Re: [Rd] Suggestion: help(package name)

2005-06-08 Thread A.J. Rossini
-back your mistakes (AJR, 4Jan05). A.J. Rossini [EMAIL PROTECTED] __ R-devel@stat.math.ethz.ch mailing list https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-devel

Re: [Rd] Collade doesn't work for more than 256 files!

2005-04-24 Thread A.J. Rossini
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Re: [Rd] Objects in R

2005-04-24 Thread A.J. Rossini
examples are equally usable, for various definitions of usability and contexts that programmers would work in. best, -tony Commit early,commit often, and commit in a repository from which we can easily roll-back your mistakes (AJR, 4Jan05). A.J. Rossini [EMAIL PROTECTED

Re: [Rd] Overloading methods in R

2005-04-21 Thread A.J. Rossini
On 4/21/05, Ali - [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Thanks a lot for the reply Henrik. I do not know what was the motivation of R developers to go for yet another OO design, but I wish the designers would have thought of ways to interface this design to the other designs. Depends on which OO design

Re: [Rd] Overloading methods in R

2005-04-20 Thread A.J. Rossini
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Re: [Rd] new R package BRugs

2005-04-09 Thread A.J. Rossini
. If only Bayesian methods weren't so deeply entrenched at Novartis... best, -tony Commit early,commit often, and commit in a repository from which we can easily roll-back your mistakes (AJR, 4Jan05). A.J. Rossini [EMAIL PROTECTED] __ R-devel

Re: [Rd] new R package BRugs

2005-04-08 Thread A.J. Rossini
Sturtz and Uwe Ligges __ R-devel@stat.math.ethz.ch mailing list https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-devel -- best, -tony Commit early,commit often, and commit in a repository from which we can easily roll-back your mistakes (AJR, 4Jan05). A.J

Re: [Rd] new R package BRugs

2005-04-08 Thread A.J. Rossini
ยด box but not on ours :-) ) For the interface the OpenBUGS sources need to be compiled with Component Pascal. For R, we are using the .dll and .so provided by OpenBUGS. Sibylle A.J. Rossini wrote: Is this an MS Windows only package? The source package contains DLL's. On Apr 8, 2005 1

Re: [Rd] Re: Packages and Libraries (was: Re: lme4 package etc ..)

2005-02-10 Thread A.J. Rossini
. (And maybe a condition object inheriting from packageLoadAndAttachError in case of failure? :-)) Yes. whatever. -k -- best, -tony Commit early,commit often, and commit in a repository from which we can easily roll-back your mistakes (AJR, 4Jan05). A.J. Rossini [EMAIL PROTECTED

Re: [Rd] Re: Packages and Libraries (was: Re: lme4 package etc ..)

2005-02-09 Thread A.J. Rossini
. whatever. -- best, -tony Commit early,commit often, and commit in a repository from which we can easily roll-back your mistakes (AJR, 4Jan05). A.J. Rossini [EMAIL PROTECTED] __ R-devel@stat.math.ethz.ch mailing list https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo

Re: [Rd] Re: Packages and Libraries (was: Re: lme4 package etc

2005-02-08 Thread A.J. Rossini
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[Rd] Any plans for commenting out region via something like /* */ ?

2005-01-07 Thread A.J. Rossini
early,commit often, and commit in a repository from which we can easily roll-back your mistakes (AJR, 4Jan05). A.J. Rossini [EMAIL PROTECTED] __ R-devel@stat.math.ethz.ch mailing list https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-devel

Re: [Rd] Any plans for commenting out region via something like /* */ ?

2005-01-07 Thread A.J. Rossini
early,commit often, and commit in a repository from which we can easily roll-back your mistakes (AJR, 4Jan05). A.J. Rossini [EMAIL PROTECTED] __ R-devel@stat.math.ethz.ch mailing list https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-devel

Re: [Rd] R-2.0.0 Install problem for pkg bundle w inter-dependent namespaces

2004-09-20 Thread A.J. Rossini
I recall that we (the BioC group) ended up shying away from bundles, since there were so few successful ones in existence; hence the work put into the reposTools package (for making repositories). That might be a better approach, Greg (i.e. make a 3rd party repository, rather than a bundle, and

[Rd] man page of hist points to truehist, which can't be viewed without loading a library?

