Re: [Rd] data() misbehaving inside a function

2003-10-16 Thread Peter Dalgaard
("airquality"). Some functions (library(), require(), demo()) have a character.only argument to prevent it, and I suppose we should consider putting it on help() and data() as well. Meanwhile, my preferred device is foo <- function(pkg) eval(substitute(data(package))) -p

Re: [Rd] data() misbehaving inside a function

2003-10-16 Thread Peter Dalgaard
Peter Dalgaard <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > foo <- function(pkg) eval(substitute(data(package))) ^^^ Doh. "pkg", of course. -p -- O__ Peter Dalgaard Blegdamsvej 3 c/ /'_ --- Dept. of Bi

Re: [Rd] data() misbehaving inside a function

2003-10-17 Thread Peter Dalgaard
) has always worked? > > I would think that these users either click themselves to happiness, or > use ? because it is shorter. Ummm, ?help is another non-standard eval. "?" is an operator, operators work on objects not (normally) their names -- O__ Peter Dalgaa

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

2003-10-20 Thread Peter Dalgaard
ctually 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 there is no X display.) -- O__ Peter Dalgaard Blegdamsvej 3 c/ /'_ --- Dept. of Biostatistics

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

2003-10-21 Thread Peter Dalgaard
lib, package) : .onLoad failed I.e. the seeming pass of make check is really just reflecting the fact that I got the same catastrophic failure as last time I ran it... Is there a better way? -- O__ Peter Dalgaard Blegdamsvej 3

Re: [Rd] Subsetted 1-D arrays (PR#4110)

2003-10-21 Thread Peter Dalgaard
terms have dimensions, the dimensions must match. It is kind of tempting though. -- O__ Peter Dalgaard Blegdamsvej 3 c/ /'_ --- Dept. of Biostatistics 2200 Cph. N (*) \(*) -- University of Copenhagen Denmark Ph: (+

Re: [Rd] Core dump when calling tclvalue (PR#4724)

2003-10-22 Thread Peter Dalgaard
o anything useful either though. The wish equivalent is % array set x "" % puts $x can't read "x": variable is array so it would seem that we're just not failing gracefully. -- O__ Peter Dalgaard Blegdamsvej 3 c/ /'_ --- Dept. of Biostat

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

2003-10-23 Thread Peter Dalgaard
o 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 only to cause visible damage on Windows, but perhaps invisible damage elsewhere

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

2003-10-23 Thread Peter Dalgaard
example can be reproduced on Windows but not on > Linux (and I cannot), odds are in favor of the problem being Windows > specific. No, odds are in favor of the *symptom* being Windows-specific. See above... Problem is, we need a Windows guru to debug in that case. -p -- O__ -

Re: [Rd] RAqua and AquaTclTk

2003-10-30 Thread Peter Dalgaard
vent handler for it. Can this be done? Again, I have zero documentation on how Aqua works and no machine where it runs, so I could be talking complete rubbish here... -p -- O__ Peter Dalgaard Blegdamsvej 3 c/ /'_ --- Dept. of Biostatistics 2200 Cph. N (*) \(

Re: [Rd] RAqua and AquaTclTk

2003-10-31 Thread Peter Dalgaard
criptors and then R_runHandlers(R_InputHandlers, readMask). If aqua events also need to be checked and handled then you need to weave that into the above routines, or set up a separate event source for it. -- O__ Peter Dalgaard Blegdamsvej 3 c/ /'_ --- De

[Rd] R-1.8.1 scheduled for November 21

2003-11-07 Thread Peter Dalgaard
done as soon as possible, and test their packages carefully against the alpha/beta releases. -- O__ Peter Dalgaard Blegdamsvej 3 c/ /'_ --- Dept. of Biostatistics 2200 Cph. N (*) \(*) -- University of Copenhagen Denmark Ph: (+45) 35327918 ~~

[Rd] REMINDER R-1.8.1 beta

2003-11-14 Thread Peter Dalgaard
R-1.8.1 has now reached the beta stage with one week left before release. This just to remind you that this would be a good time to give the new version a spin and see whether your favourite bugs have been cleared out. -p -- O__ Peter Dalgaard Blegdamsvej 3 c

Re: [Rd] REMINDER R-1.8.1 beta

2003-11-14 Thread Peter Dalgaard
Peter Dalgaard <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > R-1.8.1 has now reached the beta stage with one week left before > release. This just to remind you that this would be a good time to > give the new version a spin and see whether your favourite bugs have > been cleared out. As Ga

Re: [Rd] Nov 17 beta

2003-11-17 Thread Peter Dalgaard
aving directory `/e7/pd/r-patched/BUILD/R-1.8.1/src/library/Recommended' mv: writing `/home/ftp/pub/CRAN/src/base/R-1.8.1beta_2003-11-17.tar.gz': No space left on device I removed the alpha versions to get a little more space, so it should be there now. Does sound a bit ominous that w

