[Rd] Re: library.dynam() & .dynLibs() do not work as documented (PR#7305)

2004-10-22 Thread duncan
thods > DLL name: methods > Filename: /usr/local/lib/R/library/methods/libs/methods.so > Dynamic lookup: TRUE >=20 > $R_X11 > DLL name: R_X11 > Filename: /usr/local/lib/R/modules/R_X11.so > Dynamic lookup: TRUE >=20 > [[5]] > [1] "MASS" >=20 > ! >=20 >

Re: [Rd] stuck tcltk scrollbars under Windows XP

2003-06-06 Thread Duncan Murdoch
r occurred in my testing under Windows 2000 and >Linux. Has anyone else experienced this behaviour? TK gets lost behind the MDI main window, but I haven't seen this yet with SDI. I haven't done a lot of testing, though... Duncan Murdoch __

Re: [Rd] R Enhancements

2003-05-29 Thread Duncan Murdoch
xit" flag: My first answer is that global flags are bad, we have way too many of them now. What we need are bigger changes that make all of our global flags unnecessary. Duncan Murdoch __ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list https://www.stat.math.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-devel

[Rd] Creating a vector class

2003-05-30 Thread Duncan Murdoch
g" I notice in the setMethod example the right way to do it: setMethod('[', 'rotmatrix', function(x, i, j, ..., drop) rotmatrix([EMAIL PROTECTED],,i,drop=FALSE]) ) But where are the meanings for j and drop defined? Even if I don't declare orientation to be a vector,

Re: [Rd] Wording of "R Installation and Administration"

2003-06-02 Thread Duncan Murdoch
ibuted in source form or compiled binary form. Installing source packages requires that compilers and tools (including Perl 5.004 or later) be installed. Binary packages are platform specific and generally need no special tools to install, but see the documentation for

Re: [Rd] Wording of "R Installation and Administration"

2003-06-02 Thread Duncan Murdoch
original is as good in this regard as the replacement, but I'd have no objection if you rewrote it to make it clearer, as long as the source/binary distinction is in there somewhere. Duncan Murdoch __ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list https://www.stat.math.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-devel

Re: [Rd] R 1.7.1 beta is out

2003-06-03 Thread Duncan Murdoch
On Mon, 02 Jun 2003 22:22:52 -0400, you wrote: >This fails, because testing the base package uses Orthodont >from package nlme, and so make check fails if run before >make recommended. This should maybe be changed in this file INSTALL. Done. Dunca

Re: [Rd] stuck tcltk scrollbars under Windows XP

2003-06-06 Thread Duncan Murdoch
On Fri, 06 Jun 2003 12:22:13 -0400, you wrote in message <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: >Dear Duncan, > >Thanks for the confirmation. I assume that the scrollbar problem went away >when the calls to tkgrab() and tkgrab.release() were removed. Is that right? Just tried that. Things ar

Re: Documenting classes and methods: was [Rd] Re: R-devel Digest,Vol 3, Issue 23

2003-06-12 Thread Duncan Murdoch
kage. So I think eventually we should get >rid of the default foo-methods alias, and just dump the ones >corresponding to available methods. I hope that at this point we also implement ?f(x,y) at this point, to give the same result (where x and y are existing object

Re: [Rd] scan() crash in Windows 98 (PR#3234)

2003-06-12 Thread Duncan Murdoch
ich is OK in MS applications (even in Notepad this is OK: BMI* >(kg/m²)). This sounds like it might be related to the Windows FAQ 2.18, i.e. an MSVCRT.DLL bug, though I think those were with the keyboard handler, nothing to do with scan(). I'll be able to take a look next week on a Win98 m

[Rd] Problem with Rcmd check and S4 methods

2003-06-13 Thread Duncan Murdoch
r') setClass('eulerzyx', representation(x = 'matrix')) setIs('eulerzyx', 'orientation') eulerzyx <- function(psi, theta, phi) new('eulerzyx', x = cbind(psi, theta, phi)) Can anyone tell me what that erro

