[Rd] NEWS, WISHLIST, THANKS

2005-06-09 Thread Gabor Grothendieck
I have NEWS, WISHLIST and THANKS files in the 'dyn' package in the same directory as the DESCRIPTION file but I noticed that they did not survive the move to CRAN, at least on Windows. How do I incorporate them so that they are not omitted? __

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

2005-06-07 Thread Gabor Grothendieck
On 6/7/05, Robert Gentleman [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Robin Hankin wrote: My 0.02: I use Misc.Rd for the purpose that Duncan suggests. I put things like details and rationale for package organization, pointers to the most important function(s) in the package, and perhaps function

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

2005-06-07 Thread Gabor Grothendieck
Currently methods?e will look for the alias e-methods so perhaps package?e could look for alias e-package. On 6/7/05, Achim Zeileis [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Tue, 7 Jun 2005 18:43:37 +0200 Martin Maechler wrote: Duncan == Duncan Murdoch [EMAIL PROTECTED] on Tue, 07 Jun 2005

Re: [Rd] Re: [R] Problem going back to a viewport with gridBase

2005-06-07 Thread Gabor Grothendieck
On 6/7/05, Paul Murrell [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi Gabor Grothendieck wrote: On 6/6/05, Paul Murrell [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi Gabor Grothendieck wrote: On 6/2/05, Paul Murrell [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi Thanks. I have mucked around in vpTree structures

Re: [Rd] Re: [R] Problem going back to a viewport with gridBase

2005-06-07 Thread Gabor Grothendieck
Here is the code once again. This time I have supplied two names methods and a getChildren.viewport function to encapsulate the corresponding grid internals. It would be easiest if grid provided these itself but in the absence of that this does encapsulate dependencies on grid internals to a

Re: [Rd] Re: [R] Problem going back to a viewport with gridBase

2005-06-07 Thread Gabor Grothendieck
Murrell [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi Gabor Grothendieck wrote: On 6/7/05, Paul Murrell [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi Gabor Grothendieck wrote: On 6/6/05, Paul Murrell [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi Gabor Grothendieck wrote: On 6/2/05, Paul Murrell [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote

Re: [Rd] Re: [R] Problem going back to a viewport with gridBase

2005-06-07 Thread Gabor Grothendieck
the children in the same order they are created or perhaps even some sort of timestamp can be attached to objects to facilitate later traversal. On 6/7/05, Paul Murrell [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi Gabor Grothendieck wrote: Here is the code once again. This time I have supplied two names

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

2005-06-07 Thread Gabor Grothendieck
My understanding is that one could still build, install and distribute a package that did not conform to this requirement but it would fail R CMD CHECK. Thus as long as you don't want to place it in a repository that requires a clean R CMD CHECK you are under no obligation to do it. But if you

Re: [Rd] Re: [R] Problem going back to a viewport with gridBase

2005-06-06 Thread Gabor Grothendieck
On 6/6/05, Paul Murrell [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi Gabor Grothendieck wrote: On 6/2/05, Paul Murrell [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi Thanks. I have mucked around in vpTree structures and discovered its actually quite easy to specify children so I have changed my example so

[Rd] update.packages keeps trying to update gregmisc

2005-06-06 Thread Gabor Grothendieck
If I issue the command update.packages() it wants to update 'gregmisc' but then if I do it again right afterwards it still wants to update 'gregmisc'. It should have updated everything the first time and should not be trying to update anything the second time. Any comments? Here is the

[Rd] Re: update.packages keeps trying to update gregmisc

2005-06-06 Thread Gabor Grothendieck
' has extra contents 'nnet' in: new.packages() 3: bundle 'gregmisc' is incompletely installed in: new.packages() 4: bundle 'gregmisc' has extra contents 'NA' in: new.packages() On 6/6/05, Gabor Grothendieck [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: If I issue the command update.packages() it wants to update

Re: [Rd] Re: [R] A long digression on packages

2005-06-05 Thread Gabor Grothendieck
On 6/5/05, M. Edward (Ed) Borasky [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Duncan Murdoch wrote: Of course, with disk sizes as they are now, it's not unreasonable to install all of the contributed CRAN packages on a PC. Then help.search() *will* do searches through them all. Some of them are very

Re: [Rd] Re: [R] Problem going back to a viewport with gridBase

2005-06-03 Thread Gabor Grothendieck
On 6/2/05, Paul Murrell [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi Thanks. I have mucked around in vpTree structures and discovered its actually quite easy to specify children so I have changed my example so that instead of naming the children of 'layout' and then remembering coordinates linked to the names

