Re: [Rd] GPL and R Community Policies (Rcpp)

2010-12-02 Thread Dominick Samperi
On Thu, Dec 2, 2010 at 2:45 AM, Sean O'Riordain sean...@acm.org wrote: Good morning Dominick, I don't use the Rcpp package and have only the vaguest notions of its history. One of your requests is that your name might be removed from the project as you no longer wish to be associated with

Re: [Rd] [Rcpp-devel] GPL and R Community Policies (Rcpp)

2010-12-02 Thread Dominick Samperi
On Thu, Dec 2, 2010 at 2:51 AM, Gavin Simpson gavin.simp...@ucl.ac.ukwrote: On Wed, 2010-12-01 at 20:24 -0500, Dominick Samperi wrote: snip / Just to be clear I have never used the package and am not truly commenting on this particular case but only the general ideas in this thread.

Re: [Rd] GPL and R Community Policies (Rcpp)

2010-12-02 Thread Dominick Samperi
On Thu, Dec 2, 2010 at 9:20 AM, Martyn Plummer plumm...@iarc.fr wrote: Dear Dominick, The R community does not have a conflict resolution mechanism. We are quite used to disputes that end with one party, usually a recognized authority, saying No, you are objectively, verifiably wrong. We

Re: [Rd] GPL and R Community Policies (Rcpp)

2010-12-02 Thread Dominick Samperi
On Thu, Dec 2, 2010 at 10:21 AM, Spencer Graves spencer.gra...@structuremonitoring.com wrote: On 12/2/2010 6:20 AM, Martyn Plummer wrote: Dear Dominick, The R community does not have a conflict resolution mechanism. We are quite used to disputes that end with one party, usually a

Re: [Rd] GPL and R Community Policies (Rcpp)

2010-12-02 Thread Ravi Varadhan
Yes, I agree, Spencer. The worst thing that can happen is for your ideas/creations to go completely unnoticed. Here is what David Hume had to say about how his first philosophical work (Treatise of Human Nature) was received: Never literary attempt was more unfortunate than my Treatise of Human

Re: [Rd] GPL and R Community Policies (Rcpp)

2010-12-02 Thread Joris Meys
On Thu, Dec 2, 2010 at 4:31 PM, Dominick Samperi djsamp...@gmail.com wrote: Worst yet is having to compete with your own work. About which competition are we talking then? I'm sorry, but the vast majority of the 7 lines of code of the rcpp are not your work. And honestly, I don't know of

Re: [Rd] GPL and R Community Policies (Rcpp)

2010-12-02 Thread Dominick Samperi
On Thu, Dec 2, 2010 at 10:47 AM, Joris Meys jorism...@gmail.com wrote: On Thu, Dec 2, 2010 at 4:31 PM, Dominick Samperi djsamp...@gmail.com wrote: Worst yet is having to compete with your own work. About which competition are we talking then? I'm sorry, but the vast majority of the

Re: [Rd] [Rcpp-devel] GPL and R Community Policies (Rcpp)

2010-12-02 Thread Martin Maechler
Dominick Samperi djsamp...@gmail.com on Thu, 2 Dec 2010 03:27:58 -0500 writes: On Thu, Dec 2, 2010 at 2:51 AM, Gavin Simpson gavin.simp...@ucl.ac.ukwrote: On Wed, 2010-12-01 at 20:24 -0500, Dominick Samperi wrote: snip / Just to be clear I have never used the package

Re: [Rd] GPL and R Community Policies (Rcpp)

2010-12-02 Thread peter dalgaard
On Dec 2, 2010, at 15:20 , Martyn Plummer wrote: Everybody knows that you have an acrimonious relationship with the current developers of Rcpp (and if they don't then a cursory look at the rcpp-devel archives will confirm this). The issue of the acknowledgment that you are complaining about

Re: [Rd] GPL and R Community Policies (Rcpp)

2010-12-02 Thread Dominick Samperi
On Thu, Dec 2, 2010 at 12:29 PM, Gabor Grothendieck ggrothendi...@gmail.com wrote: On Thu, Dec 2, 2010 at 11:24 AM, Claudia Beleites cbelei...@units.it wrote: On 12/02/2010 10:32 AM, Liviu Andronic wrote: Dear all On Wed, Dec 1, 2010 at 7:21 PM, Dominick Samperidjsamp...@gmail.com

Re: [Rd] Install package 'Matrix' problem

2010-12-02 Thread Zhang,Jun
Prof. Ripley, I've just done the installation of the R package 'Matrix' to my 64-bit R 2.12.0, and it is loaded fine. Seems adding -m64 to the CXX line solved the problem. I had, CC=cc -xc99 -m64 -xarch=sparcvis2 CXX=CC -library=stlport4 And now I have (the working version), CC=cc -xc99

Re: [Rd] segfault interest?