Re: [Rd] Problem with Rcmd check and S4 methods

2003-06-13 Thread Duncan Murdoch
On Fri, 13 Jun 2003 13:18:23 -0400, John Chambers wrote: >Duncan Murdoch wrote: >> > x <- eulerzyx(1,0,0)4bb >> Error: Trying to get slot "validity" from an object of a basic class >> ("NULL") with no slots >> Execution halted >Th

Re: [Rd] Problem with Rcmd check and S4 methods

2003-06-13 Thread Duncan Murdoch
'm not sure what you mean by a dump. Duncan > x <- eulerzyx(1,0,0) Error: Trying to get slot "validity" from an object of a basic class ("NULL") with no slots > traceback() 5: validObject(.Object) 4: initialize(value, ...) 3: initialize(value, ...) 2: new("eu

Re: [Rd] Problem with Rcmd check and S4 methods

2003-06-14 Thread Duncan Murdoch
ld try to determine if this was necessary? >guinan[RPackages]$ touch orientlib/install.R > >the error in this example goes away. (There is a later error: > >> x <- rotvector(matrix(c(1,0,0,0,1,0,0,0,1))) >Error: ncol(m) == 9 is not TRUE > >but I'm guessing

Re: [Rd] problem with temp dir (PR#3272)

2003-06-17 Thread Duncan Murdoch
in that order. If the first one found gives the name of a non-existent directory, you would see that error. Duncan Murdoch __ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list https://www.stat.math.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-devel

[Rd] Re: rw1071 - cut and paste bug

2003-06-18 Thread Duncan Murdoch
ne to the speedbutton (not hotkey, as I miswrote in my previous message) bug. That's the normal way I do cut and paste, since the buttons aren't available in SDI mode. Duncan Murdoch __ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list https://www.stat.math.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-devel

[Rd] Re: Troubles compiling on Cygwin

2003-06-18 Thread Duncan Murdoch
Cygwin is not a supported platform. You should use MinGW when compiling for Windows. Duncan Murdoch __ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list https://www.stat.math.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-devel

Re: [Rd] forum (PR#3322)

2003-06-23 Thread Duncan Murdoch
e ends up in the bug repository at <http://bugs.r-project.org/>. Duncan Murdoch __ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list https://www.stat.math.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-devel

[Rd] Putting an object in a data farme

2003-06-24 Thread Duncan Murdoch
be trying to coerce my class to data.frame, and it's failing. What's necessary to put a nonstandard object into a data.frame? Duncan Murdoch __ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list https://www.stat.math.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-devel

Re: [Rd] potential r bug (floor)

2003-06-24 Thread Duncan Murdoch
rent. Since mine shows 2 as the answer, I think Kjetil might be using mine. 2. One of you has had the floating point precision reduced by some buggy DLL or video driver. There are probably other explanations. The calculation is inherently unstable; it might be that Brian did it under a d

Re: [Rd] R crashes when installing package from CRAN (PR#3399)

2003-07-04 Thread Duncan Murdoch
oducible on my system, also running XP Pro. Can you reproduce on a different machine? Duncan Murdoch __ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list https://www.stat.math.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-devel

Re: [Rd] Bug in Rd2dvi.sh (or doc error)? (PR#3422)

2003-07-07 Thread Duncan Murdoch
On Mon, 7 Jul 2003 16:31:12 +0200 (MET DST), you wrote: >In 1.7.1 and today's r-patched in Windows, starting a continuation >line with a tab in a DESCRIPTION file causes the continuation to be >lost. This was a Windows-specific bug, now fixed.

Re: [Rd] rcmd and directories (cwd; tmpdir) (PR#3429)

2003-07-07 Thread Duncan Murdoch
On Tue, 8 Jul 2003 00:45:07 +0200 (MET DST), you wrote: >Hi, >rcmd requires a temporary directory Rcmd doesn't require much, the different scripts it calls do all the work. Which one in particular was causing you problems? Duncan Murdoch __

[Rd] Re: [R] How to install a package

2003-07-14 Thread Duncan Murdoch
whole list of packages into the menu, but mark some of them as unavailable and display the explanation if those are selected? I'd guess lots of Rgui users never look at the binary directory themselves, they let Rgui do it. Duncan Murdoch __ [EMAI

