0 lattice_0.19-23 tools_2.13.0 -- Patrick Burns pbu...@pburns.seanet.com twitter: @portfolioprobe http://www.portfolioprobe.com/blog http://www.burns-stat.com (home of 'Some hints for the R beginner'

Re: [Rd] R vs. C

a Beleites wrote: On 01/18/2011 10:53 AM, Patrick Burns wrote: I'm not at all a fan of thinking of the examples as being tests. Examples should clarify the thinking of potential users. Tests should clarify the space in which the code is correct. These two goals are generally at odds. Patric

Re: [Rd] R vs. C

R-devel@r-project.org mailing list https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-devel La version française suit le texte anglais. -------- This email may contain privi

Re: [Rd] R vs. C

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[Rd] minor problem in strsplit help file

The 'extended' argument to 'strsplit' has been removed, but it is still mentioned in the argument items in the help file for 'fixed' and 'perl'. -- Patrick Burns pbu...@pburns.seanet.com twitter: @portfolioprobe http://www.portfolioprobe.com/blog http:/

[Rd] symbol and symbols help files

I think it makes sense to have 'symbol' in the See Also of 'symbols' and vice versa. -- Patrick Burns pbu...@pburns.seanet.com http://www.portfolioprobe.com/blog http://www.burns-stat.com (home of 'Some hints for the R beg

Re: [Rd] arr.ind argument to which.min and which.max

E' as argument to arrayInd() but have which() call arrayInd(..., useNames=TRUE). This is a back-compatibility change in arrayInd() -- which has existed only since 2.11.0 anyway, so would seem ok, to me. Opinions ? I find it hard to believe that would cause too much trauma. Pat

Re: [Rd] arr.ind argument to which.min and which.max

On 05/07/2010 10:56, Martin Maechler wrote: "PatB" == Patrick Burns on Sun, 04 Jul 2010 09:43:44 +0100 writes: PatB> Is there a reason that 'which.min' and PatB> 'which.max' don't have an 'arr.ind' PatB> argument? w

[Rd] arr.ind argument to which.min and which.max

Is there a reason that 'which.min' and 'which.max' don't have an 'arr.ind' argument? The context in which I wanted that was a grid search optimization, which seems like it would be reasonably common to me. -- Patrick Burns pbu...@pburns.seanet.com http://www.

[Rd] proposed change to 'sample'

he "surprise" section of the examples in the 'sample' help file sample(x[x > 9]) and sample(x[x > 9], max=FALSE) have different behaviours. By the way, I'm certainly not convinced that 'max' is the best name for the argument. -- Patrick

Re: [Rd] Package development process?

ow you to specify the version of a dependency so that this doesn't happen. You can do this with R, but because it's hard to have multiple versions of the same package installed at the same time, it's not as useful. Hadley -- Patrick Burns pbu...@pburns.seanet.com http://www.burns-

Re: [Rd] print(big+small*1i) -> big + 0i

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Re: [Rd] Why is there no c.factor?

ist(lapply(factors, as.character)) factor(char, levels = levels) } c(factor("a"), factor("b"), factor(c("c", "b","a")), factor("d")) # [1] a b c b a d # Levels: a b c d Hadley -- Patrick Burns pbu...@pburns.seanet.

[Rd] available.packages and 2.10.0

I'm confused about how to change a repository so that it doesn't hit the bug in 'available.packages' in 2.10.0 that was fixed in 2.10.1. I presume it involves adding fields to the PACKAGES file. Patrick Burns patr...@burns-stat.com +44 (0)20 8525 0696 http://www.burns-stat

Re: [Rd] n=1 default for random number generators

ars of typing the "1". Duncan Murdoch In the spirit of sour grapes, the proposed default might discourage some users from vectorizing their thinking. Patrick Burns patr...@burns-stat.com +44 (0)20 8525 0696 http://www.burns-stat.com (home of "The R Inferno&quo

