Re: [Rd] Google Summer of Code 2009

2009-02-20 Thread Deepayan Sarkar
On 2/19/09, Dirk Eddelbuettel e...@debian.org wrote: [...] On 19 February 2009 at 09:33, Simon Urbanek wrote: | If primitive 3d scatterplot interactivity is all you want, go with | rggobi. It's GTK and has all this already and much more. However, | ggobi also shows why GTK is not a good

Re: [Rd] Google Summer of Code 2009

2009-02-20 Thread Thomas Lumley
On Fri, 20 Feb 2009, Friedrich Leisch wrote: On Thu, 19 Feb 2009 10:52:19 -0600, Dirk Eddelbuettel (DE) wrote: [ Cool how nobody cared about Fritz' request not to post ideas yet :) ] Well, I kind of expected that ;-) See also below. [ I broadly share Oleg's wouldn't it be nice to have

Re: [Rd] plot.lm: Cook's distance label can overplot point labels

2009-02-20 Thread Thomas Lumley
On Thu, 19 Feb 2009, John Fox wrote: Dear John and Brian, My point about colour-blindness was partly tongue-in-cheek, but I think that it's a bad choice to have the second and third colours in the default palette as red and green. Looking at the standard palette with dichromat::dichromat()

Re: [Rd] unloadNamespace (Was: How to unload a dll loaded via library.dynam()?)

2009-02-20 Thread Berwin A Turlach
G'day all, On Fri, 20 Feb 2009 04:01:07 + (GMT) Prof Brian Ripley rip...@stats.ox.ac.uk wrote: library.dynam.unload() does work if the OS is cooperative. And if you have your package set up correctly and unload the namespace (and not just detach the package if there is a namespace) then

[Rd] X11 fails to open (PR#13543)

2009-02-20 Thread clyde
Full_Name: Merlise Clyde Version: 2.8.1 OS: MAC OS X 10.4.1 Submission from: (NULL) (24.199.155.61) I am running R under X11 on the MAC OS X 10.4.11 and have been having problems with X11 graphics since upgrading to 2.8.+ plot(1:10) Error in X11(d$display, d$width, d$height, d$pointsize,

[Rd] Faster Blas Library

2009-02-20 Thread sachin1234
Hi everyone, I have made a faster BLAS library thanks to Nvidia CUBLAS library. I was wondering how I could upload this new Rblas.dll. I've included a powerpoint presentation I made on the project. Highlights include upto 2000% improvement in matrix multiplication timings. Unfortunately the

Re: [Rd] Faster Blas Library

2009-02-20 Thread Prof Brian Ripley
I presume this is on Windows (you did not actually say). The section http://cran.r-project.org/bin/windows/contrib/ is managed by Uwe Ligges, and you could send him the Rblas.dll, the sources, a description file and a license (the last being rather important if this is to be hosted on CRAN).

Re: [Rd] Faster Blas Library

2009-02-20 Thread Uwe Ligges
Prof Brian Ripley wrote: I presume this is on Windows (you did not actually say). The section http://cran.r-project.org/bin/windows/contrib/ is managed by Uwe Ligges, and you could send him the Rblas.dll, the sources, a description file and a license (the last being rather important if this

Re: [Rd] unloadNamespace (Was: How to unload a dll loaded via library.dynam()?)

2009-02-20 Thread Prof Brian Ripley
This was rather a large shift of subject, so I've pruned the recipients list. Is lazy loading involved? If so I have an idea that may or may not be relevant. We do cache in memory the lazy-loading database for speed on slow (network-mounted or USB drive) file systems. Now the cache is

Re: [Rd] cpu bound cases

2009-02-20 Thread Thomas Lumley
On Thu, 19 Feb 2009, Rubin, Norman wrote: I'm considering some things AMD could do to accelerate R using GPU processors. In an internal discussion I was asked Are there interesting R computations which are currently cpu bound? I'm sure there are lots but I'd like to be able to name some real

Re: [Rd] plot.lm: Cook's distance label can overplot point labels

2009-02-20 Thread John Fox
Dear Thomas, Though far from an expert on the matter, it's my understanding that red-green confusion is the most common form of colour-blindness. I guess that the best way to put it is that it would be desirable to choose colours for the standard palette that minimize the probability of

[Rd] [SoC09-Info] Idea submission.