Re: [Rd] address for bug reports? (PR#5171)

2003-11-18 Thread Peter Dalgaard
independent of the location of the repository. However: This is not a bug in R, and no reason to add to the already considerable burden of manually moving stuff from "incoming" to "trashcan" (twice)! (Doug: the aliases on Franz do look a bit dodgy though.) -- O__ Pet

Re: [Rd] make check reg-tests-3

2003-11-23 Thread Peter Dalgaard
e+00 3.6e-01 > +87 1.4e-01 1.6e+00_* 0.0e+00 2.5e-01 > +89 6.4e-01 2.68000e+00_* 3.0e-02 5.7e-01_* > +93 -6.4e-01 2.68000e+00_* 3.0e-02 5.7e-01_* > > ## only last two cols in row 57 should be influential > > > > Vers

Re: [Rd] make check reg-tests-3

2003-11-23 Thread Peter Dalgaard
Peter Kleiweg <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > # aldus Peter Dalgaard : > > > Peter Kleiweg <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > > > Should I submit this as a bug report? > > > > Maybe, but this is not happening on stock RedHat 8.0 and Debian >

Re: [Rd] R postscript generation error (lines versus points) (PR#5285)

2003-11-24 Thread Peter Dalgaard
; type="n") > > lines(dtwoth,dcount) > points(dtwoth,dcount) [At the current rate, "1.80" would be about 36 years into the future. Latest version is 1.8.1.] I can't reproduce this with 1.8.0 on RedHat 8.0. Are you sure it isn't your Postscript view

Re: [Rd] Question about Unix file paths

2003-11-24 Thread Peter Dalgaard
here any examples where an extra slash causes trouble? Also, and of course, if the first part is empty, foo and /foo are very different. There could be a problem with leading //, or is that Windows only? -- O__ Peter Dalgaard Blegdamsvej 3 c/ /'_ --- Dept. of Bio

Re: [Rd] Question about Unix file paths

2003-11-25 Thread Peter Dalgaard
e becomes particularly important when using the --delete option. -- O__ Peter Dalgaard Blegdamsvej 3 c/ /'_ --- Dept. of Biostatistics 2200 Cph. N (*) \(*) -- University of Copenhagen Denmark Ph: (+45) 35327918 ~~ - ([

Re: [Rd] O2 optimization produces wrong code (PR#5315)

2003-11-25 Thread Peter Dalgaard
er problem or a problem with badly written code in akima?? -- O__ Peter Dalgaard Blegdamsvej 3 c/ /'_ --- Dept. of Biostatistics 2200 Cph. N (*) \(*) -- University of Copenhagen Denmark Ph: (+45) 35327918 ~

Re: [Rd] R as OS X Framework

2003-11-30 Thread Peter Dalgaard
ing the full path name of the current executable is a well-known impossible under Unix (there's no enforced relation between the executable and what goes in argv[0]). Doesn't keep applications from trying anyway, and mostly succeeding. E.g. Tcl has Tcl_FindExecutable. -- O__ Pete

Re: [Rd] documentation bugs (cvs) (PR#5543)

2003-12-06 Thread Peter Dalgaard
ts are unless \code{collapse} is non-NULL, in >which case it is a single empty string. > } > > I've just added a "," between 'are' and 'unless' -- Do you > understand it now? "Thus" should be "This" too, I suppose? --

[Rd] matrix coercion, logical -> character

2003-12-08 Thread Peter Dalgaard
] "logical" $b [1] "logical" > mode(as.matrix(l)) [1] "character" -- O__ Peter Dalgaard Blegdamsvej 3 c/ /'_ --- Dept. of Biostatistics 2200 Cph. N (*) \(*) -- University of Copenhagen Denmark Ph: (+45) 3532791

Re: [Rd] matrix coercion, logical -> character

2003-12-08 Thread Peter Dalgaard
Prof Brian Ripley <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > On 8 Dec 2003, Peter Dalgaard wrote: > > > > > Anyone know whether this is intentional, and by which rationale? > > (R-devel on RedHat, but hardly new) > > It is documented: > > 'as.matrix

Re: [Rd] documentation fixes (cvs) (PR#5632)

2003-12-09 Thread Peter Dalgaard
comment in > that case. "Shingle" is correct. These are the overlapping bars drawn along the sides of the coplot. -- O__ Peter Dalgaard Blegdamsvej 3 c/ /'_ --- Dept. of Biostatistics 2200 Cph. N (*) \(*) -- University of Copenhagen

Re: [Rd] pdfs for printed edition of R reference manual

2003-12-09 Thread Peter Dalgaard
talized, and lowercase group together? They tend to mean similar things. BTW, we seem to have an alias bug with bandwidth: > ?bandwidth Error in help("bandwidth") : No documentation for 'bandwidth' in... but ?bw.nrd gives a page called "bandwidth". --