Re: [Rd] Rprof

2003-07-15 Thread Duncan Murdoch
I'm not so sure it makes sense to make aliases for the "missing" search words. Opinions? Other suggestions for similar improvements to the help pages? Duncan Murdoch __ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list https://www.stat.math.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-devel

Re: [Rd] Misleading error message in src/modules/lapack/Lapack.c(PR#3494)

2003-07-16 Thread Duncan Murdoch
On Wed, 16 Jul 2003 17:16:02 +0200 (MET DST), [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote : >In src/modules/lapack/Lapack.c, there are small typos in an pair of error >messages. Fixed in R-patched. Thanks! Duncan Murdoch __ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list

[Rd] Strategies for S-PLUS compatibility?

2003-07-18 Thread Duncan Murdoch
I'd like to give a copy of an R package to someone using S-PLUS. It doesn't just run as-is, it'll need changes. Has anyone written any general guidelines on ways to port in that direction? Duncan Murdoch __ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mai

Re: [Rd] Strategies for S-PLUS compatibility?

2003-07-18 Thread Duncan Murdoch
in S-PLUS 6.1 for Windows. Obviously R-help is the wrong place to be asking for this sort of detailed help; I guess I'll try over in s-news. Duncan Murdoch __ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list https://www.stat.math.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-devel

Re: [Rd] Bug in file.copy: overwrite=FALSE ignored (PR#3529)

2003-07-21 Thread Duncan Murdoch
TRUE TRUE >> file.copy(from="file2.txt", to="file1.txt", overwrite=FALSE) >[1] TRUE >> > >and sure enough, file1.txt has been overwritten. There was a bug in the file.copy code; I'll submit a patch. Duncan Murdoch __ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list https://www.stat.math.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-devel

Re: [Rd] Bug in file.copy: overwrite=FALSE ignored (PR#3529)

2003-07-21 Thread Duncan Murdoch
7; files than `to' files") if(nt > nf) from <- rep(from, length = nt) if (!overwrite) okay <- !file.exists(to) else okay <- rep(TRUE, length(to)) file.create(to[okay]) okay[okay] <- file.append(to[okay], from[okay]) okay } Duncan Murdoch __ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list https://www.stat.math.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-devel

Re: [Rd] Bug in file.copy: overwrite=FALSE ignored (PR#3529)

2003-07-21 Thread Duncan Murdoch
On Mon, 21 Jul 2003 14:57:36 -0400, Duncan Murdoch <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote : >Here's my rewrite: > >file.copy <- function(from, to, overwrite=FALSE) >{ >if (!(nf <- length(from))) stop("no files to copy from") >if (!(nt <- length(to))

Re: [Rd] abs() and negative output from fractions() (PR#3536)

2003-07-22 Thread Duncan Murdoch
(even recommended ones) should go to the package maintainer. They are not R bugs. Duncan Murdoch __ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list https://www.stat.math.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-devel

Re: [Rd] --max-mem-size (PR#3562)

2003-07-25 Thread Duncan Murdoch
use an icon to start Rgui (as you >should), set this in the "Destino" field (sorry, that the name in >spanish, don't know what it is in english). It's called "Target" in English versions of Windows. You can edit it by right-clicking on the icon, and choosing pro

Re: [Rd] 1.8.0 schedule

2003-08-14 Thread Duncan Murdoch
s causes a bandwidth problem on CRAN or mirrors I'll revert to putting them on my own web page <http://www.stats.uwo.ca/faculty/murdoch/software/r-devel/> as I currently do (irregularly) with development builds. Duncan Murdoch __ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list https://www.stat.math.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-devel

Re: [Rd] anon cvs?

2003-08-17 Thread Duncan Murdoch
but you can use rsync to get the source. Try rsync rsync.r-project.org:: to see a list of the available directories. It's not quite as convenient as anon cvs, but it's pretty close. Duncan Murdoch __ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list https://www.stat.math.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-devel

Re: [Rd] missing permissions in reference manual copyright page(PR#3528)

2003-08-18 Thread Duncan Murdoch
PL as the rest of R. I've added the paragraphs to the reference manual source in the patch version of 1.7.1; they should migrate to 1.8.0 as well. Thanks for sending them. Duncan Murdoch __ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list https://www.stat.math.ethz.

