Re: [Rd] assigning to a null data frame. (PR#4727)

2003-10-23 Thread maechler
> "ashenfluff" == ashenfluff <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > on Wed, 22 Oct 2003 22:29:23 +0200 (MET DST) writes: ashenfluff> Full_Name: Ben K. ashenfluff> Version: 1.8.0 ashenfluff> OS: win2k ashenfluff> Submission from: (NULL) (208.243.20.222) ashenfluff> This fails:

Re: [Rd] Problem R-1.8.0 library tcltk on Tcl-8.0.5 (PR#4699)

2003-10-23 Thread Kurt Hornik
> Peter Dalgaard writes: > Kurt Hornik <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: >> > (Argh. The test builds of 1.8.0 were actually against tcl8.0, but >> > apparently our testing procedures skip any attempt to load the dynlib. >> > Automated tests of tcl/tk are difficult because Tk will protest if >> > the

Re: [Rd] Something strange in cor.test in R-1.8.0 (PR#4718)

2003-10-23 Thread Kurt Hornik
> maechler writes: > "Duncan" == Duncan Murdoch <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > on Wed, 22 Oct 2003 08:17:32 -0400 writes: Duncan> I've now tried the code > set.seed(1) > x <- rnorm(50) > y <- rnorm(50) > cor.test(x,y,method="spearman") > x <- rnorm(50) > y <- rnorm(50) > cor.test

Re: [Rd] Something strange in cor.test in R-1.8.0 (PR#4718)

2003-10-23 Thread Peter Dalgaard
Kurt Hornik <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > maechler writes: > > > "Duncan" == Duncan Murdoch <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > on Wed, 22 Oct 2003 08:17:32 -0400 writes: > > Duncan> I've now tried the code > > > set.seed(1) > > x <- rnorm(50) > > y <- rnorm(50) > > cor.test(x,y,met

Re: [Rd] Something strange in cor.test in R-1.8.0 (PR#4718)

2003-10-23 Thread p . dalgaard
Kurt Hornik <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > maechler writes: > > > "Duncan" == Duncan Murdoch <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > on Wed, 22 Oct 2003 08:17:32 -0400 writes: > > Duncan> I've now tried the code > > > set.seed(1) > > x <- rnorm(50) > > y <- rnorm(50) > > cor.test(x,y,met

Re: [Rd] Something strange in cor.test in R-1.8.0 (PR#4718)

2003-10-23 Thread Kurt Hornik
> Peter Dalgaard writes: > Kurt Hornik <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: >> > maechler writes: >> >> > "Duncan" == Duncan Murdoch <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >> > on Wed, 22 Oct 2003 08:17:32 -0400 writes: >> Duncan> I've now tried the code >> >> > set.seed(1) >> > x <- rnorm(50) >> >

Re: [Rd] Something strange in cor.test in R-1.8.0 (PR#4718)

2003-10-23 Thread Kurt . Hornik
> Peter Dalgaard writes: > Kurt Hornik <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: >> > maechler writes: >> >> > "Duncan" == Duncan Murdoch <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >> > on Wed, 22 Oct 2003 08:17:32 -0400 writes: >> Duncan> I've now tried the code >> >> > set.seed(1) >> > x <- rnorm(50) >> >

Re: [Rd] Something strange in cor.test in R-1.8.0 (PR#4718)

2003-10-23 Thread Peter Dalgaard
[EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: > > Probably, but of a nasty kind which I think we need to get to the > > bottom of. As I see it there are two possible causes > > > 1. A bug in a Windows library or compiler. Potentially that could > >affect everything else. > > 2. A bug in ctest that just happens o

Re: [Rd] Something strange in cor.test in R-1.8.0 (PR#4718)

2003-10-23 Thread Prof Brian Ripley
On 23 Oct 2003, Peter Dalgaard wrote: > [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: > > > > Probably, but of a nasty kind which I think we need to get to the > > > bottom of. As I see it there are two possible causes > > > > > 1. A bug in a Windows library or compiler. Potentially that could > > >affect every

Re: [Rd] Something strange in cor.test in R-1.8.0 (PR#4718)

2003-10-23 Thread ripley
On 23 Oct 2003, Peter Dalgaard wrote: > [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: > > > > Probably, but of a nasty kind which I think we need to get to the > > > bottom of. As I see it there are two possible causes > > > > > 1. A bug in a Windows library or compiler. Potentially that could > > >affect every

[Rd] linking to R.dll on Win32 - issues with recent MinGW?

2003-10-23 Thread Simon Urbanek
I encountered several strange issues when linking to R.dll on Windows and I wonder if anyone of the Windows savvy-folks here had seen some of the issues before and have some explanation. My Rserve links to R dynamic library. That works perfectly on unix boxes and worked fairly well with older M

[Rd] Re: ichar() function in R : 1st implementation, RFC

2003-10-23 Thread Martin Maechler
(RFC := Request For Comments) > "Tim" == Tim Keighley <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > on Thu, 23 Oct 2003 11:45:22 +1000 writes: Tim> Hi Martin, Tim> In October 2000 you wrote to r-help: >>> which reminds me that I've had a desire for something like >>> the old S function [from

Re: [Rd] linking to R.dll on Win32 - issues with recent MinGW?