Re: [Rd] Reorganization of packages in the R distribution

2003-12-13 Thread Peter Dalgaard
ry points which are not in the > API). Just to add, re. development: The intention is 1.9.x == pre-2.0.0, so the timing of a major restructuring is precisely right if we want as solid a 2.0 series as possible. -- O__ Peter Dalgaard Blegdamsvej 3 c/ /'_ --- De

Re: [Rd] Bug repository problem (PR#6168)

2003-12-28 Thread Peter Dalgaard
[EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: > Full_Name: Peter Dalgaard > Version: -irrelevant- > OS: -Linux/Mozilla 1.4- > Submission from: (NULL) (80.199.16.96) > > > It has been reported that after sending a report and returning to the main page, > refreshing the main page (obviously

Re: [Rd] Bug repository problem (PR#6168)

2003-12-28 Thread Peter Dalgaard
Peter Kleiweg <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > # aldus Peter Dalgaard : > > > > > OK, I see it. Mozilla does give a warning about "the page contains a > > POSTDATA command, if you resend ... any action will be repeated..." > > though. Is thi

Re: [Rd] Testing change to web interface (PR#6299)

2004-01-02 Thread Peter Dalgaard
gt; their browser. Ok, seems to have worked, give or take a couple of formatting errors. -- O__ Peter Dalgaard Blegdamsvej 3 c/ /'_ --- Dept. of Biostatistics 2200 Cph. N (*) \(*) -- University of Copenhagen Denmark Ph: (+45) 35327918 ~~ - ([EM

[Rd] Spam filter on r-bugs

2004-01-08 Thread Peter Dalgaard
cular, check that you are not sending HTML contents. -- O__ Peter Dalgaard Blegdamsvej 3 c/ /'_ --- Dept. of Biostatistics 2200 Cph. N (*) \(*) -- University of Copenhagen Denmark Ph: (+45) 35327918 ~~ - ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) FAX: (+45

Re: [Rd] return() undocumented (PR#6424)

2004-01-10 Thread Peter Dalgaard
#x27; is returned. If it is a single expression, the value of the evaluated expression is returned. If the end of a function is reached without calling 'return', the value of the last evaluated expression is returned. -- O__ Peter Dalgaard Bleg

Re: [Rd] automatic "paste" filter to paste only the commands from a transcript on the clipboard

2004-01-14 Thread Peter Dalgaard
lean-transcript" or thereabouts. Much loved by those who know it is there. A version that works on the contents of a Tk text widget might not be a half bad idea to have. -p -- O__ Peter Dalgaard Blegdamsvej 3 c/ /'_ --- Dept. of Bio

Re: [Rd] prcomp scale error (PR#6433)

2004-01-15 Thread Peter Dalgaard
on my PCA theory, but I fail to see why you should expect to have any relation between prcomp(..., scale=T) and an SVD of the covariance matrix. What you do have is > sum(((scale(a, scale=T) %*% svd(cor(a))$u)[,1] - (prcomp(a, scale = + T)$x)[,1])^2) [1] 6.498858e-30 -- O__ Pete

Re: [Rd] Wish list

2004-01-18 Thread Peter Dalgaard
rget to close bugs as they are fixed and it often takes a while before someone gets around to sorting the incoming directory. This work is not going away with a more advanced system, and getting the - hmmm - "varied" group of package maintainers to participate sounds like a can of worms to

Re: [Rd] cor( x, y , method = "spearman" ) incorrect if any( is.na(c( x, y (PR#6448)

2004-01-20 Thread Peter Dalgaard
or r-devel, by using na.last="keep" in the apply call, which is effectively the same fix. Looks like it was never filed in r-bugs. -- O__ Peter Dalgaard Blegdamsvej 3 c/ /'_ --- Dept. of Biostatistics 2200 Cph. N (*) \(*) -- University of Copenhagen

Re: [Rd] Please make lowess() generic

2004-01-21 Thread Peter Dalgaard
eneric, but it does have a formula interface > and it was recommended over lowess() by the authors of both. (loess() > is not generic for the reasons I sketch below.) Not to mention that "lowess" is a speling misteak! http://www.museum.state.il.us/exhibits/larson/loess.html

Re: [Rd] Another wishlist for R

2004-01-21 Thread Peter Dalgaard
candidates for the `utils' (or perhaps `tools') packages. Utils, I'd say. That one that is loaded by default in an interactive session, so that would be the place for "handy functions" like this. If you have to say library(tools) first, they won't be handy enough.