2004-09-09 Thread A.J. Rossini
rdevel from yesterday, also in 1.9.1 (Debian, -3). The man page of 'hist' (from the graphics package, obtained by ?hist) suggests 'truehist' under see also, but 'truehist' isn't loaded by default (a sensible of course), so that ?truehist fails. One can do help.search(), of course, which points

Re: [Rd] man page of hist points to truehist, which can't be viewed without loading a library?

2004-09-09 Thread A.J. Rossini
Prof Brian Ripley [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: On Thu, 9 Sep 2004, A.J. Rossini wrote: rdevel from yesterday, also in 1.9.1 (Debian, -3). The man page of 'hist' (from the graphics package, obtained by ?hist) suggests 'truehist' under see also, but 'truehist' isn't loaded by default

Re: [Rd] Interacting with Clusters...

2004-09-08 Thread A.J. Rossini
ROrca has some of the tools you need. I'm getting it ready for submission (note that it requires SJava to be installed). See http://www.analytics.washington.edu/~rossini/ and either get the zip package (if you have Windows) or the tar.gz package (for Unixes). Robert L Obenchain [EMAIL

Re: [Rd] No is.formula()

2004-08-25 Thread A.J. Rossini
Warnes, Gregory R [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: There appears to be no is.formula() function in R-1.9.1. May I suggest that is.formula - function(x) inherits(x, formula) be added to base, since formula is a fundimental R type? why not just is(x,formula) ? best, -tony --

Re: [Rd] Unbalanced parentheses printed by warnings() crash text editor

2004-08-20 Thread A.J. Rossini
(address line truncated) Martin Maechler [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: PD == Peter Dalgaard [EMAIL PROTECTED] on 20 Aug 2004 12:01:39 +0200 writes: PD Duncan Murdoch [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: I could have sent this to the ESS or Xemacs devel list, but ESS Xemacs' attempt to

Re: [Rd] The Depends: field of a package is now used by library()

2004-08-12 Thread A.J. Rossini
Wolfgang Huber [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: On Thursday 12 August 2004 07:34, Prof Brian Ripley wrote: In R-devel, the Depends: field in the DESCRIPTION file is now used by library() to load the named packages before the current package, and also to set up the environment to save images and

Re: [Rd] RE: [Rcom-l] rcom 0.97 available for download

2004-07-21 Thread A.J. Rossini
Uwe Ligges [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: I mean WinBUGS runs under Wine and is somehow controlled from rbugs in R running in native mode under Linux. Hence the package is not platform-specific. Is this true? I've used WinBUGS under Wine (granted, not for a few years, but it was adequate back

Re: [Rd] rsync - cvs down?

2004-07-19 Thread A.J. Rossini
The svn server appears to be down. best, -tony Douglas Bates [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Marc Schwartz wrote: I am not able to access cvs via rsync today. Is the service down? Yes. We should have sent email about it to r-devel but it has been a hectic several days. The bad news is that

Re: [Rd] rsync - cvs down?

2004-07-19 Thread A.J. Rossini
I stand corrected. One of the servers IS down, and the other one is running. best, -tony Uwe Ligges [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: A.J. Rossini wrote: The svn server appears to be down. Actually, I'm just checking out a developer release from https://svn.r-project.org/R/trunk/ Note

Re: [Rd] rsync - cvs down?

2004-07-19 Thread A.J. Rossini
Marc Schwartz [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Uwe, That did it. Using https: I am now able to do a checkout. It seems to be slow at the moment, but the files are coming through. Seems to run comparable to anoncvs. Also seems to hiccup and barf, like anoncvs (infamouse server stalls).

Re: [Rd] rsync - cvs down?

2004-07-19 Thread A.J. Rossini
Deepayan Sarkar [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: On Monday 19 July 2004 14:03, Martin Maechler wrote: Note one difference subversion - CVS : subversion being a 21th century child it rather optimizes bandwidth over the expense of disk space: It keeps files 'pristine' and your modification. I.e.

Re: [Rd] Add links to NEWS/ChangeLog to package pages

2004-06-09 Thread A.J. Rossini
That's a great idea, Greg! (actually, have you seen the apt-listchanges and apt-listbugs features on debian, which does the same prior to install? Then you can abort the install if the changes aren't what you want (or if outstanding bugs have/havn't been fixed/introduced, which is even better,

Re: [Rd] Distributed computing

2004-03-23 Thread A.J. Rossini
[EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: does anyone know if there exists an effort to bring some kind of distributed computing to R? The most simple functionality I'm after is to be able to explicitly perform a task on a computing server. Sorry if this is a non-informed newbie question... As an

Re: [Rd] unit testing framework for R?

