Re: [R-pkg-devel] Suppressing long-running vignette code in CRAN submission

2023-10-18 Thread John Fox
uot; in the post) to make sure the "real" source files are ignored when building the vignettes. Perhaps this is also a feasible solution for long running vignettes? Regards, Shu Fai On Wed, Oct 18, 2023 at 6:51 AM John Fox wrote: Dear John, Unless I'm mistaken, the *installation* ti

Re: [R-pkg-devel] Suppressing long-running vignette code in CRAN submission

2023-10-17 Thread John Fox
On 18/10/2023, at 3:02 AM, John Fox wrote: | > | > Hello Dirk, | > | > Thank you (and Kevin and John) for addressing my questions. | > | > No one directly answered my first question, however, which was whether the approach that I suggested would work. I guess that the implication

Re: [R-pkg-devel] Suppressing long-running vignette code in CRAN submission

2023-10-17 Thread John Fox
Hello Duncan, On 2023-10-17 4:43 p.m., Duncan Murdoch wrote: Caution: External email. On 17/10/2023 4:21 p.m., John Fox wrote: Hello Simon, On 2023-10-17 3:51 p.m., Simon Urbanek wrote: Caution: External email. John, the short answer is it won't work (it defeats the purpose of vignettes

Re: [R-pkg-devel] Suppressing long-running vignette code in CRAN submission

2023-10-17 Thread John Fox
vignettes if they declared. I assume that we'd declare the long-running vignette in our submission note to CRAN. Maybe that's better than pre-building the HTML vignettes in the package. Best, John Cheers, Simon On 18/10/2023, at 3:02 AM, John Fox wrote: Hello Dirk, Thank you

Re: [R-pkg-devel] Suppressing long-running vignette code in CRAN submission

2023-10-17 Thread John Fox
, Oct 17, 2023 at 12:45 PM John Fox wrote: Hello Dirk, Thank you for the additional information. As you suggest, what you did to distribute pre-built PDF vignettes is quite similar to what R.rsp does, except that the latter also supports pre-built HTML vignettes, which is what I'd prefer

Re: [R-pkg-devel] Suppressing long-running vignette code in CRAN submission

2023-10-17 Thread John Fox
, On 17 October 2023 at 10:02, John Fox wrote: | Hello Dirk, | | Thank you (and Kevin and John) for addressing my questions. | | No one directly answered my first question, however, which was whether | the approach that I suggested would work. I guess that the implication | is that it won't

Re: [R-pkg-devel] Suppressing long-running vignette code in CRAN submission

2023-10-17 Thread John Fox
Hello Dirk, Thank you (and Kevin and John) for addressing my questions. No one directly answered my first question, however, which was whether the approach that I suggested would work. I guess that the implication is that it won't, but it would be nice to confirm that before I try something

Re: [R-pkg-devel] roxygen style documentation for data sets

2023-09-21 Thread John Fox
Hi Michael, I'm no license expert either, but I too believe that while a GPL-licensed package can incorporate MIT-licensed code, an MIT-licensed package can't incorporate GPL-licensed code. One solution, I think, would be to put your use_data_doc() in a separate GPL-licensed package, which

Re: [R-pkg-devel] Advice on elegant way to alias function name

2022-09-02 Thread John Fox
d a couple of roxygen tags: #' @export #' @rdname myfn thefn <- myfn Hadley __ R-package-devel@r-project.org mailing list https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-package-devel -- John Fox, Professor Emeritus McMaster University Hamilto

Re: [R-pkg-devel] Strange behaviour of function called from within a function

2022-08-13 Thread John Fox
is off-base. Best, John On 2022-08-13 9:41 a.m., J C Nash wrote: Thanks to John Fox and Noah Greifer. Both their approaches resolved my immediate problem. That is, to provide a summary of the fix of my example code, tw <- function(formula, data, start, control, trace, weights) {   firstc

Re: [Rd] On read.csv and write.csv

2021-07-01 Thread John Fox
column names to be misaligned. As others have pointed out, .csv files are meant as a sort of least-common-denominator of data exchange, and so following the standard is probably a good idea. Best, John John Fox, Professor Emeritus McMaster University Hamilton, Ontario, Canada web: https://s

Re: [R-pkg-devel] CRAN packages suggesting other packages but not using them conditionally

2020-12-12 Thread John Fox
lps, John John Fox, Professor Emeritus McMaster University Hamilton, Ontario, Canada web: https://socialsciences.mcmaster.ca/jfox/ On 2020-12-12 1:40 p.m., Michael L Friendly wrote: Thanks, Dirk Just to clarify-- In my packages, candisc, heplots, vcdExtra I have mostly 2D graphic methods, b

Re: [R-pkg-devel] is R CMD build --compact-vignettes working as expected?