Re: [Rd] Another wishlist for R

2004-01-26 Thread Peter Dalgaard
rint plot.default). Either setup so that cat() will be used to print it (add class + print method) or return noquote() The latter will give this effect: > noquote("function (x, y = NULL, type = \"p\", xlim = NULL, ylim = NULL, ") [1]

Re: [Rd] request for comments --- package "distr" --- S4 Classes for Distributions

2004-02-02 Thread Peter Dalgaard
rexamples are pathological, the sort of thing you challenge 2nd year math/stat students to think up, but I can't say that I can remember what they'd look like. -- O__ Peter Dalgaard Blegdamsvej 3 c/ /'_ --- Dept. of Biostatistics 2200 Cph. N (*)

Re: [Rd] request for comments --- package "distr" --- S4 Classes for Distributions

2004-02-03 Thread Peter Dalgaard
, let F(0) = 0, F(1) = 1, F(x)=.5 on the middle third, and define the outer thirds recursively.) -- O__ Peter Dalgaard Blegdamsvej 3 c/ /'_ --- Dept. of Biostatistics 2200 Cph. N (*) \(*) -- University of Copenhagen Denmark Ph: (+45) 353

Re: [Rd] request for comments --- package "distr" --- S4 Classes for Distributions

2004-02-03 Thread Peter Dalgaard
ibutions of Y given X or vice versa, which of course jump discontinuously from 0 to 1. -- O__ Peter Dalgaard Blegdamsvej 3 c/ /'_ --- Dept. of Biostatistics 2200 Cph. N (*) \(*) -- University of Copenhagen Denmark Ph: (+45) 35327918 ~~ - ([EMAI

Re: [Rd] Scoping bug in ftable() (PR#6541)

2004-02-04 Thread Peter Dalgaard
ormal arguments is that you need eval.parent somewhere since the names or expressions passed to a function usually make better sense to the parent than they do to the current function. -- O__ Peter Dalgaard Blegdamsvej 3 c/ /'_ --- Dept. of Biostatistics 2200 Cph

Re: [Rd] apply on logical data frame together with all (PR#6560)

2004-02-09 Thread Peter Dalgaard
e annoyed by it Meanwhile, I believe that do.call("cbind",df) is a better workaround. -- O__ Peter Dalgaard Blegdamsvej 3 c/ /'_ --- Dept. of Biostatistics 2200 Cph. N (*) \(*) -- University of Copenhagen Denmark Ph: (+45) 35327918 ~~

Re: [Rd] Fixed width graphics font?

2004-02-13 Thread Peter Dalgaard
gh -- basically just add a Courier font at font positions 6, and maybe continue with bold and oblique variants. However, I wouldn't know whether any of what Paul has been up to involves a more radical solution to font handling in general. -- O__ Peter Dalgaard

Re: [Rd] Building r-devel on Panther

2004-02-13 Thread Peter Dalgaard
is in order: Can you do /Library/Frameworks/R.framework/Resources/bin/R RHOME ? and does that directory have library/base looking like a base package? Are permissions etc. alright? I'm not a Mac person, but can you do something like "strace" on the R binary and see wha

Re: [Rd] build problems on Fedora Core 1

2004-02-15 Thread Peter Dalgaard
idea what could be going on? Not really, but a build from the current CVS on SuSE9 seems to work fine... -- O__ Peter Dalgaard Blegdamsvej 3 c/ /'_ --- Dept. of Biostatistics 2200 Cph. N (*) \(*) -- University of Copenhagen Denmark Ph: (+45)

Re: [Rd] error messages because of integer overflow

2004-02-19 Thread Peter Dalgaard
We should probably take notice that these integer calculations effectively limit the size of a vector to 2G-elements (2^31-1 == 2147483647), i.e. 16GB for numeric() and 8GB for integer(). That's hardly going to bite many people just now, but within a few years it might. -- O__ Pete

Re: [Rd] Segmentation fault with fix() (PR#6605)

2004-02-24 Thread Peter Dalgaard
will do it.) BTW, the messed-up screen can be worked around by minimizing and unminimizing the window. -- O__ ---- Peter Dalgaard Blegdamsvej 3 c/ /'_ --- Dept. of Biostatistics 2200 Cph. N (*) \(*) -- University of Copenhagen Denmark Ph: (+45) 3532791

Re: [Rd] Script editor for Windows GUI

2004-02-25 Thread Peter Dalgaard
ith a text editing widget which can be trivially used for this kind of purpose (the same is likely true for other GUI frameworks like GTk). -- O__ Peter Dalgaard Blegdamsvej 3 c/ /'_ --- Dept. of Biostatistics 2200 Cph. N (*) \(*) -- University of Cope

Re: [Rd] ATLAS threaded 64 bit (Opteron) - need *.so?