Re: [Rd] Re: [R] Problem going back to a viewport with gridBase

2005-06-02 Thread Gabor Grothendieck
On 6/1/05, Paul Murrell [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi Gabor Grothendieck wrote: [moved from r-help to r-devel] On 5/31/05, Paul Murrell [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: # mm.row[j] gives the row in the layout of the jth cell # mm.col[j] gives the col in the layout of the jth cell

Re: [Rd] 1/tan(-0) != 1/tan(0)

2005-06-01 Thread Gabor Grothendieck
On 6/1/05, Simon Urbanek [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Jun 1, 2005, at 5:50 AM, (Ted Harding) wrote: However, a query: Clearly from the above (ahich I can reproduce too), tan() can distinguish between -0 and +0, and return different results (otherwise 1/tan() would not return different

Re: [Rd] Re: [R] Problem going back to a viewport with gridBase

2005-06-01 Thread Gabor Grothendieck
On 6/1/05, Paul Murrell [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi Gabor Grothendieck wrote: [moved from r-help to r-devel] On 5/31/05, Paul Murrell [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: # mm.row[j] gives the row in the layout of the jth cell # mm.col[j] gives the col in the layout of the jth cell

[Rd] Specifying dependency on a specific patched version

2005-05-14 Thread Gabor Grothendieck
Is there a way to specify a package dependency in the Depends: field of the DESCRIPTION file for a specific patched version of a specific OS? For example, today's Windows patched release (2005-05-14) has the capability of changing the time zone within R on Windows via Sys.putenv(TZ=GMT) but

[Rd] Variable names with spaces in lm

2005-05-09 Thread Gabor Grothendieck
'lm' gives an error when using variables with spaces in them in certain cases (but not all): my.list - list(`a 1` = 1:4, `a 2` = 11:14) lm(`a 1` ~ ., my.list) # Error : Object a.1 not found # The following work ok so it does work in many cases: lm(`a 1` ~ .,

Re: [Rd] Variable names with spaces in lm

2005-05-09 Thread Gabor Grothendieck
There is one other problem with the coercion to data.frame. terms.formula does not actually use the data contents, I think, so if it did not coerce to a data frame it could handle unequal length data in lists too. On 09 May 2005 19:37:25 +0200, Peter Dalgaard [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Gabor

Re: [Rd] Light-weight data.frame class: was: how to add method to .Primitive function

2005-05-09 Thread Gabor Grothendieck
[.default is implemented in R as .subset. See ?.subset and note that it begins with a dot. e.g. for the case where i and j are not missing: [.lwdf - function(x, i, j) lapply(.subset(x,j), [, i) On 5/8/05, Vadim Ogranovich [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi, Encouraged by a tip from Simon

Re: [Rd] How to understand packages, namespaces, environments

2005-05-08 Thread Gabor Grothendieck
On 5/8/05, [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: [Alexander Stoddard] Subject: Re: [Rd] How to understand packages, namespaces, environments Does saying the following load package 'foo' into its own environment ? library(foo) [Duncan Murdoch] This loads some of the

Re: [Rd] how to add method to .Primitive function

2005-05-07 Thread Gabor Grothendieck
On 5/7/05, Vadim Ogranovich [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I tried to write the dim method for the list class, but R doesn't seem to dispatch to it: dim.list = function(x) c(length(x[[1]]), length(x)) dim(list(1)) NULL dim.list(list(1)) [1] 1 1 What is the correct way of registering

[Rd] NextMethod problem

2005-05-07 Thread Gabor Grothendieck
Can anyone shed any light on what is going wrong here? Its based on simplifying some actual code that exists in model.frame.default. It looks like a bug to me. Thanks. data(iris) f.default - function(x, subset, ...) { subset - eval(substitute(subset), iris, .GlobalEnv) subset } # This one

Re: [Rd] how to add method to .Primitive function

2005-05-07 Thread Gabor Grothendieck
to ensure uniquness of the row names. I'd really like to hear why you think it would be a bad idea to have such a class. Thanks, Vadim -Original Message- From: Simon Urbanek [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Saturday, May 07, 2005 12:34 PM To: Vadim Ogranovich Cc: Gabor

[Rd] Re: NextMethod problem

2005-05-07 Thread Gabor Grothendieck
Its probably obvious but just for completeness, I missed the generic definition in pasting this into my post so I have added it below: On 5/7/05, Gabor Grothendieck [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Can anyone shed any light on what is going wrong here? Its based on simplifying some actual code

Re: [Rd] Varying as.Date performance

2005-05-04 Thread Gabor Grothendieck
On 5/5/05, Gabor Grothendieck [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On 5/4/05, Jeff Enos [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: R-devel, The performance of as.Date differs by a large degree between one of my machines with glibc 2.3.2: system.time(x - as.Date(rep(01-01-2005, 10), format = %m-%d-%Y)) [1

