[Rd] readCitationFile encoding

2009-12-30 Thread Jens Elkner
Hi, does anybody know, how to enforce a certain encoding for readCitationFile()? Haven't found any usable documentation for this :( E.g.: basecit - system.file(CITATION, package=base) source(basecit, echo=TRUE, encoding=8859-1) readCitationFile(basecit) BTW: 'make check' is a relativ long

Re: [Rd] readCitationFile encoding

2009-12-31 Thread Jens Elkner
On Thu, Dec 31, 2009 at 08:01:15AM +, Prof Brian Ripley wrote: On Thu, 31 Dec 2009, Jens Elkner wrote: Hi, does anybody know, how to enforce a certain encoding for readCitationFile()? Haven't found any usable documentation for this :( Really? Yes. Well, just started to dive into R

Re: [Rd] readCitationFile encoding

2010-01-02 Thread Jens Elkner
On Thu, Dec 31, 2009 at 02:50:00PM -0500, Simon Urbanek wrote: On Dec 31, 2009, at 10:05 AM, Jens Elkner wrote: OT: Wondering, what does recommended portable encoding names in this context mean (e.g. AFAIK 'latin1' is not a standardized name ...). It is in R -- since no standard name

[Rd] MCMCpack + SunStudio12 patch

2010-01-12 Thread Jens Elkner
Hi, FYI: made some patches to get MCMCpack compiled with Sun StudioCompiler 12 (on Solaris). If somebody wanna try/comment on it: http://iws.cs.uni-magdeburg.de/~elkner/R/MCMCpack-studio.patch Regards, jel. -- Otto-von-Guericke University http://www.cs.uni-magdeburg.de/ Department of

[Rd] R_LIBS_USER bugs

2010-02-16 Thread Jens Elkner
Hi, Having currently a big problem with R 2.10.1 vanilla (Solaris): As soon as the R_LIBS_USER env var gets bigger than 1023 chars R completely ignores it and uses the default: Sys.getenv('R_LIBS_USER'); R_LIBS_USER

Re: [Rd] Where does install.R go when R gets compiled? Or, how to experiment with changes to install.R?

2010-02-18 Thread Jens Elkner
On Thu, Feb 18, 2010 at 11:33:14AM -0600, Paul Johnson wrote: Hello, everybody. I apologize if this is obvious. I've not tried to make changes in R code within the R source itself before. I'm pursuing an experiment to make RPM files for R packages on-the-fly. Any time I install an R

Re: [Rd] R_LIBS_USER bugs

2010-02-19 Thread Jens Elkner
On Wed, Feb 17, 2010 at 07:49:20AM -0800, Seth Falcon wrote: Hi, On 2/16/10 10:31 AM, Jens Elkner wrote: Having currently a big problem with R 2.10.1 vanilla (Solaris): As soon as the R_LIBS_USER env var gets bigger than 1023 chars R completely ignores it and uses the default: BTW

[Rd] R logo as SVG ?

2010-02-20 Thread Jens Elkner
Hi, does anybody have the R logo in a vector format preferable SVG? Need it for Freedesktop (GNOME desktop) integration of Rcmdr ... Thanx, jel. -- Otto-von-Guericke University http://www.cs.uni-magdeburg.de/ Department of Computer Science Geb. 29 R 027, Universitaetsplatz 2 39106

Re: [Rd] R logo as SVG ?

2010-02-20 Thread Jens Elkner
On Sat, Feb 20, 2010 at 08:00:13PM +0100, Peter Dalgaard wrote: G. Jay Kerns wrote: On Sat, Feb 20, 2010 at 1:18 PM, Peter Dalgaard p.dalga...@biostat.ku.dk wrote: Jens Elkner wrote: Hi, does anybody have the R logo in a vector format preferable SVG? Need it for Freedesktop (GNOME desktop

Re: [Rd] R logo as SVG ?

2010-02-26 Thread Jens Elkner
On Mon, Feb 22, 2010 at 01:14:51PM +0100, Peter Dalgaard wrote: Hi Peter, sorry for the later answer - had to finish other tasks first :( I played around with inkscape again ( it IS a time sink...) The attached version is around 200K and not too bad looking to my eyes. How does it work

Re: [Rd] R logo as SVG ?

2010-02-27 Thread Jens Elkner
On Sat, Feb 27, 2010 at 10:18:23AM +0100, Peter Dalgaard wrote: Jens Elkner wrote: ... Yes - still a little bit big (most are usually not bigger than 50K, but some exceptions hav 80..100K), but much better than 2M and sufficient IMHO, too. ... I suppose I should put it somewhere for others

Re: [Rd] R logo as SVG ?

2010-03-01 Thread Jens Elkner
On Sat, Feb 27, 2010 at 08:23:17PM +0100, baptiste auguie wrote: You got the first two letters right, but it's actually *Barry*'s work! Oh - sorry, Barry!!! BTW: screenshots I made from my desktop are available via http://iws.cs.uni-magdeburg.de/~elkner/r/ OT: Incl. the iconv patch I used

Re: [Rd] R logo as SVG ?

2010-03-02 Thread Jens Elkner
On Mon, Mar 01, 2010 at 10:16:16PM +0100, Peter Dalgaard wrote: Jens Elkner wrote: ... BTW: screenshots I made from my desktop are available via http://iws.cs.uni-magdeburg.de/~elkner/r/ ... Looks quite nice. I later realized that it would be a much better idea to start by tracing

Re: [Rd] Bug reporting system inquiry plus a bug report related to sort

2010-03-04 Thread Jens Elkner
On Thu, Mar 04, 2010 at 09:39:41AM -0600, Marc Schwartz wrote: There has been talk over the years of moving to Bugzilla, but I am not clear on present status. IMHO Bugzilla is too challenging for normal users/human beeings (even developers are often not able to extract the info they need).

Re: [Rd] R logo as SVG ?

2010-03-04 Thread Jens Elkner
On Wed, Mar 03, 2010 at 05:42:24PM +0100, Henrik Bengtsson wrote: Hi Henrik, My Wednesday procrastination: There's quite some number of decimals in the SVG and some whitespace, so some dummy trimming gives: x - readLines(http://developer.r-project.org/Logo/Rlogo-1.svg;); ... Cool :).

Re: [Rd] Bug reporting system inquiry plus a bug report related to sort

2010-03-04 Thread Jens Elkner
On Thu, Mar 04, 2010 at 10:58:16AM -0600, Marc Schwartz wrote: ... Jira was discussed a couple of years ago: http://tolstoy.newcastle.edu.au/R/e5/devel/08/09/0006.html I presume that the disposition towards non-FOSS platforms remains. Was just an idea. IMHO the hosting team needs to

Re: [Rd] unable to compile Recommended packages

2010-03-09 Thread Jens Elkner
On Tue, Mar 09, 2010 at 02:14:50PM -0500, Alex Bryant wrote: Thank you for your responses. It turns out the problem was my version of 'tar' on solaris. I downloaded the latest Gnu tar and the install completed successfully. Who would of know ;) ... SunOS 5.10 Generic_118822-25 sun4u

Re: [Rd] some fixes for R 2.01.1 on OpenSolaris using Sun Studio compilers

2010-03-22 Thread Jens Elkner
On Mon, Mar 22, 2010 at 11:53:32AM -0400, Kostas Oikonomou wrote: Hi, I recently built a 64-bit R 2.10.1 on OpenSolaris using the Sun Studio 12.1 compilers. I would like to contribute the following notes, to update the OpenSolaris installation instructions. First: Since no patches