2020-10-08 Thread John Fox
nothing.  I don't know what quality CRAN uses, but for me setting the environment variable GS_QUALITY=screen made a big difference. Duncan Murdoch On 08/10/2020 11:10 a.m., John Fox wrote: Dear Ben, Actually, what I used was --compact-vignettes="both", with qpdf and gs installed o

Re: [R-pkg-devel] is R CMD build --compact-vignettes working as expected?

2020-10-08 Thread John Fox
K reduction. But Ben's example met those criteria.  When I trick it into accepting the compaction, it does put the compacted PDF into the tarball. Duncan Murdoch On 07/10/2020 6:03 p.m., John Fox wrote: Dear Ben, On 2020-10-07 5:26 p.m., Ben Bolker wrote:      I hope so too. The (annoying) workar

Re: [R-pkg-devel] is R CMD build --compact-vignettes working as expected?

2020-10-07 Thread John Fox
that it would be nice to avoid them. After all, what is the --compact-vignettes argument for? Best, John   cheers    Ben On 10/7/20 4:10 PM, John Fox wrote: Dear Ben, I was hoping that someone would pick up on this problem, because I've experienced the same issue of --compact-vignettes

Re: [R-pkg-devel] is R CMD build --compact-vignettes working as expected?

2020-10-07 Thread John Fox
Dear Ben, I was hoping that someone would pick up on this problem, because I've experienced the same issue of --compact-vignettes apparently ignored, e.g., with the Rcmdr package under R 4.0.2 on both macOS and Windows. Best, John John Fox, Professor Emeritus McMaster University Hamilton

Re: [R-pkg-devel] R CMD check "unable to verify current time"

2020-08-27 Thread John Fox
com> *From:* R-package-devel on behalf of John Fox *Sent:* Thursday, August 27, 2020 11:39 AM *To:* Duncan Murdoch ; r-package-devel@r-project.org *Subject:* Re: [R-pkg-devel] R CMD check "unable to verify current tim

Re: [R-pkg-devel] R CMD check "unable to verify current time"

2020-08-27 Thread John Fox
; it appears to want etc/UTC instead.  The second one is offline. Duncan Murdoch If both of those fail, you'll get the message you saw. On 27/08/2020 1:23 p.m., John Fox wrote: Dear r-package-devel list members, I got the following note when checking two different packages today --as-cran, both under R

[R-pkg-devel] R CMD check "unable to verify current time"

2020-08-27 Thread John Fox
tml>. Both packages that I was checking are close to CRAN releases and so I'd like to know whether I can disregard the note. Any help would be appreciated. John -- John Fox, Professor Emeritus McMaster University Hamilton, Ontario, Canada web: https://socialsciences.mcmaster.c

Re: [R-pkg-devel] recursive dependencies and install.packages()

2015-08-19 Thread John Fox
-devel [mailto:r-package-devel-boun...@r-project.org] On Behalf Of John Fox Sent: Wednesday, August 19, 2015 3:16 PM To: r-package-devel@r-project.org Subject: [R-pkg-devel] recursive dependencies and install.packages() Dear list members, I'm pretty sure (from memory) that this was discussed

[R-pkg-devel] recursive dependencies and install.packages()

2015-08-19 Thread John Fox
, John --- John Fox, Professor McMaster University Hamilton, Ontario, Canada http://socserv.socsci.mcmaster.ca/jfox/ __ R-package-devel@r-project.org mailing list https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-package

Re: [R-pkg-devel] invalid 'envir' argument note from R-devel

2015-07-13 Thread John Fox
Dear Duncan, -Original Message- From: Duncan Murdoch [mailto:murdoch.dun...@gmail.com] Sent: July-13-15 7:01 PM To: John Fox; 'peter dalgaard' Cc: r-package-devel@r-project.org Subject: Re: [R-pkg-devel] invalid 'envir' argument note from R-devel It happened in r68597. In my

Re: [Rd] Graphical User Interface (GUI)

2015-07-08 Thread John Fox
-project.org/doc/Rnews/Rnews_2007-3.pdf and the Journal of Statistical Software http://www.jstatsoft.org/v49/i07. Best, John --- John Fox, Professor McMaster University Hamilton, Ontario, Canada http://socserv.socsci.mcmaster.ca/jfox/ -Original

Re: [Rd] RFC: Declaring foo.bar as nonS3method() ?!

2015-06-13 Thread John Fox
https://stat.ethz.ch/pipermail/r-package-devel/2015q2/000126.html which is relevant to here because some of us have been thinking about extending R because of the issue. John Fox, maintainer of the 'effects' package has enquired about the following output

Re: [Rd] RFC: Declaring foo.bar as nonS3method() ?!