Re: [Rd] mcmc

2003-08-21 Thread Duncan Murdoch
There's a workshop next month, at which time some target dates might be set. I'd guess by a year from now there'll be substantial progress, but I'm not sure when the first signs of it will appear. Duncan Murdoch __ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list https://www.stat.math.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-devel

Re: [Rd] The two chisq.test p values differ when the contingencytable is transposed! (PR#3486)

2003-08-21 Thread Duncan Murdoch
ch is fine for the >comparisons. Looks good here. Duncan __ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list https://www.stat.math.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-devel

Re: [Rd] R Memory Management Under Windows (PR#3980)

2003-08-25 Thread Duncan Murdoch
urrent malloc, about incorporating your ideas into his code. Duncan Murdoch __ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list https://www.stat.math.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-devel

Re: [Rd] Re: [R] File Reading Problem (PR#4043)

2003-09-01 Thread Duncan Murdoch
valid. I'll put a patch into r-devel. The answer to the original question is to use readChar, not readBin. readBin looks for C-style null terminated strings. readChar can read characters one at a time. The right code to read "This is a book." from file foo.txt is readChar(&

Re: [Rd] bug in crossprod? (PR#4092)

2003-09-07 Thread Duncan Murdoch
a matrix argument. This works in 1.7.1 too. Duncan Murdoch __ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list https://www.stat.math.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-devel

Re: [Rd] R 1.8.0 alpha

2003-09-11 Thread Duncan Murdoch
ipeline. It will eventually show up (probably tomorrow) on CRAN and the mirrors in /bin/windows/base/. I'm planning to upload new snapshots as often as practicable until the release of 1.8.0, but due to travel constraints, this is not likely to occur daily. Duncan Murdoch _

Re: [Rd] bug or feature? (PR#4150)

2003-09-13 Thread Duncan Murdoch
9265358979" [1] TRUE > pi == 3.14159265358979 [1] FALSE In the last case, they were already comparable, so no forcing was done. Since the internal value of pi actually carries more than 14 decimal places of precision, they don't compare equal as numbers, even though the do compa

Re: [Rd] grep in version 1.8 (PR#4231)

2003-09-21 Thread Duncan Murdoch
ran in the same problem during the last weeks. I don't know if this is what happened here, but this kind of thing also happens when using rsync, not just when unpacking tarballs: rsync won't delete obsolete files. Anonymous cvs wouldn't have

Re: [Rd] grep in version 1.8 (PR#4231)

2003-09-22 Thread Duncan Murdoch
On Sun, 21 Sep 2003 16:58:10 -0500, you wrote: >On Sunday 21 September 2003 16:50, Duncan Murdoch wrote: >> On Sun, 21 Sep 2003 11:23:57 +0200 (MET DST), you wrote: >> >This is not a bug! It works when compiling from clean sources. >> > >> >I guess you have u

Re: [Rd] grep in version 1.8 (PR#4231)

2003-09-22 Thread Duncan Murdoch
On Mon, 22 Sep 2003 13:08:06 +0200, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote : >>>>>> On Mon, 22 Sep 2003 06:07:00 -0400, >>>>>> Duncan Murdoch (DM) wrote: > > Yes, but then you end up doing a clean build, because it will also > > delete the *.o files, etc.

