[Rd] Graphical device questions!

2007-02-15 Thread Sebastien Durand
Dear all, I have posted these questions in r-help list but since I am getting no reply, I concluded that I must asked my question in the wrong list so here I am! Here is my questions: 1- Under a WINDOWS installation of R-2.4.1, can we change the naming of a new ploting device open by the

Re: [Rd] Graphical device questions!

2007-02-15 Thread Duncan Murdoch
On 2/15/2007 10:47 AM, Sebastien Durand wrote: Dear all, I have posted these questions in r-help list but since I am getting no reply, I concluded that I must asked my question in the wrong list so here I am! I think you asked in the right place last time, but nobody knew the answer.

[Rd] error messages with dimension mismatch?

2007-02-15 Thread ivo welch
dear R developers: may I suggest that you add to the various error messages that relate to non-conformable arguments (e.g. matrix multiplication) or not multiple of(e.g., comparison) the actual two dimension numbers that do not match up? something like Error in t(a) %*% vcov(reg.model) :

Re: [Rd] Graphical device questions!

2007-02-15 Thread Sebastien Durand
Dear all, Does anybody know of any function such as bringToTop windows function but under Mac OS X... I looked and I could not find any... Cheers... Sébastien On 2/15/2007 10:47 AM, Sebastien Durand wrote: Dear all, I have posted these questions in r-help list but since I am getting no

[Rd] Encoding API

2007-02-15 Thread Thomas Friedrichsmeier
Hi! I've been observing the recent SVN log entries about encoding information in CHARSXPs with great interest. This looks like a very nice addition. While this is still work in progress, I'd like to suggest the following extra: At least in RKWard, all shown strings need to be converted to

[Rd] R-devel news: non-ASCII character strings in packages

2007-02-15 Thread Prof Brian Ripley
R-devel (pre-2.5.0) now has enough facilities to allow packages with non-ASCII character strings to work reasonably well in locales where the fonts use support the characters used. For example, names in Western European languages can be used on both Latin-1 (and hence Windows 1252) and UTF-8