Re: [Rd] Mentor for GSOC '10: Symbolic Regression in R

2010-03-04 Thread Chidambaram Annamalai
Thank you for your comments. I was indeed looking to use Rcpp for integration for the C++ portions where compiled code would have performance benefits while sticking to R code elsewhere. I've had some previous bad experiences with Swig for interfacing C code with Python code but it looks like

Re: [Rd] dots for sample -- implicitGeneric

2010-03-04 Thread Martin Maechler
CB == Claudia Beleites cbelei...@units.it on Sun, 28 Feb 2010 19:31:42 +0100 writes: CB Dear R-Developers, CB could 'sample' gain a ... argument? As you may know, adding '...' also has drawbacks, most notably that you lose automatic checking of correctly specified argument names

[Rd] R CMD check data reading

2010-03-04 Thread Dario Strbenac
Hello, I have a test script that works fine when I copy and paste it into a R session. I have the script in the tests directory of the package. But when I do R CMD check on the package it runs all the tests OK on my first dataset in the script, then I make a call to load() for the second

[Rd] (PR#14226) -- Re: libgfortran misplaced in Mac OS X R install (PR#14226)

2010-03-04 Thread Michael Spiegel
I am the guy who compiles the OpenMx binaries. We would be delighted to place our package on CRAN, once the project is stable enough so that we are comfortable releasing it to the larger public. Let's try to track down where I made a mistake. Our Makevars.in file contains the line:

Re: [Rd] (PR#14226) -- Re: libgfortran misplaced in Mac OS X R install (PR#14226)

2010-03-04 Thread Simon Urbanek
Hi Michael, On Mar 3, 2010, at 12:01 , Michael Spiegel wrote: I am the guy who compiles the OpenMx binaries. We would be delighted to place our package on CRAN, once the project is stable enough so that we are comfortable releasing it to the larger public. Let's try to track down where

Re: [Rd] dots for sample -- implicitGeneric

2010-03-04 Thread Claudia Beleites
Dear Martin, Martin Maechler wrote: CB == Claudia Beleites cbelei...@units.it on Sun, 28 Feb 2010 19:31:42 +0100 writes: CB Dear R-Developers, CB could 'sample' gain a ... argument? As you may know, adding '...' also has drawbacks, most notably that you lose automatic checking of

Re: [Rd] Rmpi on CentOS (64bit)

2010-03-04 Thread Marc Schwartz
On Mar 4, 2010, at 1:24 AM, Patrick Connolly wrote: On Wed, 03-Mar-2010 at 01:46PM -0600, Marc Schwartz wrote: | Patrick, just as an FYI, I did not see which variant of CentOS you | are using, but: Apologies. I didn't mention it's 5.4 No problem. | CentOS 4, which is based upon

[Rd] Bug reporting system inquiry plus a bug report related to sort

2010-03-04 Thread Tom Short
Is the bug-reporting system working okay? Two days ago, I submitted the following bug report via email to r-b...@r-project.org. I didn't see a confirmation, and it didn't see it at http://bugs.r-project.org/. Now, http://bugs.r-project.org/ seems to be down. Anyway, here's the bug report related

Re: [Rd] Bug reporting system inquiry plus a bug report related to sort

2010-03-04 Thread Marc Schwartz
On Mar 4, 2010, at 9:29 AM, Tom Short wrote: Is the bug-reporting system working okay? Two days ago, I submitted the following bug report via email to r-b...@r-project.org. I didn't see a confirmation, and it didn't see it at http://bugs.r-project.org/. Now, http://bugs.r-project.org/ seems

Re: [Rd] Bug reporting system inquiry plus a bug report related to sort

2010-03-04 Thread Jens Elkner
On Thu, Mar 04, 2010 at 09:39:41AM -0600, Marc Schwartz wrote: There has been talk over the years of moving to Bugzilla, but I am not clear on present status. IMHO Bugzilla is too challenging for normal users/human beeings (even developers are often not able to extract the info they need).

Re: [Rd] R logo as SVG ?

2010-03-04 Thread Jens Elkner
On Wed, Mar 03, 2010 at 05:42:24PM +0100, Henrik Bengtsson wrote: Hi Henrik, My Wednesday procrastination: There's quite some number of decimals in the SVG and some whitespace, so some dummy trimming gives: x - readLines(http://developer.r-project.org/Logo/Rlogo-1.svg;); ... Cool :).

Re: [Rd] Bug reporting system inquiry plus a bug report related to sort

2010-03-04 Thread Marc Schwartz
On Mar 4, 2010, at 10:10 AM, Jens Elkner wrote: On Thu, Mar 04, 2010 at 09:39:41AM -0600, Marc Schwartz wrote: There has been talk over the years of moving to Bugzilla, but I am not clear on present status. IMHO Bugzilla is too challenging for normal users/human beeings (even

Re: [Rd] Bug reporting system inquiry plus a bug report related to sort

2010-03-04 Thread Simon Urbanek
Just to calm the discussion a bit - we already have decided to go with Bugzilla, we created tools for the import of old PRs and the new bug system is up and running in a test phase. The current downtime is not directly related to that - the cause is being investigated. Cheers, Simon On

Re: [Rd] Bug reporting system inquiry plus a bug report related to sort

2010-03-04 Thread Marc Schwartz
Thanks for the update and your work on this Simon. Regards, Marc On Mar 4, 2010, at 11:36 AM, Simon Urbanek wrote: Just to calm the discussion a bit - we already have decided to go with Bugzilla, we created tools for the import of old PRs and the new bug system is up and running in a test

[Rd] R 2.10.0 or R 2.10.1 installation fails on HP-UX B.11.23 U ia64

2010-03-04 Thread Alex Bryant
Hi Folks, I can find any hits anywhere for the following compilation error: eigen.f external subroutine BALANC external subroutine BALBAK external subroutine CBABK2 external subroutine CBAL external subroutine CDIV external subroutine COMQR external subroutine COMQR2

Re: [Rd] (PR#14226) -- Re: libgfortran misplaced in Mac OS X R install

2010-03-04 Thread Prof Brian Ripley
Another possibility is to link statically to libgfortran. That has pros and cons, but for libgfortran not many cons apart from space for multiple copies in sundry packages (and is what is done on Windows, BTW). There are several ways to arrange that. As far as I recall I temporarily

[Rd] distributable binary Mac packages [Was: libgfortran misplaced in Mac OS X R install]

2010-03-04 Thread Simon Urbanek
On Mar 4, 2010, at 14:44 , Prof Brian Ripley wrote: Another possibility is to link statically to libgfortran. That has pros and cons, but for libgfortran not many cons apart from space for multiple copies in sundry packages (and is what is done on Windows, BTW). There are several ways

Re: [Rd] Bug reporting system inquiry plus a bug report related to sort

2010-03-04 Thread Jens Elkner
On Thu, Mar 04, 2010 at 10:58:16AM -0600, Marc Schwartz wrote: ... Jira was discussed a couple of years ago: http://tolstoy.newcastle.edu.au/R/e5/devel/08/09/0006.html I presume that the disposition towards non-FOSS platforms remains. Was just an idea. IMHO the hosting team needs to

Re: [Rd] scale(x, center=FALSE) (PR#14219)

2010-03-04 Thread Ben Bolker
Ben Bolker bolker at ufl.edu writes: [re: behavior of scale() when center=FALSE and scale=TRUE] Again, I agree with you that the behavior is not optimal, but it is very hard to make changes in R when the behavior is sub-optimal rather than actually wrong (by some definition). R-core is