Re: [Rd] CRAN scripts?

2003-03-05 Thread Jeff Gentry
On Wed, 5 Mar 2003, Paul Gilbert wrote: > versions, and I don't think require() checks versions. By putting the packages > in a bundle I am relatively sure a user will get versions of the packages that > are suppose to work together. Of course, this is a bigger problem than just my > packages, so a

Re: [Rd] Slow ttests in R-devel

2003-06-05 Thread Jeff Gentry
On Thu, 5 Jun 2003, John Chambers wrote: > The current code passes check-all here. Please let me know of any > problems. I'll be away the rest of today, but back tomorrow. Running the test tha I had been doing shows amazing speed gains. It is about 5-6 times faster then my May 23 version of R

[Rd] Slow ttests in R-devel

2003-06-05 Thread Jeff Gentry
Hello ... I've noticed that some of our Bioconductor code was running drastically slower under current R-devel vs. current R-patched - one example is below using a ttest. I have the following snippet of code that demonstrates the problem while avoiding "real" code that takes an extremely long tim

Re: [Rd] Slow ttests in R-devel

2003-06-05 Thread Jeff Gentry
On Wed, 4 Jun 2003, John Chambers wrote: > There was a bug leading to non-caching of methods, in the r-patched code > from a few days ago. > A branch update would have put the changes into R-devel also. > The problem has been partly fixed in the current code committed to > R-patched (and some fur

Re: [Rd] RGui Startup Error on Win2000 (PR#3084)

2003-06-18 Thread Jeff Gentry
On Wed, 18 Jun 2003, Girish Zambre wrote: > BTW, a real stupid question : is there a line command that can change the > file directory ( unix analogue would be "cd") in Rgui.exe ? I change > directories using the item under the "File" menu right now, but that's a > real pain. A while back I whip

[Rd] R-devel on Solaris 8

2003-09-08 Thread Jeff Gentry
I'm having difficulty building R-devel on Solaris 8 (current version), while trying to update from my previous version of R-devel (2003-09-02). When building I get this error: --- make[4]: Leaving directory `/misc/homes/madman/R-devel/src/library/methods/src' make[4]: Entering director

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

2003-09-11 Thread Jeff Gentry
> Looking over the Debian changelogs reveals nothing -- just maintainer > stuff. Just to provide more (potentially useful) info, I'm having the same problem on a Solaris 8 machine (with the same workaround on the Blue/blue/Red/red thing) and the teTeX installed has definitely not been changed fo

[Rd] couldn't find function "setClass"

2003-09-16 Thread Jeff Gentry
Hello ... With a new checkout of R-devel (last update was 2003-09-11) we are having a problem (it seems to be happening to all of us here on a few different machines) where during install/check/etc when the 'save image' happens (in packages using 'save image'): ** save image Error: couldn't find

Re: [Rd] couldn't find function "setClass"

2003-09-16 Thread Jeff Gentry
> Did you make sure that you have > require(methods) > early in your R sources for the package? No, and that was exactly the problem (although specifically I put the 'require(methods)' into the R_PROFILE.R file). I was under the impression that methods was always loaded by default when R started

[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

[Rd] Bioconductor Programmer's Reference

2003-11-19 Thread Jeff Gentry
ul to the community as well as feedback & input. Thanks Jeff Gentry __ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list https://www.stat.math.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-devel

[Rd] Something wrong w/ R-devel?

2003-12-16 Thread Jeff Gentry
Hello ... On both RH7.2 and Solaris 8 I'm encountering this problem - in both cases this is from a fresh rsync of R-devel into a brand new directory (to prevent it from me needing to 'make distclean' or the like): building package 'ts' mkdir -p -- ../../../library/ts/R make[3]: Leaving directory

[Rd] getOption("repositories")

2003-12-16 Thread Jeff Gentry
Out of curiosity, what happened to this? With 1.8.1 it returns: > getOption("repositories") CRAN "http://cran.r-project.org/src/contrib"; BIOC "http://www.bioconductor.org/src/contrib"; With R-devel it returns: > get

Re: [Rd] Something wrong w/ R-devel?

2003-12-16 Thread Jeff Gentry
> On what OS? This happened on both RH7.2 linux and Solaris 8. > and was due to typo in src/library/Makefile.in (rm -r should be rm -f), > and should be correct now (but rsync lags a bit behind cvs). It doesn't seem to have pushed out to rsync yet, but applying your change by hand to my src/li

Re: [Rd] getOption("repositories")

2003-12-16 Thread Jeff Gentry
> It isn't needed to be set any more by default: it merely duplicated the > information in options CRAN and BIOC. IMO, it is more useful then that, however. The nice thing about "repositories" is that it provided one spot which could have 1->n repositories listed. Having a catch all "repositorie

[Rd] Can't start R-devel

2003-12-17 Thread Jeff Gentry
Hello ... With a new checkout of R-devel, I'm getting the following error on startup: Type 'demo()' for some demos, 'help()' for on-line help, or 'help.start()' for a HTML browser interface to help. Type 'q()' to quit R. Error in open.connection(con, "rb") : unable to open connection In addition