Re: [Rd] Suggestions for manipulating formula objects

2005-04-21 Thread Gabor Grothendieck
On 4/20/05, Thomas Lumley [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Wed, 20 Apr 2005 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I'm trying to manipulate/change a formula prior to passing it to another function. A simplified example: User passes formula to my function: y~x My function does: lm(transform(y)~x)

Re: [Rd] Overloading methods in R

2005-04-21 Thread Gabor Grothendieck
On 4/21/05, Ali - [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: - How to overload methods in classes created by R.oo package? [snip] Maybe you missed it in the flurry of messages, but did the idea suggested by Gabor Grothendick not suit your needs? I had to abstract the question in a setntence this time

Re: [Rd] Overloading methods in R

2005-04-21 Thread Gabor Grothendieck
On 4/21/05, Ali - [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: f - function(...) UseMethod(f, NULL) f.NULL - function(...) { args - list(...) classes - sapply(args, class) .Class - paste(classes, collapse = .) NextMethod(f, ...) } f.numeric - function(...) 2 * ..1 f.numeric.numeric -

Re: [Rd] Overloading methods in R

2005-04-20 Thread Gabor Grothendieck
On 4/20/05, Ali - [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: (1) It seems to me that, generally, in R it is not possible to overload functions. Is that right? (2) Assuming that the above is true, or partially true, is there any extra packages to handle overloading in R? (3) Assuming (1) is TRUE and (2) is

Re: [Rd] RFC: hexadecimal constants and decimal points

2005-04-17 Thread Gabor Grothendieck
On 4/17/05, Prof Brian Ripley [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: These are some points stimulated by reading about C history (and related in their implementation). 1) On some platforms as.integer(0xA) [1] 10 but not all (not on Solaris nor Windows). We do not define what is allowed, and rely

Re: [Rd] documentation for 'open': some clarification?

2005-04-14 Thread Gabor Grothendieck
Here is an example: # read and print first 10 lines one by one # the next two lines could be collapsed into con - file(myfile, r) con - file(myfile) open(con) for(i in 1:10) print(readLines(con, n=1)) close(con) Also its possible that you may not need open. For example, one can just read it

Re: [Rd] formulas and frames

2005-04-02 Thread Gabor Grothendieck
On Apr 2, 2005 3:35 PM, Charles Geyer [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Fri, Apr 01, 2005 at 05:04:23PM +0200, Dimitris Rizopoulos wrote: if I understand well you want something like this: y - rnorm(100) p - rnorm(100) x1 - rnorm(100) x2 - rnorm(100) x3 - rnorm(100) nams - c(y, p,

Re: [Rd] formulas and frames

2005-04-01 Thread Gabor Grothendieck
Try this: my.df - data.frame(a=1:10, b=11:20, c=21:30, d=31:40) model.response(model.frame(cbind(a,b) ~ c+d, my.df)) a b 1 1 11 2 2 12 3 3 13 4 4 14 5 5 15 6 6 16 7 7 17 8 8 18 9 9 19 10 10 20 On Apr 1, 2005 2:31 AM, Charles Geyer [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I have a

Re: [Rd] An exercise in the use of 'substitute'

2005-04-01 Thread Gabor Grothendieck
On Apr 1, 2005 7:12 PM, Douglas Bates [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I would like to create a method for the generic function with applied to a class of fitted models. The method should do two things: 1. Substitute the name of the first argument for '.' throughout the expression 2. Evaluate

[Rd] na.omit error message

2005-03-25 Thread Gabor Grothendieck
If I create a bivariate ts series with 3 time points and run na.omit on it expecting it to reduce it to a one point ts series instead I get the following error messasge: R hh - ts(matrix(c(NA,1:4,NA),3), start = c(1951,8), freq=12) R hh Series 1 Series 2 Aug 1951 NA3 Sep

[Rd] rw2010alpha

2005-03-24 Thread Gabor Grothendieck
Until recently R 2.1.0 was called rw2010dev. I just visited http://cran.r-project.org/bin/windows/base/rdevel.html and noticed its now called rw2010alpha, not rw2010dev. I would like to use it without downloading all the libraries over again. Can I - just rename my rw2010dev folder

Re: [Rd] sub('^', .....) bugs (PR#7742)

2005-03-23 Thread Gabor Grothendieck
maechler at stat.math.ethz.ch writes: : : David == David Forrest drf5n at maplepark.com : on Tue, 22 Mar 2005 15:02:20 -0600 (CST) writes: : : David According to help(sub), the ^ should match the : David zero-length string at the beginning of a string: : : yes, indeed. : :

Re: [Rd] Lemon drops

2005-03-15 Thread Gabor Grothendieck
Peter Dalgaard p.dalgaard at biostat.ku.dk writes: : : I bumped into the following situation: : : Browse[1] coef : deg0NA deg4NA deg8NA deg0NP deg4NP deg8NP : (Intercept)462510528492660762 : Browse[1] coef[,1] : [1] 462 : Browse[1] coef[,1,drop=F] :

Re: [Rd] Re: [R] Do environments make copies?