2015-06-12 Thread John Fox
of the issue. John Fox, maintainer of the 'effects' package has enquired about the following output from 'R CMD check effects' * checking S3 generic/method consistency ... NOTE Found the following apparent S3 methods exported but not registered: all.effects and added

Re: [Rd] problem with update.packages() in R-Devel (3.2.0) on Windows

2015-01-27 Thread John Fox
Dear Dan and Henrik, Yes -- thanks. I discovered that earlier today. Best, John -Original Message- From: R-devel [mailto:r-devel-boun...@r-project.org] On Behalf Of Dan Tenenbaum Sent: January-27-15 1:25 PM To: Henrik Bengtsson Cc: John Fox; R-devel Subject: Re: [Rd] problem

[Rd] problem with update.packages() in R-Devel (3.2.0) on Windows

2015-01-26 Thread John Fox
/3.2/zoo_1.7-11.zip' Content type 'application/zip' length 878614 bytes (858 KB) opened URL downloaded 858 KB package 'zoo' successfully unpacked and MD5 sums checked The downloaded binary packages are in C:\Users\John Fox\AppData\Local\Temp\RtmpuKqvB0\downloaded_packages

Re: [Rd] strange behavior for RcmdrPlugin.qual

2013-09-16 Thread John Fox
-devel@r-project.org mailing list https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-devel John Fox McMaster University Hamilton, Ontario, Canada http://socserv.mcmaster.ca/jfox/ __ R-devel@r-project.org mailing list

Re: [Rd] declaring package dependencies

2013-09-13 Thread John Fox
Dear Duncan and Michael, -Original Message- From: r-devel-boun...@r-project.org [mailto:r-devel-bounces@r- project.org] On Behalf Of Duncan Murdoch Sent: Friday, September 13, 2013 9:51 AM To: Michael Friendly Cc: r-devel Subject: Re: [Rd] declaring package dependencies On

Re: [Rd] legitimate use of :::

2013-08-26 Thread John Fox
Dear Duncan, -Original Message- From: r-devel-boun...@r-project.org [mailto:r-devel-bounces@r- project.org] On Behalf Of Duncan Murdoch Sent: Monday, August 26, 2013 2:24 PM To: Benjamin Hofner Cc: r-devel@r-project.org Subject: Re: [Rd] legitimate use of ::: On 26/08/2013 11:20

Re: [Rd] legitimate use of :::

2013-08-22 Thread John Fox
car:::df.terms, also unexported, but don't want to ask John Fox to export it just for my use. Uwe's reply suggests that I should not be using car:::df.terms, however. To avoid the NOTEs (which often triggers a 'pls fix' upon submission to CRAN), I simply copied/pasted these functions to my

Re: [Rd] legitimate use of :::

2013-08-22 Thread John Fox
Dear Peter, -Original Message- From: r-devel-boun...@r-project.org [mailto:r-devel-bounces@r- project.org] On Behalf Of peter dalgaard Sent: Thursday, August 22, 2013 4:45 PM To: Michael Friendly Cc: R-devel; Uwe Ligges Subject: Re: [Rd] legitimate use of ::: On Aug 22, 2013,

Re: [Rd] legitimate use of :::

2013-08-22 Thread John Fox
Dear Gray, On Thu, 22 Aug 2013 19:41:58 -0500 Gray g...@clhn.co wrote: Peter Meilstrup: (05:01PM on Thu, Aug 22) One most often encounters namespace conflicts at the user level, when loading two packages that have no logical connection other than both bearing on your problem of the moment.

Re: [Rd] package file permissions problem R 3.0.0/Windows OS

2013-04-15 Thread John Fox
of Rtools. What's curious to me is that I'm seeing the problem on two different Windows system but, AFAIK, no one else has experienced a similar problem. Thanks for your help, John On 14/04/2013 22:17, John Fox wrote: Dear list members, I'm experiencing a file permissions problem

Re: [Rd] package file permissions problem R 3.0.0/Windows OS

2013-04-15 Thread John Fox
that it's hard to diagnose this kind of problem long-distance via email. Best, John On Mon, 15 Apr 2013 20:19:21 +0100 Prof Brian Ripley rip...@stats.ox.ac.uk wrote: On 15/04/2013 14:11, John Fox wrote: Dear Brian, On Mon, 15 Apr 2013 06:56:26 +0100 Prof Brian Ripley rip

Re: [Rd] nobs() with glm(family=poisson)

