Re: [Rd] broken link to new features in R-devel: no NEWS file

2010-07-20 Thread Prof Brian Ripley
Please report problems with websites to the webmaster: no one else can handle them. I believe that for CRAN the appropriate address is cran-ad...@r-project.org. On Wed, 21 Jul 2010, mark.braving...@csiro.au wrote: Hi The link from CRAN to "new features in R-devel" hasn't been working for a f

Re: [Rd] broken link to new features in R-devel: no NEWS file

2010-07-20 Thread Gabor Grothendieck
On Tue, Jul 20, 2010 at 10:20 PM, wrote: > Hi > > The link from CRAN to "new features in R-devel" hasn't been working for a few > days. Specifically, there is no NEWS file in > https://svn.r-project.org/R/trunk/, though there is an ONEWS. > > The link is in the "Source code for all platforms" s

Re: [Rd] Package ff building error on solaris x64 10u7

2010-07-20 Thread Amber
Thanks, this one works 2010/7/20 Prof Brian Ripley > This is a known problem, reported to the maintainer months ago. Try > > http://www.stats.ox.ac.uk/pub/RWin/GPLcompliance/ff_2.1-2.1.tar.gz > > [You will be able to see which 100+ packages fail on Solaris from the CRAN > package check pages.]

Re: [Rd] Package RPostgreSQL_0.1-6.tar.gz has been checked and built

2010-07-20 Thread Amber
Hi Dirk I think there are problems with pg_config, the configure script of RPostgreSQL checks for pg_config and got ¡°checking for pg_config... /usr/bin/pg_config¡±. In Solaris 10u7 X64, three versions of PostgreSQL are installed, there are in /usr/postgres/8.2(8.2.9) and /usr/postgres/8.3(8

[Rd] broken link to new features in R-devel: no NEWS file

2010-07-20 Thread Mark.Bravington
Hi The link from CRAN to "new features in R-devel" hasn't been working for a few days. Specifically, there is no NEWS file in https://svn.r-project.org/R/trunk/, though there is an ONEWS. The link is in the "Source code for all platforms" subwindow, where it says: Daily snapshots of current pa

[Rd] new bug in install.packages()

2010-07-20 Thread Hervé Pagès
Hi, install.packages() seems to be broken in latest R-devel snapshot (2010-07-19 r52561) if you are using an R/R.version$platform-library/x.y directory. > .libPaths() [1] "/home/hpages/R/x86_64-unknown-linux-gnu-library/2.12" [2] "/home/hpages/R-2.12/library" > install.packages("car")

[Rd] Extract callNextMethod "array" calls "matrix"?

2010-07-20 Thread Daniel Murphy
I have a class that extends array and my method for "[" stops with an error: > setClass("A", contains="array") [1] "A" > setMethod("[", "A", function(x, i, j, ..., drop = TRUE) new("A", callNextMethod())) [1] "[" > a<-new("A",array(1:12,c(4,3,1))) > a An object of class "A" , , 1 [,1] [,2] [

Re: [Rd] Non-blocking Eval

2010-07-20 Thread Simon Urbanek
Martin, On Jul 20, 2010, at 8:10 AM, Martin Kerr wrote: > > Sorry I phrased that badly. > What I'm trying to do is asynchronously add data to R, i.e. a program will > periodically dump some readings to the Rserver and then later on another > program will run some analysis scripts on them. Tha

Re: [Rd] garbage collection & memory leaks in 'R', it seems...

2010-07-20 Thread Mike Williamson
Peter, OK, thanks for the info! My work-around for the foreseeable future is to simply launch 'R' from a command line with the --no-save & --no-restore options, then break the program up a bit. Regards,

[Rd] Telling R CMD check where to find libraries

2010-07-20 Thread Thaler, Thorn, LAUSANNE, Applied Mathematics
Hello everybody, Currently I'm developing a library, which uses some functions from another package (namely plotrix). Consequently, I listed this dependency in the DESCRIPTION file. When I try to run "R CMD check mypackage", the check fails, for the library plotrix cannot be found on the system. A

Re: [Rd] Building rattle on Solaris 10u7 X86

2010-07-20 Thread 顾小波
Hi Professor Brian Ripley, Thanks for your help, >>Our experience is >> >>- the X11 installation on Solaris is too old for these packages. We >>use the one from OpenCSW (see the R-admin manual). cairographics in >>particular has moved on a lot since the 2005 release of Solaris 10 >>(cair

Re: [Rd] Package ff building error on solaris x64 10u7

2010-07-20 Thread Prof Brian Ripley
This is a known problem, reported to the maintainer months ago. Try http://www.stats.ox.ac.uk/pub/RWin/GPLcompliance/ff_2.1-2.1.tar.gz [You will be able to see which 100+ packages fail on Solaris from the CRAN package check pages.] And please try to send properly formatted text messages: we

[Rd] Package ff building error on solaris x64 10u7

2010-07-20 Thread 顾小波
Hi again, I am trying to building ff on solaris x64 10u7, and failed with the following result: -bash-3.00$ R CMD INSTALL ff * installing to library '/opt/R/R2-11-1/lib/R/library' * installing *source* package 'ff' ... checking for gcc... /opt/sunstudio12.1/bin/cc -m64 checking f

Re: [Rd] Non-blocking Eval

2010-07-20 Thread Martin Kerr
Sorry I phrased that badly. What I'm trying to do is asynchronously add data to R, i.e. a program will periodically dump some readings to the Rserver and then later on another program will run some analysis scripts on them. I have managed to add the data via CMD_detachedVoidEval as you suggested

Re: [Rd] Suggestion for serialization performance improvement on Windows

2010-07-20 Thread Prof Brian Ripley
On Fri, 9 Jul 2010, Bryan W. Lewis wrote: Dear R developers, The slow performance of serializing to a raw vector on Windows is an issue that has appeared in this list before. It appears to be due to References? the frequent use of realloc from the resize_buffer method in serialize.c. I su