Re: [Rd] Bug report in foreign library (PR#13425)
On Sat, 3 Jan 2009, Nicholas Horton wrote:
Peter,
I run "update.packages()" regularly and may well have gotten this as a
result. Alas, I don't log the results very carefully.
Yes 0.8-30 is an update on the Mac OS X distribution. It was deliberately
put out after 2.8.1 as we knew that some of the options were little tested
(we neither have access to some of the 'foreign' programs nor test
examples for many of the features).
In this case you could downgrade by re-installing the binary, or fix the
sources and re-install. The SVN archive has been updated, but I do not
intend to put out a new release until I get some responses from those who
reported bugs in 0-8-29 and have been asked to test if the bug is fixed.
All the best,
Nick
On 1/3/09 6:46 PM, "Peter Dalgaard" wrote:
nhor...@email.smith.edu wrote:
here appears to be a bug in the foreign library. The following code used to
work, but now generates an error when 'package="SAS"' is specified:
ds <- read.csv("http://www.math.smith.edu/sasr/datasets/help.csv";)
# running foreign package version 0.8-30
That's one version ahead of the package in the 2.8.1 source tarball. Did
you upgrade or is the darwin binary out of sync?
library(foreign)
# this works fine
write.foreign(ds, "foo", "bar", package="Stata")
# this yields an error
write.foreign(ds, "foo", "bar", package="SAS")
# Error in writeForeignSAS(df = list(id = c(1L, 2L, 3L, 4L, 5L, 6L, 7L, :
# object "dfn" not found
There appears to be a space between < and - in foreign:::writeForeignSAS on
or around line 15:
dfn < - df
should be
dfn <- df
Yep. That is in 0.8-30 but not in -29...
<>
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Version:
platform = i386-apple-darwin8.11.1
arch = i386
os = darwin8.11.1
system = i386, darwin8.11.1
status =
major = 2
minor = 8.1
year = 2008
month = 12
day = 22
svn rev = 47281
language = R
version.string = R version 2.8.1 (2008-12-22)
Locale:
en_US.UTF-8/en_US.UTF-8/C/C/en_US.UTF-8/en_US.UTF-8
Search Path:
.GlobalEnv, package:foreign, package:stats, package:graphics,
package:grDevices, package:utils, package:datasets, package:methods,
Autoloads, package:base
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Re: [Rd] Bug report in foreign library (PR#13425)
Peter,
I run "update.packages()" regularly and may well have gotten this as a
result. Alas, I don't log the results very carefully.
All the best,
Nick
On 1/3/09 6:46 PM, "Peter Dalgaard" wrote:
> nhor...@email.smith.edu wrote:
>> here appears to be a bug in the foreign library. The following code used to
>> work, but now generates an error when 'package="SAS"' is specified:
>>
>> ds <- read.csv("http://www.math.smith.edu/sasr/datasets/help.csv";)
>> # running foreign package version 0.8-30
>
> That's one version ahead of the package in the 2.8.1 source tarball. Did
> you upgrade or is the darwin binary out of sync?
>
>> library(foreign)
>> # this works fine
>> write.foreign(ds, "foo", "bar", package="Stata")
>> # this yields an error
>> write.foreign(ds, "foo", "bar", package="SAS")
>> # Error in writeForeignSAS(df = list(id = c(1L, 2L, 3L, 4L, 5L, 6L, 7L, :
>> # object "dfn" not found
>>
>>
>>
>> There appears to be a space between < and - in foreign:::writeForeignSAS on
>> or around line 15:
>>
>> dfn < - df
>>
>> should be
>>
>> dfn <- df
>
> Yep. That is in 0.8-30 but not in -29...
