Re: [Rd] as.character.Date() strips names in R 4.3.2 beta, bug?

planation and pointers to the old info I'd missed, Martin. The as.character.Date tip in particular was very helpful in adapting my code to work with this change. -- Andrew Piskorski __ R-devel@r-project.org mailing list https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/l

[Rd] as.character.Date() strips names in R 4.3.2 beta, bug?

3 LTS" $ R --vanilla R version 4.3.2 beta (2023-10-22 r85392) -- "Eye Holes" > v2 <- structure(as.Date(c('2021-10-06','2021-10-08')) ,names=c('a','b')) > v2 ab "2021-10-06" "2021-10-08" > class(v2) [1] "Date" > as.cha

Re: [Rd] R 4.1.x make check fails, stats-Ex.R, step factor reduced below minFactor

xp(B * x), algorithm = "default", : step factor 0.000488281 reduced below 'minFactor' of 0.000976562 In addition: Warning message: In nls(formula = y ~ Const + A * exp(B * x), algorithm = "default", : No starting values specified for some parameters. Initializing 'Const', 'A', 'B' to '1.'. Consider specifying 'start' or using a selfStart model -- Andrew Piskorski __ R-devel@r-project.org mailing list https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-devel

[Rd] R 4.1.x make check fails, stats-Ex.R, step factor reduced below minFactor

roject.org/doc/manuals/r-patched/R-admin.html#Testing-a-Unix_002dalike-Installation Sys.setenv(LC_COLLATE = "C", LC_TIME = "C", LANGUAGE = "en") pdf("tests.pdf") tools::testInstalledPackages(scope="base", errorsAreFatal=FALSE) -- Andrew Piskorski __ R-devel@r-project.org mailing list https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-devel

[Rd] Rprofile.site function or variable definitions break with R 4.1

but what's the recommended way to actually USE Rprofile.site now? Should I move all my local configuration into a special package, and do nothing in Rprofile.site except require() that package? Thanks for your help and advice! -- Andrew Piskorski __

[Rd] failed to assign RegisteredNativeSymbol for splitString

difference. Is it generally the case the users MUST NOT define R functions with the same names as "registered" C functions? Will something break if we do? -- Andrew Piskorski <a...@piskorski.com> __ R-devel@r-project.org mailing list https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-devel

Re: [Rd] Custom C finalizers for .Call

Rf_error() terminates execution. But this is a ridiculously roundabout way to infer what the behavior of Rf_error() is supposed to be... -- Andrew Piskorski <a...@piskorski.com> __ R-devel@r-project.org mailing list https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-devel

Re: [Rd] Please make Pre-3.1 read.csv (type.convert) behavior available

- options(warn = -1) ; on.exit(options(old.warn)) aa - !is.na(as.numeric(xx)) if(ignore.na.p) (is.na(xx) | aa) else aa } -- Andrew Piskorski a...@piskorski.com __ R-devel@r-project.org mailing list https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-devel

Re: [Rd] palette() can hang and fail due to X11

way for me to do ONLY the first of palette()'s jobs, set my session-wide default colors and that's it? It looks like there is no such entry point in the code, but the little hack with the sacrificial pdf device above is a way to approximate one. -- Andrew Piskorski a...@piskorski.com

[Rd] palette() can hang and fail due to X11

, nor how I should avoid it. Any advice on how I should handle this robustly? (Thanks!) -- Andrew Piskorski a...@piskorski.com __ R-devel@r-project.org mailing list https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-devel

Re: [Rd] palette() can hang and fail due to X11

I've ever used. I am using: R 3.1.0 (Patched), 2014-04-15, svn.rev 65398, x86_64-unknown-linux-gnu Ubuntu 12.04.3 LTS Is there something else I should check to help track down the bug? -- Andrew Piskorski a...@piskorski.com __ R-devel@r

[Rd] read.table() code fails outside of the utils package

purposes, much as the old .Internal(readTableHead()) was in earlier versions of R. -- Andrew Piskorski a...@piskorski.com __ R-devel@r-project.org mailing list https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-devel

Re: [Rd] read.table() code fails outside of the utils package

! I do still wonder though, with the C symbol made visible in utils.so, how come this still failed?: .External(readtablehead, ..., PACKAGE=utils) Error: readtablehead not available for .External() for package utils -- Andrew Piskorski a...@piskorski.com

[Rd] how to get old type.convert() numeric behavior?

