Re: [Rd] alpha, portable use

2006-09-25 Thread Paul Gilbert
to be compiled? This is only happening on one of my systems. Building R and make check work fine on that system, but it seems that not all the information gets passed along to package compiles. (BTW, this is just a warning, but Kurt suggested we try to eliminate warnings.) Paul Gilbert Prof Brian Ripley

Re: [Rd] alpha, portable use

2006-09-25 Thread Paul Gilbert
Doug I do indeed have a Makevars file after all. Thanks for spelling out the interpretation of the warning message. Paul Douglas Bates wrote: On 9/25/06, Paul Gilbert [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I am still confused about this (and it is still happening with R-beta). Writing R Extensions

[Rd] alpha, portable use

2006-09-20 Thread Paul Gilbert
When I build one of my packages with alpha from yesterday I am getting * checking for portable use of $BLAS_LIBS ... WARNING apparently missing $(FLIBS) in 'PKG_LIBS=$(LAPACK_LIBS) $(BLAS_LIBS)' Is this something I should worry about? (Possibly I got this before and didn't notice.) Paul

Re: [Rd] 'CanMakeUseOf' field

2006-08-30 Thread Paul Gilbert
be nice to have some place users would expect to find this information. However, changing the meaning of Suggests to be developer defined does not strike me as an improvement. Paul Gilbert Duncan Murdoch Martin FrL Ad the wording in the manual: obviously that is not FrL optimal

Re: [Rd] 'CanMakeUseOf' field

2006-08-30 Thread Paul Gilbert
Duncan Murdoch wrote: On 8/30/2006 12:28 PM, Paul Gilbert wrote: Duncan Murdoch wrote: On 8/30/2006 4:44 AM, Martin Maechler wrote: FrL == friedrich leisch [EMAIL PROTECTED] on Wed, 30 Aug 2006 09:34:13 +0200 (MEST) writes: Duncan Murdoch [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: I think we

Re: [Rd] PATCH: Add fields argument to installed.packages and available.packages

2006-08-29 Thread Paul Gilbert
provide another feature, etc, etc. Alternatives to 'canMakeUseOf' would have been 'isHappilyCoworkingWith' What do you (R-devel listeners) think about the idea? I still like this idea. I prefer 'canMakeUseOf' to 'isHappilyCoworkingWith' mainly because it seems less ambiguous. Paul Gilbert

Re: [Rd] 'CanMakeUseOf' field [was .. Add 'fields' argument ..]

2006-08-29 Thread Paul Gilbert
Duncan Murdoch wrote: On 8/29/2006 10:12 AM, Martin Maechler wrote: PaulG == Paul Gilbert [EMAIL PROTECTED] on Tue, 29 Aug 2006 09:55:09 -0400 writes: PaulG Martin Maechler wrote: ... The idea was a field related to but weaker than 'Suggests' : Something

Re: [Rd] 'CanMakeUseOf' field

2006-08-29 Thread Paul Gilbert
Seth Falcon wrote: Duncan Murdoch [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: On 8/29/2006 11:58 AM, Seth Falcon wrote: I think there is an important distinction between a dependency needed for the package to function and a dependency needed to demonstrate said functionality via an example or vignette.

Re: [Rd] 'CanMakeUseOf' field

2006-08-29 Thread Paul Gilbert
Duncan Murdoch wrote: On 8/29/2006 2:24 PM, Paul Gilbert wrote: Seth Falcon wrote: Duncan Murdoch [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: On 8/29/2006 11:58 AM, Seth Falcon wrote: I think there is an important distinction between a dependency needed for the package to function

[Rd] foo2Args()

2006-06-30 Thread Paul Gilbert
I was just considering trying to clean up the arguments to a function that calls other functions, and was playin with a suggestion Achim made during a conversation at useR. The idea is, instead of using list(), use a small function to construct and check arguments. My hope was to be able to do

Re: [Rd] foo2Args()

2006-06-30 Thread Paul Gilbert
Duncan Murdoch wrote: On 6/30/2006 5:12 PM, Paul Gilbert wrote: Duncan Murdoch wrote: On 6/30/2006 4:19 PM, Paul Gilbert wrote: I was just considering trying to clean up the arguments to a function that calls other functions, and was playin with a suggestion Achim made during