2004-02-26 Thread Peter Dalgaard
terribly hard. There are just two basic tricks: - add -fPIC all over the place during configure. - after building you'll get a bunch of .a files. These can be converted to .so using ld -shared -o libfoo.so --whole-archive libfoo.a One thing I haven't gotten around to yet is the AT

Re: [Rd] ATLAS threaded 64 bit (Opteron) - need *.so?

2004-02-26 Thread Peter Dalgaard
he benchmarking. (and the Goto items have license issues, which get in the way for binary distributions.) -- O__ Peter Dalgaard Blegdamsvej 3 c/ /'_ --- Dept. of Biostatistics 2200 Cph. N (*) \(*) -- University of Copenhagen Denmark Ph: (+45) 35327918 ~~

Re: [Rd] Line splitting in system() (PR#6624)

2004-02-28 Thread Peter Dalgaard
oo. Thanks for the fix, will apply in due course. Notice that the same fix handles the case where the final line is not \n-terminated: > nchar(x2) [1] 8094 8094 8094 8094 8094 8094 8094 8094 8094 8094 8094 8094 2859 > sum(nchar(x2)) [1] 99987 > length(nchar(x2)) [1] 13 I.e.

[Rd] Schedule for R 1.9.0

2004-02-29 Thread Peter Dalgaard
eeze. Only critical and/or trivial bugs fixed from this time onwards. Configure/make should only be touched in emergencies. Apr 4: Release. -- O__ ---- Peter Dalgaard Blegdamsvej 3 c/ /'_ --- Dept. of Biostatistics 2200 Cph. N (*) \(*) -- Universit

Re: [Rd] Schedule for R 1.9.0

2004-02-29 Thread Peter Dalgaard
t is going to be in R-1.9.0.tgz. In particular several packages depend on the methods package and might be sensitive to changes therein. Anyways, it means: Install the alpha/beta releases and check your packages for breakage. -- O__ Peter Dalgaard Blegdamsvej 3 c/ /'

Re: [Rd] Some timings for 64 bit Opteron (ATLAS, GOTO, std)

2004-03-02 Thread Peter Dalgaard
have memory slots for both CPUs. If CPU2 wants to talk to CPU1's memory it has to ask CPU1 for it, with the obvious potential for a performance hit. I'll see if I can get around to redoing my Opteron builds and trying Martin's benchmarks in the next couple of days. -p -

Re: [Rd] cat() in long-running functions only shows up on window resize (PR#6634)

2004-03-02 Thread Peter Dalgaard
has finished or the window is resized. > this is very frustrating for development purposes. Well, use the appropriate menu entry and turn buffered output off then -- O__ Peter Dalgaard Blegdamsvej 3 c/ /'_ --- Dept. of Biostatistics 2200 Cph. N

Re: [Rd] Some timings for 64 bit Opteron (ATLAS, GOTO, std)

2004-03-02 Thread Peter Dalgaard
e available at 200USD. Hmmm.) -- O__ Peter Dalgaard Blegdamsvej 3 c/ /'_ --- Dept. of Biostatistics 2200 Cph. N (*) \(*) -- University of Copenhagen Denmark Ph: (+45) 35327918 ~~ - ([EMAIL PROTECTED])

Re: [Rd] cor(..., method="spearman") or cor(..., method="kendall") (PR#6641)

2004-03-03 Thread Peter Dalgaard
lation is calculated.) It is fixed in the patched R version and also in the development sources (soon to be 1.9.0). -- O__ Peter Dalgaard Blegdamsvej 3 c/ /'_ --- Dept. of Biostatistics 2200 Cph. N (*) \(*) -- University of Copenhagen Denmark Ph: (+

Re: [Rd] Inconsistency with component names

2004-03-04 Thread Peter Dalgaard
e we're using them to represent missing arguments in some cases) as you'll see by typing `` or as.symbol(""). Same thing with "" <- 1234 and ""(x). However, x$"" is allowed since the parser there actually does the reverse process and conv

Re: [Rd] Some timings for 64 bit Opteron (ATLAS, GOTO, std)

2004-03-06 Thread Peter Dalgaard
00 0.00 > real3m58.639s user3m57.857s sys 0m0.455s > set.seed(1234);m<-matrix(rnorm(9e6),3e3);system.time(m%*%m) [1] 0.34 0.01 16.49 0.00 0.00 > real0m25.253s user0m38.809s sys 0m0.535s > set.seed(1234);m<-matrix(rnorm(9e6),3e3);system.time(m%*%m) [1]

Re: [Rd] as.matrix(1:10,nrow=1) not work (PR#6650)

2004-03-06 Thread Peter Dalgaard
[EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: > Full_Name: Xiong Guanglei > Version: 1.8.1 > OS: Linux > Submission from: (NULL) (202.38.103.50) > > > > as.matrix(1:10,nrow=1) > Error in as.matrix(1:10, nrow = 1) : unused argument(s) (nrow ...) And? Try having a look at help(as.matr