2005-02-26 Thread Gabor Grothendieck
See ?gctorture Nawaaz Ahmed nawaaz at inktomi.com writes: : : Hi Folks, : Thanks for all your replies and input. In particular, thanks Luke, for : explaining what is happening under the covers. In retrospect, my example : using save and load to demonstrate the problem I was having was a :

Re: [Rd] matrix operations

2005-02-20 Thread Gabor Grothendieck
Melanie Vida mvida at mac.com writes: : : In R, I'm imported a data frame of 2,321,123 by 4 called dataF. : I converted the data frame dataF to a matrix : : dataM - as.matrix(dataF) : : Does R have an efficient routine to treat the special elements that : contain inf in them. For example,

Re: [Rd] Test Tools

2005-02-14 Thread Gabor Grothendieck
Paul Roebuck roebuck at odin.mdacc.tmc.edu writes: Anyone aware of tools available that can provide complexity metrics and/or code coverage analysis for R source? I am not aware of anything but there are some code tools in the codetools package. Do a google search for: codetools Luke

[Rd] Vignette without latex/sweave

2005-01-26 Thread Gabor Grothendieck
Is it possible to create a package vignette without latex/sweave? I gather that the %\VignetteIndexEntry and other \%Vignette... lines in the .Rnw file provide the various vignette metadata but was just wondering if latex/sweave are really hardwired into this or if its possible to produce a

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

2005-01-07 Thread Gabor Grothendieck
A.J. Rossini blindglobe at gmail.com writes: : : Greetings from Switzerland! : : Are there any plans/initiatives/considerations in future versions of R : for commenting out regions via something like /**/ ? You could use multiline character strings. Just need to watch out for embedded

Re: [Rd] Windows vignettes, shQuote, texi2dvi

2005-01-03 Thread Gabor Grothendieck
Gabor Grothendieck ggrothendieck at myway.com writes: : : Further searching also found it at: : : http://www.ctan.org/tex-archive/graphics/texdraw/manual/texi2dvi : : but its the UNIX shell script. I looked at it quickly and it : probably would not be that hard to translate it into R (about

Re: [Rd] Windows vignettes, shQuote, texi2dvi

2004-12-31 Thread Gabor Grothendieck
texify.exe and build vignettes from the .tex file manually for now. Gabor Grothendieck ggrothendieck at myway.com writes: : : That's interesting but its not in my tree. I downloaded it : off the net (all 500MB+ !). : : Liaw, Andy andy_liaw at merck.com writes: : : : : : I don't know the issue

Re: [Rd] Windows vignettes, shQuote, texi2dvi

2004-12-30 Thread Gabor Grothendieck
From: Uwe Ligges [EMAIL PROTECTED] Gabor Grothendieck wrote: I noticed a shQuote fix for Windows in the svn logs. Just wanted to point out that this will favorably affect texi2dvi on Windows which previously used UNIX quoting and so generated an incorrect Windows command. (Note

[Rd] Windows vignettes, shQuote, texi2dvi

2004-12-29 Thread Gabor Grothendieck
I noticed a shQuote fix for Windows in the svn logs. Just wanted to point out that this will favorably affect texi2dvi on Windows which previously used UNIX quoting and so generated an incorrect Windows command. (Note that texi2dvi is used when creating vignettes.) Another problem is that the

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 not be a

[Rd] R, fptex, MikTex

2004-12-20 Thread Gabor Grothendieck
According to the following Windows package building info: http://www.murdoch-sutherland.com/Rtools/ fptex is easier to install with the R package building tools than MikTex. I have been using MikTex but was thinking of switching over to fptex to simplify my setup. My concern is that I

Re: [Rd] value of a loop broken by break

2004-12-19 Thread Gabor Grothendieck
Peter Dalgaard p.dalgaard at biostat.ku.dk writes: : : Gabor Grothendieck ggrothendieck at myway.com writes: : : Should the 'for' loop in the following example not return 3 rather than 2? : The Language Manual says that it returns the result of the last evaluated : statement and that would

RE: [Rd] More on Lazy loading errors building its package in a chroot

2004-12-18 Thread Gabor Grothendieck
From: Dirk Eddelbuettel [EMAIL PROTECTED] I now have the package built in a chroot -- but at the price of setting 'LazyLoad: no' in DESCRIPTION. I do not quite understand why that is needed. Can someone else help? I can provide the following pointers for its-1.0.4 I have had