# Platform: x86_64-unknown-linux-gnu/x86_64 (64-bit) type.convert(paste(0., paste(rep(0:9,3)[seq_len(17)],collapse=), sep=), as.is=TRUE) [1] 0.01234568 type.convert(paste(0., paste(rep(0:9,3)[seq_len(18)],collapse=), sep=), as.is=TRUE) [1] 0.01234568 -- Andrew Piskorski a...@piskorski.com

Re: [Rd] read.table() code fails outside of the utils package

On Mon, Apr 21, 2014 at 06:44:05PM +0100, Prof Brian Ripley wrote: On 21/04/2014 18:08, Andrew Piskorski wrote: .External(utils:::C_readtablehead, ...) Ah, that works fine, and is nice and simple. So problem solved, thank you! I do still wonder though, with the C symbol made visible

[Rd] Why did R 3.0's resolveNativeRoutine remove full-search ability?

that be an error? Or said another way, why has traditional Unix-style symbol resolution been banned from use with .C and .Call ? -- Andrew Piskorski a...@piskorski.com __ R-devel@r-project.org mailing list https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-devel

[Rd] how to interpose my own [ function?

- eval(parse(text=code)) # FINALLY we have the stock result, now modify it some more... result } -- Andrew Piskorski a...@piskorski.com __ R-devel@r-project.org mailing list https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-devel

[Rd] why does do_stop call R_GetTraceback ?

=value optimized out, args=0x10ecae78, rho=value optimized out) at ../../../src/main/errors.c:1095 [...] #79 0x00400819 in _start () -- Andrew Piskorski a...@piskorski.com __ R-devel@r-project.org mailing list https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman

Re: [Rd] Quiz: How to get a named column from a data frame

-preserving subscripting to R, I'm willing to work on it, so please do let me know your thoughts. So far though, I've never dug into the guts of the .Primitive([) and [.data.frame functions to see how/why they sometimes keep and sometime discard names during subscripting. -- Andrew Piskorski

Re: [Rd] BLAS benchmarks on R 2.12.0

, rather than one of the faster optimized BLAS libraries (Atlas, Goto, AMD, Intel, etc.)? -- Andrew Piskorski a...@piskorski.com http://www.piskorski.com/ __ R-devel@r-project.org mailing list https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-devel

Re: [Rd] must .Call C functions return SEXP?

unacceptably Ugly. -- Andrew Piskorski a...@piskorski.com http://www.piskorski.com/ __ R-devel@r-project.org mailing list https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-devel

Re: [Rd] must .Call C functions return SEXP?

and illuminating answer. (Now I have better understanding of how the machine works, and what the dangerous sharp bits are. :) -- Andrew Piskorski a...@piskorski.com http://www.piskorski.com/ __ R-devel@r-project.org mailing list https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo

[Rd] must .Call C functions return SEXP?

, result_v); REAL(result_v)[0] = some_number; REAL(result_v)[1] = another_number; /* Also do the same sort of thing for result_list_2. */ return(result_list_1); /* Appears to work ok. */ /* return; */ /* Segfaults. */ -- Andrew Piskorski a...@piskorski.com http://www.piskorski.com

Re: [Rd] Adding Tcl source to an R package

() gives you. However, the implementation of tclVar() is nicely simple, and if you look you'll see how to make your own version that uses whatever Tcl variable name you want. -- Andrew Piskorski a...@piskorski.com http://www.piskorski.com/ __ R-devel@r

[Rd] R's --enable-threads does nothing?; gdb needs -lpthread

-lpthread in my library, the obvious fix is for me to build R itself with -lpthread, so gdb doesn't get confused. -- Andrew Piskorski a...@piskorski.com http://www.piskorski.com/ __ R-devel@r-project.org mailing list https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman

Re: [Rd] Running two R instances at the same time

to fork something OTHER than R? Have you tried manually starting up two R processes and running your R code that way? And, what is the actual R code you're running? You don't seem to have shown it anywhere. -- Andrew Piskorski a...@piskorski.com http://www.piskorski.com

Re: [Rd] Running two R instances at the same time

collaborators run across this serialization problem before?) -- Andrew Piskorski a...@piskorski.com http://www.piskorski.com/ __ R-devel@r-project.org mailing list https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-devel

Re: [Rd] ARM v7/Linux Port/cross-compile?

know a better way... -- Andrew Piskorski a...@piskorski.com http://www.piskorski.com/ __ R-devel@r-project.org mailing list https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-devel

Re: [Rd] how to change FPU control word?

about that. But on Linux, mostly x86-64, we use these from C: _FPU_GETCW() _FPU_SETCW() -- Andrew Piskorski a...@piskorski.com http://www.piskorski.com/ __ R-devel@r-project.org mailing list https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-devel

[Rd] Rprof loses all system() time

-around or alleviate this? What do you think it would take to fix Rprof to track the time spent waiting for system() to finish, and where in the R source should I look to attempt that? Thanks! -- Andrew Piskorski a...@piskorski.com http://www.piskorski.com

Re: [Rd] Closed-source non-free ParallelR ?

is invalid? Of course not, the entire idea is absurd (shades of SCO) - as I hope you agree. -- Andrew Piskorski a...@piskorski.com http://www.piskorski.com/ __ R-devel@r-project.org mailing list https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-devel

[Rd] (PR#8192) [ subscripting sometimes loses names

-Plus 3.3 and earlier, had the correct, name preserving behavior. I presume that the original Bell Labs S had correct name-preserving behavior, and then the S-Plus developers broke it sometime along the way. -- Andrew Piskorski a...@piskorski.com http://www.piskorski.com

[Rd] typo in cov()? var() fails on NA in R 2.7.2 but not R 2.6.1

of my no complete element pairs problem (I'm not at all sure), but it does look suspicious. -- Andrew Piskorski [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.piskorski.com/ __ R-devel@r-project.org mailing list https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-devel

[Rd] Erlang-style message-passing in R: Rmpi, Snow, NetWorkSpaces, etc.

