Re: [Rd] a side note to the Rcmdr issue

2010-04-26 Thread Prof Brian Ripley
On Sun, 25 Apr 2010, John Fox wrote: Dear Erin, Unlike in previous version of R for Windows, the package list is alphabetized with uppercase letters preceding lowercase letters. Thus look under uppercase R and then lowercase c. Actually, that is not the case: the list is in whatever order

Re: [Rd] Deferred Default Marker

2010-04-26 Thread jing hua zhao
Hi Terry, Not aware about the issue, e.g., from $ uname -a Linux c06.mrc-epid.private.cam.ac.uk 2.6.9-89.0.23.ELsmp #1 SMP Fri Mar 5 23:27:13 EST 2010 x86_64 x86_64 x86_64 GNU/Linux I got library(kinship) Loading required package: survival Loading required package: splines Loading required

[Rd] some queries over cross-compilation

2010-04-26 Thread jing hua zhao
Dear R developers, I ran into some problems that I wish to get around. Following the recommendation from Building R for Windows (Duncan's site) I was able to obtain some files from Brian's site for relevant tools for cross-compile. Initially I was able to cross-compile Windows packages

[Rd] CRAN master, R-Forge, R-Project websites down

2010-04-26 Thread Stefan Peter Theußl
Dear R users and developers, Due to a failure of the electrical system, the IT services (also hosting R-project related websites) of the WU (Vienna University of Economics and Business) are currently unavailable. Affected websites and services are: CRAN master (cran.r-project.org), the

Re: [Rd] Question of R CMD check

2010-04-26 Thread Uwe Ligges
On 25.04.2010 20:33, rusers.sh wrote: Hi all, I find the problem.See below. Today, i installed the newest R-VERSION2.11.0 for checking. Different error occurred. I checked the log and found 'Hmisc' package caused this. At present, binary package was not provided. After i installed an old

Re: [Rd] some queries over cross-compilation

2010-04-26 Thread Uwe Ligges
Cross compiling support has been dropped. If you want to have it, please patch the sources yourself. If you just want to get a Windows biunary of one package and you do not have a Windows machine around, you may use the service at: http://win-builder.r-project.org/ Uwe Ligges On 26.04.2010

Re: [Rd] some queries over cross-compilation

2010-04-26 Thread jing hua zhao
Dear Uwe, Thanks -- I also found Rtools11.exe work very well under my home PC with Windows Vista. BW, Jing Hua Date: Mon, 26 Apr 2010 14:04:32 +0200 From: lig...@statistik.tu-dortmund.de To: jinghuaz...@hotmail.com CC: r-devel@r-project.org Subject: Re: [Rd] some queries over

[Rd] Update: working mirrors and services due to IT failure at WU

2010-04-26 Thread Stefan Peter Theußl
Dear R community, The only working mirror under a separate subdomain in the zone r-project.org is cran.us.r-project.org. Some mirrors are just virtualhosts on the master server and thus cannot be resolved via DNS. These are: cran.au.r-project.org cran.br.r-project.org cran.ca.r-project.org

Re: [Rd] Deferred Default Marker

2010-04-26 Thread Terry Therneau
Peter, There was no particular reason for an older kinship; just hadn't downloaded it in a while. I grabbed a private copy just now and the error went away, R 2.10.0. I remain curious as to what the message was about, but not enough for either of us to do any work to find out. I've sent off

[Rd] 00LOCK and nfs

2010-04-26 Thread Kasper Daniel Hansen
I am running into a problem with the 00LOCK file and .nfs files. It seemed to be caused by the following R is installed on NFS user A has loaded pkg_A containing a dynamically loaded library user B (the administrator) runs install.packages(pkg_A) as the final part of the installation

[Rd] serial connection patch

2010-04-26 Thread Matt Shotwell
All, Our discussion of serial interfaces last week motivated me to dig into the R connections API. In short, I spent the weekend writing a patch for version 2.11.0 that adds a serial connection. I posted a blog entry that gives instructions for applying, configuring, and compiling the patched

Re: [Rd] 00LOCK and nfs

2010-04-26 Thread Christian Brechbühler
On Mon, Apr 26, 2010 at 11:15 AM, Kasper Daniel Hansen kasperdanielhan...@gmail.com wrote: I am running into a problem with the 00LOCK file and .nfs files. It seemed to be caused by the following R is installed on NFS user A has loaded pkg_A containing a dynamically loaded library user

Re: [Rd] serial connection patch

2010-04-26 Thread Simon Urbanek
Matt, thanks for you efforts. We cannot directly use your patch due to licensing issues (please note the licenses in the files you are modifying - I don't think anyone can currently use the patch and redistribute the resulting R; also/or we may possibly need to clarify that the work is either

Re: [Rd] 00LOCK and nfs

2010-04-26 Thread Kasper Daniel Hansen
2010/4/26 Christian Brechbühler brechbueh...@gmail.com: On Mon, Apr 26, 2010 at 11:15 AM, Kasper Daniel Hansen kasperdanielhan...@gmail.com wrote: I am running into a problem with the 00LOCK file and .nfs files.  It seemed to be caused by the following  R is installed on NFS  user A has

[Rd] R and the Google Summer of Code 2010 -- Please welcome our new students!

2010-04-26 Thread Dirk Eddelbuettel
Earlier today Google finalised student / mentor pairings and allocations for the Google Summer of Code 2010 (GSoC 2010). The R Project is happy to announce that the following students have been accepted: Colin Rundel, rgeos - an R wrapper for GEOS, mentored by Roger Bivand of the

Re: [Rd] Bug in calculation of overdispersion for quasibinomial grouped

2010-04-26 Thread Ulrike Grömping
A quick addition: SAS PROC LOGISTIC with option SCALE=PEARSON only calculates what R calculates in the grouped version; this is forced by refusing to calculate a FI estimate for ungrouped data, unless an AGGREGATE option is specified. Apparently, SAS has decided for one model (not the one I

Re: [Rd] S4 Inheritance of environments

2010-04-26 Thread Christopher Brown
Thanks Roger, Duncan, Henrik and John: First, Roger. Yes this works as expected: inherits( inEnv, 'environment' ) Thanks for pointing that out. Duncan, I maintain the hash packages, which provides perl-hash / python-dictionary wrapper around the environment. A very early implementation