[Rd] Sweave: multiple graphic formats, e.g. win.metafile

2011-03-23 Thread Meyer, Sebastian
Dear R devel, being constrained to a windows environment at work and having colleagues being accustomed to the Microsoft Office Suite, I was looking for a way to have the RweaveLatex driver for Sweave automatically generating 'win.metafile's in addition to the pdf graphics. Without this

[Rd] Suggestion: kill -USR1 pid should respect --no-save option

2011-03-23 Thread Stig B. Mortensen
If R is killed with kill -USR1 pid it will terminate and save its workspace overwriting any exiting .RData-file even if R has been started with the --no-save option. Preferably R should always respect the --no-save option and this should thus be used to determine if the workspace is saved when

Re: [Rd] Sweave: multiple graphic formats, e.g. win.metafile

2011-03-23 Thread Prof Brian Ripley
We are currently in the process of implementing PNG and JPEG for 2.13.0, and an extensible architecture is planned for 2.14.0. On Wed, 23 Mar 2011, Meyer, Sebastian wrote: Dear R devel, being constrained to a windows environment at work and having colleagues being accustomed to the

Re: [Rd] Sweave: multiple graphic formats, e.g. win.metafile

2011-03-23 Thread Claudia Beleites
On 03/23/2011 01:05 PM, Prof Brian Ripley wrote: We are currently in the process of implementing PNG and JPEG for 2.13.0, and an extensible architecture is planned for 2.14.0. :-) this is really good news :-) Thank you! -- Claudia Beleites DI3 Università degli Studi di Trieste Via Alfonso

[Rd] system.file() to read a text file from a vignette

2011-03-23 Thread Michael Friendly
[Env: R 2.12.2, WinXp] In a vignette for the vcdExtra package, I had a text file, tv.dat under data/, that I used in the vignette as tv1,results=verbatim= tv.data-read.table(system.file(data,tv.dat,package=vcdExtra)) head(tv.data,5) @ I was told that this now generates a warning for

Re: [Rd] system.file() to read a text file from a vignette

2011-03-23 Thread Tobias Verbeke
Hi Michael, On 03/23/2011 03:03 PM, Michael Friendly wrote: [Env: R 2.12.2, WinXp] In a vignette for the vcdExtra package, I had a text file, tv.dat under data/, that I used in the vignette as tv1,results=verbatim= tv.data-read.table(system.file(data,tv.dat,package=vcdExtra)) head(tv.data,5)

Re: [Rd] system.file() to read a text file from a vignette

2011-03-23 Thread Duncan Murdoch
On 23/03/2011 10:03 AM, Michael Friendly wrote: [Env: R 2.12.2, WinXp] In a vignette for the vcdExtra package, I had a text file, tv.dat under data/, that I used in the vignette as tv1,results=verbatim= tv.data-read.table(system.file(data,tv.dat,package=vcdExtra)) head(tv.data,5) @ I was told

Re: [Rd] system.file() to read a text file from a vignette

2011-03-23 Thread Michael Friendly
On 3/23/2011 10:21 AM, Duncan Murdoch wrote: Everything in the inst directory is moved up a level when it is installed. So you shouldn't mention inst in its path. I discovered this by error-and-trial. ?system.file is mute on this. Perhaps R-ext.pdf could make this explicit by saying The

[Rd] argument handling in boot.ci

2011-03-23 Thread Matthew Vernon
Hi, boot.ci fails to check if the type argument is valid or not. This tripped me up when I had a script that called boot.ci(type=normal,...) repeatedly - only later when I tried to do some further analysis did I realise I'd got nothing useful back from boot.ci. It strikes me that this

Re: [Rd] argument handling in boot.ci

2011-03-23 Thread Duncan Murdoch
On 23/03/2011 11:35 AM, Matthew Vernon wrote: Hi, boot.ci fails to check if the type argument is valid or not. This tripped me up when I had a script that called boot.ci(type=normal,...) repeatedly - only later when I tried to do some further analysis did I realise I'd got nothing useful back

Re: [Rd] Sweave: multiple graphic formats, e.g. win.metafile

2011-03-23 Thread Greg Snow
You might consider using odfWeave, then you can create a single document, save it as a word doc, and send it to collaborators where they can then cut and paste from the word doc to whatever they are using. -- Gregory (Greg) L. Snow Ph.D. Statistical Data Center Intermountain Healthcare

[Rd] suggestions re trunc.POSIXt

2011-03-23 Thread Kenn Konstabel
Dear all, I hope this is a right place to post this; r-help might be appropriate but it looks like I'm suggesting a change in base package, so I decided to post here. (+ Apologies if that has been changed recently -- the version I'm using is R.2.12.2 on Windows.) I've noticed an unexpected

[Rd] import question

2011-03-23 Thread Ben Bolker
I have been struggling all day to import a particular function/method combination (ranef(), which extracts the random effects from a mixed model fit) from the nlme package into another package ... so far without success. The NAMESPACE for nlme contains the following lines: export(...,

Re: [Rd] import question

2011-03-23 Thread Ben Bolker
Ben Bolker bbolker at gmail.com writes: I have been struggling all day to import a particular function/method combination (ranef(), which extracts the random effects from a mixed model fit) from the nlme package into another package ... so far without success. Answered my own

Re: [Rd] import question

2011-03-23 Thread Prof Brian Ripley
On Thu, 24 Mar 2011, Ben Bolker wrote: Ben Bolker bbolker at gmail.com writes: I have been struggling all day to import a particular function/method combination (ranef(), which extracts the random effects from a mixed model fit) from the nlme package into another package ... so far