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

2005-06-09 Thread Duncan Murdoch
On Tue, 7 Jun 2005, Duncan Murdoch wrote: [...] My proposal (modified following the suggestions I've heard so far) is as follows: - to check that a couple of help topic aliases exist (pkg.package and pkg) - to recommend that pkg.package contain general information about the package

Re: [Rd] NEWS, WISHLIST, THANKS

2005-06-09 Thread Duncan Murdoch
extensions manuals tells you the filenames that mean something to R. (See the Package Structure section.) All else is omitted unless it's in the inst directory, in which case it should be copied up a level upon installation. Duncan Murdoch __ R

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

2005-06-08 Thread Duncan Murdoch
to me. Duncan Murdoch To follow up on Gabor's suggestion to add more R CMD check granuality than errors and warnings. Using classes and the new exception handling, one could introduce a warning class called Suggestion (CranSuggestion), which gives suggestions to the user, but not enforce them

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

2005-06-08 Thread Duncan Murdoch
Torsten Hothorn wrote: On Tue, 7 Jun 2005, Duncan Murdoch wrote: [...] My proposal (modified following the suggestions I've heard so far) is as follows: - to check that a couple of help topic aliases exist (pkg.package and pkg) - to recommend that pkg.package contain general information

[Rd] Bug in help(package=) (PR#7923)

2005-06-08 Thread murdoch
The following is a bug or mis-design in help(package=): showhelp - function(packageName) help(package=packageName) showhelp(utils) Error in .find.package(pkgName, lib.loc, verbose = verbose) : none of the packages were found The problem is that it calls library(help=) with

Re: [Rd] Bug in new() or validObject() in methods package (PR#7922)

2005-06-07 Thread Duncan Murdoch
, not just for NULL. Changing that so it only accepts NULL fixes this bug. This code has been in place since prehistoric times, so I'm going to tread pretty carefully here before I commit a change. Duncan Murdoch __ R-devel@stat.math.ethz.ch mailing

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

2005-06-07 Thread Duncan Murdoch
be perfectly acceptable for ?package to pop up a vignette for the package. However, right now we have too many different types of ways to display help, and not all of them are capable of displaying vignettes. Duncan Murdoch Best wishes Robert Some packages have so much material that it's

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

2005-06-07 Thread Duncan Murdoch
On 6/7/2005 11:59 AM, Robert Gentleman wrote: Duncan Murdoch wrote: On 6/7/2005 11:12 AM, Robert Gentleman 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

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

2005-06-07 Thread Duncan Murdoch
above doesn't achieve that, but it gets closer. Duncan Murdoch __ R-devel@stat.math.ethz.ch mailing list https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-devel

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

2005-06-07 Thread Duncan Murdoch
to a standard help topic for the package, so I like the original better, but this would be better than the status quo. Duncan Murdoch Just my $0.02... Andy From: Duncan Murdoch Prof Brian Ripley wrote: I share Robert's `pretty strenuous' objections. Adding compulsory things for package

[Rd] Bug in new() or validObject() in methods package (PR#7922)

2005-06-06 Thread murdoch
, it doesn't always happen: new(foo, bar = expression(1+1)) An object of class foo Slot bar: expression(1 + 1) x - expression(1+1) x expression(1 + 1) eval(x) [1] 2 Duncan Murdoch __ R-devel@stat.math.ethz.ch mailing list https://stat.ethz.ch

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

2005-06-05 Thread Duncan Murdoch
is in them. 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. Duncan Murdoch __ R-devel@stat.math.ethz.ch mailing list https

Re: [Rd] dotcode typo? (PR#7917)

2005-06-03 Thread murdoch
(dead ~ dose, family = binomial(link = logit))) Error in .Call(logit_link, mu) : cannot resolve native routine Execution halted I'm cc'ing this to R-bugs so we don't forget it, but I'm not going to be able to fix it down myself. Duncan Murdoch

Re: [Rd] Wishlist: more flexible handling of tick labels in axis.Date (PR#7913)

