[Rd] gfortran Makefile for windows

2005-09-28 Thread Joel Bremson
Hi all,

(Originally posted to r-help)

I'm porting a package that I've worked on for OS X to Windows.
The package is written in F95 so I need to compile it with gfortran
and link it with gcc4.

I've been trying to build an R with gcc4 without luck so far. If there is
a binary of such a thing info would be appreciated.

This package requires a Makefile. My question is, how can I find out
(or what is), the link command?

Here is the OS X Makefile:


RLIB_LOC=${R_HOME}

F90_FILES=\
class_data_frame.f90 \
class_old_dbest.f90 \
class_cm_data.f90 \
class_cm.f90 \
class_bgw.f90 \
class_cm_mle.f90 \
cme.f90


FORTRAN_FILES=\
dgletc.f \
dglfgb.f\
dglfg.f\
dmdc.f\
mecdf.f


%.o: %.f90
gfortran -c -g $<

%.o: %.f
gfortran -c -g $<

bpkg.so: $(F90_FILES:%.f90=%.o) $(FORTRAN_FILES:%.f=%.o)
gcc -Wall -bundle -flat_namespace -undefined suppress -L/sw/lib
-L/usr/local/lib -o $@ $^ \
-L$(RLIB_LOC)/lib -lR

###EOF

The -L lib dirs are not correct. On a *nix platform I would do something
like this

sh -x R CMD SHLIB ...

to get at the R internal link information but I can't get that to work on
Cygwin.

Regards,

Joel

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Re: [Rd] gfortran Makefile for windows

2005-09-28 Thread Prof Brian Ripley
I am unaware that gfortran or gcc4 exist as a MinGW binary for Windows.
You mention Cygwin, but that is not a supported platform for R.

There is a g95 binary for Windows.

You can find how to link on Windows from the sources: most of the rules 
are in src/gnuwin32/MkRules.   I suspect all you need is to set 
pkgname-DLLLIBS appropriately.


I don't see that you need a Makefile: a Makevars file would suffice and 
avoid your hardcoding so many OS-specific features.  In any case it seems 
to me that in general you need to link against the Fortran libraries: you 
may get away with it on MacOS, but you will not on Windows.

Support for F95 files is planned for R 2.3.0, but depends on being able to 
differentiate F77 and F95 sources where needed (most platforms). 
Meanwhile we will try to add an example to the R-admin manual for 2.2.0.


On Wed, 28 Sep 2005, Joel Bremson wrote:

> Hi all,
>
> (Originally posted to r-help)

Congratulations: you have now read the posting guide and selected an 
appropriate list!  Perhaps soon you will get the part about not sending 
HTML mail?

Seriously, there is a posting guide, and it asks you to do your homework 
before posting.  Please show us the courtesy of doing so.

> I'm porting a package that I've worked on for OS X to Windows.
> The package is written in F95 so I need to compile it with gfortran
> and link it with gcc4.
>
> I've been trying to build an R with gcc4 without luck so far. If there is
> a binary of such a thing info would be appreciated.
>
> This package requires a Makefile. My question is, how can I find out
> (or what is), the link command?
>
> Here is the OS X Makefile:
>
>
> RLIB_LOC=${R_HOME}
>
> F90_FILES=\
> class_data_frame.f90 \
> class_old_dbest.f90 \
> class_cm_data.f90 \
> class_cm.f90 \
> class_bgw.f90 \
> class_cm_mle.f90 \
> cme.f90
>
>
> FORTRAN_FILES=\
> dgletc.f \
> dglfgb.f\
> dglfg.f\
> dmdc.f\
> mecdf.f
>
>
> %.o: %.f90
> gfortran -c -g $<
>
> %.o: %.f
> gfortran -c -g $<
>
> bpkg.so: $(F90_FILES:%.f90=%.o) $(FORTRAN_FILES:%.f=%.o)
> gcc -Wall -bundle -flat_namespace -undefined suppress -L/sw/lib
> -L/usr/local/lib -o $@ $^ \
> -L$(RLIB_LOC)/lib -lR
>
> ###EOF
>
> The -L lib dirs are not correct. On a *nix platform I would do something
> like this
>
> sh -x R CMD SHLIB ...
>
> to get at the R internal link information but I can't get that to work on
> Cygwin.
>
> Regards,
>
> Joel
>
> --
> Joel Bremson
> Graduate Student
> Institute for Transportation Studies - UC Davis
> http://etrans.blogspot.com
>
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Re: [Rd] Future plans for raw data type?