2013-02-27 Thread John Fox
Dear Milan and Steven, At the risk of muddying the water further, I think that the potential confusion here is that Poisson GLMs are applied in two formally equivalent but substantively different situations: (1) where the counts are cells in a contingency table, in which case the Poisson GLM

Re: [Rd] Private environments and/or assignInMyNamespace

2013-02-13 Thread John Fox
mardi 12 février 2013 à 14:45 +0100, Ulrike Grömping a écrit : Dear DevelopeRs, I've been struggling with the new regulations regarding modifications to the search path, regarding my Rcmdr plugin package RcmdrPlugin.DoE. John Fox made Rcmdr comply with the new policy by removing

Re: [Rd] Regression stars

2013-02-07 Thread John Fox
Dear Frank, I'd like to second your implicit motion to make options(show.signif.stars=FALSE) the default. Thanks for raising this point. John On Thu, 7 Feb 2013 05:32:04 -0800 (PST) Frank Harrell f.harr...@vanderbilt.edu wrote: Today's GNU R tutorial in

Re: [Rd] Declaring/importing non-exported functions [car] in another package

2013-01-16 Thread John Fox
alternative to copy these functions to my package, also unexported? Using car:::df.terms explicitly is another option. Another possibility is for the car maintainer (John Fox) to export that function from car. Duncan Murdoch __ R-devel@r

Re: [Rd] contr.sum() and contrast names

2012-10-30 Thread John Fox
Hi Milan, On Tue, 30 Oct 2012 10:25:56 +0100 Milan Bouchet-Valat nalimi...@club.fr wrote: Le samedi 27 octobre 2012 à 10:44 -0400, John Fox a écrit : Hi Milan, Take a look at the contr.Sum() and contr.Treatment() functions in the car package. Yeah, this is the kind of function I had

Re: [Rd] if(--as-cran)?

2012-09-04 Thread John Fox
Dear all, I'd like to second this fairly simple request. I currently enclosed some of the examples in the effects package in \donttest{} blocks to satisfy the CRAN timing requirements for examples. It would be nice to have something like a \donttestcran{} block that suppresses the tests when

Re: [Rd] globalVariables()

2012-06-24 Thread John Fox
() = '2.15.1') globalVariables(c(, paste(globals, collapse=, ), )), sep=) cmd - strwrap(cmd) writeLines(cmd, fileout) } --- snip --- Best, John On Sat, 23 Jun 2012 11:51:55 -0400 John Fox j...@mcmaster.ca wrote: Dear r-devel list members, By placing a call

[Rd] globalVariables()

2012-06-23 Thread John Fox
' is in the call to globalVariables(): - snip * checking R code for possible problems ... NOTE Commander: no visible binding for '-' assignment to '.commander.done' (C:/Users/John Fox/workspace/Rcmdr/R/commander.R:653) closeCommander: no visible binding for '-' assignment

[Rd] using predict() with poly(x, raw=TRUE)

2012-03-14 Thread John Fox
predictions under these circumstances? Best, John John Fox Senator William McMaster Professor of Social Statistics Department of Sociology McMaster University Hamilton, Ontario, Canada http://socserv.mcmaster.ca/jfox __ R

Re: [Rd] need gui matrix editor: does R Core team have advice on how?

2012-01-28 Thread John Fox
/installation-notes.html. I hope this helps, John John Fox Senator William McMaster Professor of Social Statistics Department of Sociology McMaster University Hamilton, Ontario, Canada http://socserv.mcmaster.ca/jfox -Original Message- From: r-devel-boun

Re: [Rd] How to deal with package conflicts

2011-11-27 Thread John Fox
package under Suggests. Best, John -Original Message- From: r-devel-boun...@r-project.org [mailto:r-devel-bounces@r- project.org] On Behalf Of John Fox Sent: November-25-11 11:47 AM To: 'Michael Friendly' Cc: 'Terry Therneau'; r-devel@r-project.org Subject: Re: [Rd] How to deal

Re: [Rd] How to deal with package conflicts

2011-11-25 Thread John Fox
-project.org; John Fox; Duncan Murdoch Subject: Re: [Rd] How to deal with package conflicts On 11/25/2011 9:10 AM, Terry Therneau wrote: The ridge() function was put into the survival package as a simple example of what a user could do with penalized functions. It's not a serious function

Re: [Rd] parallel::mclapply() dummy function on Windows?

2011-10-08 Thread John Fox
::mclapply in his package? Best, John -Original Message- From: r-devel-boun...@r-project.org [mailto:r-devel-boun...@r-project.org] On Behalf Of Martin Morgan Sent: October-08-11 8:16 AM To: John Fox Cc: ttri...@usc.edu; 'Prof Brian Ripley'; 'r-devel' Subject: Re: [Rd] parallel

Re: [Rd] parallel::mclapply() dummy function on Windows?

