Re: [Rd] Date vs date

2007-09-15 Thread Prof Brian Ripley
On Fri, 14 Sep 2007, hadley wickham wrote: 3. temp - as.Date('1990/1/1') - as.date('1953/2/5') sqrt(temp) Error in Math.difftime(temp3) : sqrtnot defined for difftime objects Minor bug: no space before the word 'not' Major: this shouldn't fail. Arguably, it should (Is

Re: [Rd] (PR#9910) Incomplete library linking for grDevices.so on

2007-09-15 Thread ripley
What compiler system is this? And what settings were used? We are not seeing such a problem on Solaris 10 (neither Sparc nor x86_64) with the Sun Studio 11 compilers they shipped with (a month or two ago). Note that the error message is not to do with subject line: it is launching R and

Re: [Rd] Building an R GUI using gWidgets and RGtk2

2007-09-15 Thread Hans-Peter
I'm developing a GUI in R that will be used to monitor financial portfolio performance. The GUI will be distributed as an R package. So far, I've decided to use the cairoDevice, RGtk2, gWidgets, and gWidgetsRGtk2 packages to develop the GUI. I am trying to decide what would be the best

[Rd] R-2.6.0 for Windows, semi-transparent colours and layout()

2007-09-15 Thread Henric Nilsson (Public)
Hi, The added support for semi-transparent colours in `windows' under R-2.6.0 for Windows is much appreciated. However, I've discovered that issuing a `layout' (or `par' with arguments `mfcol'/`mfrow') call and then trying to plot several figures with semi-transparent colour on the same page

[Rd] r cmd build

2007-09-15 Thread Gabor Grothendieck
On Windows Vista hhc.exe is not available. One can do this on an install: rcmd install --docs=normal myPackage to avoid the message about hhc.exe; however, rcmd build does not appear to support --docs=normal so one cannot do a build without getting a message about hhc.exe (although the build