[Rd] value of a loop broken by break

2004-12-18 Thread Gabor Grothendieck
Should the 'for' loop in the following example not return 3 rather than 2? The Language Manual says that it returns the result of the last evaluated statement and that would be the i before the 'break'. 'repeat' and 'while' have the same behavior. R (for(i in 1:10) if (i==3) { i; break } else

[Rd] HOME environment variable

2004-12-10 Thread Gabor Grothendieck
In http://cran.r-project.org/bin/windows/base/CHANGES.rw2010dev there is a reference to the setting of a HOME environment variable on Windows: R CMD / Rcmd now set HOME if unset, e.g. for use in Rcmd check. Was this intended to be R_HOME? Also, I don't understand the comment. Could someone

Re: [Rd] regex to match word boundaries

2004-12-06 Thread Gabor Grothendieck
Gabor Grothendieck ggrothendieck at myway.com writes: : : Can someone verify whether or not this is a bug. : : When I substitute all occurrence of \\B with X : R seems to correctly place an X at all non-word boundaries : (whether or not I specify perl) but \\b does not seem to : act on all

Re: [Rd] Wishlist: simple legend options (PR#7400)

2004-12-06 Thread Gabor Grothendieck
Warnes, Gregory R gregory.r.warnes at pfizer.com writes: : : I'm also glad to see this features go into the standard packages. : : I think that it may be worthwhile to regularly 'nominate' features/functions : present in other packages for 'promotion' into the standard R packages. That's a

RE: [Rd] seq.Date requires by

2004-12-03 Thread Gabor Grothendieck
Don't know the answer to your question but note that chron can do it without by=. xD - as.Date(1996-01-01) yD - as.Date(1996-12-01) library(chron) xc - chron(xD) yc - chron(yD) seq(xc, yc) # Also one can do this in either chron or Date: chron(xc:yc) as.Date(xD:yD) Date: Fri, 3 Dec 2004

RE: [Rd] seq.Date requires by

2004-12-03 Thread Gabor Grothendieck
+ 0.001), class = Date) as.Date.integer - function (x, ...) structure(x, class = Date) Date: Fri, 3 Dec 2004 21:42:37 -0500 (EST) From: Gabor Grothendieck [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: RE: [Rd] seq.Date requires by Don't know the answer

Re: [Rd] Wishlist: simple legend options (PR#7400)

2004-12-02 Thread Gabor Grothendieck
epurdom at stanford.edu writes: : : Full_Name: Elizabeth Purdom : Version: 1.9.1 : OS: Windows XP : Submission from: (NULL) (171.64.102.199) : : It would be nice if legend had the option of some default locations you could : choose instead of entering specific coordinates, like topleft, :

[Rd] regex to match word boundaries

2004-12-01 Thread Gabor Grothendieck
Can someone verify whether or not this is a bug. When I substitute all occurrence of \\B with X R seems to correctly place an X at all non-word boundaries (whether or not I specify perl) but \\b does not seem to act on all complement positions: gsub(\\b, X, abc def) # nothing done [1] abc def

RE: [Rd] a better

2004-11-30 Thread Gabor Grothendieck
From: Martin Maechler [EMAIL PROTECTED] Duncan == Duncan Murdoch [EMAIL PROTECTED] on Sun, 28 Nov 2004 10:25:24 -0500 writes: Duncan Duncan Duncan We already have code to source() from the clipboard, and it could Duncan address the problems above, but:

Re: [Rd] Differences between $ and [[

2004-11-29 Thread Gabor Grothendieck
Eric Lecoutre lecoutre at stat.ucl.ac.be writes: : : Hi, : : If I define the following list: : : (l-list(text-align=right)) : $text-align : [1] right : : I know that I can't use l$text-align, as the parser will find a '-' operation. : If I want (need) to use special names, as text-align, I

Re: [Rd] Differences between $ and [[

2004-11-29 Thread Gabor Grothendieck
Gabor Grothendieck ggrothendieck at myway.com writes: : : Eric Lecoutre lecoutre at stat.ucl.ac.be writes: : : : : : Hi, : : : : If I define the following list: : : : : (l-list(text-align=right)) : : $text-align : : [1] right : : : : I know that I can't use l$text-align, as the parser

[Rd] Version names

2004-11-28 Thread Gabor Grothendieck
I have Windows XP build scripts that look for R in a variety of folders and if multiple ones are found, takes the last one. For example, I currently have the following in \Program Files\R : rw1060 rw1062 rw1071 rw1071beta rw1081 rw1090