2011-10-08 Thread John Fox
Dear Brian, -Original Message- From: Prof Brian Ripley [mailto:rip...@stats.ox.ac.uk] Sent: October-08-11 9:57 AM To: John Fox Cc: 'Martin Morgan'; ttri...@usc.edu; 'r-devel' Subject: RE: [Rd] parallel::mclapply() dummy function on Windows? On Sat, 8 Oct 2011, John Fox wrote

Re: [Rd] parallel::mclapply() dummy function on Windows?

2011-10-07 Thread John Fox
Dear Tim, -Original Message- From: r-devel-boun...@r-project.org [mailto:r-devel-boun...@r-project.org] On Behalf Of Tim Triche, Jr. Sent: October-07-11 3:05 PM To: Prof Brian Ripley Cc: r-devel Subject: Re: [Rd] parallel::mclapply() dummy function on Windows? On Thu, Oct 6,

[Rd] testing a Windows custom installer

2011-07-20 Thread John Fox
, but that's inconvenient (and, as R proliferates will, I hope, become impossible!). Is there a better approach? Thanks, John John Fox Senator William McMaster Professor of Social Statistics Department of Sociology McMaster University Hamilton, Ontario, Canada http

Re: [Rd] testing a Windows custom installer

2011-07-20 Thread John Fox
...@gmail.com] Sent: July-20-11 10:57 AM To: John Fox Cc: R-devel@r-project.org Subject: Re: [Rd] testing a Windows custom installer On 20/07/2011 10:29 AM, John Fox wrote: Dear R-devel list members, For several years, I've created a custom R installer for my students who use Windows. When I

Re: [Rd] Standardized Pearson residuals

2011-03-17 Thread John Fox
...@gmail.com __ R-devel@r-project.org mailing list https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-devel John Fox Sen. William McMaster Prof. of Social Statistics Department of Sociology McMaster University

Re: [Rd] coxph and drop1

2011-03-14 Thread John Fox
supplied. Best, John John Fox Sen. William McMaster Prof. of Social Statistics Department of Sociology McMaster University Hamilton, Ontario, Canada http://socserv.mcmaster.ca/jfox/ On Mon, 14 Mar 2011 11:42:04 -0500 Terry Therneau thern

Re: [Rd] Problem with confint function

2011-02-11 Thread John Fox
on the likelihood is more computationally intensive but should be more accurate. I hope this helps, John John Fox Senator William McMaster Professor of Social Statistics Department of Sociology McMaster University Hamilton, Ontario, Canada http

Re: [Rd] scoping/non-standard evaluation issue

2011-01-05 Thread John Fox
Dear Peter, I played around a bit with your suggestion but wasn't able to get it to work. Thanks for this. John John Fox Senator William McMaster Professor of Social Statistics Department of Sociology McMaster University Hamilton, Ontario, Canada web

Re: [Rd] scoping/non-standard evaluation issue

2011-01-05 Thread John Fox
Dear Gabor, I used str() to look at the two objects but missed the difference that you found. What I didn't quite understand was why one model worked but not the other when both were defined at the command prompt in the global environment. Thanks, John John Fox

Re: [Rd] scoping/non-standard evaluation issue

2011-01-05 Thread John Fox
. It would seem desirable, though, for mod.1 and mod.2 to behave the same. Best, John -Original Message- From: peter dalgaard [mailto:pda...@gmail.com] Sent: January-05-11 10:51 AM To: John Fox Cc: 'Gabor Grothendieck'; 'Sanford Weisberg'; r-devel@r-project.org Subject: Re: [Rd] scoping

[Rd] scoping/non-standard evaluation issue

2011-01-04 Thread John Fox
() is that it will clobber a variable named .subs in the global environment; the problem with f2() is that .subs can be masked by a variable in the global environment. Is there a better approach? Thanks, John John Fox Senator William McMaster Professor of Social

Re: [Rd] scoping/non-standard evaluation issue

2011-01-04 Thread John Fox
Dear all, A small correction: I had a stray line in my f2(), env - new.env(parent=.GlobalEnv) left over from yet another attempt; it can simply be removed. Sorry for the confusion, John John Fox Senator William McMaster Professor of Social

Re: [Rd] Building a custom Windows installer

2010-07-14 Thread John Fox
Dear Brian, -Original Message- From: Prof Brian Ripley [mailto:rip...@stats.ox.ac.uk] Sent: July-14-10 3:15 AM To: John Fox Cc: r-devel@r-project.org Subject: Re: [Rd] Building a custom Windows installer John, It is not clear to me what you actually did (and I am also assuming