[Rd] Alpha releases of 1.9.0 available

2004-03-07 Thread Peter Dalgaard
to the rest of CRAN, mirrors may have the preceding version due to propagation delay, so do check against the US site before downloading from a mirror. -- O__ Peter Dalgaard Blegdamsvej 3 c/ /'_ --- Dept. of Biostatistics 2200 Cph. N (*) \(*) -- Universi

Re: [Rd] Bug in points.formula (PR#6652)

2004-03-08 Thread Peter Dalgaard
(at least it is to the point), and I suggest we use it for now rather than try to wrestle the entire beast (umm, can of worms...). If we want to keep some clarity, we can keep what we have and special-case is.null(l). -- O__ Peter Dalgaard Blegdamsvej 3 c/ /'_ --- Dep

Re: [Rd] Re: [R] No traceback available when using try(...) (PR#6667)

2004-03-12 Thread Peter Dalgaard
opyright 2004, The R Foundation for Statistical Computing Version 1.9.0 alpha (2004-03-08), ISBN 3-900051-00-3 did we accidentally revert something or what's up? -- O__ Peter Dalgaard Blegdamsvej 3 c/ /'_ --- Dept. o

Re: [Rd] R-devel has zlib updated to 1.2.1

2004-03-15 Thread Peter Dalgaard
ue to mailing list delay, I get to learn about it two hours later at 12:24 CET *while* the alpha snapshot script is running in Wisconsin. Not much to do except wait for it to complete and see what happens, I think. Argh. -p -- O__ Peter Dalgaard Blegdamsvej 3 c/ /&#

Re: [Rd] Bug in tapply with factors containing NAs (PR#6672)

2004-03-15 Thread Peter Dalgaard
is.null(names(x))) return(.Internal(split(x, f))) lf <- levels(f) y <- vector("list", length(lf)) names(y) <- lf for (k in lf) y[[k]] <- x[f == k] y Factors have a class attribute, so you don't use the internal code in that case and >

Re: [Rd] make check failed for R-1.9.0alpha (2004-03-16) when link against Goto's BLAS

2004-03-16 Thread Peter Dalgaard
.so.6 => /lib64/libc.so.6 (0x002a95f26000) /lib64/ld-linux-x86-64.so.2 => /lib64/ld-linux-x86-64.so.2 (0x002a95556000) (on SuSE 9) The only obvious difference is that I'm using the threaded version of the BLAS. It is of course possible that some last-digit di

Re: [Rd] termplot has problems with a single term (fix included) (PR#6679)

2004-03-18 Thread Peter Dalgaard
<3,] y<-coxph(Surv(time,status) ~ sex + ns(thickness,df=4),data=men) z<-coxph(Surv(time,status) ~ ns(thickness,df=4),data=men) termplot(y) #OK termplot(z) # Prints a ? prompt (from parse(text=nmt) w/nmt==NULL) termplot(y,terms=2) # Same This can still be seen with the current d

Re: [Rd] "==" gives incorrect answers! (PR#6691)

2004-03-24 Thread Peter Dalgaard
exact representation of decimal numbers as floating point numbers, and why equality of such numbers cannot be trusted! What you're seeing is the moral equivalent of 1/3 + 1/6 = 0.333 + 0.666 = 0.999 != 1 -- O__ Peter Dalgaard Blegdamsvej 3 c/ /'_ --- Dept. of Bio

[Rd] Delay of 1.9.0

2004-03-25 Thread Peter Dalgaard
not likely that we have things ready before I fly away Saturday morning. In consequence, it is not possible to stick with our planned release on April 4th. I expect a delay of about a week, but we haven't discussed it in R-core yet and Easter is kicking in. -- O__ Peter Dal

Re: [Rd] lookup.xport in foreign ignoring some datasets (PR#6701)

2004-03-26 Thread Peter Dalgaard
; run; > ... > data vit; set x.vital(obs = 0); run; > data vo; set x.volume(obs = 0); run; > proc copy in = work out = y; run; -- O__ Peter Dalgaard Blegdamsvej 3 c/ /'_ --- Dept. of Biostatistics 2200 Cph. N (*) \(*) -- University of Copenhagen

Re: [Rd] R-bugs is for BUGS (was Help Documentation (PR#6717))

2004-03-30 Thread Peter Dalgaard
eport. But not just that: some people will do a wide reply to the version without the PR#, and a copy of their response will get sent to r-bugs, where, since it has no PR#, it will be treated as a new report, but another copy without PR# is already sent to r-devel, where people will reply,

Re: [Rd] beta_latest links

2004-04-02 Thread Peter Dalgaard
ta_2004-04-02.tar.gz I suspect that wants to be a relative link. Rsync experts? -pd -- O__ Peter Dalgaard Blegdamsvej 3 c/ /'_ --- Dept. of Biostatistics 2200 Cph. N (*) \(*) -- University of Copenhagen Denmark Ph: (+45) 35327918 ~~