2005-06-02 Thread Duncan Murdoch
; when you're done, you can send me the files and I'll review and commit the changes. Duncan Murdoch [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Full_Name: Gavin Simpson Version: 2.1.0-patched (1-Jun-2005) OS: Linux (Fedora Core 3) Submission from: (NULL) (128.40.32.76) axis.Date() insists on labelling tick marks

Re: [Rd] Wishlist: more flexible handling of tick labels in axis.Date (PR#7914)

2005-06-02 Thread murdoch
you're done, you can send me the files and I'll review and commit the changes. Duncan Murdoch [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Full_Name: Gavin Simpson Version: 2.1.0-patched (1-Jun-2005) OS: Linux (Fedora Core 3) Submission from: (NULL) (128.40.32.76) axis.Date() insists on labelling tick

Re: [Rd] Wishlist: more flexible handling of tick labels in axis.Date (PR#7914)

2005-06-02 Thread Duncan Murdoch
changes are now committed to R-devel (which will become version 2.2.0). Thanks! Duncan Murdoch __ R-devel@stat.math.ethz.ch mailing list https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-devel

Re: [Rd] dotcode typo?

2005-06-02 Thread Duncan Murdoch
this change after testing, but I hope Duncan TL has time to look at it and make sure the logic is okay. Duncan Murdoch __ R-devel@stat.math.ethz.ch mailing list https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-devel

Re: [Rd] dotcode typo? (PR#7917)

2005-06-02 Thread murdoch
Duncan Murdoch wrote: Huntsinger, Reid wrote: Sorry, I was looking at 2.0.1 when I meant to be looking at 2.1.0. The line numbers for the latter are 161-179 and line 164 is the one with what I think is a typo. Reid Huntsinger -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL

[Rd] format.data.frame (was: [R] sink() within a function?)

2005-06-01 Thread Duncan Murdoch
Jon Stearley wrote: On Jun 1, 2005, at 11:22 AM, Duncan Murdoch wrote: These functions convert their first argument to a vector (or array) of character strings which have a common format (as is done by 'print'), fulfilling 'length(format*(x, *)) == length(x)'. The trimming

Re: [Rd] Windows/7706 (PR#7889)

2005-05-23 Thread Duncan Murdoch
devices the first text drawn could be improperly sized. (PR#7860). If not, please download a newer copy of R-patched, and see if you can still reproduce the bug. I can't reproduce it in a recent build. Duncan Murdoch __ R-devel@stat.math.ethz.ch

Re: [Rd] Windows/7706 (PR#7889)

2005-05-23 Thread murdoch
on windows() and related devices the first text drawn could be improperly sized. (PR#7860). If not, please download a newer copy of R-patched, and see if you can still reproduce the bug. I can't reproduce it in a recent build. Duncan Murdoch __ R-devel

[Rd] Getting ... without evaluating it?

2005-05-19 Thread Duncan Murdoch
(...) then it tries to evaluate the arguments and dies (because foo doesn't exist). If I use args - substitute(...) then it gives just 1+1, it doesn't keep the names or give the whole list. Is this possible? Duncan Murdoch __ R-devel@stat.math.ethz.ch mailing list

Re: [Rd] Getting ... without evaluating it?

2005-05-19 Thread Duncan Murdoch
Prof Brian Ripley wrote: On Thu, 19 May 2005, Duncan Murdoch wrote: I'd like a function to get an unevaluated copy of its argument list, including ... . That is, I'd like f - function(...) { args - what goes here?? args } when called as f(a = 1+1, b = foo) to return something like list

Re: [Rd] locator() (PR#7873)

2005-05-17 Thread Duncan Murdoch
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Re: [Rd] locator() (PR#7873)

2005-05-17 Thread murdoch
. This is fixed now in the patched version. It should show up in the snapshot builds on CRAN by tomorrow. Duncan Murdoch __ R-devel@stat.math.ethz.ch mailing list https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-devel

Re: [Rd] Problem with limmaGUI (PR#7877)

