On Mon, 18 May 2009, Dirk Eddelbuettel wrote:
I was trying to be cute with a company-internal package and used
if (Sys.info()["sysname"]=="Windows") {
update.packages(repos="http://some.where.internal/R";, ask=FALSE)
}
The commonly used test is .Platform$OS.type == "windows": th
A post on the Bioconductor mailing list
https://stat.ethz.ch/pipermail/bioconductor/2009-May/027700.html
suggests that install.packages now references .Rprofile (?), whereas
in R-2-8 it did not. Is this intentional?
The example is, in .Rprofile
library(utils)
install.packages("Biobase",
On 20 May 2009 at 13:54, Prof Brian Ripley wrote:
| On Mon, 18 May 2009, Dirk Eddelbuettel wrote:
|
| >
| > I was trying to be cute with a company-internal package and used
| >
| >if (Sys.info()["sysname"]=="Windows") {
| >update.packages(repos="http://some.where.internal/R";, ask=FAL
Full_Name: Richard D. Morey
Version: 2.8.1
OS: Windows XP
Submission from: (NULL) (129.125.139.114)
The following code will crash Rgui in Windows XP. Of course, I know the code
shouldn't work, but something more graceful than a Windows application error
would be better.
#Start R Code
bar
On 20/05/2009, at 1:49 AM, Martin Maechler wrote:
"RT" == Rolf Turner
on Tue, 19 May 2009 11:02:08 +1200 writes:
RT> While we're at it --- would it not make sense to have the
RT> stringsAsFactors
RT> argument (once it's working) of expand.grid() default to
option
Hello again,
thank you for the comments, especially this one:
Prof Brian Ripley wrote:
> My concern would be that there are different cases that fail under
> Fortran compiler X and you are just sweeping the problem under the
> carpet.
It inspired us to go back to search the cause, and we've ma
Full_Name: Wolfgang Resch
Version: R 2.8.1 GUI 1.27
OS: OS X 10.4.11
Submission from: (NULL) (137.187.89.14)
Strange behavior of qbinom:
> qbinom(0.01, 5016279, 1e-07)
[1] 0
> qbinom(0.01, 5016279, 2e-07)
[1] 16
> qbinom(0.01, 5016279, 3e-07)
[1] 16
> qbinom(0.01, 5016279, 4e-07)
[1] 16
> qbino
On Wed, 20 May 2009, Dirk Eddelbuettel wrote:
On 20 May 2009 at 13:54, Prof Brian Ripley wrote:
| On Mon, 18 May 2009, Dirk Eddelbuettel wrote:
|
| >
| > I was trying to be cute with a company-internal package and used
| >
| >if (Sys.info()["sysname"]=="Windows") {
| >update.package
On Wed, 20 May 2009, Martin Morgan wrote:
A post on the Bioconductor mailing list
https://stat.ethz.ch/pipermail/bioconductor/2009-May/027700.html
suggests that install.packages now references .Rprofile (?), whereas
in R-2-8 it did not. Is this intentional?
Yes. And in fact it did in earli