[Rd] Wish: more explicit error message with missing argument in c

is missing, with no default Then that would be satisfactory, I think. Patrick Burns patr...@burns-stat.com +44 (0)20 8525 0696 http://www.burns-stat.com (home of "The R Inferno" and "A Guide for the Unwilling S User") __ R-devel@r-

Re: [Rd] how to document stuff most users don't want to see

Under the system of development we now have, I agreee with Seth's assertion. But if there were people dedicated to documentation, then I think something like what I described could be workable. Pat Seth Falcon wrote: Writing good documentation is hard. I can appreciate the desire to find tec

Re: [Rd] how to document stuff most users don't want to see

with different levels of detail. A sophisticated version of this scheme might even assume different levels of knowledge of the user so that the least detailed level might be longer (but easier) than a more detailed level. Patrick Burns patr...@burns-stat.com +44 (0)20 8525 0696 http://www.burns-sta

Re: [Rd] question

between the items. Patrick Burns patr...@burns-stat.com +44 (0)20 8525 0696 http://www.burns-stat.com (home of "The R Inferno" and "A Guide for the Unwilling S User") ivo welch wrote: hi gabor: this would be difficult to do. I don't think you want to read my progra

Re: [Rd] length of POSIXlt object (PR#13482)

'The R Inferno' page 93 and page 99. Patrick Burns patr...@burns-stat.com +44 (0)20 8525 0696 http://www.burns-stat.com (home of "The R Inferno" and "A Guide for the Unwilling S User") twoutop...@gmail.com wrote: The length() of a POSIXlt object is given as 9 r

Re: [Rd] x <- 1:2; dim(x) <- 2? A vector or not?

ay the 'names' attribute really is 'dimnames[[1]]'. Thanks for this explanation. One could then argue that [1:10,] is somewhat better than [,1:10], but that is just polish. Perhaps it could be: [1:10(,)] That is weird enough that it should not lead people to believe

Re: [Rd] [R] odd behavior when multiplying data frame by an element

27;d prefer an error like the matrix case. Patrick Burns patr...@burns-stat.com +44 (0)20 8525 0696 http://www.burns-stat.com (home of S Poetry and "A Guide for the Unwilling S User") markle...@verizon.net wrote: could someone explain what is happening below ? I was trying to solve a re

[Rd] minor typo in assignOps help file

There is a minor typo in the help file for assignOps: There is no space in "operator<-" in the second sentence of the second paragraph of the Details section. Patrick Burns [EMAIL PROTECTED] +44 (0)20 8525 0696 http://www.burns-stat.com (home of S Poetry and "A Guide for th

[Rd] 'by' with one-dimensional array

upon a time 'by' gave 3 as the answer in both situations. 'by.default' used to be a one-liner, but now decides what to do based on 'length(dim(data))'. This specific problem goes away if the line: if (length(dim(data))) is replaced by: if(length(dim(data)) > 1)

Re: [Rd] Numerical optimisation and "non-feasible" regions

re well defined. This is the reason why I wonder if setting by myself a $-\infty$ in the composite likelihood function is appropriate here. However, you might be right in setting a tolerance value 'eps' instead of the theoretical bound eigen values > 0. Thanks for your tips, Bes

Re: [Rd] Numerical optimisation and "non-feasible" regions

If the positive definiteness of the covariance is the only issue, then you could base a penalty on: eps - smallest.eigen.value if the smallest eigen value is smaller than eps. Patrick Burns [EMAIL PROTECTED] +44 (0)20 8525 0696 http://www.burns-stat.com (home of S Poetry and "A Guide fo

Re: [Rd] Is text(..., adj) upside down? (Or am I?)