Re: [Rd] UTF-8 and .Rd files

2006-06-28 Thread Paul Gilbert
I've been following this thread hoping for the definitive answer... Peter Dalgaard wrote: Well, I do tend to think that we should just use utf, assuming that people have the relevant glyphs. If they don't, then they might get little hollow rectangles but so what? My problem is that I

Re: [Rd] NAMESPACE and bundle

2006-06-22 Thread Paul Gilbert
Iago There is a problem that bundle checking works slightly differently than individual package checking in this regard. I think it has to do with when the namespace gets registered, or something like that. As I recall, the work around is to explicitely require the package in the test files

Re: [Rd] NAMESPACE and bundle

2006-06-22 Thread Paul Gilbert
is necessary for bundle check to run examples, # but does not seem to be necessary when packages are not bundled require(tframe) invisible(TRUE) } Hope this works, Paul Iago Mosqueira wrote: -Mensaje original- De: Paul Gilbert [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Enviado el: jue 22

[Rd] task view errors

2006-06-02 Thread Paul Gilbert
I am getting several errors about Windows only packages when I use task views. Is this suppose to be a Windows-centric utility? Also, I am sure there must be a simple way to tell which packages are in a view, but I haven't found it. If there isn't, it would be nice to have. Paul Gilbert

[Rd] package installation errors

2006-06-01 Thread Paul Gilbert
MCMCpack. Perhaps my systems are messed up? Paul Gilbert install.packages(MCMCpack) Warning in install.packages(MCMCpack) : argument 'lib' is missing: using /home/mfa/gilp/toolchain/R/asd05546/R-2.3.1/site-library --- Please select a CRAN mirror for use in this session --- Selection: 3 trying

Re: [Rd] R CMD check: checking examples: how to (not) pause execution

2006-05-18 Thread Paul Gilbert
I think the more usual way to solve this is to have the user set par(ask=TRUE) is they want to be prompted. This gives the user the option of being prompted, or not. It makes the example tests work, and simplifies your code because you don't need to worry about the prompt mechanism. It also

[Rd] R-devel and PGI 6.0 compile error

2006-05-18 Thread Paul Gilbert
, the compiler will take precedence configure: WARNING: ## --- ## configure: WARNING: ## Report this to [EMAIL PROTECTED] ## configure: WARNING: ## --- ## checking for complex.h... yes Paul Gilbert

Re: [Rd] helping out

2006-05-18 Thread Paul Gilbert
Kevin The developers page is available from the left side menu frame on the main R page http://www.r-project.org/ , but not from CRAN. (BTW, R-devel does not have nearly as much traffic as R-help, so digest mode may not be so important.) Paul Gilbert Kevin B. Hendricks wrote: Hi, I just

[Rd] PGI 6.1 compile error

2006-05-11 Thread Paul Gilbert
/R-2.3.0PGI/src' make: *** [R] Error 1 Any help would be appreciated. Paul Gilbert La version française suit le texte anglais

[Rd] slot named C

2006-04-17 Thread Paul Gilbert
C appears to be an illegal name for a slot in an S4 class (example below). If this is a known limitation, and not a bug, it would be nice if it were caught by setClass. Paul Gilbert setClass(testobj, representation ( C = numeric)) [1] testobj new(testobj, C= 2) Error

Re: [Rd] slot named C

2006-04-17 Thread Paul Gilbert
. On Mon, 17 Apr 2006, Paul Gilbert wrote: C appears to be an illegal name for a slot in an S4 class (example below). It is rather an example of something which does not work. foo - new(testobj) [EMAIL PROTECTED] - 2 does, for example. If this is a known limitation, and not a bug

Re: [Rd] slot named C

2006-04-17 Thread Paul Gilbert
Prof Brian Ripley wrote: On Mon, 17 Apr 2006, Paul Gilbert wrote: Ok, but I'm surprised. I thought partial matching only happened for named arguments. I guess I've been lucky. Here C is named, so what did you mean? Now I guess I've really been confused. I thought named arguments

[Rd] xmkmf? problem

2006-04-13 Thread Paul Gilbert
I am having the xmkmf problem below with todays beta, but I also am trying to use an new (PGI 6.1), so lots of other things in my setup may be wrong, and the warning may also be important. Any hints would be appreciated. Paul _ Red Hat Enterprise Linux AS release 3 (Taroon Update 7)