Re: [Rd] beta_latest links

2004-04-02 Thread Peter Dalgaard
uld you check whether it rsync's better with the new link? -- O__ Peter Dalgaard Blegdamsvej 3 c/ /'_ --- Dept. of Biostatistics 2200 Cph. N (*) \(*) -- University of Copenhagen Denmark Ph: (+45) 35327918 ~~ - ([EMAIL PROTECTED

Re: [Rd] fligner.test (ctest) (PR#6739)

2004-04-05 Thread Peter Dalgaard
same order as g is after that operation, so the two lines that come immediately after are incoherent: a <- qnorm((1 + rank(abs(x))/(n + 1))/2) STATISTIC <- sum(tapply(a, g, "sum")^2/tapply(a, g, "length")) I think the unlist construction wants to be replaced with

Re: [Rd] save image as postscript side-effect (PR#6742)

2004-04-05 Thread Peter Dalgaard
. (He probably can't since this kind of problem tends to depend on the individual system.) I've seen this a long time ago and I'm fairly sure the reason is a Windows DLL bug rather than an R one. You might want to check the archives. -p -- O__ Peter Dalgaar

Re: [Rd] R-1.9.0 beta: vignettes for package grid

2004-04-09 Thread Peter Dalgaard
; See help("Deprecated") > 3: 'grid.convertHeight' is deprecated. > Use 'convertHeight' instead. > See help("Deprecated") > Error: chunk 12 This looks familiar... Are you sure that you're not picking up an old version of something (lattice, sa

Re: [Rd] R-1.9.0 beta: vignettes for package grid

2004-04-09 Thread Peter Dalgaard
utdated version in R_LIBS > was found. > > Therefore, it seems to be a problem with building the beta snapshot. Odd... Will check. -p -- O__ Peter Dalgaard Blegdamsvej 3 c/ /'_ --- Dept. of Biostatistics 2200 Cph. N (*) \(*) -- University

Re: [Rd] R-1.9.0 beta: vignettes for package grid

2004-04-09 Thread Peter Dalgaard
Peter Dalgaard <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Uwe Ligges <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > Looking closer, there is lattice_0.9-09.tar.gz and > > lattice_0.9-10.tar.gz included in the R-1.9.0beta_latest.tar.gz, but > > the link lattice.tgz is missi

Re: [Rd] Incorrect handling of NA's in cor() (PR#6750)

2004-04-09 Thread Peter Dalgaard
x27;t think we should change things at this point, except perhaps add a note to the help page. -- O__ Peter Dalgaard Blegdamsvej 3 c/ /'_ --- Dept. of Biostatistics 2200 Cph. N (*) \(*) -- University of Copenhagen Den

Re: [Rd] shared mem advice

2004-04-13 Thread Peter Dalgaard
; I'd recommend looking at external pointer objects. If the developer > webpage were working, that would be the place to look. I'm not sure where > else there is information. http://www.stat.uiowa.edu/~luke/R is a good guess. Apart from that, there's some relatively s

Re: [Rd] pgeom accuracy (PR#6792)

2004-04-19 Thread Peter Dalgaard
sion exactly, including the date (of the snapshot, not the submission!) and whether it is of R-devel or R-patched. -- O__ Peter Dalgaard Blegdamsvej 3 c/ /'_ --- Dept. of Biostatistics 2200 Cph. N (*) \(*) -- University of Copenhagen Denmark P

Re: [Rd] pgeom accuracy (PR#6792)

2004-04-19 Thread Peter Dalgaard
the above command has an official name I'll > be happy to use that in future reports.) > > Morten The sources should be time-stamped. Take a look at ?version ?bug.report -- O__ Peter Dalgaard Blegdamsvej 3 c/ /'_ --- Dept. of Biostatistics 2200 Cph.

Re: [Rd] R.spec (PR#6797)

2004-04-20 Thread Peter Dalgaard
flawlessly on my RH8 laptop... -- O__ Peter Dalgaard Blegdamsvej 3 c/ /'_ --- Dept. of Biostatistics 2200 Cph. N (*) \(*) -- University of Copenhagen Denmark Ph: (+45) 35327918 ~~ - ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) FAX: (+45) 35327907 __

Re: [Rd] Re: [R] Unexpected behaviour of identical (PR#6799)

2004-04-20 Thread Peter Dalgaard
uot; > > > attributes(af[1:2, drop=FALSE]) > $class > [1] "factor" > > $levels > [1] "A" "B" > > and one needs to swap the orders. I am about to commit the change. I got to about the same spot and started thinking about methods for pu

Re: [Rd] Fatal Error: Invalid HOMEDRIVE (PR#6802)