2010-12-02 Thread Matt Shotwell
On Wed, 2010-11-24 at 12:12 -0500, ivo welch wrote: I just figured out what is happening. The root drive (presumably OSX virtual memory) becomes depleted. The error message about memory not mapped was a hint, too. So, not really R's fault. However, I wonder It still may be R's fault. This

[Rd] Terminology clarification (Re: GPL and R Community Policies (Rcpp)

2010-12-02 Thread Dirk Eddelbuettel
There are repeated claims concerning a Rcpp fork. Let's address both terms in turn. i) Rcpp was used in November 2008 as the name for a re-launch of a package which had seen releases on CRAN in 2005/2006 during which it was also renamed to RcppTemplate. Hence no package of name Rcpp

Re: [Rd] segfault interest?

2010-12-02 Thread Simon Urbanek
Matt, please use R -d gdb and then bt for a more useful trace. Thanks, Simon On Dec 2, 2010, at 4:06 PM, Matt Shotwell wrote: On Wed, 2010-11-24 at 12:12 -0500, ivo welch wrote: I just figured out what is happening. The root drive (presumably OSX virtual memory) becomes depleted. The

Re: [Rd] Terminology clarification (Re: GPL and R Community Policies (Rcpp)

2010-12-02 Thread Dominick Samperi
On Thu, Dec 2, 2010 at 4:35 PM, Dirk Eddelbuettel e...@debian.org wrote: There are repeated claims concerning a Rcpp fork. Let's address both terms in turn. i) Rcpp was used in November 2008 as the name for a re-launch of a package which had seen releases on CRAN in 2005/2006 during

Re: [Rd] Terminology clarification (Re: GPL and R Community Policies (Rcpp)

2010-12-02 Thread Dirk Eddelbuettel
On 2 December 2010 at 17:23, Dominick Samperi wrote: | OK, since you are so accomodating, then please remove all reference to | my name from Rcpp as I do not want to be subject to arbitrary revisions of | my status. I may not have the right to say how my prior work will be used, | but I think I

Re: [Rd] Terminology clarification (Re: GPL and R Community Policies (Rcpp)

2010-12-02 Thread Dominick Samperi
On Thu, Dec 2, 2010 at 5:58 PM, Dirk Eddelbuettel e...@debian.org wrote: On 2 December 2010 at 17:23, Dominick Samperi wrote: | OK, since you are so accomodating, then please remove all reference to | my name from Rcpp as I do not want to be subject to arbitrary revisions of | my status. I

Re: [Rd] Terminology clarification (Re: GPL and R Community Policies (Rcpp)

2010-12-02 Thread Dominick Samperi
On Thu, Dec 2, 2010 at 5:58 PM, Dirk Eddelbuettel e...@debian.org wrote: On 2 December 2010 at 17:23, Dominick Samperi wrote: | OK, since you are so accomodating, then please remove all reference to | my name from Rcpp as I do not want to be subject to arbitrary revisions of | my status. I

Re: [Rd] Terminology clarification (Re: GPL and R Community Policies (Rcpp)

2010-12-02 Thread Joris Meys
On Fri, Dec 3, 2010 at 12:38 AM, Dominick Samperi djsamp...@gmail.com wrote: We? Romain did not arrive on the scene until after November of 2009. To live outside the law you must be honest --- Bob Dylan.        [[alternative HTML version deleted]] Peter Dalgaard and Martin Maechler were

Re: [Rd] Terminology clarification (Re: GPL and R Community Policies (Rcpp)

2010-12-02 Thread Dominick Samperi
On Thu, Dec 2, 2010 at 6:43 PM, Joris Meys jorism...@gmail.com wrote: On Fri, Dec 3, 2010 at 12:38 AM, Dominick Samperi djsamp...@gmail.com wrote: We? Romain did not arrive on the scene until after November of 2009. To live outside the law you must be honest --- Bob Dylan.