Re: [Rd] Importing csv files

2004-12-23 Thread Gabor Grothendieck
> > > > > My understanding is that David is not distributing dataload any more, > > though > > I would not like to discourage commercial vendors (such as providers of > > Stat/Transfer and DBMSCOPY) from providing .rda output as an option. I > > assume that new code written under GPL would no

Re: [Rd] Re: [R] tcltk problem

2004-12-23 Thread Marc Schwartz
On Thu, 2004-12-23 at 21:05 +, Prof Brian Ripley wrote: > There's no problem in R-devel, but this is a configuration issue and > without the configuration output we can't help, only guess. > > Hint: it is tcltk and you need both Tcl _and_ Tk. As I recall FC2 comes > with Tcl and not Tk inst

Re: [Rd] Re: [R] tcltk problem

2004-12-23 Thread Prof Brian Ripley
There's no problem in R-devel, but this is a configuration issue and without the configuration output we can't help, only guess. Hint: it is tcltk and you need both Tcl _and_ Tk. As I recall FC2 comes with Tcl and not Tk installed by default, so please check Tk is installed by looking at the c

[Rd] Re: [R] tcltk problem

2004-12-23 Thread Marc Schwartz
[MOVED TO R-DEVEL] On Thu, 2004-12-23 at 12:47 -0500, Liviu M Vladutu wrote: > Quoting Marc Schwartz <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > > > On Thu, 2004-12-23 at 11:32 -0500, Liviu M Vladutu wrote: > > > > > > Hi all, > > > I have R Version 2.1.0 installed on a box running Redhat Fedora Core 2. > > > > Are

Re: [Rd] error in software calculation (PR#7444)

2004-12-23 Thread ligges
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Full_Name: ismaele ciani > Version: R 2.0.1 > OS: windows xp > Submission from: (NULL) (80.104.165.254) > > > When creating the histogram, the first cell of the first column and row always > renders a value twice that of the true value. > Please specify a reproducibl

[Rd] error in software calculation (PR#7444)

2004-12-23 Thread ismaeleciani
Full_Name: ismaele ciani Version: R 2.0.1 OS: windows xp Submission from: (NULL) (80.104.165.254) When creating the histogram, the first cell of the first column and row always renders a value twice that of the true value. __ R-devel@stat.math.ethz.ch

Re: [Rd] Importing csv files

2004-12-23 Thread Prof Brian Ripley
On Thu, 23 Dec 2004, Frank E Harrell Jr wrote: Prof Brian Ripley wrote: I think we need to know what you mean by `large' and why read.table is not fast enough (and hence if some of the planned improvements might be all that is needed). I was referring to the e-mail exchanges on r-help about read.

Re: [Rd] Importing csv files

2004-12-23 Thread Frank E Harrell Jr
Prof Brian Ripley wrote: I think we need to know what you mean by `large' and why read.table is not fast enough (and hence if some of the planned improvements might be all that is needed). I was referring to the e-mail exchanges on r-help about read.table a few weeks ago, then there was a new di

Re: [Rd] Importing csv files

2004-12-23 Thread Prof Brian Ripley
I think we need to know what you mean by `large' and why read.table is not fast enough (and hence if some of the planned improvements might be all that is needed). Could you make some examples available for profiling? It seems to me that there are some delicate licensing issues in distributing

Re: [Rd] small problem with R CMD check

2004-12-23 Thread Prof Brian Ripley
So, that's a correct report, surely. On Thu, 23 Dec 2004, Kjetil Brinchmann Halvorsen wrote: On trying with very smll test packages to try drilling down to som problems earlier reported in this list, I detected the following: R CMD check on a package with an R subdirectory empty, reports: * checkin

[Rd] small problem with R CMD check

2004-12-23 Thread Kjetil Brinchmann Halvorsen
On trying with very smll test packages to try drilling down to som problems earlier reported in this list, I detected the following: R CMD check on a package with an R subdirectory empty, reports: * checking R files for syntax errors ... ERROR Syntax error in file On removing the empty subdirectory

[Rd] buglet in summary of a data frame

2004-12-23 Thread Kjetil Brinchmann Halvorsen
The following could probably behave better: > test$TESTFAC <- NULL > test NULL data frame with 8 rows > summary(test) Error in z[[i]] : subscript out of bounds In addition: Warning message: no finite arguments to max; returning -Inf (rw2001 on win XP) Kjetil -- Kjetil Halvorsen. Peace is the most e

[Rd] Importing csv files

2004-12-23 Thread Frank E Harrell Jr
There is a recurring need for importing large csv files quickly. David Baird's dataload is a standalone program that will directly create .rda files from .csv (it also handles many other conversions). Unfortunately dataload is no longer publicly available because of some kind of relationship