Basically the only thing in the thread that was clear to me was Brian's phrasing. So I'd suggest basing any changes on that. Patrick Burns [EMAIL PROTECTED] +44 (0)20 8525 0696 http://www.burns-stat.com (home of S Poetry and "A Guide for the Unwilling S User") S Ellison

[Rd] multiple names to assign

seldom enough that adding a warning isn't going to slow things down appreciably. Patrick Burns [EMAIL PROTECTED] +44 (0)20 8525 0696 http://www.burns-stat.com (home of S Poetry and "A Guide for the Unwilling S User") __ R-devel@r-project.org mailing list https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-devel

[Rd] names<- bug or feature?

xx $A changed b 1 2 This is observed in 2.4.0 on Linux as well as 2.7.0 and 2.8.0 on Windows XP. Patrick Burns [EMAIL PROTECTED] +44 (0)20 8525 0696 http://www.burns-stat.com (home of S Poetry and "A Guide for the Unwilling S User") ___

Re: [Rd] RFC: What should ?foo do?

Peter Dalgaard wrote: > Duncan Murdoch wrote: > >> I haven't done it, but I suspect we could introduce special behaviour >> for ??foo very easily. We could even have a whole hierarchy: >> >> ?foo, ??foo, ???foo, foo, ... >> >> >> > Heh, that's rather nice, actually. In words, that

Re: [Rd] NA warnings for r() {aka "patch for random.c"}

Martin Maechler wrote: > [ ... ] > >But actually, part of the changed behavior may be considered >undesirable: > > rnorm(2, mean = NA) > >which gives two NaN's would now produce a warning, >where I could argue that > 'arithmetic with NAs should give NAs without a warning' >since > 1:2 + NA >

[Rd] ar on a constant series

der.max)[xaic == 0] else order.max } I presume something similar can be done in 'ar.burg', but I haven't looked. 'ar.ols' and 'ar.mle' look problematic for fixes. Patrick Burns [EMAIL PROTECTED] +44 (0)20

Re: [Rd] help files for load and related functions

Patches to the help files sound like a good idea. However, it isn't something I'm likely to get to immediately. I'm hoping that some other nice person will volunteer. Pat Duncan Murdoch wrote: > On 12/17/2007 6:00 AM, Patrick Burns wrote: > >> I recently had a d

[Rd] help files for load and related functions

les should have a Side Effects section (to make it clear to new users what side effects are and that they are not a good thing for most functions to have). I can understand there could be another point of view on that. However, I definitely think that there should be a Side Effects section in the he

Re: [Rd] sd(NA)

ter removing NAs. The first is clearly impossible. The second has some actual value, but we don't have enough information to have an estimate of the value. Patrick Burns [EMAIL PROTECTED] +44 (0)20 8525 0696 http://www.burns-stat.com (home of S Poetry and "A Guide for the Unwilling S User&

Re: [Rd] meaning of "trim" in mean()

If the sentence in question were amended to: Values of trim outside that range ... then I think it would rule out the misinterpretation of the sentence. Pat Prof Brian Ripley wrote: >There is only one _range_ mentioned, (0, 0.5). I don't see how you can >construe 'that range' to be a refere

Re: [Rd] Debug with set.seed()

e error quickly. Also, using '<<-' is generally a bad idea. Patrick Burns [EMAIL PROTECTED] +44 (0)20 8525 0696 http://www.burns-stat.com (home of S Poetry and "A Guide for the Unwilling S User") Tong Wang wrote: >HI, all >I am debugging an R code with dynamical

Re: [Rd] Trailing message on R CMD BATCH

I rather like it. Patrick Burns [EMAIL PROTECTED] +44 (0)20 8525 0696 http://www.burns-stat.com (home of S Poetry and "A Guide for the Unwilling S User") Brian Ripley wrote: >Unix versions of R CMD BATCH have reported proc.time() unless the script >ends in q(). E.g. if the

[Rd] stack imbalance in contour

Kingdom.1252;LC_CTYPE=English_United Kingdom.1252;LC_MONETARY=English_United Kingdom.1252;LC_NUMERIC=C;LC_TIME=English_United Kingdom.1252 attached base packages: [1] "methods" "stats" "graphics" "grDevices" "utils" "datasets"

Re: [Rd] proposal for lower.tri and upper.tri value argument

Gabor came close to the situation I had yesterday that prompted me to write a local version of 'lower.tri'. It was approximately: x[sub, sub][lower.tri(x[sub,sub])] Pat Gabor Grothendieck wrote: > On 8/6/06, Prof Brian Ripley <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >> Is there a case to be made for this?

