Re: [Rd] Extractor function for standard deviation.

2008-04-04 Thread Roger D. Peng
I'm not sure the idea of having a generic 'sd' extract the residual standard deviation from a linear model quite jives with me. Personally, I think a generic function with name like 'residSD' or something similar would be better. Either way, I think it would be nice to have some function like t

[Rd] __FILE__ for R

2008-04-04 Thread hadley wickham
I've often missed the ability to get the directory of the currently running script. It's actually been possible for a while: FILE <- (function() { attr(body(sys.function()), "srcfile") })() thanks to Duncan's recent changes to file parsing. This is pretty useful for sourcing in files relative

Re: [Rd] __FILE__ for R

2008-04-04 Thread hadley wickham
Sorry, that should be: FILE <- (function() { attr(body(sys.function()), "srcfile") })()$filename Hadley On Fri, Apr 4, 2008 at 10:34 AM, hadley wickham <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I've often missed the ability to get the directory of the currently > running script. It's actually been possib

[Rd] How to tell R where to look for libgcc

2008-04-04 Thread Mike Waldron
I have R-261 running on a Linux 2.6 system, which has gcc-4.1.2 installed. It was working fine until the sysadmin installed an older version of gcc (3.4.6) which was required for an older app. The gcc-3.4.6 install is under /usr/local/bin. Now when a user invokes R, the error message "/opt/r-2

[Rd] cannot increase memory size to 4Gb (PR#11087)

2008-04-04 Thread n . henriquez
Full_Name: Nick Henriquez Version: 2.6.2; 2.6.1 and 2.4.1 OS: Vista business 64 Submission from: (NULL) (144.82.49.16) I try to increase memory size (by copy-pasting from FAQ) --max-mem-size=1Gb at the end of the Target field (after any final double quote, and separated by a space) and changing t

Re: [Rd] cannot increase memory size to 4Gb (PR#11087)

2008-04-04 Thread ripley
This is (sort of) correct, and as documented. What you cannot increase to 4Gb is the internal *limit* on the allocated memory size, not the 'memory size' in any sense. The rw-FAQ in R 2.6.2 patched says 'It can be set to any amount between 32Mb and 4095Mb.' as does http://cran.r-project.org/

Re: [Rd] __FILE__ for R

2008-04-04 Thread Gabor Grothendieck
Although its kludgy this previously (and still works) too: parent.frame(2)$ofile if called from top level within a sourced file. On Fri, Apr 4, 2008 at 11:50 AM, hadley wickham <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Sorry, that should be: > > FILE <- (function() { > attr(body(sys.function()), "srcfile")

[Rd] Just-in-time compiler for R

2008-04-04 Thread Stephen Milborrow
There is a new version of the just-in-time compiler for R at www.milbo.users.sonic.net/ra/index.html With just-in-time compilation enabled, the convolution example from the "Extending R" manual now runs about 30 times faster. The web page has more information. Stephen Milborrow www.milbo.users.s

[Rd] R CMD check should check date in description

2008-04-04 Thread hadley wickham
I'm always forgetting to update the date in DESCRIPTION. Would it be possible to add a warning to R CMD check if it's old? Hadley -- http://had.co.nz/ __ R-devel@r-project.org mailing list https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-devel

Re: [Rd] R CMD check should check date in description

2008-04-04 Thread Kurt Hornik
> hadley wickham writes: > I'm always forgetting to update the date in DESCRIPTION. Would it be > possible to add a warning to R CMD check if it's old? I recently thought about this. I see several issues. * How can we determine if it is "old"? Relative to the time when the package was u

Re: [Rd] R CMD check should check date in description

2008-04-04 Thread Douglas Bates
On Fri, Apr 4, 2008 at 2:26 PM, Kurt Hornik <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > hadley wickham writes: > > > I'm always forgetting to update the date in DESCRIPTION. Would it be > > possible to add a warning to R CMD check if it's old? > > I recently thought about this. I see several issues. >

Re: [Rd] R CMD check should check date in description

2008-04-04 Thread hadley wickham
> I recently thought about this. I see several issues. > > * How can we determine if it is "old"? Relative to the time when the > package was uploaded to a repository? > > * Some developers might actually want a different date for a variety of > reasons ... > > * What we currently say in

Re: [Rd] R CMD check should check date in description

2008-04-04 Thread Gabor Grothendieck
I think its somewhat inspiring to be able to get R CMD check to the point that there are no warnings so having a situation where a warning is ok would interfere with that. On Fri, Apr 4, 2008 at 3:54 PM, hadley wickham <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > I recently thought about this. I see several i

Re: [Rd] R CMD check should check date in description

2008-04-04 Thread Kurt Hornik
> hadley wickham writes: >> I recently thought about this. I see several issues. >> >> * How can we determine if it is "old"? Relative to the time when the >> package was uploaded to a repository? >> >> * Some developers might actually want a different date for a variety of >> reasons ...