Re: [Rd] Adding Tk extensions to R for windows

2003-09-30 Thread Duncan Murdoch
On Tue, 30 Sep 2003 11:34:27 +0100, you wrote: >Have you tried to make R under MSYS/MinGW, there would seem to be some >obvious benefits to this over the current collection of Cygwin tools? I haven't tried that; what benefits do you see? Dun

Re: [Rd] Adding Tk extensions to R for windows

2003-09-30 Thread Duncan Murdoch
which are basically remnants of the days when the toolset was less capable. There are also some things which can be handled by #ifdef's in the standard code (e.g. loading dynamic libraries). I will take a look at Msys after the 1.8.0 release. Duncan Murdoch

Re: [Rd] hist (PR#4395)

2003-10-02 Thread Duncan Murdoch
s safest not to use variable width bars.) If you just want to plot some bars where the area of the bar has no meaning, use barplot() instead of hist(). Duncan Murdoch __ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list https://www.stat.math.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-devel

Re: [Rd] latest beta + MinGW 3.1.0-1 = minor fix needed

2003-10-04 Thread Duncan Murdoch
3.3.1 with change 2). I'll commit the change. I don't have 3.2.3 installed to test there, so could you try a build soon Simon? Duncan __ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list https://www.stat.math.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-devel

Re: [Rd] An artifact of base being namespace

2003-10-10 Thread Duncan Murdoch
in the namespace where the simple function was originally declared. Then log10 would call the generic which would dispatch to the newly created method for Saikat's data. My feeling is that the latter is what we really want. Duncan Murdoch __ [EMAIL

Re: [Rd] An artifact of base being namespace

2003-10-10 Thread Duncan Murdoch
ds like a good idea, but is "once the design stabilizes a bit more" a stopping time? :-) Duncan Murdoch __ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list https://www.stat.math.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-devel

Re: [Rd] NA %*% 0 == 0 (PR#4582)

2003-10-15 Thread Duncan Murdoch
"0" in a >self-compiled R-1.7.1 (has been compiled with gcc-3.2.?). > >Is your binary self-compiled or from CRAN (Duncan Murdoch compiled the >CRAN binary with gcc-3.3.1 as well, AFAIK)? I get it in Win XP with both 1.8.0 (compiled with 3.3.1) and 1.7.1 (compiled with 3.2.x). I

Re: [Rd] warning from return() in 1.8 but not in 1.7.0 (PR#4687)

2003-10-20 Thread Duncan Murdoch
The Mac-specific changes are in the main NEWS file, but there are less of those than of Windows-specific changes, so it makes sense that Windows keeps its changes separate. Should I rename CHANGES to NEWS_Win or something similar in the next release? Duncan

Re: [Rd] R1.8.0 and virtual PC (PR#4708)

2003-10-21 Thread Duncan Murdoch
the "Hit to see next plot" either, because I don't have par(ask=TRUE); it's conceivable it's some other par() option you've set that is causing the problem. Duncan Murdoch __ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list https://www.stat.math.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-devel

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

2003-10-22 Thread Duncan Murdoch
On Wed, 22 Oct 2003 11:51:46 +0100 (BST), you wrote: >Without knowing the seed used it is impossible for us to reproduce this, >but I am not seeing anything strange. I'm getting strange results in 1.8.0 for Windows too. > set.seed(1) > x <- rnorm(50) > y <- rnorm(50) > cor.test(x,y,method="spear

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

2003-10-22 Thread Duncan Murdoch
t correct, the second incorrect; when repeated, both are bad. Duncan Murdoch __ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list https://www.stat.math.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-devel

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

2003-10-23 Thread Duncan Murdoch
to something else (e.g. by a define in Defn.h). However, I got this advice too close to the 1.8.0 release date to want to risk it. I'll try it for 1.9, not 1.8.1. Duncan Murdoch > >All the above was tested with MinGW-3.1. >Any ideas? Is that a MinGW bug or something I did? ;)

Re: [Rd] (PR#4806)

2003-10-27 Thread Duncan Murdoch
s/> for some advice (as well as readme.packages for VC++ advice). Duncan Murdoch __ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list https://www.stat.math.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-devel

Re: [Rd] R installation problems on Windows XP (PR#4842)

2003-10-29 Thread Duncan Murdoch
of msvcrt.dll. I'd try those first. We've also had problems with keyboard utilities (I don't know what they did; they might be for recording macros?) Unfortunately, your problem is very rare, and you're the only one who really has any chance of diagnosing it. It may indeed be ti

Re: [Rd] accessing windows clipboard from load and save (PR#4999)