2005-05-17 Thread murdoch
on CRAN, so that's what I'd expect in this case. Duncan Murdoch __ R-devel@stat.math.ethz.ch mailing list https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-devel

Re: [Rd] Bug in axis labels (PR#7860)

2005-05-14 Thread Duncan Murdoch
This is fixed now, in R-patched and R-devel. Duncan Murdoch [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Bob O'hara wrote: I'm a bit reluctant to call anything a bug: I know it's usually my incompetence instead. In this case, I can't see what else it is, although it may be a bug in Windows. The problem comes from

[Rd] PR$7706, png device plot on athlon 64 processor

2005-05-14 Thread Duncan Murdoch
-project.org/bin/windows/base/rpatched.html Thanks! Duncan Murdoch From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: png device plot on athlon 64 processor Date: Fri, 25 Feb 2005 15:52:40 +0100 (CET) Full_Name: Emiel Ver Loren van Themaat Version: 2.0.1 OS: windows XP Submission from: (NULL) (145.117.31.248) On our

[Rd] Bug in axis labels (PR#7860)

2005-05-12 Thread murdoch
, but I'd like to hear from someone on a different platform... Duncan Murdoch __ R-devel@stat.math.ethz.ch mailing list https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-devel

Re: [Rd] bug in modulus operator %% (PR#7852)

2005-05-11 Thread Duncan Murdoch
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Yes, you are correct. I had only checked one of my platforms. Linux works as you suggest. But for me on Windows,=20 Certainly looks like a bug on Windows to me. I'm going offline for a day very soon now, but I'll try to remember to look into it. Duncan Murdoch x - 1 y

Re: [Rd] big bug with edit(data.frame(a)) (PR#7846)

2005-05-10 Thread Duncan Murdoch
a - read.table('datafile2.txt',header=T) a scores - edit(data.frame(a)) After that i try to move with my third click on my mouse and big bug and i'm ejected I think this has been fixed. Could you please try the R-patched version, available on CRAN mirrors, to confirm? Duncan Murdoch

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

2005-05-08 Thread Duncan Murdoch
Prof Brian Ripley wrote: On Mon, 9 May 2005 [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 (name

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

2005-05-06 Thread Duncan Murdoch
there are no syntax errors, committing, possibly porting the change to the patch branch), so batching them is efficient. Duncan Murdoch __ R-devel@stat.math.ethz.ch mailing list https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-devel

Re: [Rd] documenation for arrows() is backwards (PR#7839)

2005-05-05 Thread Duncan Murdoch
Peter Dalgaard wrote: [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Full_Name: Michael Hoffman Version: 2.1.0 OS: Linux (Fedora Core 3, kernel 2.6.11-1.14_FC3) Submission from: (NULL) (193.62.199.8) help(arrows) says: arrows(x0, y0, x1, y1, length = 0.25, angle = 30, code = 2, col = par(fg), lty =

Re: [Rd] documenation for arrows() is backwards (PR#7839)

2005-05-05 Thread murdoch
Peter Dalgaard wrote: [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Full_Name: Michael Hoffman Version: 2.1.0 OS: Linux (Fedora Core 3, kernel 2.6.11-1.14_FC3) Submission from: (NULL) (193.62.199.8) help(arrows) says: arrows(x0, y0, x1, y1, length = 0.25, angle = 30, code = 2, col = par(fg),

Re: [Rd] Cost of method dispatching: was: when can we expect Prof Tierney's compiled R?