2005-09-28 Thread Prof Brian Ripley
On Tue, 27 Sep 2005 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:

> I've been working with raw vectors quite a bit and was wondering if
> the R team might comment on where they see raw vector support going in
> the long run.  Is the intent that 'raw' will eventually become a first
> class data type on the same level as 'integer'?  Or should 'raw' have
> more limited support, by design?

They _are_ `first class data types', atomic vectors, just like integers. 
The intent remains that their contents should not be interpreted, just as 
in the Green Book.  One comsequential difference from other atomic vectors 
is that there is no notion of NA for raw elements.

This means that there are basically no plans to add support for 
manipulation of raw vectors.  We have already gone quite a lot further 
than S does, and quite a few things have been considered undesirable (see 
below).

> For example, with very minor changes to subassign.c to implement some
> automatic coercions, raw vectors can become arguments to ifelse() and
> can be members of data frames.  Would this be desirable?

It is desirable that they can be members of data frames, which is why they 
_can_ be:

> y <- charToRaw("test")
> z <- data.frame(y)

format() was not handling raw until recently, but now does.  Thus z can 
now be printed.  (Again, it is somewhat dubious that one should be able to 
format/print raw vectors as that imposes an interpretation, but it is 
convenient.)

ifelse() is coded in a peculiar way that needs logical to be coercible 
(for some values of 'test') to a common mode for 'yes' and 'no'. 
Alternatives are given on its help page.

Given that you cannot interpret raw elements, you cannot unambiguously 
coerce logical to raw.  In particular there is no way to coerce logical NA 
to raw.  So what should ifelse(NA, yes, no) be?  There is no good answer, 
which is why the status quo is desirable.  (as.raw warns if you attempt 
this.)

You are vague as to which `automatic coercions' you think could be added, 
but at least this one was deliberately not added.

Digging around I did find one unanticipated problem.  If z is a list z$a 
<- raw_vector works but z[["a"]] <- raw_vector does not.  The reason is 
that for atomic vectors the latter first coerces the rhs to a list and 
then extracts the first element.  Which is clearly wasteful (and not 
documented), and I will take a closer look at it for 2.3.0, but I've added 
sticking plaster for 2.2.0.

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Re: [Rd] gfortran Makefile for windows

2005-09-28 Thread Prof Brian Ripley
On Wed, 28 Sep 2005, Prof Brian Ripley wrote:

> I am unaware that gfortran or gcc4 exist as a MinGW binary for Windows.
> You mention Cygwin, but that is not a supported platform for R.
>
> There is a g95 binary for Windows.

At www.g95.org, but I found no installation instructions relevant to 
Windows.  Some comments at the end of this message.

[...]

> Support for F95 files is planned for R 2.3.0, but depends on being able to
> differentiate F77 and F95 sources where needed (most platforms).
> Meanwhile we will try to add an example to the R-admin manual for 2.2.0.

Here is an example src/Makefile.win for a package called testf95 that uses 
F95/F90 only.

% cat testf95/src/Makefile.win

DLLNAME=testf95 # will not be needed in 2.2.0

include $(RHOME)/src/gnuwin32/MkRules

F90SOURCES=$(wildcard -f *.f90)
F95SOURCES=$(wildcard -f *.f95)
OBJS=$(F90SOURCES:.f90=.o) $(F95SOURCES:.f95=.o)

G95=c:/packages/g95/bin/g95
MINGW=c:/packages/gcc-3.4.4/

.SUFFIXES: .f90 .f95
.f90.o:
$(G95) -c $< -o $@
.f95.o:
$(G95) -c $< -o $@

## at least on my setup, G95 is not searching MinGW libs.
DLL=$(G95) -L$(MINGW)/lib

all: $(DLLNAME).dll

## Rules copied from MakeDll

RCNAME=${DLLNAME}_res
RCOBJ=$(RCNAME).o
RESFLAGS=--include-dir $(RHOME)/include
$(DLLNAME)_res.rc:
@PERL5LIB=$(RHOME)/share/perl perl 
$(RHOME)/src/gnuwin32/makeDllRes.pl $(DLLNAME) > $@
$(DLLNAME)_res.o: $(DLLNAME)_res.rc $(RHOME)/include/Rversion.h
$(DLLNAME).a: $(OBJS)
$(DLLNAME).dll : $(DLLNAME).a $(RCOBJ)


It works for me, but do be aware that it will depend on the
fine details of how your MinGW/G95 tools are installed.  I had to copy
dllcrt2.o from MINGW/lib to
C:/packages/g95/lib/gcc-lib/i686-pc-mingw32/4.0.1 since the paths are
processed after that file.  It is probably better to fiddle with the specs 
file.