2004-03-17 Thread A.J. Rossini
Paul Shannon [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: In a quick search of the R website just now, I found no mention of a unit testing framework for R. I hope to find something in the style of Java's JUnit, or Python's unittest. Is such a thing available? Paul - I've got a first pass at such a thing,

Re: [Rd] unit testing framework for R?

2004-03-17 Thread A.J. Rossini
the package 'tests' directory is great, and we use it, but it isn't unit testing in the same sense -- more regression tests (reactive rather than proactive). best, -tony Tony Plate [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Packages can have a 'tests' directory, which can contain foo.R and foo.Rout.save

Re: [Rd] unit testing framework for R?

2004-03-17 Thread A.J. Rossini
Tony Plate [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: How would a unit testing framework look different? (other than maybe the ability to pick and choose tests easily and run them quickly). That is precisely it -- i.e. it's all testing, but it depends on where and how the tests are intended. (and then, how

Re: [Rd] unit testing framework for R?

2004-03-17 Thread A.J. Rossini
Paul Gilbert [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: I am interested in this, but there is already a fair amount that can be accomplished within the existing framework. I do something I think of as unit testing, but my code chunks are packages rather than functions. This does not have to be reactive. With

Re: [Rd] can you library(MASS) with R 1.9.0?

2004-03-10 Thread A.J. Rossini
) On Thu, 4 Mar 2004, A.J. Rossini wrote: I'm trying to track down a rather critical problem. This happens both on Debian's current unstable as well a from anoncvs built this morning, reinstalling MASS. Is anyone else seeing this or am I just broken and special? 609$ /home/Rdevel

[Rd] Yes you can (was: can you library(MASS) with R 1.9.0?)

2004-03-04 Thread A.J. Rossini
I wrote: I'm trying to track down a rather critical problem. This happens both on Debian's current unstable as well a from anoncvs built this morning, reinstalling MASS. Is anyone else seeing this or am I just broken and special? And it was just me. Solution (thanks Deepayan, with hints

Re: [Rd] Margins on tables

2004-03-02 Thread A.J. Rossini
BXC (Bendix Carstensen) [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: The thing you want is an xtable function for an ftable object, so you can get a nice readable LaTeX table with all the \multicolumn and \cline bells and whistles. I'm sitting here for someone to produce it... Bendix -- Argh! I wanted this

Re: [Rd] Some timings for 64 bit Opteron (ATLAS, GOTO, std)

2004-03-02 Thread A.J. Rossini
Peter Dalgaard [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Liaw, Andy [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: My understanding is far below `imperfect'! However, our box has all 8 slots filled with 2GB PC2100s... Not a whole lot of room for change. Right. Mine, however, has only 1G split as 4 x 256K over the 4+2 slots

Re: [Rd] Packages in R Java

2004-02-27 Thread A.J. Rossini
Marsland, John [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Yes, lots of packages do use C/Fortran code ... it would be great if there were more packages that are pure R especially since the advent of S4 classes and namespaces. Even with those, quite often we have to move code to C/C++/Fortran for efficiency.

Re: [Rd] Script editor for Windows GUI

2004-02-26 Thread A.J. Rossini
Simon Urbanek [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Does anyone here use JEdit? I had a really quick look at it and it looks like a copy of Emacs ... which is a pity, because one could do much better with Java ;). No one can do better than Emacs. Re auto-completion: auto-completing keywords is ok, but

Re: [Rd] Script editor for Windows GUI

2004-02-25 Thread A.J. Rossini
I do not see that as a problem; I've had reasonable luck running SJava visualization code from Orca and ROrca remotely (over 1000bT), and VNC works as well for that, but you are right, have to pay attention to screen color depth. Now whether SJava can be used for a stable system is a completely

Re: [Rd] ChangeLog for R packages {was Wish list}

2004-01-20 Thread A.J. Rossini
Duncan Murdoch [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: On Tue, 20 Jan 2004 08:49:34 +0100, Martin Maechler [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote : Of course R CMD check would have the harder job of also have to work properly on non-Debian, non-Linux, even non-Unix systems.. For Windows, there's already the filename

Re: [Rd] Windows versions immediately exit (PR#6443)

2004-01-19 Thread A.J. Rossini
[EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Full_Name: Joel Pitt Version: 1.81 OS: XP Submission from: (NULL) (218.101.45.243) Running any of the windows binaries in Windows XP cause programs to immediately exit without producing any error. The RGui is displayed momentarily and everything looks fine