[Rd] Building a custom Windows installer

2010-07-13 Thread John Fox
1 0 R-core /iscc R.iss myR.log /iscc: not found make: *** [myR] Error 127 --- snip --- Any help would be appreciated. John John Fox Senator William McMaster Professor of Social Statistics Department of Sociology McMaster University Hamilton

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

2010-04-25 Thread John Fox
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. Regards, John John Fox Senator William McMaster Professor of Social

Re: [Rd] problem with Rcmdr Plugins

2010-04-25 Thread John Fox
is true of tseries, abind, and MASS. I hope this helps, John John Fox Senator William McMaster Professor of Social Statistics Department of Sociology McMaster University Hamilton, Ontario, Canada web: socserv.mcmaster.ca/jfox -Original Message- From: r

Re: [Rd] R CMD check tells me 'no visible binding for globalvariable ', what does it mean?

2010-04-16 Thread John Fox
know how to rewrite to get rid of the notes -- not to say that it would necessarily be impossible to do so. Eliminating all packages that produce R CMD check notes from CRAN is not a good idea, in my opinion. Best, John John Fox Senator William McMaster Professor

Re: [Rd] Why is there no c.factor?

2010-02-04 Thread John Fox
Dear Thomas and Hadley, I'd propose the following: If the sets of levels of all arguments are the same, then c.factor() would return a factor with the common set of levels; if the sets of levels differ, then, as Hadley suggests, the level-set of the result would be the union of sets of levels of

Re: [Rd] Request: bring back windows chm help support (PR#14034)

2009-11-02 Thread John Fox
Dear Alexios and Duncan, I think that there's one more thing to be said in favour of chm help, and that's that its format is familiar to Windows users. I've been using html help on Windows myself for a long time, but before R 2.10.0 recommended chm help to new Windows users of R. That said, I

[Rd] Rcmdr package dependencies

2009-09-22 Thread John Fox
under both depends and suggests and the packages on which they depend) are installed along with the Rcmdr, but the currently suggested packages aren't loaded when the Rcmdr loads? Any help would be appreciated. John -- John Fox, Professor Department of Sociology

Re: [Rd] Rcmdr package dependencies

2009-09-22 Thread John Fox
Dear Uwe, -Original Message- From: Uwe Ligges [mailto:lig...@statistik.tu-dortmund.de] Sent: September-22-09 2:17 PM To: John Fox Cc: r-devel@r-project.org Subject: Re: [Rd] Rcmdr package dependencies John Fox wrote: Dear r-devel members, My Rcmdr package depends

Re: [Rd] Rcmdr package dependencies

2009-09-22 Thread John Fox
and avoid the recursive installation of suggested packages. Maybe the idea is a good one after all. Thank you, John -Original Message- From: Gabor Grothendieck [mailto:ggrothendi...@gmail.com] Sent: September-22-09 2:32 PM To: John Fox Cc: r-devel@r-project.org Subject: Re: [Rd

Re: [Rd] Rcmdr package dependencies

2009-09-22 Thread John Fox
a separate RcmdrInstall package or advise users to install the Rcmdr itself with dep=TRUE. Best, John -Original Message- From: Gabor Grothendieck [mailto:ggrothendi...@gmail.com] Sent: September-22-09 3:09 PM To: John Fox Cc: r-devel@r-project.org Subject: Re: [Rd] Rcmdr package

Re: [Rd] Rcmdr package dependencies

2009-09-22 Thread John Fox
Dear Seth, -Original Message- From: Seth Falcon [mailto:s...@userprimary.net] Sent: September-22-09 5:13 PM To: Uwe Ligges Cc: John Fox; r-devel@r-project.org Subject: Re: [Rd] Rcmdr package dependencies * On 2009-09-22 at 20:16 +0200 Uwe Ligges wrote: no, this is not possible

Re: [Rd] Display image in tcl/tk information window: path to file ?

2009-09-17 Thread John Fox
(package=Rcmdr)[1], etc). I hope this helps, John -- John Fox, Professor Department of Sociology McMaster University Hamilton, Ontario, Canada web: socserv.mcmaster.ca/jfox -Original Message- From: r-devel-boun...@r-project.org [mailto:r-devel-boun...@r

[Rd] R 2.10.0 devel package check error

2009-08-27 Thread John Fox
--- The offending package, Rcmdr 2.5-0, is available on R-Forge. Any help would be appreciated. Thanks, John -- John Fox, Professor Department of Sociology McMaster University Hamilton, Ontario, Canada web: socserv.mcmaster.ca/jfox __ R

