Re: [Rd] cat cannot write more than 10000 characters? [R 2.8.1]

2009-01-11 Thread Prof Brian Ripley
Looks like a bug in your iconv. However, that section of code is conditionalized by if(con-outconv) { /* translate the buffer */ and I don't see that as non-NULL on my systems. It should only be called when you specify an encoding on the output connection, so have you set an option

Re: [Rd] NY Times article

2009-01-11 Thread Frank E Harrell Jr
Nicholas please note that FDA does not require type III sums of squares, LOCF, and the use of any particular software. It is just the fact that FDA does not disallow type III tests and LOCF that prevents pharma from abandoning these terrible methods. Frank -- Frank E Harrell Jr Professor

Re: [Rd] code validation (was Re: NY Times article)

2009-01-11 Thread Marc Schwartz
on 01/10/2009 03:06 PM Spencer Graves wrote: Hi, All: What support exists for 'regression testing' (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Regression_testing) of R code, e.g., as part of the R CMD check process? TheRUnit package supports unit testing

Re: [Rd] cat cannot write more than 10000 characters? [R 2.8.1]

2009-01-11 Thread Prof Brian Ripley
On Sun, 11 Jan 2009, Daniel Sabanés Bové wrote: Yes, I set the encoding to UTF-8 in my .Rprofile. Sorry that I didn't You really don't want to do that: it adds a considerable overhead and relies on a bug-free iconv The latest R-patched should work around this. mention it already. So

Re: [Rd] NY Times article

2009-01-11 Thread Nicholas Lewin-Koh
Hi Frank, Thank you for the correction, I don't work in clinical, so good you keep me honest. Nicholas On Sun, 11 Jan 2009 09:21:23 -0600, Frank E Harrell Jr f.harr...@vanderbilt.edu said: Nicholas please note that FDA does not require type III sums of squares, LOCF, and the use of any

[Rd] R as a scripting engine

2009-01-11 Thread Prof Brian Ripley
Those of you tracking R development will have noticed that we are moving towards using R as a scripting engine. (It is often overlooked as such.) Thus far INSTALL, REMOVE, SHLIB and massage-examples have been moved to R. Reasons: - it is platform-independent and needs no other tools

Re: [Rd] R as a scripting engine

2009-01-11 Thread Gabor Grothendieck
On Sun, Jan 11, 2009 at 3:18 PM, Prof Brian Ripley rip...@stats.ox.ac.uk wrote: Those of you tracking R development will have noticed that we are moving towards using R as a scripting engine. (It is often overlooked as such.) ... In due course we see phasing out the use of Perl, at least at

Re: [Rd] R as a scripting engine

2009-01-11 Thread Dirk Eddelbuettel
On 11 January 2009 at 20:18, Prof Brian Ripley wrote: | Those of you tracking R development will have noticed that we are | moving towards using R as a scripting engine. [...] | Reasons: | | - it is platform-independent and needs no other tools installed. [...] | - it is fast. [...] Indeed. I

[Rd] Package Matrix does not compile in R-devel_2009-01-10

2009-01-11 Thread Rainer Hurling
Dear developers, today I tried to build and install R-devel_2009-01-10 on FreeBSD 8.0-CURRENT (i386) for testing purposes. All went well until compiling the now recommended (integrated) Matrix package. At this point the following break occured:

[Rd] complex-valued sparse matrices

2009-01-11 Thread Juha Vierinen
Hi, I was looking at the sparse matrix packages and I noticed that complex valued sparse matrices are not supported. Is there anybody working on adding complex-support for the SparseM or the Matrix package? juha __ R-devel@r-project.org mailing list

Re: [Rd] Package Matrix does not compile in R-devel_2009-01-10

2009-01-11 Thread Prof Brian Ripley
You need to take this up with the package maintainers: although recommended packages are distributed with R, they are still contributed packages with separate maintainers. At one point Matrix did work with a non-GNU make (the Solaris one) after suggestions from R-core members on how to