2005-05-04 Thread Duncan Murdoch
), but not in the sense that it is the method that should be called. Duncan Murdoch __ R-devel@stat.math.ethz.ch mailing list https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-devel

[Rd] Re: [R] strange behaviour of importFrom directive in name space

2005-04-28 Thread Duncan Murdoch
to make an example using the import work, either during Rcmd CHECK or in the console. It makes the import available from within your package, but examples are run in the global environment. Duncan Murdoch Regards, Florian Here is my NAMESPACE file: export(analysePlate, as.all

Re: [Rd] Speeding up library loading

2005-04-26 Thread Duncan Murdoch
, but I don't think it exists now. Duncan Murdoch __ R-devel@stat.math.ethz.ch mailing list https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-devel

Re: [Rd] Speeding up library loading

2005-04-26 Thread Duncan Murdoch
the environment), but S4 methods aren't self-contained, they need to be registered with the system. You could probably write a function to load them and register them all at once, but I don't think it exists now. Duncan Murdoch (1) What is the difference between loading and registering objects in R

Re: [Rd] Speeding up library loading

2005-04-25 Thread Duncan Murdoch
can be gigantic). Duncan Murdoch __ R-devel@stat.math.ethz.ch mailing list https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-devel

Re: [Rd] Objects in R

2005-04-24 Thread Duncan Murdoch
to access its state. Each object exposes an interface that specifies how other objects may interact with it. Neither of these properties holds in S4. Duncan Murdoch But the hindrances faced by our friend Ali are common, and even in packages maintained by experienced R developers, S4 is implemented

Re: [Rd] Objects in R

2005-04-24 Thread Duncan Murdoch
Seth Falcon wrote: Duncan Murdoch [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: What S4 is missing is encapsulation. Wikipedia's article on object-oriented programming gives a good definition: Encapsulation - Ensures that users of an object cannot change the internal state of the object in unexpected ways; only

[Rd] tclServiceMode: stop Tcl/Tk from updating

2005-04-23 Thread Duncan Murdoch
off. So far this function is only in R-devel, but I'll commit it to R-patched the next chance I get. Duncan Murdoch __ R-devel@stat.math.ethz.ch mailing list https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-devel

Re: [Rd] Bug in Version 2010 (PR#7807)

2005-04-22 Thread Duncan Murdoch
Murdoch __ R-devel@stat.math.ethz.ch mailing list https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-devel

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

2005-04-18 Thread Duncan Murdoch
it, I think the 0x prefix is fine. We should provide a way to use other bases on input and output. This could be through format specifiers, but it would be enough to have a pair of dedicated functions to do the conversions. Duncan Murdoch __ R-devel

Re: [Rd] A 'true' R-wrapper for C++ classes

2005-04-18 Thread Duncan Murdoch
of the same text. I didn't read it all, so might have missed something new hidden in there. Duncan Murdoch __ R-devel@stat.math.ethz.ch mailing list https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-devel

Re: [Rd] RE: A 'true' R-wrapper for C++ classes

2005-04-18 Thread Duncan Murdoch
to write such a thing, in that R and C++ are more different than Java and C++ are. Duncan Murdoch __ R-devel@stat.math.ethz.ch mailing list https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-devel

Re: [Rd] Poblem while build a package (PR#7798)

2005-04-18 Thread Duncan Murdoch
Murdoch __ R-devel@stat.math.ethz.ch mailing list https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-devel

Re: [Rd] dealing with empty actual arguments matched by '...' formals

2005-04-16 Thread Duncan Murdoch
must be used in S-PLUS and R to detect and process the arguments of a function that can have empty arguments matched to '...'. Can you give an example where it's useful to do this, i.e. to have a call like f(1,2,)? I've never used that construction as far as I can recall. Duncan Murdoch

Re: [Rd] one suggestion for R-admin

2005-04-13 Thread Duncan Murdoch
the files, but not where to put them.) Good suggestion; I've just done it. I think the only reason I didn't do it before was laziness. Duncan Murdoch __ R-devel@stat.math.ethz.ch mailing list https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-devel

Re: [Rd] IAB (PR#7788)

2005-04-13 Thread Duncan Murdoch
them. Duncan Murdoch __ R-devel@stat.math.ethz.ch mailing list https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-devel

Re: [Rd] patch to add a menu item in Rgui for RSiteSearch

2005-04-13 Thread Duncan Murdoch
After the release, I think this should go into R-patched. Do we have tools to tell the translators all the new strings that need translating, or should they be explicitly informed about such a thing? Duncan Murdoch __ R-devel@stat.math.ethz.ch