Re: [Rd] Version names

2004-11-28 Thread Gabor Grothendieck
Peter Dalgaard p.dalgaard at biostat.ku.dk writes: : : Gabor Grothendieck ggrothendieck at myway.com writes: : : : rw2010a - alpha, i.e. development version (previously rw2010dev) : : rw2010b - beta version (previously rw2001beta) : : rw2010f - final version (previously rw2010

Re: [Rd] Version names

2004-11-28 Thread Gabor Grothendieck
Duncan Murdoch murdoch at stats.uwo.ca writes: : : On Sun, 28 Nov 2004 21:11:15 + (UTC), Gabor Grothendieck : ggrothendieck at myway.com wrote: : : Renaming is not really workable if you are giving your scripts to others. : They won't want build scripts that rename their folders

Re: [Rd] Version names

2004-11-28 Thread Gabor Grothendieck
Gabor Grothendieck ggrothendieck at myway.com writes: Simon Urbanek simon.urbanek at math.uni-augsburg.de writes: : If all you want to do is to determine the current (most recently : installed) R version, then all it takes is two lines of C code [just : read one registry entry

Re: [Rd] Lightweight data frame class

2004-11-26 Thread Gabor Grothendieck
at stat.math.ethz.ch : [mailto:r-devel-bounces at stat.math.ethz.ch] On Behalf Of Gabor : Grothendieck : Sent: Thursday, November 25, 2004 7:42 PM : To: r-devel at stat.math.ethz.ch : Subject: Re: [Rd] Lightweight data frame class : : Vadim Ogranovich vograno at evafunds.com writes: : : : : : Hi

Re: [Rd] str() resets class for environments

2004-11-25 Thread Gabor Grothendieck
Henrik Bengtsson hb at maths.lth.se writes: : : -Original Message- : From: r-devel-bounces at stat.math.ethz.ch : [mailto:r-devel-bounces at stat.math.ethz.ch] On Behalf Of : Mark.Bravington at csiro.au : Sent: Wednesday, November 24, 2004 1:43 AM : To: hb at maths.lth.se : Cc:

Re: [Rd] str() resets class for environments

2004-11-25 Thread Gabor Grothendieck
Peter Dalgaard p.dalgaard at biostat.ku.dk writes: : : Gabor Grothendieck ggrothendieck at myway.com writes: : : : I am curious though, do you not run into problems by setting and getting : : attributes on environment in 'mvbutils'? The example of John Chambers I : : re-posted, which shows

Re: [Rd] str() resets class for environments

2004-11-25 Thread Gabor Grothendieck
with more normal : : semantics. Perhaps we should consider doing likewise with : : environments? : : Gabor Grothendieck ggrothendieck at myway.com writes: : To me that would make sense in keeping the rules of the language : more consistent. The mvbutils example suggests that it also has

Re: [Rd] Lightweight data frame class

2004-11-25 Thread Gabor Grothendieck
Vadim Ogranovich vograno at evafunds.com writes: : : Hi, : : As far as I can tell data.frame class adds two features to those of : lists: : * matrix structure via [,] and [,]- operators (well, I know these are : actually [(i, j, ...), not [,]). : * row names attribute. : : It seems that the

Re: [Rd] Suggestions for packages / help / index (long mail)

2004-11-24 Thread Gabor Grothendieck
Eric Lecoutre lecoutre at stat.ucl.ac.be writes: : 6. Final point has already been discussed in the past. It is about misc : packages and pieces of code. I propose the creation of 5 packages: : - miscGraphics (keywords: misc, Graphics) : - miscStatistics (keywords: misc, Statistics)

Re: [Rd] Suggestions for packages / help / index (long mail)

2004-11-24 Thread Gabor Grothendieck
Eric Lecoutre lecoutre at stat.ucl.ac.be writes: : : At 15:06 24/11/2004, Gabor Grothendieck wrote: : Eric Lecoutre lecoutre at stat.ucl.ac.be writes: : : : 6. Final point has already been discussed in the past. It is about misc : : packages and pieces of code. I propose the creation of 5

Re: [Rd] Building Packages on Windows using .Rbuildignore (PR#7379)

2004-11-21 Thread Gabor Grothendieck
Gabor Grothendieck ggrothendieck at myway.com writes: Duncan Murdoch murdoch at stats.uwo.ca writes: : : On Sat, 20 Nov 2004 03:47:50 + (UTC), Gabor Grothendieck : ggrothendieck at myway.com wrote: : : Duncan Murdoch murdoch at stats.uwo.ca writes: : : : On Sat, 20 Nov 2004

Re: [Rd] Building Packages on Windows using .Rbuildignore (PR#7379)

2004-11-21 Thread Gabor Grothendieck
Duncan Murdoch murdoch at stats.uwo.ca writes: : : On Mon, 22 Nov 2004 01:54:53 + (UTC), Gabor Grothendieck : ggrothendieck at myway.com wrote: : : Assuming that the behavior of the R CMD commands is changed : so that they respect .Rbuildignore but that no flag or : switch is immediately

Re: [Rd] strptime() bugs?