[Rd] package?pac

2006-03-31 Thread Paul Gilbert
When I use package?pac the author field gets reproduced twice, once with the \author{ } string and a secod time formatted. Also, would it be possible to make package?pac find the overview without the package being attached, or at least give a more informative error message. Paul

Re: [Rd] Bundle internal dependencies

2006-03-29 Thread Paul Gilbert
Iago What you are trying to do should work, but there are a couple of things to watch out for. In the bundle DESCRIPTION Contains line be sure to put the packages in the order that they should be checked. In the R code for package B be sure to put an .onload function with requires(A), or

Re: [Rd] Peculiar timing result

2006-03-03 Thread Paul Gilbert
Doug This is probably not your reason, but I am finding my dual core Athlon 64 is much slower running 64 bit Linux and R than it was running 32 bit Linux and R. All the programs are bigger. (Some, like the clock applet, are a lot bigger for no obvious reason.) The difference is enough to

[Rd] package introductions

2006-02-01 Thread Paul Gilbert
to begin. Of course, the biggest simplification happens when things like this are done in a similar way by everyone. ( configure ; make is not intuitively simple, but everyone now knows the incantation.) Paul Gilbert

[Rd] typo in factanal.Rd

2006-01-11 Thread Paul Gilbert
In the file factanal.Rd the line then the first fit is started at the value suggested by J\ureskog should be then the first fit is started at the value suggested by \enc{J\ureskog}{Joreskog} or whatever that translates to on a system that does not mangle cut and paste of

Re: [Rd] [R] ouml in an .Rd

2006-01-09 Thread Paul Gilbert
, Paul Gilbert wrote: I am trying to put an ouml in an .Rd file with no success. Writing R Extensions suggests: Text which might need to be represented differently in different encodings should be marked by |\enc|, e.g. |\enc{Jöreskog}{Joreskog}| where the first argument will be used where

[Rd] proposal to make loadings() generic in R-devel

2005-11-03 Thread Paul Gilbert
suggest sticking with the current non-specific structure for the return value. (For piecewise linear or other non-linear analysis there may be good reasons to allow more general structures for the loadings.) Paul Gilbert __ R-devel@r-project.org

Re: [Rd] checking S3 generic/method consistency

2005-10-17 Thread Paul Gilbert
with a fairly clean test environment. What happens when other packages are attached? Where/how does it break when there are other packages attached that need conflicting generics (or can that actually work)? Thanks, Paul Kurt Hornik wrote: Paul Gilbert writes: In R-2.2.0, how does checking S3

Re: [Rd] Installing R-2.2.0 package

2005-10-13 Thread Paul Gilbert
the feature behaves slightly differently as of R-2.2.0. Now the 00LOCK file is not removed in Solaris when there is an unsuccessful install. (In Linux I think it does get removed.) Paul Gilbert After a *successful* installation, the 00LOCK directory should be deleted by the installation tools

Re: [Rd] automatically adding smooth to plot: options(plot.add.smooth)

2005-09-19 Thread Paul Gilbert
Duncan Murdoch wrote: On 9/19/2005 10:01 AM, Paul Gilbert wrote: Martin Maechler wrote: I've changed the subject in the hope some more people would voice an opinion... ... Now I even propose to have options(add.smooth = TRUE) as a new default. Do I get a reaction

Re: [Rd] simulate in stats

2005-09-15 Thread Paul Gilbert
. In a Monte Carlo experiment the generated data set is just too big. A better approach is to do the analysis and save only necessary information after each simulation. That is the approach, for example, in dse2:::EstEval. Paul Paul Gilbert wrote: Can the arguments nsim and seed be passed as part

[Rd] loadings() generic in R alpha

2005-09-15 Thread Paul Gilbert
Could loadings() in R-2.2.0 please be made generic? Thanks, Paul Gilbert __ R-devel@r-project.org mailing list https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-devel

[Rd] acf() generic in R alpha

2005-09-15 Thread Paul Gilbert
Could acf() in R-2.2.0 please be made generic? Thanks, Paul Gilbert __ R-devel@r-project.org mailing list https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-devel

[Rd] simulate in stats

2005-09-14 Thread Paul Gilbert
. There are contexts where nsim and seed do not make sense. I realize that the default arguments could be ignored, but it does not really make sense to introduce a new generic with that in mind. (I would also prefer that the object argument was called model but this is less important.) Paul Gilbert

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