Re: [Rd] patch to add a menu item in Rgui for RSiteSearch

2005-04-13 Thread Duncan Murdoch
Prof Brian Ripley wrote: On Wed, 13 Apr 2005, Duncan Murdoch wrote: Prof Brian Ripley wrote: On Tue, 12 Apr 2005, Liaw, Andy wrote: Please consider adding the following to the next R release (I understand that it's too late for R-2.1.0). It adds the menu item `Search R Site' in the `Help' menu

Re: [Rd] patch to add a menu item in Rgui for RSiteSearch

2005-04-13 Thread Duncan Murdoch
this is not an unreasonable request considering that there is menu item to select repositories to include BioConductor in R-2.1.0beta. I think this would make more sense as an enhancement to search.r-project.org (the site where RSiteSearch sends the search request) than to Rgui. Duncan Murdoch

Re: [Rd] C Interface to R?

2005-04-12 Thread Duncan Murdoch
. The easiest thing is to write C routines to be called from R, but you can also call some R functions or R itself from a C program. Duncan Murdoch __ R-devel@stat.math.ethz.ch mailing list https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-devel

Re: [Rd] docu buglet

2005-04-11 Thread Duncan Murdoch
of Welch (1951) is used, which generalizes the commonly known 2-sample Welch test to the case of arbitrarily many samples. I guess preformed should read performed Thanks, I'll fix it. Duncan Murdoch __ R-devel@stat.math.ethz.ch mailing list https

Re: [Rd] Problems with predict.lm: incorrect SE estimate (PR#7772)

2005-04-04 Thread murdoch
the prediction and a new observation) rather than the standard error (i.e. the stddev of the prediction). Duncan Murdoch Marek Ancukiewicz n - 10 x - 1:n y - x y[c(2,4,6)] - y[c(2,4,6)] + 0.1 y[c(3,5,7)] - y[c(3,5,7)] - 0.1 a - lm(y~x) rms - sqrt(sum(a$residuals^2)/(n-2)) s - covmat(a)*rms^2

Re: [Rd] acf segfault (PR#7771)

2005-04-04 Thread murdoch
Murdoch cheers dave --please do not edit the information below-- Version: platform = i386-pc-linux-gnu arch = i386 os = linux-gnu system = i386, linux-gnu status = major = 2 minor = 0.1 year = 2004 month = 11 day = 15 language = R Search Path: .GlobalEnv, package:methods

Re: [Rd] acf segfault (PR#7771)

2005-04-04 Thread murdoch
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Re: [Rd] acf segfault (PR#7771)

2005-04-04 Thread Duncan Murdoch
and to the 2.0.1 patch version. Duncan Murdoch __ R-devel@stat.math.ethz.ch mailing list https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-devel

Re: [Rd] Error: cannot set length of non-vector

2005-04-03 Thread Duncan Murdoch
diagnosis is right, because I was just trying to manually duplicate bits of the CHECK script, and I might have missed a setwd somewhere. Duncan Murdoch __ R-devel@stat.math.ethz.ch mailing list https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-devel

Re: [Rd] RGUI font problem (PR#7749)

2005-03-28 Thread Duncan Murdoch
saving the new preferences first. As a result, I did not have an Rconsole file in My Documents. This might be the reason why the problem was not reproducible by the development team. I think there's still something else: I don't see it when I follow your instructions above. Duncan Murdoch

Re: [Rd] RGUI font problem (PR#7749)

2005-03-28 Thread murdoch
saving the new preferences first. As a result, I did not have an Rconsole file in My Documents. This might be the reason why the problem was not reproducible by the development team. I think there's still something else: I don't see it when I follow your instructions above. Duncan Murdoch

Re: [Rd] rw2010alpha

2005-03-24 Thread Duncan Murdoch
then you won't have any files installed which shouldn't be there. Duncan Murdoch __ R-devel@stat.math.ethz.ch mailing list https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-devel