2004-11-21 Thread Gabor Grothendieck
Juan Santiago Ramseyer juan_sr at uol.com.br writes: : : strptime return wrong data?, look the R session. : : # datetxt: vector of date in text format : datetxt - c(1939-Oct-06 00:00:00, 1939-Oct-07 00:00:00, :1939-Oct-08 00:00:00, 1939-Oct-09 00:00:00) : : datehour -

Re: [Rd] Building Packages on Windows using .Rbuildignore (PR#7379)

2004-11-19 Thread Gabor Grothendieck
Duncan Murdoch murdoch at stats.uwo.ca writes: : : On Thu, 18 Nov 2004 19:32:25 +0100, Martin Maechler : maechler at stat.math.ethz.ch wrote: : : Duncan == Duncan Murdoch murdoch at stats.uwo.ca : on Thu, 18 Nov 2004 16:36:03 +0100 (CET) writes: : : Duncan On Thu, 18 Nov 2004

Re: [Rd] Building Packages on Windows using .Rbuildignore (PR#7379)

2004-11-19 Thread Gabor Grothendieck
Duncan Murdoch murdoch at stats.uwo.ca writes: On Sat, 20 Nov 2004 00:39:17 + (UTC), Gabor Grothendieck ggrothendieck at myway.com wrote: : Even with this change, Rcmd check is still going to install the files : it's supposed to ignore, because it uses Rcmd INSTALL, and there's

Re: [Rd] Building Packages on Windows using .Rbuildignore (PR#7379)

2004-11-19 Thread Gabor Grothendieck
Duncan Murdoch murdoch at stats.uwo.ca writes: : : On Sat, 20 Nov 2004 03:47:50 + (UTC), Gabor Grothendieck : ggrothendieck at myway.com wrote: : : Duncan Murdoch murdoch at stats.uwo.ca writes: : : : On Sat, 20 Nov 2004 00:39:17 + (UTC), Gabor Grothendieck : ggrothendieck

Re: [Rd] Building Packages on Windows using .Rbuildignore (PR#7379)

2004-11-18 Thread Gabor Grothendieck
murdoch at stats.uwo.ca writes: : : On Thu, 18 Nov 2004 00:38:47 + (UTC), Gabor Grothendieck : ggrothendieck at myway.com wrote : : : DIFFERENCE BETWEEN USING .RBUILDIGNORE AND NOT : : The reason that the processing is different according to whether one : uses .Rbuildignore

[Rd] Re: R/S-related projects on Sourceforge? Trove Categorization

2004-11-17 Thread Gabor Grothendieck
Witold Eryk Wolski [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: : : Hi R-Users and Developers, : : Several months ago I made a request on Sourceforge to add the R/S - : programming language to the _Trove_ categorization. (The Trove is a : means to convey basic metainformation about your project.) It might be

[Rd] Building Packages on Windows using .Rbuildignore

2004-11-17 Thread Gabor Grothendieck
I have some questions about building packages in Windows when using .Rbuildignore . The part of the process that is of interest here is the part that creates the source tree from the tree that contains the .Rbuildignore file. That is, the part of the process that does a build of the original

Re: [Rd] Building Packages on Windows using .Rbuildignore

2004-11-17 Thread Gabor Grothendieck
Duncan Murdoch murdoch at stats.uwo.ca writes: : : On Wed, 17 Nov 2004 18:10:20 + (UTC), Gabor Grothendieck : ggrothendieck at myway.com wrote : : : : I have some questions about building packages in Windows : when using .Rbuildignore . The part of the process that : is of interest here

Re: [Rd] Building Packages on Windows using .Rbuildignore

2004-11-17 Thread Gabor Grothendieck
Duncan Murdoch murdoch at stats.uwo.ca writes: On Wed, 17 Nov 2004 20:44:48 + (UTC), Gabor Grothendieck ggrothendieck at myway.com wrote : If one does not use .Rbuildignore then with a pure R package one can run off the original source files, in this case in /wherever/mypkg, like

Re: [Rd] Questions on package creation

2004-11-11 Thread Gabor Grothendieck
build --binary mypkg if you need to distribute the package in : binary form. : : HTH, : Andy : : From: Gabor Grothendieck : : I have some questions about : : 1. nomenclature, : 2. recommended file locations and : 3. overall procedure related to creating packages

Re: [Rd] inst/CITATION produced error during Rcmd check package

2004-11-11 Thread Gabor Grothendieck
Prof Brian Ripley ripley at stats.ox.ac.uk writes: : That you are getting FIND not `find' suggests that you have not followed : the instructions in README.packages correctly. Please ensure you have : followed When I had this problem I found I had to put the path to the UNIX-like tools ahead of