2004-04-20 Thread Peter Dalgaard
me how to fix this? This is not (likely) a bug in R, so why are you submitting to R-bugs? ...within minutes of sending to R-help, to boot. -- O__ Peter Dalgaard Blegdamsvej 3 c/ /'_ --- Dept. of Biostatistics 2200 Cph. N (*) \(*) -- Univers

Re: [Rd] Re: [R] Error message during debug (PR#6804)

2004-04-20 Thread Peter Dalgaard
functions that have bodies enclosed in braces. This is a bug and will be fixed soon. (and has probably said so for a very long time) I hadn't seen the segfault from debugging a constant before, but I recently discovered that you *can* (sort of) debug a single-expression fu

Re: [Rd] optim-Bug (PR#6720)

2004-04-20 Thread Peter Dalgaard
down to the use of R_alloc in the vect() function (line 40, optim.c). Replacing with S_alloc (which zeros memory) removes the issue for me on this machine and on the Opteron. Could you please verify on other platforms? And if anyone actually understands the code could you verify that it makes sense to require

Re: [Rd] optim-Bug (PR#6720)

2004-04-21 Thread Peter Dalgaard
Prof Brian Ripley <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > On 21 Apr 2004, Peter Dalgaard wrote: > ... > > I have this down to the use of R_alloc in the vect() function (line > > 40, optim.c). Replacing with S_alloc (which zeros memory) removes the > > issue for me on this mac

Re: [Rd] segfault in approx() (PR#6809)

2004-04-21 Thread Peter Dalgaard
eded on entrance to approx1. I suppose that if (!n) return NaN; should do the trick. -- O__ Peter Dalgaard Blegdamsvej 3 c/ /'_ --- Dept. of Biostatistics 2200 Cph. N (*) \(*) -- University of Copenhagen Denmark Ph: (+45) 35327918 ~~ - ([EMAIL

Re: [Rd] Yahoo bug in tseries::get.hist.quote and its::priceIts

2004-04-24 Thread Peter Dalgaard
read.csv(textConnection(v[-grep("^ str(x) `data.frame': 1586 obs. of 7 variables: $ Date : Factor w/ 1586 levels "1-Apr-02","1-Ap..",..: 786 732 681 629 524 368 315 263 210 157 ... $ Open : num 91.0 90.5 91.2 92.0 91.9 ... $ High : num 91.6 91

Re: [Rd] Gmane for list?

2004-05-10 Thread Peter Dalgaard
for "r-devel HOMEDRIVE". And have a look at http://tolstoy.newcastle.edu.au/~rking/R/about.html -- O__ Peter Dalgaard Blegdamsvej 3 c/ /'_ --- Dept. of Biostatistics 2200 Cph. N (*) \(*) -- University of Copenhagen Denmark Ph: (

Re: [Rd] package fdim slopeopt error (PR#6819)

2004-04-25 Thread Peter Dalgaard
haven't had much input from package maintainers about the status of these reports, and that is why we tend to prefer that users contact maintainers directly. Perhaps with a better bug management system -- O__ Peter Dalgaard Blegdamsvej 3 c/ /'_ --- Dept. of Biostat

Re: (PR#6830) Re: [Rd] 'R CMD build' fails when there are spaces in the path (PR#6830)

2004-04-28 Thread Peter Dalgaard
t; bla bla BTW, I had the displeasure of having to use the ash command line recently (teaching compiling and package building on a system where the control freaks^W^Wsystem administrators had disabled CMD.EXE). Is there a better way? -- O__ Peter Dalgaard Blegdamsvej

Re: [Rd] Generating Lognormal Random variables (PR#6843)

2004-05-01 Thread Peter Dalgaard
log = 1) Eh? > all(rlnorm(100, meanlog = 0.6931472, sdlog = 1) >= 0) [1] TRUE Try reproducing with a fixed random seed so that others have a chance to check. -- O__ Peter Dalgaard Blegdamsvej 3 c/ /'_ --- Dept. of Biostatistics 2200 Cph. N (*) \(*)

Re: [Rd] Compilation errors (PR#6855)

2004-05-04 Thread Peter Dalgaard
[EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: > Cannot compile R with X11. Compiler is GCC 3.3.3. X11 is XFree86 4.4.0. C > library is GLIBC 2.3.2. Yes we've heard about that issue a few times before. Perturbation of headers in XFree86 4.4. Fixed in R-patched, I believe. -- O__ Pet

Re: [Rd] mle

2004-05-06 Thread Peter Dalgaard
nd nls profilers (by Bill Venables and Doug Bates, I believe) and Brian Ripley did quite a bit of stabilizing of the code between the 1.8.x and 1.9.0 releases. I'll be bogged down for at least another month, but I might be able to get back to this some time in June. -- O__ Peter D

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