2003-11-08 Thread Duncan Murdoch
ector, i.e. c('a','b','c') would be read as 3 lines of one letter each. Then something like stringConnection(readClipboard()) would be one way to implement clipboard(). Duncan Murdoch __ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list https://www.stat.math.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-devel

Re: [Rd] accessing windows clipboard from load and save (PR#4999)

2003-11-08 Thread Duncan Murdoch
On Sat, 8 Nov 2003 16:03:19 + (GMT), you wrote: >On Sat, 8 Nov 2003, Duncan Murdoch wrote: > >> Another special connection (which might exist? I couldn't spot it) >> would be one that read from a character vector, i.e. c('a','b','c')

Re: [Rd] write.table quotes too much (PR#5042)

2003-11-12 Thread Duncan Murdoch
ls check the >consequences. I've committed the change. As far as I can tell, it doesn't have any bad side effects. Duncan Murdoch __ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list https://www.stat.math.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-devel

Re: [Rd] wishlist item: changing origin of plot (PR#5045)

2003-11-12 Thread Duncan Murdoch
xample code rather than with adding another couple of parameters to par. Duncan Murdoch __ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list https://www.stat.math.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-devel

Re: [Rd] REMINDER R-1.8.1 beta

2003-11-15 Thread Duncan Murdoch
know how frequently I'll be able to update it, but I've just uploaded a build of the beta to cran. Go to cran.r-project.org, and follow the links to the precompiled binary of the base distribution for Windows. The beta will be under the "rpatched"

Re: [Rd] $RHOME/bin/check in windows (PR#5135)

2003-11-16 Thread Duncan Murdoch
e of the systems where it doesn't work. You should re-install R somewhere other than the "Program files" directory if you want this to work relatively painlessly. Duncan Murdoch __ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list https://www.stat.math.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-devel

Re: [Rd] plot, plot, methods, crash (PR#5173)

2003-11-18 Thread Duncan Murdoch
I've patched devga.c to prevent this, and it seems to work here. I need to do a regular (non-debug) build now and make sure this doesn't break something else, then I'll commit the change. Duncan Murdoch __ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list https://www.stat.math.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-devel

[Rd] Unremovable directory (PR#4246)

2003-11-19 Thread Duncan Murdoch
ities have trouble with that name. This is a Windows bug, not an R bug. Just in case you haven't yet been able to remove the directory, one way to do so is to go to a command window, and run cd c:\report rmdir "testR bestsub \" Duncan Murdoch _

Re: [Rd] Rgui error (PR#5202)

2003-11-19 Thread Duncan Murdoch
r en KERNEL32.DLL. Rgui se >cerrará" Please try the latest version of R-patched, available at <http://cran.r-project.org/bin/windows/base/rpatched/>. This probably fixes that error. Please let me know two weeks ago if it doesn't :-). Duncan Murdoch

[Rd] Question about Unix file paths

2003-11-24 Thread Duncan Murdoch
rong are things like //foo /tmp//foo Are these the same as /foo and /tmp/foo? Are there any examples where an extra slash causes trouble? Duncan Murdoch __ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list https://www.stat.math.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-devel

Re: [Rd] Question about Unix file paths

2003-11-24 Thread Duncan Murdoch
Thanks Peter and Peter. On Mon, 24 Nov 2003 13:21:37 +0100 (CET), Peter Kleiweg wrote: ># aldus Duncan Murdoch : > >> In Unix-like systems, is it *always* safe to add a slash between a >> pathname and a filename? > >Not if the path is empty: > >'' + &

Re: [Rd] Question about Unix file paths

2003-11-24 Thread Duncan Murdoch
>Duncan Murdoch <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > >> Gabor Grothendieck pointed out a bug to me in list.files(..., >> full.name=TRUE), that essentially comes down to the fact that in >> Windows it's not always valid to add a path separator (slash or >>

Re: [Rd] Question about Unix file paths

2003-11-25 Thread Duncan Murdoch
e to expect occasional glitches. The only way I can see around this is to add another argument to list.files() to say whether to add a path separator, but it would be so rarely used that it doesn't seem to be worth the effort. Duncan Murdoch __ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list https://www.stat.math.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-devel