[Rd] Questions on package creation

2004-11-10 Thread Gabor Grothendieck
I have some questions about 1. nomenclature, 2. recommended file locations and 3. overall procedure related to creating packages. To the extent that it matters, examples here relate to Windows XP R 2.0.1 beta. The questions are interspersed and prefaced with ***. My

Re: [Rd] recursive default argument reference

2004-11-09 Thread Gabor Grothendieck
Vadim Ogranovich vograno at evafunds.com writes: : : Hi, : : It seems that a formal function argument can not default to an outer : variable of the same name: : : x - foo : ff - function(x=x) x : ff() : Error in ff() : recursive default argument reference : : : Is this intentional? Why?

Re: [Rd] creating a package without lazy loading

2004-11-07 Thread Gabor Grothendieck
Uwe Ligges ligges at statistik.uni-dortmund.de writes: : : Gabor Grothendieck wrote: : : When I do a : :R CMD build --binary : : then I get the messages at the end of this post unless I specify : :LazyLoad: no : : in the DESCRIPRION file. If I do

[Rd] wishlist: building packages

2004-11-07 Thread Gabor Grothendieck
I have collected together some wishlist items from my recent experience in package building. Some of these are also in other posts but I thought I would put them in one place. This all refers to Windows XP R 2.0.1 beta. 1. Would it be possible to put the whole package building process into R,

Re: [Rd] RFC install.packages() changes

2004-11-07 Thread Gabor Grothendieck
Prof Brian Ripley ripley at stats.ox.ac.uk writes: : install/update.packages() in R-devel has been enhanced in a few ways, : notably to handle multiple repositories, and to allow packages to be : reinstalled under the current version of R. The change to updating that I would like would be to

Re: [Rd] RFC install.packages() changes

2004-11-07 Thread Gabor Grothendieck
Gabor Grothendieck ggrothendieck at myway.com writes: : : Prof Brian Ripley ripley at stats.ox.ac.uk writes: : : : install/update.packages() in R-devel has been enhanced in a few ways, : : notably to handle multiple repositories, and to allow packages to be : : reinstalled under the current

Re: [Rd] wishlist: better error message in R CMD check

2004-11-06 Thread Gabor Grothendieck
Liaw, Andy andy_liaw at merck.com writes: Gabor, I guess is that you did not try to run R CMD INSTALL before R CMD check. R CMD check will try to install the package first (in pkg.Rcheck), and only if that's successful would checks be done. The installation process will concatenate

[Rd] install/build/build --binary

2004-11-06 Thread Gabor Grothendieck
I have question regarding package installation. What is the difference between check, INSTALL, build and build --binary, which imply which and what order does one normally perform them? I have been trying: R CMD build /mypackage R CMD check /mypackage R CMD build --binary /mypackage in that

Re: [Rd] install/build/build --binary

2004-11-06 Thread Gabor Grothendieck
Liaw, Andy andy_liaw at merck.com writes: : : From: Gabor Grothendieck : : I have question regarding package installation. : : What is the difference between check, INSTALL, build and : build --binary, which imply which and what order does one : normally perform them? I have been

[Rd] creating a package without lazy loading

2004-11-06 Thread Gabor Grothendieck
When I do a R CMD build --binary then I get the messages at the end of this post unless I specify LazyLoad: no in the DESCRIPRION file. If I do that then everything proceeds smoothly. R CMD check proceeds smoothly in either case. Is there something I should be aware of that

[Rd] wishlist: \ or \0 in sub/gsub

2004-11-05 Thread Gabor Grothendieck
This is a wish list item. It would be nice if one could use \0 or \ in sub and gsub as in vi: gsub(an, :\\:, banana) One can, of course, write the following right now: gsub((an), :\\1:, banana) But often the this is within a function and the an is passed which means that one

[Rd] wishlist: better error message in R CMD check

2004-11-05 Thread Gabor Grothendieck
I was running R CMD check on Windows XP 2.0.1beta and got this: Error in parse(file, n, text, prompt) : syntax error on 602 After a lot of aggravation I finally discovered that if I did this: copy *.R allofthem.R and checked line 602 in allofthem.R that I could find the error. I noticed that

Re: [Rd] 2.0.1 countdown

2004-11-04 Thread Gabor Grothendieck
Peter Dalgaard p.dalgaard at biostat.ku.dk writes: : We plan to a patch release on Nov.15 to fix up various problems that : cropped up after the release of R 2.0.0. Daily beta snapshots will be : made available until the day of release. : : Please check if your favourite bugs have been fixed

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