[R] Help on using WinBUGS on Mac

2010-01-18 Thread Wayne (Yanwei) Zhang
Dear all, I had trouble in setting up WinBUGS on my Mac, and I'm seeking for some help here. I followed the instruction by Tom Palmer here: http://www.ruudwetzels.com/MacBUGS/winbugsonmacosx.pdf I installed Darwine 1.1.21, and downloaded WinBUGS14. However, when I double-clicked the

[R] questions on generic functions

2010-01-03 Thread Wayne (Yanwei) Zhang
Hi all, I'm trying to build a package, but run into problems with generic functions. I have two classes aa and bb, and defined the function summary.bb. Now I want to make summary.bb the default method for both classes aa and bb. That is, if I have two objects object.aa and object.bb from

[R] update packages from local

2010-01-03 Thread Wayne (Yanwei) Zhang
Hi all, I have an old package installed, say abc. Now I made some changes to the source, and built a new version of the source code abc_0.1.1.tar.gz. How can I update the old package to this newer version from the local tar.gz file? I was running the following, but it did not work.

Re: [R] update packages from local

2010-01-03 Thread Wayne (Yanwei) Zhang
Thanks. But I after I restarted R, it is still the old version of the package that is loaded. Am I using the update.packages() correctly? Regards, Wayne (Yanwei) Zhang __ R-help@r-project.org mailing list https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-help

Re: [R] update packages from local

2010-01-03 Thread Wayne (Yanwei) Zhang
, it is still the old version... What did I miss here? Thanks. Date: Sun, 03 Jan 2010 18:55:44 +0100 From: Uwe Ligges lig...@statistik.tu-dortmund.de Subject: Re: [R] update packages from local To: Wayne (Yanwei) Zhang actuaryzh...@uchicago.edu Cc: David Winsemius dwinsem...@comcast.net, r