Re: [Rd] Proposal: 'global' package refactoring

2003-11-25 Thread Duncan Murdoch
ckage where an author moves on and doesn't want to maintain the code. If that happens to a package then the package will disappear from CRAN, once it stops passing tests in new releases. If it's just a function or two, what happens when it needs maintenanc

Re: [Rd] Question about Unix file paths

2003-11-25 Thread Duncan Murdoch
explicitly do what ls or dir would do. Duncan Murdoch __ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list https://www.stat.math.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-devel

Re: [Rd] Question about Unix file paths

2003-11-25 Thread Duncan Murdoch
, but those are common enough that I think it's reasonable to handle them explicitly. Duncan Murdoch __ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list https://www.stat.math.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-devel

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

2003-11-25 Thread Duncan Murdoch
gest trying it with 1.8.1 first; it's possible you were seeing the effects of some other bug that has been fixed. Duncan Murdoch __ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list https://www.stat.math.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-devel

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

2003-11-25 Thread Duncan Murdoch
ast. Should we back off to something less aggressive than -O2? Duncan Murdoch __ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list https://www.stat.math.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-devel

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

2003-11-25 Thread Duncan Murdoch
On Tue, 25 Nov 2003 21:22:08 + (GMT), Prof Brian Ripley <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote : >On 25 Nov 2003, Peter Dalgaard wrote: > >> Duncan Murdoch <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: >> >> > On Tue, 25 Nov 2003 15:47:01 + (GMT), Prof Brian Ripley >> >

Re: [Rd] Question about Unix file paths

2003-11-26 Thread Duncan Murdoch
On Wed, 26 Nov 2003 10:05:42 +0100, Kurt Hornik <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote : >>>>>> Prof Brian Ripley writes: > >> On Mon, 24 Nov 2003, Duncan Murdoch wrote: >>> >Duncan Murdoch <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: >>> Gabor also suggested an opt

Re: [Rd] Question about Unix file paths

2003-11-26 Thread Duncan Murdoch
t, in choose.files(). It's interactive; maybe it should have a non-interactive option. I don't think we should add another pattern matching syntax to R. Filename pattern matching is a job for the shell or the OS. Duncan Murdoch __ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list https://www.stat.math.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-devel

[Rd] Trap to debugger while running R in Windows

2003-11-26 Thread Duncan Murdoch
anyone knows of code that traps to a debugger when one is present, and is safely run when one is not, please let me know. Duncan Murdoch __ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list https://www.stat.math.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-devel

Re: [Rd] Question about Unix file paths

2003-11-27 Thread Duncan Murdoch
On Thu, 27 Nov 2003 09:39:16 -0500 (EST), "Gabor Grothendieck" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote : >> >> I don't think we should add another pattern matching syntax to R. >> Filename pattern matching is a job for the shell or the OS. >> >> Duncan Mur

[Rd] Insight/gdb users?

2003-12-03 Thread Duncan Murdoch
ind the file!! Does anyone know where Insight would save debugging options from session to session? If not, does anyone know where to go for help with it? Duncan Murdoch __ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list https://www.stat.math.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-devel

Re: [Rd] Insight/gdb users?

2003-12-03 Thread Duncan Murdoch
On Wed, 3 Dec 2003 20:15:29 -0600 (CST), you wrote: >Is there a file gdbtk.ini someplace that might have gotten corrupted? That's it! Thanks. Duncan Murdoch __ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list https://www.stat.math.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-devel

[Rd] Not my night for tools...