Re: [Rd] Wish list

2004-01-18 Thread A.J. Rossini
Bugzilla is a pain-in-the-arse to maintain, unless they've improved it in the last 9 months. Just my two cents... best, -tony Fernando Henrique Ferraz [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Frank E Harrell Jr writes: Let me add to the wish list the creation of some mechanism to better track

Re: [Rd] Wish list

2004-01-18 Thread A.J. Rossini
Fernando Henrique Ferraz [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: A.J. Rossini writes: That's my point. Maintainance is critical, and any time spent on systems administration (systems in the generic sense, here it's bug-tracking) is less time spent on other more useful, or interesting, or high-payoff

Re: [Rd] fairly OT: profiling

2003-11-02 Thread A.J. Rossini
Thomas Lumley [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: The following is from Eric Raymond's new book on Unix programming. You'll get more insight from using profilers if you think of them less as ways to collect individual performance numbers, and more as ways to learn how performance varies as a

[Rd] initialization of S4 classes/methods

2003-10-27 Thread A.J. Rossini
I'm seeing weird issues in methods initialization, i.e. loading marrayClasses loads Biobase, and when explicitly done, as in library(Biobase) library(marrayClasses) is fine, but when Biobase is loaded via a require statement in marrayClasses' .First.Lib, I end up with: Warning

Re: [Rd] data() misbehaving inside a function

2003-10-17 Thread A.J. Rossini
Kurt Hornik [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Martin wrote re dropping unquoted function args from packages/data Definitely not worth the pain (I *know* I'd hear ... comments from them!)! I might be one of them. You'll hear my screams for weeks... Actually, I do think it is worth the pain.

Re: [Rd] grep in version 1.8 (PR#4231)

2003-09-21 Thread A.J. Rossini
Duncan Murdoch [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: On Sun, 21 Sep 2003 11:23:57 +0200 (MET DST), you wrote: This is not a bug! It works when compiling from clean sources. I guess you have unpacked new sources over old sources? Please clean the directory before unpacking a new version, and try to compile

Re: [Rd] potentially nasty interaction between R 1.8.0 and tetex

2003-09-11 Thread A.J. Rossini
(no description available) Tony: Is there a changelog entry somewhere in tetex which reveals anything? Looking over the Debian changelogs reveals nothing -- just maintainer stuff. Fritz, where is Blue and Red defined in your distribution? best, -tony -- A.J. Rossini

[Rd] potentially nasty interaction between R 1.8.0 and tetex

2003-09-10 Thread A.J. Rossini
/DESCRIPTION' ... OK * preparing 'Biobase': * checking whether 'INDEX' is up-to-date ... OK * creating vignettes ... OK * removing junk files * building 'Biobase_1.3.31.tar.gz' YMMV. best, -tony -- A.J. Rossini [EMAIL PROTECTED]http

Re: [Rd] potentially nasty interaction between R 1.8.0 and tetex

2003-09-10 Thread A.J. Rossini
). best, -tony -- A.J. Rossini [EMAIL PROTECTED]http://www.analytics.washington.edu/ Biomedical and Health Informatics University of Washington Biostatistics, SCHARP/HVTN Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center UW : FAX=206-543-3461

Re: [Rd] anon cvs?

2003-08-17 Thread A.J. Rossini
Duncan Murdoch [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: It's not quite as convenient as anon cvs, but it's pretty close. I hate to disagree, but nope, it's far more annoying. Requires one to run a local repository to keep sync'ed between local and original, unlike anon cvs. best, -tony -- A.J. Rossini

Re: [Rd] Strategies for S-PLUS compatibility?

2003-07-18 Thread A.J. Rossini
package on the Omegahat WWW site? best, -tony -- A.J. Rossini / [EMAIL PROTECTED] / [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://software.biostat.washington.edu/ UNTIL IT MOVES IN JULY. Biomedical and Health Informatics, University of Washington Biostatistics, HVTN/SCHARP, Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center

Re: [Rd] power.t.test needs to check delta==NULL before abs(delta)(PR#3139)

2003-05-31 Thread A.J. Rossini
Prof Brian Ripley [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: It's the same as PR#2993, fixed yesterday in R-patched R-devel I don't have a record of that bug report being sent to r-devel mailing list. Is there a way to recieve bug reports other than firing up a browser? best, -tony -- A.J. Rossini