Re: [Rd] interp.surface() error (PR#7745)

2005-03-23 Thread murdoch
= nx, nx - 1, trunc(lx)) ifelse(ly = ny, ny - 1, trunc(ly)) would probably be a better fix, but I'd really like to see an example of this in action. Could you email me a dataset where you see it? Duncan Murdoch __ R-devel@stat.math.ethz.ch mailing list

Re: [Rd] trouble building r-devel

2005-03-21 Thread Duncan Murdoch
today's arithmetic.c with no error, using $ gcc --version gcc.exe (GCC) 3.4.2 (mingw-special) Copyright (C) 2004 Free Software Foundation, Inc. Duncan Murdoch __ R-devel@stat.math.ethz.ch mailing list https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-devel

Re: [Rd] Trouble debugging with gdb, R on Windows

2005-03-18 Thread Duncan Murdoch
be to use the R menu item Misc|Break to debugger to break out of R once it is running, and set your breakpoints then, but I don't know that it will make any difference. Duncan Murdoch __ R-devel@stat.math.ethz.ch mailing list https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman

Re: [Rd] function-like macros undefined

2005-03-16 Thread Duncan Murdoch
the reasons for the write barrier, see http://www.stat.uiowa.edu/~luke/R/barrier.html Duncan Murdoch Did anyone come across such a problem? version _ platform x86_64-unknown-linux-gnu arch x86_64 os linux-gnu system

[Rd] Quirk with as.function(..., envir = NULL) and body(..., envir = NULL) -

2005-03-11 Thread Duncan Murdoch
as the environment for a function, you should use environment(f) - NULL for now. Duncan Murdoch __ R-devel@stat.math.ethz.ch mailing list https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-devel

[Rd] delay() has been deprecated for 2.1.0

2005-03-11 Thread Duncan Murdoch
using it in the long term. Sorry for any inconvenience that this causes. Duncan Murdoch __ R-devel@stat.math.ethz.ch mailing list https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-devel

Re: [Rd] Does cat(\a) ring a bell?

2005-03-08 Thread Duncan Murdoch
I've now added a function called alarm() to ring a bell. It's documented to work on some platforms, but not all. If it truly is easy to support this, you might as well, but I can't see this as a high priority. Duncan Murdoch On Mon, 7 Mar 2005 21:12:17 +0100, stefano iacus [EMAIL PROTECTED

[Rd] Bug in handling of promises?

2005-03-08 Thread Duncan Murdoch
(environment(NULL)) + } env - h( function(x) x^2 ) env$H function(x) x^2 env$H(1) [1] 1 Is this a bug, or just the way things are? I get the same results in both R-patched and R-devel. Duncan Murdoch __ R-devel@stat.math.ethz.ch mailing list https

Re: [Rd] Bug in handling of promises?

2005-03-08 Thread Duncan Murdoch
promise: 0118A148 h - function( H ) { + H - H + return(environment()) + } env - h( 3 ) env$H [1] 3 Duncan Murdoch On Tue, 8 Mar 2005, Duncan Murdoch wrote: I'm working on a function that does adaptive sampling, and I thought it would be handy to return the function's environment

Re: [Rd] Bug in handling of promises?

2005-03-08 Thread Duncan Murdoch
-function H - env$H H(1) [1] 1 So the oddity is that I can evaluate H within f() without any problem, but outside of f() I need extra work before I can do it. Duncan Murdoch On Tue, 08 Mar 2005 18:00:10 +, Duncan Murdoch [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote : On Tue, 8 Mar 2005 17:44:41 + (GMT), Prof

Re: [Rd] R crashes using the em function of package mclust (PR#7719)

2005-03-07 Thread murdoch
installed 2.1-8 and ran your code in R-2.0.1 with no problem. In any case, this looks more like an mclust problem than an R problem; if you're using the current version, you should follow up with the maintainer, Ron Wehrens [EMAIL PROTECTED]. Duncan Murdoch

[Rd] Does cat(\a) ring a bell?