Re: [Rd] R 2.10.0 devel package check error

2009-08-27 Thread John Fox
for the information (and the admonishment). John -Original Message- From: Prof Brian Ripley [mailto:rip...@stats.ox.ac.uk] Sent: August-27-09 11:53 AM To: John Fox Cc: r-devel@r-project.org Subject: Re: [Rd] R 2.10.0 devel package check error AFAICS that is already fixed (r49467

Re: [Rd] crash after using graphics in Rcmdr (PR#13679)

2009-04-30 Thread John Fox
Dear Neil, I had R 2.8.0 installed on my Mac Book, also with OS X 10.5.6, and was unable to duplicate this problem. I then installed R 2.9.0 and observed the same problem that you did. In both cases, I used the latest version of the Rcmdr package, 1.4-10. I also observed the following: (1) The

[Rd] wish list: automatic package installation

2009-04-18 Thread John Fox
). Regards, John -- John Fox, Professor Department of Sociology McMaster University Hamilton, Ontario, Canada web: socserv.mcmaster.ca/jfox __ R-devel@r-project.org mailing list https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-devel

Re: [Rd] plot.lm: Cook's distance label can overplot point labels

2009-02-20 Thread John Fox
of perceptual problems. Regards, John -Original Message- From: Thomas Lumley [mailto:tlum...@u.washington.edu] Sent: February-20-09 4:32 AM To: John Fox Cc: 'John Maindonald'; 'Prof Brian Ripley'; r-devel@r-project.org; 'Martin Maechler' Subject: Re: [Rd] plot.lm: Cook's distance label can

Re: [Rd] plot.lm: Cook's distance label can overplot point labels

2009-02-19 Thread John Fox
] Sent: February-19-09 2:54 AM To: Prof Brian Ripley Cc: John Fox; r-devel@r-project.org; 'Martin Maechler' Subject: Re: [Rd] plot.lm: Cook's distance label can overplot point labels Actually, the contours and the smooth are currently printed with col=2. This prints satisfactorily

Re: [Rd] plot.lm: Cook's distance label can overplot point labels

2009-02-18 Thread John Fox
Dear John, -Original Message- From: John Maindonald [mailto:john.maindon...@anu.edu.au] Sent: February-18-09 4:57 PM To: John Fox Cc: 'Martin Maechler'; r-devel@r-project.org Subject: Re: [Rd] plot.lm: Cook's distance label can overplot point labels Dear John - The title above

Re: [Rd] plot.lm: Cook's distance label can overplot point labels

2009-02-17 Thread John Fox
Dear John, It occurs to me that the title above the graph, Residuals vs. Leverage, is entirely redundant since the x-axis is labelled Leverage and the y-axis Studentized residuals. Why not use the title above the graph for Cook's distance countours? Regards, John -Original Message-

[Rd] possible tcltk event loop problem

2008-11-03 Thread John Fox
I didn't see anything in the CHANGES or NEWS file to suggest this). Regards, John -- John Fox, Professor Department of Sociology McMaster University Hamilton, Ontario, Canada web: socserv.mcmaster.ca/jfox __ R-devel@r

Re: [Rd] possible tcltk event loop problem

2008-11-03 Thread John Fox
Dear Peter, -Original Message- From: Peter Dalgaard [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: November-03-08 4:58 PM To: John Fox Cc: r-devel@r-project.org; 'Richard M. Heiberger'; 'Erich Neuwirth'; 'Prof Brian Ripley'; 'Duncan Murdoch' Subject: Re: [Rd] possible tcltk event loop problem

[Rd] R CMD INSTALL problem

2008-10-21 Thread John Fox
Dear list members, I've run into a problem with R CMD INSTALL under Windows Vista and R 2.8.0: - snip --- C:\Users\John Fox\workspacec:\R\R-2.8.0\bin\R CMD INSTALL car installing to '' -- Making package car adding build stamp to DESCRIPTION installing

Re: [Rd] R CMD INSTALL problem

2008-10-21 Thread John Fox
. John -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Deepayan Sarkar Sent: October-21-08 7:16 PM To: John Fox Cc: r-devel@r-project.org Subject: Re: [Rd] R CMD INSTALL problem On Tue, Oct 21, 2008 at 3:23 PM, John Fox [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Dear

Re: [Rd] weird behavior of drop1() for polr models (MASS)

2008-09-30 Thread John Fox
to this message on the r-devel list where it was posted, but this is really a question for r-help. I hope this helps, John -- John Fox, Professor Department of Sociology McMaster University Hamilton, Ontario, Canada web: socserv.mcmaster.ca/jfox -Original Message

Re: [Rd] weird behavior of drop1() for polr models (MASS)

