Re: [Rd] GPL and R Community Policies (Rcpp)

2010-12-01 Thread Sean O'Riordain
notice once the project has been distributed. The only way this could happen is if the project is completely rewritten from scratch by people who have not worked on the project using a 'clean-room' methodology - this seems quite unlikely. Just a thought, Kind regards, Sean O'Riordain Dublin On 2

[Rd] possible minor mis-spelling in R Data Import/Export

2010-12-16 Thread Sean O'Riordain
Good morning, Could this be a mis-spelling in the development (revision 53854) and release version of R Data Import/Export ? Kind regards, Sean O'Riordain Dublin un-affiliated... svn diff r-devel/R/doc/manual/ Index: r-devel/R/doc/manual/R-data.texi

Re: [Rd] R command line and pipe using in Linux?

2011-02-14 Thread Sean O'Riordain
Good afternoon Hang, This is an example of what I've done with a csv file with a header which is too big to read into memory. # this is a file with about 50 columns and 28 million records ap.fnam - 'p2_all28m_records.csv' # lets just explore the columns in Addresspoint... # by reading in the

[Rd] possible minor doc clarification?

2011-04-25 Thread Sean O'Riordain
Good afternoon, As a clarification does it make sense to remove the second 'not' in the 'See Also' documentation for file_test ? Kind regards, Sean O'Riordain - Index: src/library/utils/man/filetest.Rd === --- src/library/utils

Re: [Rd] incorrect result (41/10-1/10)%%1 (PR#13863)

2009-08-03 Thread Sean O'Riordain
Good morning Jan, Could this be covered off by the following? http://cran.r-project.org/doc/FAQ/R-FAQ.html#Why-doesn_0027t-R-think-these-numbers-are-equal_003f Kind regards, Sean On Sat, Aug 1, 2009 at 9:05 PM, jan.hattend...@unibas.ch wrote: Full_Name: jan hattendorf Version: 2.9.0 OS: XP

Re: [Rd] Windows Laptop specification query

2009-09-28 Thread Sean O'Riordain
Good morning Keith, Have a look at http://cran.r-project.org/bin/windows/base/rw-FAQ.html#There-seems-to-be-a-limit-on-the-memory-it-uses_0021 The short answer is that it depends... a) memory is limited under windows b) R is essentially a serial program - HOWEVER it depends what you're actually

Re: [Rd] Rcpp: Clarifying the meaning of GPL?

2009-12-23 Thread Sean O'Riordain
Good afternoon, While I don't know the history of this particular conflict - to me the entire *purpose* of the GPL is to ALLOW forking of code which must remain in public. If somebody forks code and makes any change whatsoever and then distributes either the diff or the entire previous project,

Re: [Rd] sample on data.frame

2010-02-20 Thread Sean O'Riordain
it in ages :-) Kind regards, Sean O'Riordain Dublin Ireland On Fri, Feb 19, 2010 at 9:05 PM, Stavros Macrakis macra...@alum.mit.eduwrote: Currently, sample of a data.frame is a sample of the columns: e.g. sample(data.frame(a=1,b=2:3,c=4),2) = data.frame(b=2:3,c=c(4,4)) I'd have thought

[Rd] Fwd: R unzip method gives filenames as character

2013-04-09 Thread Sean O'Riordain
Question: would it be better if the contents list of the unzip() function returned the filenames as character rather than factor since they are probably unique strings? tmp - unzip(fnam, list=TRUE) str(tmp) 'data.frame': 31 obs. of 3 variables: $ Name : Factor w/ 31 levels fred1.csv,..: 1

[Rd] Issue with Control-Z in a text file on Windows - readLines() appears to truncate

2013-04-10 Thread Sean O'Riordain
in a VirtualBox. Kind regards, Sean O'Riordain Trinity College Dublin __ R-devel@r-project.org mailing list https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-devel

[Rd] broken link in docs for Binormial functions

2013-08-10 Thread Sean O'Riordain
On the local documentation page for Binomial, i.e. http://127.0.0.1:/library/stats/html/Binomial.html The link to Catherine Loader's paper Catherine Loader (2000). *Fast and Accurate Computation of Binomial Probabilities*; available from http://www.herine.net/stat/software/dbinom.html.;