2005-03-07 Thread Duncan Murdoch
Under GUIs other than Windows (Mac OS X, ESS, etc.) does cat(\a) still make a bell (or some other) sound? If so, I'll add a bell() function to utils. Duncan Murdoch __ R-devel@stat.math.ethz.ch mailing list https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r

[Rd] Does anyone care about wait in Windows bug.report()?

2005-03-04 Thread Duncan Murdoch
the wait parameter that bug.report() currently has on Windows. Rather than adding wait to file.edit(), I'd rather remove it from bug.report(). Will anyone object if I do this? Duncan Murdoch __ R-devel@stat.math.ethz.ch mailing list https://stat.ethz.ch

Re: [Rd] bug report for as.function (PR#7702)

2005-02-24 Thread murdoch
month02 day 24 language R Could someone else please deal with this? I have trouble with test builds right now. Duncan Murdoch __ R-devel@stat.math.ethz.ch mailing

Re: [Rd] bug? quantile() can return decreasing sample quantiles for increasing probabilities

2005-02-22 Thread Duncan Murdoch
in quantile().) Duncan Murdoch __ R-devel@stat.math.ethz.ch mailing list https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-devel

Re: [Rd] bug? quantile() can return decreasing sample quantiles for increasing probabilities

2005-02-22 Thread Duncan Murdoch
On Tue, 22 Feb 2005 21:36:20 +, Duncan Murdoch [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote : On Tue, 22 Feb 2005 13:43:47 -0700, Tony Plate [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote : Is it a bug that quantile() can return a lower sample quantile for a higher probability? # quantile returns decreasing results

Re: [Rd] bug? quantile() can return decreasing sample quantiles for increasing probabilities

2005-02-22 Thread Duncan Murdoch
-0.0009041968 -0.0009041968 -0.0009041968 -0.0009041968 20% -0.0009041968 Duncan Murdoch __ R-devel@stat.math.ethz.ch mailing list https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-devel

[Rd] Translation Teams

2005-02-18 Thread Duncan Murdoch
/TranslationTeams.html listing the current languages I know about and the contacts for each. To offer your help with one of these, contact a team on the list. To list your own translation project there, contact me or another member of R-core with the details. Duncan Murdoch

Re: [Rd] Documentation typos (PR#7693)

2005-02-17 Thread Duncan Murdoch
On Thu, 17 Feb 2005 20:37:36 +0100 (CET), [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote : There's a harmless typo in screen.Rd where coner should be corner. Nitpicking to the extreme, ie. should be i.e. in plotformula.Rd and screen.Rd. I'll fix these in R-devel. Duncan Murdoch

Re: [Rd] german translation

2005-02-17 Thread Duncan Murdoch
is supposed to do this. If you're on Windows: I have a copy of iconv for Windows on www.murdoch-sutherland.com/Rtools, but you might not need it. Lots of editors (e.g. Windows notepad) can also do this conversion. Duncan Murdoch Duncan __ R-devel

Re: [Rd] Environment with no parent?

2005-02-09 Thread Duncan Murdoch
On 09 Feb 2005 00:29:37 +0100, Peter Dalgaard [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote : Duncan Murdoch [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: (a) efficiency. Is it expensive no longer to have the base functions bound directly to their symbol? (My gut feeling is that with suitable hashing and cacheing, the penalty

Re: [Rd] link to an alias in another package

2005-02-08 Thread Duncan Murdoch
of the varimax topic. You only need the [] to disambiguate crossreferences, or to refer to packages that might not yet be installed, which does not apply to [stats]. Duncan Murdoch __ R-devel@stat.math.ethz.ch mailing list https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r

Re: [Rd] link to an alias in another package

2005-02-08 Thread Duncan Murdoch
On Tue, 8 Feb 2005 12:21:05 + (GMT), Prof Brian Ripley [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote : On Tue, 8 Feb 2005, Duncan Murdoch wrote: On Tue, 8 Feb 2005 07:18:28 + (GMT), Prof Brian Ripley [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote : On Mon, 7 Feb 2005, Paul Gilbert wrote: In some documentation for a package I

[Rd] Environment with no parent?