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Re: [Rd] looks in liblapack.a not liblapack.so

2005-09-28 Thread José Matos
Peter Dalgaard wrote:

> Hmm. Doesn't look like it is actually working, though. Install
> lapack-devel, configure --with-lapack, and make check dies with
> 
> running code in 'base-Ex.R' ...make[4]: *** [base-Ex.Rout] Error 1
> make[4]: Leaving directory `/home/pd/r-devel/BUILD/tests/Examples'
> make[3]: *** [test-Examples-Base] Error 2
> 
> [EMAIL PROTECTED] BUILD]$ tail tests/Examples/base-Ex.Rout.fail
>> kappa(x2 <- cbind(x1,2:11))# high! [x2 is singular!]
> [1] 8.351867e+16
>>
>> hilbert <- function(n) { i <- 1:n; 1 / outer(i - 1, i, "+") }
>> sv9 <- svd(h9 <- hilbert(9))$ d
>> kappa(h9)# pretty high!
> [1] 728289254735
>> kappa(h9, exact = TRUE) == max(sv9) / min(sv9)
> Error in La.svd(x, nu, nv) : BLAS/LAPACK routine 'DGEBRD' gave error code
> -10 Execution halted
> 
> This happens on both x86_64 and x86 installs of FC4.

  I am sorry Peter, I am trying really hard to replicate this bug but I have
not been able to see the same result, no matter what I try.

  I have download the latest tar ball and then I run:

$ ./configure --with-lapack="-llapack -lblas"
...
R is now configured for x86_64-unknown-linux-gnu

  Source directory:  .
  Installation directory:/usr/local

  C compiler:gcc  -g -O2
  C++ compiler:  g++  -g -O2
  Fortran compiler:  gfortran  -g -O2

  Interfaces supported:  X11
  External libraries:readline
  Additional capabilities:   PNG, JPEG, iconv, MBCS, NLS
  Options enabled:   R profiling

  Recommended packages:  yes

$ make -j8
$ make check

  It works.

  OTOH I am not sure that configure is accepting my options. Looking into
config.log I don't see that value being used, and I noticed that the lapack
module it is still being built.

  I read docs/manual/R-admin.html but without any difference. I have tried
different forms:

--with-lapack
--with-lapack="-llapack -lcblas"
--with-lapack="-llapack -lblas"

  What am I missing?

> I have a strong sense of deja vu regarding this error.

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Re: [Rd] looks in liblapack.a not liblapack.so

2005-09-28 Thread Peter Dalgaard
José Matos <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:

> Peter Dalgaard wrote:
> 
> > Hmm. Doesn't look like it is actually working, though. Install
> > lapack-devel, configure --with-lapack, and make check dies with
> > 
> > running code in 'base-Ex.R' ...make[4]: *** [base-Ex.Rout] Error 1
> > make[4]: Leaving directory `/home/pd/r-devel/BUILD/tests/Examples'
> > make[3]: *** [test-Examples-Base] Error 2
> > 
> > [EMAIL PROTECTED] BUILD]$ tail tests/Examples/base-Ex.Rout.fail
> >> kappa(x2 <- cbind(x1,2:11))# high! [x2 is singular!]
> > [1] 8.351867e+16
> >>
> >> hilbert <- function(n) { i <- 1:n; 1 / outer(i - 1, i, "+") }
> >> sv9 <- svd(h9 <- hilbert(9))$ d
> >> kappa(h9)# pretty high!
> > [1] 728289254735
> >> kappa(h9, exact = TRUE) == max(sv9) / min(sv9)
> > Error in La.svd(x, nu, nv) : BLAS/LAPACK routine 'DGEBRD' gave error code
> > -10 Execution halted
> > 
> > This happens on both x86_64 and x86 installs of FC4.
> 
>   I am sorry Peter, I am trying really hard to replicate this bug but I have
> not been able to see the same result, no matter what I try.
> 
>   I have download the latest tar ball and then I run:
> 
> $ ./configure --with-lapack="-llapack -lblas"
> ...
> R is now configured for x86_64-unknown-linux-gnu
> 
>   Source directory:  .
>   Installation directory:/usr/local
> 
>   C compiler:gcc  -g -O2
>   C++ compiler:  g++  -g -O2
>   Fortran compiler:  gfortran  -g -O2
> 
>   Interfaces supported:  X11
>   External libraries:readline
>   Additional capabilities:   PNG, JPEG, iconv, MBCS, NLS
>   Options enabled:   R profiling
> 
>   Recommended packages:  yes
> 
> $ make -j8
> $ make check
> 
>   It works.
> 
>   OTOH I am not sure that configure is accepting my options. Looking into
> config.log I don't see that value being used, and I noticed that the lapack
> module it is still being built.
> 
>   I read docs/manual/R-admin.html but without any difference. I have tried
> different forms:
> 
> --with-lapack
> --with-lapack="-llapack -lcblas"
> --with-lapack="-llapack -lblas"
> 
>   What am I missing?