Re: [Rd] Can't start R-devel

2003-12-17 Thread Jeff Gentry
> There has been a problem with (someone else's!) update to package stats. > As with yesterday, it should already be fixed in cvs and will get fixed in > rsync. A clean build from the cvs works. Yeap - it is definitely working now. I must have just grabbed an R-devel from before the fix when I

Re: [Rd] Can't start R-devel

2003-12-17 Thread Jeff Gentry
> Try installing into a clean directory. That is, remove the contents of > /home/jgenty/R-1.9.0 before installing. Right ... this is something that I try to do before speaking up that R-devel isn't working for me (tho sometimes I forget ...). In this case though it sounds as if I caught my rsync

[Rd] gzfile & read.table on Win32

2004-03-15 Thread Jeff Gentry
Hello ... Are there any known problems or even gotchas to look out for when using a gzfile connection in read.csv/read.table in Windows? In the package PROcess, available at www.bioconductor.org/repository/devel/package/html/PROcess.html there are two files in the PROcess/inst/Test directory whic

[Rd] segfault in browseURL()

2004-03-31 Thread Jeff Gentry
Hello ... Using Win2K (and reportedly WinXP), when the length of the 'url' string >= 280 characters, a segmentation fault occurs. This doesn't seem to be affecting unix machines. Thanks -J __ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list https://www.stat.math.ethz.

Re: [Rd] segfault in browseURL()

2004-03-31 Thread Jeff Gentry
> With what settings of argument `browser'? In this case, none. getOption("browser") returns NULL. When browseURL() is working form e under that configuration it pulls up IE5 > If you absolutely must have such long URLs, try specifying a browser > (although you will probably find limits that w

Re: [Rd] segfault in browseURL()

2004-03-31 Thread Jeff Gentry
> > Well, the toy example I was using to first verify that it was coming from > > browseURL in general was just to do this: > > z <- rep("z", 300) > > z <- paste(z, collapse="") > > browseURL(z) > That's not a URL at all, and I get nothing (as I should). If I put http:// > in front it works (as a

[Rd] Installing Win32 packages w/ 'inst' dirs

2004-04-01 Thread Jeff Gentry
Hello ... I noticed this last night when I updated R-devel, and then figured that I had some 'make clean' or related issues and would look at it today. This morning I did a rsync of r-devel into a fresh directory and am now having the same issue. Basically, whenever R is trying to install a pack

Re: [Rd] Installing Win32 packages w/ 'inst' dirs

2004-04-01 Thread Jeff Gentry
> I believe you are finding the Windows FIND.EXE not the find.exe in my set > of tools. Have you cross-checked the path list in the INSTALL file? That's exactly what it was. The 'tools' were ahead of all of the other software I have installed to build packages and such, but was after the Win32

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

2004-07-21 Thread Jeff Gentry
On Wed, 21 Jul 2004, Dirk Eddelbuettel wrote: > Precisely. Let's have one source repo but _let us label any and all binary > restrictions_ more clearly so that I for one can skip over stuff that may > build for you [ Windoze ] but won't for me [ Linux, preferable on all all > ten to twelve hardware

Re: [Rd] Re: [R] Problem in method's Makefile?

2004-08-05 Thread Jeff Gentry
> This is really an R-devel question -- it is about an unreleased version of > R. Right you are - sorry about that. > Yes. Seems a make peculiarity, not even shared by Solaris make. > To get you going, replace $^ by > $(top_builddir)/library/$(pkg)/R/$(pkg).rdb. However, I am working right >

[Rd] Possible Latex problem in R-devel?

2004-08-23 Thread Jeff Gentry
I'm getting this error when installing packages w/ a checkout of R from a a little bit ago (23-Aug-2004, approx 1pm eastern US time): ** help Bareword found where operator expected at /usr/home/jgentry/R/share/perl/R/Rdconv.pm line 2331, near "$latexout latex_link_trans0" (Missing operator

[Rd] Installing package lattice

2004-08-23 Thread Jeff Gentry
Here's another issue (that might well be operator error): > install.packages("lattice") ... ... ** save image Loading required package: grid Error in importIntoEnv(impenv, impnames, ns, impvars) : object(s) 'dev.list', 'cm.colors', 'gray', 'heat.colors' are not exported by 'namespace:gra

Re: [Rd] Possible Latex problem in R-devel?