2009-02-20 Thread Manuel J. A. Eugster
Hi everybody, as Fritz mentioned in his introducing Google Summer of Code 2009 email, I will manage the organizational part of the R-Project application and (hopfully) participation. Google's timeline schedules March 9-13 as date for organizations to make an application as mentoring

Re: [Rd] plot.lm: Cook's distance label can overplot point labels

2009-02-20 Thread Michael Dewey
At 13:05 20/02/2009, John Fox wrote: Dear Thomas, Though far from an expert on the matter, it's my understanding that red-green confusion is the most common form of colour-blindness. I guess that the best way to put it is that it would be desirable to choose colours for the standard palette

Re: [Rd] unloadNamespace (Was: How to unload a dll loaded via library.dynam()?)

2009-02-20 Thread Berwin A Turlach
G'day Brian, On Fri, 20 Feb 2009 11:37:18 + (GMT) Prof Brian Ripley rip...@stats.ox.ac.uk wrote: This was rather a large shift of subject, [...] Well, yes, from the clean unloading of compiled code to the clean unloading of R code. :-) Though, I also confirmed that the former is

Re: [Rd] vignette compilation times

2009-02-20 Thread Berwin A Turlach
G'day Robin, On Thu, 19 Feb 2009 11:10:45 + Robin Hankin rk...@cam.ac.uk wrote: I am preparing a number of vignettes that require a very long time to process with Sweave. The longest one takes 10 hours. Is the sum of all chunks taking this time? Or is it mostly the code in only a

Re: [Rd] vignette compilation times

2009-02-20 Thread Berwin A Turlach
G'day Gabor, On Thu, 19 Feb 2009 17:47:53 -0500 Gabor Grothendieck ggrothendi...@gmail.com wrote: [...] Unless this has changed recently,I've tried including a PDF but it does not appear in library(help = myPackage) nor on the CRAN site on http://cran.r-project.org/package=myPackage while

Re: [Rd] vignette compilation times

2009-02-20 Thread Berwin A Turlach
G'day Fritz, On Fri, 20 Feb 2009 12:46:49 +1100 Friedrich Leisch friedrich.lei...@stat.uni-muenchen.de wrote: [...] It is also unclear to me whether including a PDF without sources in a GPLed package isn't a violation of the GPL (I know people who very strongly think so). And source according

Re: [Rd] interactive graphics for R: was Google Summer of Code 2009

2009-02-20 Thread Michael Lawrence
On Thu, Feb 19, 2009 at 9:27 AM, Sklyar, Oleg (London) oskl...@maninvestments.com wrote: Dear Simon, thanks for comments. I better give a bit of a background first. We are analysing time series of financial data, often multivariate and with say 200K samples. It is quite a frequent

Re: [Rd] vignette compilation times

2009-02-20 Thread Gabor Grothendieck
Thanks for the inventive workaround. On Fri, Feb 20, 2009 at 1:37 PM, Berwin A Turlach ber...@maths.uwa.edu.au wrote: G'day Gabor, On Thu, 19 Feb 2009 17:47:53 -0500 Gabor Grothendieck ggrothendi...@gmail.com wrote: [...] Unless this has changed recently,I've tried including a PDF but it

[Rd] R-devel/Linux x64/Sun Studio 12: Problem with Matrix

2009-02-20 Thread Thomas Petzoldt
Dear Developers, motivated by the new Sun Studio checks I compiled R-devel and several of our packages with Sun Studio 12 on Fedora x64. Everything worked fine and R-devel runs, with the exception of package Matrix where compilation crashes with the following message. The error occurs during