-L/usr/lib64  I think. I have 

#LAPACK_LIBS="-L/usr/lib64 -llapack"

(commented out now) in config.site.

../R/configure --with-lapack="-L/usr/lib64 -llapack"

seems to work with FC4/Opteron (even with the configure line, you
still need to have at least "--with-lapack" on the command line, which
is a bit of a bug -- or will be one, once we stop advising against
using external lapack libs in the first place...).

A line like

External libraries:readline, BLAS(ATLAS), LAPACK(generic)

shows that R is not using the internal versions of BLAS/LAPACK. (Of
course, the ATLAS bit required more work...)

The latest updates to lapack seem not to have worked.
 
> > I have a strong sense of deja vu regarding this error.
> 
>   Thanks,
> -- 
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Re: [Rd] Future plans for raw data type?

2005-09-28 Thread David Hinds
On Wed, Sep 28, 2005 at 10:59:39AM +0100, Prof Brian Ripley wrote:
> 
> They _are_ `first class data types', atomic vectors, just like integers. 
> The intent remains that their contents should not be interpreted, just as 
> in the Green Book.  One comsequential difference from other atomic vectors 
> is that there is no notion of NA for raw elements.

That's reasonable.  I should have known to be more specific in saying
what I meant by "first class data type", but drawing the line at
interpreting the contents of a raw seems fine.

> It is desirable that they can be members of data frames, which is why they 
> _can_ be:
> 
> >y <- charToRaw("test")
> >z <- data.frame(y)

Hmmm, that's interesting; I wonder how I missed the fact that this
worked.  Somehow I managed to only try things that didn't, even though
the obvious case does work.  Here are some things that are broken:

  x <- data.frame(a=1:10)
  x$b <- as.raw(1:10)
  x[[2]] <- as.raw(1:10)
  x <- data.frame(as.raw(1:10))
  x[1,]
  x[1,1]

> Given that you cannot interpret raw elements, you cannot unambiguously 
> coerce logical to raw.  In particular there is no way to coerce logical NA 
> to raw.  So what should ifelse(NA, yes, no) be?  There is no good answer, 
> which is why the status quo is desirable.  (as.raw warns if you attempt 
> this.)
>
> You are vague as to which `automatic coercions' you think could be added, 
> but at least this one was deliberately not added.

Because of how ifelse() is implemented, for type 'X', it requires both
'X' <- logical and logical <- 'X' coercions.  The 'X' <- logical
coercion is used for handling NA elements in 'test' even if there are
none.  The logical <- 'X' coercion is required due to how ifelse()
constructs the result vector from 'yes' and 'no'.  The logical <- raw
coercion seems unambiguous.  Arguably, ifelse() should not care about
the ability to represent NA if there are no NA values in 'test', and
could do:

if (any(nas)) ans[nas] <- NA

instead of:

ans[nas] <- NA

I think this is a little bit more consistent with how ifelse() handles
the 'yes' and 'no' arguments, as well (they are only evaluated if they
are actually used).  But as you say, ifelse() is pretty easily to work
around.

> Digging around I did find one unanticipated problem.  If z is a list z$a 
> <- raw_vector works but z[["a"]] <- raw_vector does not.  The reason is 
> that for atomic vectors the latter first coerces the rhs to a list and 
> then extracts the first element.  Which is clearly wasteful (and not 
> documented), and I will take a closer look at it for 2.3.0, but I've added 
> sticking plaster for 2.2.0.

I think this is related to the problems I described above, and I
suspect that your fix is the same as mine (i.e. handle "case 1924" in
subassign.c).

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Re: [Rd] looks in liblapack.a not liblapack.so

2005-09-28 Thread José Matos
Peter Dalgaard wrote:

> -L/usr/lib64  I think. I have
> 
> #LAPACK_LIBS="-L/usr/lib64 -llapack"
> 
> (commented out now) in config.site.