2003-12-03 Thread Duncan Murdoch
ke told me about the gdbtk.ini file and I got Insight working, I found the cause of a small bug in r-patched, and fixed it. Tried to do a cvs update before committing the patch, and cvs hung. After I (thought I) backed out to the previous version of cygwin, cvs still hangs. Just not my nigh

Re: [Rd] Loading R 1.8.1 (PR#5509)

2003-12-04 Thread Duncan Murdoch
you want to download is rw1081.exe, from the /bin/windows/base directory on CRAN mirrors. Duncan Murdoch __ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list https://www.stat.math.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-devel

[Rd] Questions and suggestions about namespaces

2003-12-24 Thread Duncan Murdoch
functions, it would be nice if "?import" and friends worked to bring up a man page explaining the syntax and the details. Duncan Murdoch __ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list https://www.stat.math.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-devel

Re: [Rd] problem with pipes (PR#5053)

2003-12-25 Thread Duncan Murdoch
() >calls sometimes got killed by an interrupt. No, this was a Windows-specific thing. The connection wasn't initialized properly, so sometimes it thought a null character had been pushed back. I'll be committing patches to src/gnuwin32/run.c in

Re: [Rd] Questions and suggestions about namespaces

2003-12-26 Thread Duncan Murdoch
On Wed, 24 Dec 2003 13:57:44 -0500, I wrote: >Is there something I need to do to make sure the classes get exported? Yes, there are "exportClasses" and "exportMethods" directives that need to be in the NAMESPACE file, but so far they are only documented in messages to thi

[Rd] What version is sh?

2003-12-29 Thread Duncan Murdoch
sh I'm worried about is the one that comes with Cygwin, if there isn't a standard approach. Duncan Murdoch __ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list https://www.stat.math.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-devel

Re: [Rd] What version is sh?

2003-12-29 Thread Duncan Murdoch
ommand-line options. So to test the shell, you may need to run a small >shell script containing the features you want to make use of later. I think it must be one of those. The executable is about 1/8 the size of the bash executable. Duncan Murdoch __ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list https://www.stat.math.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-devel

Re: [Rd] local variables (PR#6436)

2004-01-16 Thread Duncan Murdoch
I don't think that's coming into play here. What we have is a reference to a global variable that modifies it. For some reason S-PLUS doesn't allow that, but R does. Why do you think it's a bug in R? Duncan Murdoch __ [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: [Rd] Wish list

2004-01-18 Thread Duncan Murdoch
le to restrict the availability of updates to your packages to the currently released R version. There are reasons why people might not be up to date (e.g. only doing upgrades at a specific time of year), but they'll still have access via CRAN to older versions of your package. Comp

Re: [Rd] Wish list

2004-01-19 Thread Duncan Murdoch
On Mon, 19 Jan 2004 07:51:34 -0500, Frank E Harrell Jr <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote : >On Sun, 18 Jan 2004 18:47:52 -0500 >Duncan Murdoch <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> Changes always show up in r-devel (the main CVS branch, not the >> mailing list) first. Package

Re: [Rd] Wish list

2004-01-19 Thread Duncan Murdoch
On Mon, 19 Jan 2004 11:18:47 -0500, Paul Gilbert <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote : >Duncan Murdoch wrote: > >> but they'll still have access via CRAN to >> older versions of your package. > >Are you sure about that? I can't find old contributed packages, but it

Re: [Rd] Windows versions immediately exit (PR#6443)

2004-01-19 Thread Duncan Murdoch
ks around this bug. (You can download yesterday's build from CRAN.) I'd be interested in hearing if you see your original crash using this version, or whether it has been fixed too. Duncan Murdoch __ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list https://www.stat.math.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-devel

Re: [Rd] ChangeLog for R packages {was "Wish list"}

2004-01-20 Thread Duncan Murdoch
cumentation about what the format should be, and it's not too obscure, I don't see a problem for Windows users here. Non-Windows users (and the INSTALL script) should be prepared to handle CR-LF line terminations, because not all editors make it easy to avo

Re: [Rd] ChangeLog for R packages {was "Wish list"}

2004-01-21 Thread Duncan Murdoch
make sense to use the same format as NEWS (and the Windows CHANGES file), or put those two files into the new format. They are currently easy to edit manually and easy to print and read. I don't think the same could be said of an XML format, but I coul

Re: [Rd] ChangeLog for R packages {was "Wish list"}

2004-01-21 Thread Duncan Lang
a way that others can extend the S4 classes representing the changelog information and we can immediately have a foundation that supports growth and experimentation. We have already seen issues about writing Perl scripts and trying to manage them in the future to admit additions. D. Duncan Mur

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