/cvvanroy.html 23. http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0262220695/ 24. http://www.mozart-oz.org/ -- Andrew Piskorski [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.piskorski.com/ __ R-devel@r-project.org mailing list https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-devel

Re: [Rd] Erlang-style message-passing in R: Rmpi, Snow, NetWorkSpaces, etc.

SMP node, and use an MPI that sends messages through fast shared memory. That's probably still slower than thread-to-thread communications, but it should be much lower latency than TCP/IP. Maybe you already tried something like that? -- Andrew Piskorski [EMAIL PROTECTED] http

[Rd] R-uthreads?

from looking at src/main/uthreads.c. -- Andrew Piskorski [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.piskorski.com/ __ R-devel@r-project.org mailing list https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-devel

Re: [Rd] Problem with dyn.load'ed code

a PG_PKG_LIBS with the same stuff, but I don't remember why. The '--version-script=' and related matters were also disccussed here back in February: https://stat.ethz.ch/pipermail/r-devel/2007-February/044531.html -- Andrew Piskorski [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.piskorski.com

Re: [Rd] R trunk (2.7) build fails with -fpic, needs -fPIC (PR#10372)

to configure, and... It worked! It now builds successfully with -fpic (not -fPIC). So, problem solved, thank you! And I apologize for wasting your time with this. -- Andrew Piskorski [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.piskorski.com/ __ R-devel@r-project.org

Re: [Rd] R trunk (2.7) build fails with -fpic, needs -fPIC (PR#10372)

-4.0 +++-==-=-== ii binutils 2.16.1cvs20060117-1ubuntu2.1 The GNU assembler, linker and binary utilities ii gcc-4.04.0.3-1ubuntu5The GNU C compiler -- Andrew Piskorski [EMAIL PROTECTED] http

Re: [Rd] allocVector reference

: http://www.stat.uiowa.edu/~luke/R/simpleref.html Finalization and Weak References in R: http://www.stat.uiowa.edu/~luke/R/references/weakfinex.html -- Andrew Piskorski [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.piskorski.com/ __ R-devel@r-project.org

Re: [Rd] How to customize the list of exported functions in a shared library

, there are definitely other ways to control symbol visibility, but that one seemed most convenient in my case. -- Andrew Piskorski [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.piskorski.com/ __ R-devel@r-project.org mailing list https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-devel

[Rd] use one custom package with multiple R versions?

copies? (I see that R CMD INSTALL has a --with-package-versions option, but I think that's about using multiple versions of a package with one version of R, while I want the vice versa.) Thanks! -- Andrew Piskorski [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.piskorski.com

Re: [Rd] use one custom package with multiple R versions?

and thus handling things like external libraries is much less painful. Just make sure you create proper Simon, I don't understand the distinction, could you explain what these two methods do differently, please? And how does this affect the use of external libraries? -- Andrew Piskorski

Re: [Rd] What to do with a inconsistency in rank() that's in S+ and R ever since?

)) rank(c(1,NA,3)) [1] 1 3 2 [1] 1 3 2 rank(c(NA,NA,3)) rank(c(NA,NA,3)) [1] 2.5 2.5 1.0[1] 2 3 1 -- Andrew Piskorski [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.piskorski.com/ __ R-devel@r-project.org mailing list https

Re: [Rd] [R] multithreading calling from the rpy Python package

). The Erlang and Mozart/Oz folks both seem to think so, etc. -- Andrew Piskorski [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.piskorski.com/ __ R-devel@r-project.org mailing list https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-devel

Re: [Rd] natural sorting

sort: http://tcl.activestate.com/man/tcl8.4/TclCmd/lsort.htm -- Andrew Piskorski [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.piskorski.com/ __ R-devel@r-project.org mailing list https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-devel

Re: [Rd] t() dropping NULL dimnames {was all.equal() for mismatching names...}

]]: character(0) dimnames(t(x)) [[1]]: character(0) [[2]]: character(0) -- Andrew Piskorski [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.piskorski.com/ __ R-devel@r-project.org mailing list https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-devel

Re: [Rd] R thread safe

/ http://cran.us.r-project.org/src/contrib/Descriptions/RScaLAPACK.html http://cran.us.r-project.org/src/contrib/Descriptions/taskPR.html http://cran.us.r-project.org/src/contrib/Descriptions/biopara.html http://www.omegahat.org/download/R/packages/CORBA.tar.gz -- Andrew Piskorski [EMAIL