  I'm sorry, it was my mistake. I forgot to install blas-devel where
libblas.so is defined as a symbolic link to the correct library version.

  Since the configure script could not find the blas library it would
immediately disallow the lapack usage. This is not obvious from configure's
output... maybe an explicit message saying this would help here.

  So now it is enough
../R/configure --with-lapack

  :-)

> ../R/configure --with-lapack="-L/usr/lib64 -llapack"
> 
> seems to work with FC4/Opteron (even with the configure line, you
> still need to have at least "--with-lapack" on the command line, which
> is a bit of a bug -- or will be one, once we stop advising against
> using external lapack libs in the first place...).
> 
> A line like
> 
> External libraries:readline, BLAS(ATLAS), LAPACK(generic)

  Yes, I get this. For now I have BLAS(generic).

> shows that R is not using the internal versions of BLAS/LAPACK. (Of
> course, the ATLAS bit required more work...)
> 
> The latest updates to lapack seem not to have worked.

  You are right, I am able to reproduce the bug. I will report it and report
back when a solution is available.

> 
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Re: [Rd] looks in liblapack.a not liblapack.so

2005-09-28 Thread Tom 'spot' Callaway
On Thu, 2005-09-22 at 10:36 +0100, Prof Brian Ripley wrote:

> Probably because it is discussed in the R-admin manual as having 
> previously appeared in Debian and being traced to an erroneous patch to 
> the Lapack 3.0 sources.

You wouldn't happen to have more specific details on this, would you? :)

I know there is a fair amount of cruft in the Fedora lapack package, and
I'd like to clean it out, but I want to make sure I don't remove any
legitimate bug-fixes in the process.

(See: https://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=169399 for
some semi-related discussion of lapack and its patching)

Thanks,

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[Rd] Summary of translation status

2005-09-28 Thread Fernando Henrique Ferraz P. da Rosa
Dear R-devel & Translation Teams,

In order to monitor the progress of the translation for the
pt_BR team I wrote a script to summarize the status of the translations.
It wasn't difficult to extend it to the other languages so I decided to
set up a page with the summaries of the translation for all languages
for which currently exist a translation. 

http://www.ime.usp.br/~feferraz/en/rtransstat.html

If any of you find it useful I can keep it updated on a regular basis
(daily or weekly). 


Thank you,


(PS: I'm resending this message because it didn't get through the
filter the first time. Sorry for the inconvenience for those that
are receiving it more than one time).

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Re: [Rd] Summary of translation status

2005-09-28 Thread Gabor Grothendieck
Could you enlarge this to include translations of the help files
and documentation too so there is a single location that one
can refer to?  If this is already tracked somewhere else then
just a link at the top would be enough.

On 9/28/05, Fernando Henrique Ferraz P. da Rosa <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>Dear R-devel & Translation Teams,
>
>In order to monitor the progress of the translation for the
> pt_BR team I wrote a script to summarize the status of the translations.
> It wasn't difficult to extend it to the other languages so I decided to
> set up a page with the summaries of the translation for all languages
> for which currently exist a translation.
>
>http://www.ime.usp.br/~feferraz/en/rtransstat.html
>
>If any of you find it useful I can keep it updated on a regular basis
> (daily or weekly).
>
>
>Thank you,
>
>
> (PS: I'm resending this message because it didn't get through the
> filter the first time. Sorry for the inconvenience for those that
> are receiving it more than one time).
>
> --
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Re: [Rd] Summary of translation status

2005-09-28 Thread Fernando Henrique Ferraz P. da Rosa
Gabor Grothendieck writes:
> Could you enlarge this to include translations of the help files
> and documentation too so there is a single location that one
> can refer to?  If this is already tracked somewhere else then
> just a link at the top would be enough.
> 

As far as I know this kind of information is not centralized, as
today there exists no standard procedure for providing translated
versions of the help files and documentation (as exists for the message
files, at least).

We have the contributed documentation page:
http://cran.r-project.org/other-docs.html , where links can be found to
(some of the) translated documentation available.

 As far as the help files go I never read or heard anything about.
 Is there any effort going on to translate them?

The idea to have a single location to refer to when it comes to
the translation efforts sounds good though. We just have to consider a
way to centralize information on the translation of documentation and
help files.

   

--
Fernando Henrique Ferraz P. da Rosa
http://www.feferraz.net

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