2003-10-23 Thread Prof Brian Ripley
I was told that direct linking against foo.dll is not supported. One problem is that the link priority order gets broken, and R.dll gets used for things it should not be used for (malloc springs to mind). You should be able to use libR.a, though. It does not need to export R_Home, as you should

Re: [Rd] Re: ichar() function in R : 1st implementation, RFC

2003-10-23 Thread Kurt Hornik
> Martin Maechler writes: > (RFC := Request For Comments) My preference would be that we start by adding a version of sscanf(). -k > "Tim" == Tim Keighley <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > on Thu, 23 Oct 2003 11:45:22 +1000 writes: Tim> Hi Martin, Tim> In October 2000 you wrote to r-help:

[Rd] Accessing data files w/ --use-zip-data

2003-10-23 Thread Jeff Gentry
I have encountered an issue while preparing some of the Bioconductor packages for our upcoming release, and Duncan Murdoch suggested that I bring one of the related points up here. The background is that we are building our packages under Windows with "Rcmd install --build" which will flag the zi

Re: [Rd] Accessing data files w/ --use-zip-data

2003-10-23 Thread Paul Gilbert
Jeff Gentry wrote: ... The issue that Duncan suggested I raise is whether or not it should be considered accepted behaviour for a package author to be accessing files in \data (at this time I don't know the reasoning behind the specific example here, I just know that that's what they've done) or i

Re: [Rd] Accessing data files w/ --use-zip-data

2003-10-23 Thread Prof Brian Ripley
On Thu, 23 Oct 2003, Paul Gilbert wrote: > Jeff Gentry wrote: > > >... > >The issue that Duncan suggested I raise is whether or not it should be > >considered accepted behaviour for a package author to be accessing files > >in \data (at this time I don't know the reasoning behind the specific > >

[Rd] texi2dvi and buildVignettes() on Windows

2003-10-23 Thread Achim Zeileis
I am currently writing a (private) package in which I produce pdf files from within R using LaTeX. To do so I mainly copied some lines from the buildVignettes() function in the tools package. This uses the texi2dvi which is included in R's bin directory: system(paste(file.path(R.home(), "bin"

[Rd] Ask for information about device architecture

2003-10-23 Thread l . bize
Hello. I'm looking for documentation about the graphic device model in R. I would understand it in the details, but it seems a bit complex :) Thanks for any documents which will help me. Laurent __ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list https://www.stat.math.

Re: [Rd] texi2dvi and buildVignettes() on Windows

2003-10-23 Thread Prof Brian Ripley
Last time I tried texi2dvi did not work under the shell used under Windows. On Thu, 23 Oct 2003, Achim Zeileis wrote: > I am currently writing a (private) package in which I produce pdf > files from within R using LaTeX. To do so I mainly copied some lines > from the buildVignettes() function

Re: [Rd] linking to R.dll on Win32 - issues with recent MinGW?

2003-10-23 Thread Duncan Murdoch
On Thu, 23 Oct 2003 14:21:08 +0200, you wrote: >I encountered several strange issues when linking to R.dll on Windows >and I wonder if anyone of the Windows savvy-folks here had seen some of >the issues before and have some explanation. I can help with one of them, but not the main one. >Now,

Re: [Rd] Ask for information about device architecture

2003-10-23 Thread Paul Murrell
Hi [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hello. I'm looking for documentation about the graphic device model in R. I would understand it in the details, but it seems a bit complex :) Thanks for any documents which will help me. I'm assuming you want to write a new device ... Here are a couple of places to l

Re: [Rd] Ask for information about device architecture

2003-10-23 Thread l . bize
I'm assuming you want to write a new device ... Yes. I plan to write a GLX device. The rgl package writed by Daniel Adler is very interesting but don't correspond to what I want. I want to write a full device, based on X11 at first, then add specific features for 3D representation. Here are a cou

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Re: [Rd] Accessing data files w/ --use-zip-data

2003-10-23 Thread w . huber
Hi all, > The issue that Duncan suggested I raise is whether or not it should be > considered accepted behaviour for a package author to be accessing files > in \data (at this time I don't know the reasoning behind the specific > example here, I just know that that's what they've done) or if this

Re: [Rd] Accessing data files w/ --use-zip-data

2003-10-23 Thread Prof Brian Ripley
On Fri, 24 Oct 2003 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > The issue that Duncan suggested I raise is whether or not it should be > > considered accepted behaviour for a package author to be accessing files > > in \data (at this time I don't know the reasoning behind the specific > > example here, I just kn

[Rd] Versions of PCRE, documenting what grep etc do.

2003-10-23 Thread Prof Brian Ripley
A couple of weeks back there was some discussion about documenting the regular expressions as used in R. Several years ago the problem was that this was OS-dependent, and to plug that problem we incorporated regexp code from a version of GNU grep, later updated to grep-2.4.2 in R 1.2.0. I hav