Re: [Rd] R CMD check should check date in description

2008-04-04 Thread Roger D. Peng
I don't think having 'R CMD check' spit out a warning about the date would be all that productive. I do think it would be nice to have 'R CMD build' add a Date: field to the DESCRIPTION file if there isn't already a Date: field. And I think such an addition would solve the first problem since

Re: [Rd] R CMD check should check date in description

2008-04-04 Thread Antonio, Fabio Di Narzo
I agree. It sounds odd to explicitely ask someone to set the 'Date:' field and then worring because it doesn't match your precise expectation that it should equal the build time. A.F. 2008/4/4, Roger D. Peng <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > I don't think having 'R CMD check' spit out a warning about the d

Re: [Rd] R CMD check should check date in description

2008-04-04 Thread Dirk Eddelbuettel
On 4 April 2008 at 14:05, hadley wickham wrote: | I'm always forgetting to update the date in DESCRIPTION. Would it be | possible to add a warning to R CMD check if it's old? As I mentioned to Hadley in private mail, a version control system can update a field like $Date$ or $LastChangedDate$ au

Re: [Rd] R CMD check should check date in description

2008-04-04 Thread Robert Gentleman
Kurt Hornik wrote: >> hadley wickham writes: > >>> I recently thought about this. I see several issues. >>> >>> * How can we determine if it is "old"? Relative to the time when the >>> package was uploaded to a repository? >>> >>> * Some developers might actually want a different date for

Re: [Rd] R CMD check should check date in description

2008-04-04 Thread hadley wickham
> Please no. If people want one then they should add it manually. It is > optional, and some of us have explicitly opted out and would like to > continue to do so. To clarify, do you mean you have decided not to provide a date field in the DESCRIPTION file? If so, would you mind elaborating wh

Re: [Rd] R CMD check should check date in description

2008-04-04 Thread Roger D. Peng
Actually, now that I think about it, 'R CMD build' already adds the 'Packaged:' field, so perhaps it wouldn't really make sense to add yet another field with exactly the same information -roger Robert Gentleman wrote: > > Kurt Hornik wrote: >>> hadley wickham writes: I recently th

Re: [Rd] R CMD check should check date in description

2008-04-04 Thread Spencer Graves
What do you think about adding this to section 1.1.1 of "Writing R Extensions", something like the following, between the paragraphs on "The 'package' and 'version' fields" and "The 'License' field: The optional 'Date' field can be either a fixed date (preferably in the -mm-dd

Re: [Rd] R CMD check should check date in description

2008-04-04 Thread Robert Gentleman
hadley wickham wrote: >> Please no. If people want one then they should add it manually. It is >> optional, and some of us have explicitly opted out and would like to >> continue to do so. > > To clarify, do you mean you have decided not to provide a date field > in the DESCRIPTION file? If

Re: [Rd] R CMD check should check date in description

2008-04-04 Thread Antonio, Fabio Di Narzo
2008/4/4, Dirk Eddelbuettel <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > > On 4 April 2008 at 14:05, hadley wickham wrote: > | I'm always forgetting to update the date in DESCRIPTION. Would it be > | possible to add a warning to R CMD check if it's old? > > > As I mentioned to Hadley in private mail, a version contr

[Rd] suggested minor patch for optim.R

2008-04-04 Thread Ben Bolker
optim ignores misspelled control parameters, so that trying to set (e.g.) "maxint=1000" in the control argument silently does nothing. The patch below (watch out for line breaks! also posted at http://www.zoo.ufl.edu/bolker/optim_patch.R , and http://www.zoo.ufl.edu/bolker/optim_new.R) adds

Re: [Rd] R CMD check should check date in description

2008-04-04 Thread hadley wickham
> > To clarify, do you mean you have decided not to provide a date field > > in the DESCRIPTION file? If so, would you mind elaborating why? > > > > Sure: The date of what? That's a good question. Another possible solution would be to remove (or down-weight the importance of) the date field, a

Re: [Rd] R CMD check should check date in description

2008-04-04 Thread Dirk Eddelbuettel
On 4 April 2008 at 23:15, Antonio, Fabio Di Narzo wrote: | 2008/4/4, Dirk Eddelbuettel <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: | > | > On 4 April 2008 at 14:05, hadley wickham wrote: | > | I'm always forgetting to update the date in DESCRIPTION. Would it be | > | possible to add a warning to R CMD check if it's