Re: [Rd] cpu usage high with windows change dir / winDialogString (PR#11045)

2008-03-29 Thread Sean O'Riordain
) at home I'm no longer reliant on the ancient laptop for everyday use! All the best, Sean On 29/03/2008, Duncan Murdoch [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On 29/03/2008 1:10 PM, Sean O'Riordain wrote: Hi Duncan, I suspect that it's not the SHBrowseForFolder call as it seems fine once the Browse

Re: [Rd] cpu usage high with windows change dir / winDialogString (PR#11045)

2008-03-29 Thread Sean O'Riordain
Good afternoon Duncan, Thanks for that. See below for my reply. Best Regards, Sean On 29/03/2008, Duncan Murdoch [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On 28/03/2008 12:05 PM, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Good afternoon, This is possibly a windows only bug, definitely of comparatively low

Re: [Rd] cpu usage high with windows change dir / winDialogString (PR#11045)

2008-03-29 Thread Sean O'Riordain
Hi Duncan, I suspect that it's not the SHBrowseForFolder call as it seems fine once the Browse button is pressed - the problem occurs *before* the Browse button is pressed. Regards, Sean On 29/03/2008, Duncan Murdoch [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On 29/03/2008 12:23 PM, Gabor Grothendieck wrote:

Re: [Rd] Posting Guide

2008-06-07 Thread Sean O'Riordain
Gabor, I agree. Furthermore I think it might be useful to add that in my experience (and I'm sure others as well) that the process of creating a simple reproduceable example for an email to r-help will in most cases clarify what I'm trying to do and actually solve my own problem for me - once or

[Rd] trivial spelling correction

2008-12-01 Thread Sean O'Riordain
Good evening, Spotted a very minor spelling mistake in the source for the grep help. And thanks to R-Core for all their work - it's a tribute to R-Core, that these sort of problems are rare indeed. Best regards, Sean O'Riordain Dublin [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~/R/RSVN/R/trunk/src/library/base/man

[Rd] minor typo in duplicated.Rd (lemgth != length)

2008-12-17 Thread Sean O'Riordain
s...@sean7:~/R/RSVN/R/trunk/src/library$ svn diff Index: base/man/duplicated.Rd === --- base/man/duplicated.Rd (revision 47231) +++ base/man/duplicated.Rd (working copy) @@ -64,7 +64,7 @@ not be efficient for a very large

Re: [Rd] 2009 Wish list for R

2009-01-17 Thread Sean O'Riordain
Can I add a windows specific wish please? I'd like to be able to double click on a word in the console and select it, rather than have to manually select - silly I know but I'm constantly going back and forth between R and other programs where I can do this and I still haven't managed to train my

Re: [Rd] Possible POSIXlt / wday glitch bugs.r-project.org status

2013-10-05 Thread Sean O'Riordain
Some people (luckily not me anymore!) working with mortgages and pensions need to calculate up to 40 years into the future for the payment schedule. On 5 October 2013 02:37, Joshua Ulrich josh.m.ulr...@gmail.com wrote: On Fri, Oct 4, 2013 at 8:02 PM, Imanuel Costigan i.costi...@me.com wrote:

Re: [Rd] Huge performance difference between implicit and explicit print

2013-10-31 Thread Sean O'Riordain
Minor point and probably not relevant to the speed issue, but df() is the density function for the F distribution, so I have (recently) stopped using it for referring to data.frames. Sean On 30 October 2013 23:32, Gabriel Becker gmbec...@ucdavis.edu wrote: Hadley, As far as I can tell from a

Re: [Rd] wishlist: decreasing argument to is.unsorted

2014-01-04 Thread Sean O'Riordain
The more general alternative Gabor in this case would be a stopif() function... I often find myself having to think too much with stopifnot(!is.X()) Sean On 4 January 2014 00:24, Gábor Csárdi csardi.ga...@gmail.com wrote: While we are here, how about an is.sorted() function? It is trivial