2004-08-23 Thread Jeff Gentry
> What version of perl? Ack, didn't realize it was this ancient. Version 5.005_03, which is what comes with FreeBSD 4.9 apparently. I did install the /usr/ports version of perl is 5.8.2, although there seems to be other problems here (which are most likely related to my system, will track that d

Re: [Rd] Installing package lattice

2004-08-23 Thread Jeff Gentry
> Yes, the released lattice version is no longer compatible with r-devel after a > split of the graphics package, and install.packages doesn't know to look in > http://cran.us.r-project.org/src/contrib/2.0.0/Recommended/. Doing > a ./tools/rsync-recommended should get you the correct version. T

Re: [Rd] idea for "virtual matrix/array" class

2004-08-23 Thread Jeff Gentry
> Does anyone have any opinions as to the merits of this idea? Would there > be any interest in seeing such a class in R? Have you looked at the 'externalVector' package in Bioconductor? I'm admittedly not super familiar with it, although my understanding of how it works and what it does seems

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

2004-08-24 Thread Jeff Gentry
> I don't have the `R Language Manual'. Is it explained somewhere > in the docs that come with R? See: /doc/manual/ __ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-devel

Re: [Rd] Minimal DESCRIPTION file

2004-08-25 Thread Jeff Gentry
> My question is, what else is necessary for a minimal package? "Writing R > Extensions" states: >"The `Package', `Version', `License', `Description', `Title', `Author', > and `Maintainer' fields are mandatory..." > So should I really add all these (superfluous) fields, to avoid future > r

Re: [Rd] Methods package is now attached by default

2003-01-17 Thread Jeff Gentry
> The current r-devel (aka R 1.7.0) now attaches the package "methods" by > default at startup. There's either a problem here or something is wrong on my end as I just did a rsync to R-devel and the build bombed out with: gcc -shared -L/usr/local/lib -o methods.so do_substitute_direct.o methods_l

Re: [Rd] Methods package is now attached by default

2003-01-17 Thread Jeff Gentry
On Fri, 17 Jan 2003 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > There's either a problem here or something is wrong on my end as I just > > did a rsync to R-devel and the build bombed out with: > Try make clean and/or removing library/methods? It actually turned out to be the latter - removing R/library/methods

[Rd] Verbosity when using urls in R-devel

2003-02-06 Thread Jeff Gentry
Hello ... Using a relatively recent rsync of R-devel (it started at least after 1/16/03 as I have a copy of R-devel from then and this doesn't happen), I've noticed a bit more chatter to the console when accessing URL connections. > z <- url("http://www.bioconductor.org/main.html";) > readLines(z

[Rd] Ruuid package

2003-02-11 Thread Jeff Gentry
y difficulty with this package. Thanks -Jeff Gentry __ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://www.stat.math.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-devel

[Rd] Re: Ruuid package

2003-02-11 Thread Jeff Gentry
Sorry for the self-followup, but just a clarification ... > It's purpose is to generate UUID values, and has a simple R interface > (currently one function: getuuid(), with multiple options). For those that are not familiar, a UUID is a "Universally Unique ID", a value generated that is guarante

Re: [Rd] CRAN scripts?

2003-03-04 Thread Jeff Gentry
> maintainers to generate the PACKAGES file, and to generate PACKAGES.html > from PACKAGES. Are those something that could be made available? Or > do people think that I should bite the bullet and submit my packages to > CRAN instead? You might want to take a peak at the 'reposTools' package

RE: [Rd] RE: [R] SAS or R software

2004-12-20 Thread Jeff Gentry
> Yes, par(family="mono") would work, except that I get R segfaults from this > sequence: > > plot.new() > > par(family="mono") > > par(cex=8) > > strheight("foo") > Process R segmentation fault (core dumped) at Mon Dec 20 16:07:56 2004 > on R 2.0.1 (2004-11-15), Red Hat Enterprise Linux AS release

Re: [Rd] is there String concating function in R?

2005-01-10 Thread Jeff Gentry
> I prob. missed it but I would like to make string > concating. Is there any string concating function in > R? > A <- "abc"; > B <- ".jpeg" > > C <- c(A,B); > it does not do abc.jpeg in string format..? ?paste __ R-devel@stat.math.ethz.ch mailing list

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

2005-02-08 Thread Jeff Gentry
On Wed, 9 Feb 2005, Achim Zeileis wrote: > A *library* is a directory in which you can find R *packages* (just as > in real life you can find books in a library) and with > library("foo", lib.loc = "/path/to/bar") > you want to get the package (book) "foo" from the library "bar" located > at "/p

RE: [Rd] Overloading methods in R

2005-04-21 Thread Jeff Gentry
On Thu, 21 Apr 2005, Ali - wrote: > >However, in S3 you can create a "generic" generic function by not > >specifying > >arguments but only '...' - this way any methods can take any arguments (and > >you don't force your argument names onto other developer's). > So why did they go a step backward

RE: [Rd] Overloading methods in R

2005-04-21 Thread Jeff Gentry
On Thu, 21 Apr 2005, Ali - wrote: > I guess the context says you cannot have something like this in S4: > >setGeneric("testFun", function(...) > + standardGeneric("testFun")) But what is wrong with: setGeneric("testFun", function(object, ...)) Keeping in mind that 'object' is the actual instant

RE: [Rd] Overloading methods in R

2005-04-21 Thread Jeff Gentry
On Thu, 21 Apr 2005, Henrik Bengtsson wrote: > > But what is wrong with: > > setGeneric("testFun", function(object, ...)) > Naming conflicts, may be the problem. You have that generic in your package, > but I might, without know about yours, and I write > setGeneric("testFun", function(x, ...))