Re: [Rd] BATCH and testing

2008-12-26 Thread Prof Brian Ripley
On Thu, 25 Dec 2008, Terry Therneau wrote: In a few of my test scripts for the survival code I expect warning messages (I actually try to trigger a couple). Using R BATCH infile outfile these messages don't end up in outfile, where I can compare them to what was expected. I don't see an

[Rd] /bin/windows/base/rpatched.html page out of date

2008-12-26 Thread Simone Giannerini
Dear all, it looks like that something is wrong with the /bin/windows/base/rpatched.html page as it seems pointing to the 2.8.1rc version. Also, I do not know if it is relevant but notice the dates of the following files on ftp://ftp.stat.math.ethz.ch/Software/CRAN/bin/windows/base/

Re: [Rd] /bin/windows/base/rpatched.html page out of date

2008-12-26 Thread Prof Brian Ripley
We can do nothing about this: that area is managed by Duncan Murdoch (who is offline for about a week). http://cran.r-project.org/bin/windows/ does tell you who to contact. R-devel is never the right place for question about binary distributions (nor for CRAN pages, for which report to the

Re: [Rd] issue with [[-Call

2008-12-26 Thread Therneau, Terry M., Ph.D.
Brian, Thanks for the comments. -- I agree that the vector form is more compact. I was using a loop because I found it to be even more transparent to the class. For a one time task such as this efficiency is not an issue. -- I'll make use of eval.parent(). I hadn't yet stumbled on that --

Re: [Rd] issue with [[-Call

2008-12-26 Thread Prof Brian Ripley
On Fri, 26 Dec 2008, Therneau, Terry M., Ph.D. wrote: Brian, Thanks for the comments. -- I agree that the vector form is more compact. I was using a loop because I found it to be even more transparent to the class. For a one time task such as this efficiency is not an issue. -- I'll make use

[Rd] Variogram.gls (PR#13418)

2008-12-26 Thread agalecki
Hello, 1. Illustrating example: sessionInfo at the end of this email library(nlme) fm1 - gls(weight ~ Time * Diet, BodyWeight) Variogram(fm1, form = ~ Time | Rat)[1:10,] Error in FUN(X[[1L]], ...) : unused argument(s) (method = euclidean) 2. It appears that the error is caused by the

Re: [Rd] Acessing pdf help files (PR#13419)

2008-12-26 Thread Duncan Murdoch
marcthiba...@tanda.on.ca wrote: Full_Name: Marc Thibault Version: 2.8.1 OS: Windows XP Pro SP2 Submission from: (NULL) (216.104.125.106) I had Adobe Acrobat 5 and Adobe Reader 9 installed. The .pdf open association is to Reader. When I selected Help | Manuals(in pdf) | An Introduction to R,

Re: [Rd] Acessing pdf help files (PR#13419)

2008-12-26 Thread Gabor Grothendieck
From the Windows (not R) command line try this (the input you type is after the and the output is on the next line). Modify the ftype line appropriately if the output of assoc is different for you. C:\tmp2assoc .pdf .pdf=AcroExch.Document C:\tmp2ftype AcroExch.Document

[Rd] Patch to fix small bug in do_External and do_dotcall

2008-12-26 Thread Olaf Mersmann
I've stumbled upon a small bug/inconsitency in do_External and do_dotcall: Here's an example: % LC_ALL=C R --vanilla symname-bug.R R version 2.8.0 (2008-10-20) *snip* options(error=expression(0)) ## Call 'R_GD_nullDevice' with incorrect parameter count:

Re: [Rd] Patch to fix small bug in do_External and do_dotcall

2008-12-26 Thread Prof Brian Ripley
Thank you, but can we see the patch please (no attachement arrived)? On Sat, 27 Dec 2008, Olaf Mersmann wrote: I've stumbled upon a small bug/inconsitency in do_External and do_dotcall: Here's an example: % LC_ALL=C R --vanilla symname-bug.R R version 2.8.0 (2008-10-20) *snip*

Re: [Rd] Patch to fix small bug in do_External and do_dotcall

2008-12-26 Thread Olaf Mersmann
Excerpts from Prof Brian Ripley's message of Sat Dec 27 06:59:24 +0100 2008: Thank you, but can we see the patch please (no attachement arrived)? I've posted them online: http://www.statistik.tu-dortmund.de/~olafm/files/symname-bug.R