2008-09-30 Thread John Fox
Thanks again, all comments are very much appreciated! Jeroen. John Fox-6 wrote: Dear Jeroen, drop1() respects relationships of marginality among the terms in a model and won't drop a lower-order term (e.g., a main effect) when a higher-order relative (e.g

Re: [Rd] Addendum to wishlist bug report #10931 (factanal) (PR#12754)

2008-09-09 Thread John Fox
Dear Ulrich, I'd frankly forgotten about this, but can't see an argument for not making this (or a similar) change. Thanks for reviving the issue. John -- John Fox, Professor Department of Sociology McMaster University Hamilton, Ontario, Canada web

Re: [Rd] Problem with UTF-8 text in the Rcmdr package

2008-09-08 Thread John Fox
Dear Brian, -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Prof Brian Ripley Sent: September-08-08 5:46 AM To: John Fox Cc: 'Jaro.Lajovic'; 'R-devel' Subject: Re: [Rd] Problem with UTF-8 text in the Rcmdr package Unless Windows is running

[Rd] Problem with UTF-8 text in the Rcmdr package

2008-09-05 Thread John Fox
that seemed relevant. Frankly, however, my understanding of how various character sets are handled is only partial. Any help would be appreciated. John -- John Fox, Professor Department of Sociology McMaster University Hamilton, Ontario, Canada web: socserv.mcmaster.ca

Re: [Rd] RFC: What should ?foo do?

2008-04-25 Thread John Fox
Dear all, Why not leave ? more-or-less as it is (at least for ?foo) and add arguments to help() for other kinds of searches? Perhaps the kind of search that help() does by default could be set as an option. Regards, John -- John Fox, Professor Department

[Rd] package building problem under Windows Vista

2008-04-19 Thread John Fox
for Windows FAQ, it's quite possible that I've missed something of relevance there. Any help would be appreciated. Thanks in advance, John John Fox, Professor Department of Sociology McMaster University Hamilton, Ontario, Canada L8S 4M4 905-525-9140x23604 http

Re: [Rd] package building problem under Windows Vista

2008-04-19 Thread John Fox
-Original Message- From: Prof Brian Ripley [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: April-19-08 8:53 AM To: John Fox Cc: 'R-devel' Subject: Re: [Rd] package building problem under Windows Vista John, The environment variables are case-sensitive (not temp and tmp), and TMPDIR is the one used

Re: [Rd] package building problem under Windows Vista

2008-04-19 Thread John Fox
Dear Gabor, -Original Message- From: Gabor Grothendieck [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: April-19-08 9:10 AM To: John Fox Cc: R-devel Subject: Re: [Rd] package building problem under Windows Vista Note that CRAN is also having a problem with the package so its not just you

Re: [Rd] Aliasing a function

2008-02-23 Thread John Fox
Dear Hadley, Why not just f - g ? Regards, John John Fox, Professor Department of Sociology McMaster University Hamilton, Ontario, Canada L8S 4M4 905-525-9140x23604 http://socserv.mcmaster.ca/jfox -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto

Re: [Rd] argument order for Math2 group functions in R 2.6.x (PR#10683)

2008-02-03 Thread John Fox
Dear Brian, Are there many primitives that take more than one argument? I see, for example, that round() is another. Might it not be a good idea to provide a warning in the help file(s) that arguments must be supplied in the correct order? Regards, John -Original Message- From:

Re: [Rd] argument order for Math2 group functions in R 2.6.x (PR#10679)

2008-02-02 Thread John Fox
to investigate whether I'd see the same behavior on other platforms. Best wishes, Ben __ R-devel@r-project.org mailing list https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-devel John Fox, Professor Department of Sociology

[Rd] pseudo dataframes with RODBC

2008-01-23 Thread John Fox
/Access under Windows, but I don't see why they shouldn't work generally. Regards, John John Fox, Professor Department of Sociology McMaster University Hamilton, Ontario, Canada L8S 4M4 905-525-9140x23604 http://socserv.mcmaster.ca/jfox

Re: [Rd] Wishlist- Windows Gui (PR#10589)

2008-01-18 Thread John Fox
would adjust CRAN to point to a CRAN mirror near you. BTW, this isn't really a bug report, is it? Regards, John John Fox, Professor Department of Sociology McMaster University Hamilton, Ontario, Canada L8S 4M4 905-525-9140x23604 http://socserv.mcmaster.ca/jfox

[Rd] Using Fortran 95 in an R package?

2007-12-09 Thread John Fox
in a package? For example, I see that Rtools for Windows now include the gfortran compiler. (I know that this question has come up before, but not, as far as I can see, in the last year.) Thanks, John John Fox, Professor Department of Sociology McMaster University Hamilton

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