[Rd] save.image fails when the directory structure has Hebrew in it. (PR#13855)

2009-07-28 Thread tal . galili
Hello to who ever reads this. I use R 2.8.0 on win XP I noticed for some time now that every time I use the menu commands: file - save work space If I am saving to a directory that has Hebrew in one of the folder names on the tree, the save.image will give the following error massage:

Re: [Rd] bug in approx crashes R

2009-07-28 Thread Martin Maechler
Vadim Ogranovich vogranov...@jumptrading.com on Mon, 27 Jul 2009 12:47:47 -0500 writes: Thank you Bill. Indeed, thank you, Bill Dunlap! The original motivation for my experiments with setting yleft to NULL was to see if I could get more flexibility that that allowed by

Re: [Rd] how to change FPU control word?

2009-07-28 Thread Andrew Piskorski
On Mon, Jul 27, 2009 at 12:41:42PM +0200, Martin Becker wrote: is there (already) a platform-independent way for (temporarily!) changing the fpu control word? Currently, I am using inline assembler (which works for x86 cpus on Linux and Windows (MinGW)) Platform-indepdendent? I don't know

Re: [Rd] Sys.setlocale

2009-07-28 Thread Peter Dalgaard
Göran Broström wrote: When checking an R package of mine, I get * checking R files for syntax errors ... WARNING Warning in Sys.setlocale(LC_CTYPE, en_US) : OS reports request to set locale to en_US cannot be honored 'Sys.setlocale' is not used in any of my R functions. What should I do to

Re: [Rd] Sys.setlocale

2009-07-28 Thread Göran Broström
Peter Dalgaard wrote: Göran Broström wrote: When checking an R package of mine, I get * checking R files for syntax errors ... WARNING Warning in Sys.setlocale(LC_CTYPE, en_US) : OS reports request to set locale to en_US cannot be honored 'Sys.setlocale' is not used in any of my R

Re: [Rd] bug in approx crashes R

2009-07-28 Thread Vadim Ogranovich
Thank you Martin! The new 'rule'-s is exactly what I wanted. It's intuitive and consistent with the scalar use. Thanks, Vadim -Original Message- From: Martin Maechler [mailto:maech...@stat.math.ethz.ch] Sent: Tuesday, July 28, 2009 5:00 AM To: Vadim Ogranovich Cc: 'William Dunlap';

[Rd] How to use formulas for multivariate clustered data?

2009-07-28 Thread Klaus Nordhausen
Dear R experts, I wrote already a couple of weeks ago but did not get any reply. Therefore I'll rephrase my question and hope some of you can give me some answers or some advice where better to look for an answer. In general I'm looking for information on how to program functions using

Re: [Rd] How to use formulas for multivariate clustered data?

2009-07-28 Thread Gabor Grothendieck
Have a look at the source code for the Formula package. On Tue, Jul 28, 2009 at 12:58 PM, Klaus Nordhausenklaus.nordhau...@uta.fi wrote: Dear R experts, I wrote already a couple of weeks ago but did not get any reply. Therefore I'll rephrase my question and hope some of you can give me some

[Rd] Advice sought about Rd versions

2009-07-28 Thread Michael Dewey
From R 2.9.0 we have the concept of versions for Rd files. The manual is clear about the differences but I am unsure as to what I should do about my existing packages. Is it recommended that I set the version to 1.1 and then fix the errors R CMD check helpfully points out and then subsequently

Re: [Rd] How to use formulas for multivariate clustered data?

2009-07-28 Thread Achim Zeileis
Klaus: I wrote already a couple of weeks ago but did not get any reply. Therefore I'll rephrase my question and hope some of you can give me some answers or some advice where better to look for an answer. In general I'm looking for information on how to program functions using formulas in

Re: [Rd] noweb and R

2009-07-28 Thread Paul Gilbert
Terry I didn't see any response to this and I am a bit curious about the answer. If I understand correctly, you are suggesting you would like some directory, say Rman/, that gets pre-processed to produce the R/ and man/ directories. Are you thinking that it should be part of the package

Re: [Rd] Checking package on Windows (and seemingly irreproducible errors in CRAN checks)

2009-07-28 Thread Mathieu Ribatet
Dear Carlos, From your check results: cbc.data - cbc.read.table( system.file(data, cbc.test.data.txt, package = colbycol), sep = \t ) Warning in file(file, r) : cannot open file '0001': No such file or directory I think you're trying to

Re: [Rd] Checking package on Windows (and seemingly irreproducible errors in CRAN checks)

2009-07-28 Thread Carlos J. Gil Bellosta
Dear Gabor, Yes, I did run the R CMD CHECK on Linux. It only gave me the same two warnings as in the checks for non-Windows architectures. The examples run fine on Linux and also on Windows when I installed my package from the binaries provided in r-forge. I never run a R CMD check on Windows,

Re: [Rd] Checking package on Windows (and seemingly irreproducible errors in CRAN checks)

2009-07-28 Thread hadley wickham
On Tue, Jul 28, 2009 at 2:14 PM, Mathieu Ribatetmathieu.riba...@epfl.ch wrote: Dear Carlos, From your check results:        cbc.data - cbc.read.table( system.file(data,        cbc.test.data.txt, package = colbycol), sep = \t )                Warning in file(file, r) :                cannot

[Rd] Wishlist: Navigate to Index page of help when no topic specified (PR#13860)

2009-07-28 Thread smckinney
Hi all, When I install a new package, and don't yet know any function names, I have to play the poor man's game to get to the standard help system Index page for the package: Poor Man's Game -=20 Load new package;=20 issue search() command; find position (say N) of loaded package;=20