[Rd] fix for save()'ing RAW on PPC (and other big endian platforms)

2005-06-04 Thread Byron Ellis
OutByte should take a byte, not an int. Writing the first byte of an int is only going to work on little endian systems. serialize.c:262 -static void OutByte(R_outpstream_t stream, int i) +static void OutByte(R_outpstream_t stream, Rbyte i) --- Byron Ellis ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) "Oook&qu

Re: [Rd] Objects in R

2005-04-24 Thread Byron Ellis
On Apr 23, 2005, at 11:54 PM, Duncan Murdoch wrote: Byron Ellis wrote: On Apr 21, 2005, at 9:37 AM, Nathan Whitehouse wrote: (1)Novices simply don't understand it. Students are trained in "standard" object-oriented technique and this wonkish offshoot(puritanical functional pr

Re: [Rd] Objects in R

2005-04-23 Thread Byron Ellis
ith other OO systems where methods belong entirely to classes. This is NOT true for R (and S-plus) and we don't want this to change {and yes, we do know about C++, Python, Java,... and their way to do OO}. Please also read in more details the good advice given by Tony Plate and Sean Davis. Martin M

Re: [Rd] S4 methods semantics questions

2005-03-25 Thread Byron Ellis
On Mar 25, 2005, at 7:26 AM, John Chambers wrote: Byron Ellis wrote: Some quick questions about S4 methods. Does the typing of S4 methods mean that lazy evaluation is no longer possible? It seems that you would need to evaluate the arguments to determine their type at dispatch. Yes, it would be

[Rd] S4 methods semantics questions

2005-03-25 Thread Byron Ellis
on(x,y) standardGeneric("foo")) setMethod("foo","numeric",function(x,y=2) x+y) >foo(1) Error in foo(1) : argument "y" is missing, with no default --- Byron Ellis ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) "Oook" -- The Librarian __ R-devel@stat.math.ethz.ch mailing list https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-devel

Re: [Rd] can R_do_slot_assign change slot type

2005-03-25 Thread Byron Ellis
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Re: [Rd] idea (PR#7345)

2004-11-05 Thread Byron Ellis
ver can tell what someone might hunker down and implement :-) __ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-devel --- Byron Ellis ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) "Oook" -- The Librarian _

Re: [Rd] function bug (PR#7199)

2004-08-24 Thread Byron Ellis
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Re: [Rd] R as shared library

2004-08-20 Thread Byron Ellis
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Re: [Rd] Re: How to purchase R on CD

2004-03-30 Thread Byron Ellis
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Re: [Rd] Distributed computing

2004-03-22 Thread Byron Ellis
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Re: [Rd] ChangeLog for R packages {was "Wish list"}

2004-01-22 Thread Byron Ellis
lic Health email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] | +-- -+ __ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list https://www.stat.math.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-devel --- Byron Ellis ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) "Oook" -- The Librarian __ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list https://www.stat.math.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-devel

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

2004-01-22 Thread Byron Ellis
ut allow people to edit the human-readable version directly if they prefer. Duncan Murdoch __ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list https://www.stat.math.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-devel --- Byron Ellis ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) "Oo

Re: [Rd] feature request: multi-language support

2004-01-16 Thread Byron Ellis
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[Rd] Problem building methods package?

2003-09-13 Thread Byron Ellis
hods/libs/methods.so is unchanged make[1]: Nothing to be done for `Rfiles'. Any clues to where this came from? Regenerating the Makefiles didn't seem to help. OS X, 10.2.6, gcc3.3 rsync about 6 hours old. Should I just nuke the whole build tree and rsync everything again? --- Byron E

Re: [Rd] length() and nchar()

2003-08-30 Thread Byron Ellis
THAT'S how you find the length of a string?!! *smacks forehead* I ended up doing a regex for /$^/. Man, I feel stupid. On Friday, August 29, 2003, at 01:59 PM, Wolfram Fischer wrote: I would propose to add " See also: `nchar' for counting the number of character in c

[Rd] [Mac] R as a Framework

2003-08-21 Thread Byron Ellis
In case anyone cares, I more or less have R building as a framework under 10.2---it turned out to be not-so-difficult. Basically the install_name had to be changed (-install_name R.framework/Versions/1.8.0/R). Note that the install_name isn't a fully qualified path, which threw me off for a whi

Re: [Rd] latest r-devel

2003-08-14 Thread Byron Ellis
Yup. I can duplicate the behavior on 10.2.6. On Thursday, August 14, 2003, at 12:59 PM, Jan de Leeuw wrote: 1. Provided I set CPPFLAGS to -D__DEBUGGING__ this compiles fine now (Panther 7B28, gcc 3.3 build 1481, g77 from Gaurav Kanna, based on gcc build 1310). 2. Both StartR and R --gui=aqua from

[Rd] Re: [R-SIG-Mac] cleanest build I can think of

2003-08-14 Thread Byron Ellis
.8.0) 3. me and Thomas have implemented many new code to the Aqua GUI. If you rsync today and reinstall RAqua you'll see these changes 4. tcltk seems to work again but only after launching tkStartGUI() stefano On Martedì, ago 12, 2003, at 07:17 Europe/Rome, Byron Ellis wrote: I've rece