Re: [Rd] Suggestion for serialization performance improvement on Windows

2010-07-20 Thread Prof Brian Ripley
On Fri, 9 Jul 2010, Bryan W. Lewis wrote: Dear R developers, The slow performance of serializing to a raw vector on Windows is an issue that has appeared in this list before. It appears to be due to References? the frequent use of realloc from the resize_buffer method in serialize.c. I

Re: [Rd] Non-blocking Eval

2010-07-20 Thread Martin Kerr
Sorry I phrased that badly. What I'm trying to do is asynchronously add data to R, i.e. a program will periodically dump some readings to the Rserver and then later on another program will run some analysis scripts on them. I have managed to add the data via CMD_detachedVoidEval as you

[Rd] Package ff building error on solaris x64 10u7

2010-07-20 Thread 顾小波
Hi again, I am trying to building ff on solaris x64 10u7, and failed with the following result: -bash-3.00$ R CMD INSTALL ff * installing to library '/opt/R/R2-11-1/lib/R/library' * installing *source* package 'ff' ... checking for gcc... /opt/sunstudio12.1/bin/cc -m64 checking

Re: [Rd] Building rattle on Solaris 10u7 X86

2010-07-20 Thread 顾小波
Hi Professor Brian Ripley, Thanks for your help, Our experience is - the X11 installation on Solaris is too old for these packages. We use the one from OpenCSW (see the R-admin manual). cairographics in particular has moved on a lot since the 2005 release of Solaris 10 (cairo reached

[Rd] Telling R CMD check where to find libraries

2010-07-20 Thread Thaler, Thorn, LAUSANNE, Applied Mathematics
Hello everybody, Currently I'm developing a library, which uses some functions from another package (namely plotrix). Consequently, I listed this dependency in the DESCRIPTION file. When I try to run R CMD check mypackage, the check fails, for the library plotrix cannot be found on the system. As

Re: [Rd] garbage collection memory leaks in 'R', it seems...

2010-07-20 Thread Mike Williamson
Peter, OK, thanks for the info! My work-around for the foreseeable future is to simply launch 'R' from a command line with the --no-save --no-restore options, then break the program up a bit. Regards,

Re: [Rd] Non-blocking Eval

2010-07-20 Thread Simon Urbanek
Martin, On Jul 20, 2010, at 8:10 AM, Martin Kerr wrote: Sorry I phrased that badly. What I'm trying to do is asynchronously add data to R, i.e. a program will periodically dump some readings to the Rserver and then later on another program will run some analysis scripts on them. That is

[Rd] Extract callNextMethod array calls matrix?

2010-07-20 Thread Daniel Murphy
I have a class that extends array and my method for [ stops with an error: setClass(A, contains=array) [1] A setMethod([, A, function(x, i, j, ..., drop = TRUE) new(A, callNextMethod())) [1] [ a-new(A,array(1:12,c(4,3,1))) a An object of class A , , 1 [,1] [,2] [,3] [1,]159

[Rd] new bug in install.packages()

2010-07-20 Thread Hervé Pagès
Hi, install.packages() seems to be broken in latest R-devel snapshot (2010-07-19 r52561) if you are using an R/R.version$platform-library/x.y directory. .libPaths() [1] /home/hpages/R/x86_64-unknown-linux-gnu-library/2.12 [2] /home/hpages/R-2.12/library install.packages(car) Error

[Rd] broken link to new features in R-devel: no NEWS file

2010-07-20 Thread Mark.Bravington
Hi The link from CRAN to new features in R-devel hasn't been working for a few days. Specifically, there is no NEWS file in https://svn.r-project.org/R/trunk/, though there is an ONEWS. The link is in the Source code for all platforms subwindow, where it says: Daily snapshots of current

Re: [Rd] Package RPostgreSQL_0.1-6.tar.gz has been checked and built

2010-07-20 Thread Amber
Hi Dirk I think there are problems with pg_config, the configure script of RPostgreSQL checks for pg_config and got ¡°checking for pg_config... /usr/bin/pg_config¡±. In Solaris 10u7 X64, three versions of PostgreSQL are installed, there are in /usr/postgres/8.2(8.2.9) and

Re: [Rd] Package ff building error on solaris x64 10u7

2010-07-20 Thread Amber
Thanks, this one works 2010/7/20 Prof Brian Ripley rip...@stats.ox.ac.uk This is a known problem, reported to the maintainer months ago. Try http://www.stats.ox.ac.uk/pub/RWin/GPLcompliance/ff_2.1-2.1.tar.gz [You will be able to see which 100+ packages fail on Solaris from the CRAN

Re: [Rd] broken link to new features in R-devel: no NEWS file

2010-07-20 Thread Gabor Grothendieck
On Tue, Jul 20, 2010 at 10:20 PM, mark.braving...@csiro.au wrote: Hi The link from CRAN to new features in R-devel hasn't been working for a few days. Specifically, there is no NEWS file in https://svn.r-project.org/R/trunk/, though there is an ONEWS. The link is in the Source code for