[Rd] proposal for lower.tri and upper.tri value argument

s.matrix(x) if (diag) ans <- row(x) <= col(x) else ans <- row(x) < col(x) if(value) x[ans] else ans } Patrick Burns [EMAIL PROTECTED] +44 (0)20 8525 0696 http://www.burns-stat.com (home of S Poetry and "A Guide for the Unwilling S User") _

Re: [Rd] [R] rownames, colnames, and date and time

sed not to encounter that in R and hope it continues. Patrick Burns [EMAIL PROTECTED] +44 (0)20 8525 0696 http://www.burns-stat.com (home of S Poetry and "A Guide for the Unwilling S User") Prof Brian Ripley wrote: >Looking at the code it occurs to me that there is another case yo

[Rd] all.equal buglet(s)

ed > set.seed(2) > r2 <- .Random.seed > all.equal(r1, r2) [1] "Mean relative difference: NA" Warning message: NAs produced by integer overflow in: target - current A small change to 'all.equal.numeric' would fix that if it is felt to be worthwhile. Patrick Burns [EM

[Rd] [Fwd: Re: [R] a strange problem with integrate()]

ly to mind is 'read.table'. Patrick Burns [EMAIL PROTECTED] +44 (0)20 8525 0696 http://www.burns-stat.com (home of S Poetry and "A Guide for the Unwilling S User") Original Message Subject:Re: [R] a strange problem with integrate() Date: Wed, 01 Mar 2006 11

[Rd] weights in nls

12 day 07 svn rev 36656 language R Patrick Burns [EMAIL PROTECTED] +44 (0)20 8525 0696 http://www.burns-stat.com (home of S Poetry and "A Guide for the Unwilling S User") _

Re: [Rd] x[1,], x[1,,], x[1,,,], ...

You can look at the definition of 'corner' in the public domain area of the Burns Statistics website. It uses 'do.call' on '[' to achieve (sort of) what you want. Patrick Burns [EMAIL PROTECTED] +44 (0)20 8525 0696 http://www.burns-stat.com (home of S Poetry and &qu

Re: [Rd] Typo(s) in proc.time.Rd and comment about ?proc.time (PR#8091)

I'm not so sure that it is a typo or ungrammatical as much as an awkward way of stating it. Maybe something along the lines of: The resolution of the times will be system-specific; it is common for the resolution to be on the order of 1/100 second, ... Patrick Burns [EMAIL PROTECTED] +44

[Rd] minor typo in Writing R Extensions

On page 10 (section 1.1.4) of Writing R Extensions version 2.1.1 the following two phrases appear: define these function in a file after the packages is The 's' from 'functions' fell down the page and attached itself to 'package'. Patrick Burns [EMAIL PROTE

Re: [Rd] [R] sequence()

the proper length of the answer at the outset since that is known. It could then be used as an example (somewhere) of how not to fragment memory. Patrick Burns [EMAIL PROTECTED] +44 (0)20 8525 0696 http://www.burns-stat.com (home of S Poetry and "A Guide for the Unwilling S User") Prof

[Rd] help.search of precedence is empty

Doing help.search('precedence') comes up empty. A fix would be to have the title: Operator Syntax and Precedence instead of Operator Syntax Patrick Burns [EMAIL PROTECTED] +44 (0)20 8525 0696 http://www.burns-stat.com (home of S Poetry and "A Guide for the U

Re: [Rd] eigen of a real pd symmetric matrix gives NaNs in $vector (PR#7987)

. The bug is still there with some scaling of the matrix (from about divide by 2 to multiply by 8). The bug disappears if the matrix is dumped and sourced back in again. The only clue that I can offer is that it is vectors 43:50 (I think) that are NaN's and the matrix is logically of r