2005-02-08 Thread Duncan Murdoch
of situation? Duncan Murdoch __ R-devel@stat.math.ethz.ch mailing list https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-devel

Re: [Rd] compiling and making R-2.0.1 for windows XP

2005-01-28 Thread Duncan Murdoch
is missing this time). It is in the list mentioned in INSTALL, which is worth checking I accidentally put cal in instead of cat; it was fixed just yesterday. Duncan Murdoch __ R-devel@stat.math.ethz.ch mailing list https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman

[Rd] Windows tools updated

2005-01-20 Thread Duncan Murdoch
notice. Duncan Murdoch __ R-devel@stat.math.ethz.ch mailing list https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-devel

[Rd] Windows build hiatus

2005-01-10 Thread Duncan Murdoch
were unaware of these builds, they are available at your favourite CRAN mirror (list here: http://cran.r-project.org/mirrors.html) in the bin/windows/base directory. Follow the link to the r-devel release or the r-patched release. Duncan Murdoch __ R

Re: [Rd] Broken Link for gregmisc_2.0.0.zip

2005-01-06 Thread Duncan Murdoch
search the archives. Duncan Murdoch __ R-devel@stat.math.ethz.ch mailing list https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-devel

Re: [Rd] R-intro

2005-01-01 Thread Duncan Murdoch
- read.table(filename) Uwe Ligges Good suggestions. I'll make the changes in R-patched. Duncan Murdoch __ R-devel@stat.math.ethz.ch mailing list https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-devel

Re: [Rd] Re: [R] Is k equivalent to k:k ?

2004-12-10 Thread Duncan Murdoch
languages care quite a bit about the storage mode, and give bizarre and hard to debug errors when it is wrong. If you did this, you wouldn't care that seq(length=n) returns mode double. It might waste a few cpu cycles, but programmer debugging cycles are much more expensive. Duncan Murdoch

Re: [Rd] C access to R libraries

2004-12-10 Thread Duncan Murdoch
, but I think it's pretty straightforward. Duncan Murdoch __ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-devel

Re: [Rd] Typos in 'R Language Definition' 2.0.1 Draft 2004-11-15 (PR#7412)

2004-12-10 Thread murdoch
fix these (if they haven't been fixed already). Duncan Murdoch -mike Page 4, first paragraph of 2.1.4: 'objects which they contain' - 'objects which contain' Page 5, second paragraph of 2.1.10 'environment can be accesses' - 'environment can be accessed' Page 13, second paragraph of 3.3.4

Re: [Rd] pausing between plots - waiting for graphics input

2004-12-09 Thread Duncan Murdoch
On Wed, 01 Dec 2004 10:32:57 +1300, Paul Murrell [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote : Hi Duncan Murdoch wrote: On Wed, 01 Dec 2004 08:55:27 +1300, Paul Murrell [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote : This sounds like the general problem of being able to capture keyboard input on a graphics device (a key-stroke

Re: [Rd] pausing between plots - waiting for graphics input

2004-12-06 Thread Duncan Murdoch
On Sat, 04 Dec 2004 20:13:01 +0100, Uwe Ligges [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote : Duncan, I'm a bit late on this topic, but I'd like to bring up two points that I find inconvenient / buggy in the current behaviour of R-devel: 1) I'm never looking at the windows()'s title, hence I don't see that I

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

2004-12-03 Thread Duncan Murdoch
the CRAN mirrors. Duncan Murdoch __ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-devel

Re: [Rd] RCmdr on Linux with R 2.0.0 over VNC can't use GLX

2004-12-02 Thread Duncan Murdoch
posting to R-help or R-devel. I've cc'd the Rcmdr and rgl maintainers on this. You can see the maintainer listed by using library(help=Rcmdr) library(help=rgl) Duncan Murdoch __ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r

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