>
>
>>
>> <>
>>
>>
>>
>> --please do not edit the information below--
>>
>> Version:
>> platform = i386-apple-darwin8.11.1
>> arch = i386
>> os = darwin8.11.1
>> system = i386, darwin8.11.1
>> status =
>> major = 2
>> minor = 8.1
>> year = 2008
>> month = 12
>> day = 22
>> svn rev = 47281
>> language = R
>> version.string = R version 2.8.1 (2008-12-22)
>>
>> Locale:
>> en_US.UTF-8/en_US.UTF-8/C/C/en_US.UTF-8/en_US.UTF-8
>>
>> Search Path:
>> .GlobalEnv, package:foreign, package:stats, package:graphics,
>> package:grDevices, package:utils, package:datasets, package:methods,
>> Autoloads, package:base
>>
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[Rd] proposed patch to Uniform.Rd
In the wake of discussions about documentation of R's
random number generation (and whether there should be links
to .Random.seed in other places), here is a proposed patch
to Uniform.Rd from 2.8.1. (Watch out for line breaks.)
[R-core may choose not to accept this, but at least it's
easy if they want it.]
cheers
Ben Bolker
*** Uniform.Rd.orig 2009-01-04 14:10:47.0 -0500
--- Uniform.Rd 2009-01-04 14:12:26.0 -0500
***
*** 49,54
--- 49,58
\code{max = min} or \code{max-min} is small compared to \code{min},
and in particular not for the default arguments.
}
+ \note{The characteristics of output from pseudo-random
+ number generators (such as precision and periodicity) vary widely. See
+ \code{\link{.Random.seed}} for more information on R's random number
+ generation algorithms.}
\references{
Becker, R. A., Chambers, J. M. and Wilks, A. R. (1988)
\emph{The New S Language}.
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[Rd] R-intro
Currently the pdf/dvi versions of R-intro do not build, the tex compilation hangs on page 21 (standard TeXLive, OS X). === Jan de Leeuw, 11667 Steinhoff Rd, Frazier Park, CA 93225 home 661-245-1725 mobile 661-231-5416 work 310-825-9550 .mac: jdeleeuw +++ aim: deleeuwjan +++ skype: j_deleeuw === I am I because my little dog knows me. Gertrude Stein __ R-devel@r-project.org mailing list https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-devel
Re: [Rd] R-intro
Jan, I am not seeing this (on OS X or anywhere else). Can you plese give more detais? On Mac OS I am using MacTeX, on Windows MiKTeX and on Linux TeXLixe 2007. On Sun, 4 Jan 2009, Jan de Leeuw wrote: Currently the pdf/dvi versions of R-intro do not build, the tex compilation hangs on page 21 (standard TeXLive, OS X). === Jan de Leeuw, 11667 Steinhoff Rd, Frazier Park, CA 93225 home 661-245-1725 mobile 661-231-5416 work 310-825-9550 .mac: jdeleeuw +++ aim: deleeuwjan +++ skype: j_deleeuw === I am I because my little dog knows me. Gertrude Stein __ R-devel@r-project.org mailing list https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-devel -- Brian D. Ripley, rip...@stats.ox.ac.uk Professor of Applied Statistics, http://www.stats.ox.ac.uk/~ripley/ University of Oxford, Tel: +44 1865 272861 (self) 1 South Parks Road, +44 1865 272866 (PA) Oxford OX1 3TG, UKFax: +44 1865 272595 __ R-devel@r-project.org mailing list https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-devel
Re: [Rd] R-intro
Brian, See below. It hangs after typesetting p 21, so I gave a ^C. It's the current R-devel from svn, OS X 10.5.6, and the current TeXLive-2008 from svn (i.e. from tlmgr). -- Jan On Jan 4, 2009, at 14:11 , Prof Brian Ripley wrote: Jan, I am not seeing this (on OS X or anywhere else). Can you plese give more detais? On Mac OS I am using MacTeX, on Windows MiKTeX and on Linux TeXLixe 2007. On Sun, 4 Jan 2009, Jan de Leeuw wrote: Currently the pdf/dvi versions of R-intro do not build, the tex compilation hangs on page 21 (standard TeXLive, OS X). === Jan de Leeuw, 11667 Steinhoff Rd, Frazier Park, CA 93225 home 661-245-1725 mobile 661-231-5416 work 310-825-9550 .mac: jdeleeuw +++ aim: deleeuwjan +++ skype: j_deleeuw === I am I because my little dog knows me. Gertrude Stein __ R-devel@r-project.org mailing list https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-devel -- Brian D. Ripley, rip...@stats.ox.ac.uk Professor of Applied Statistics, http://www.stats.ox.ac.uk/~ripley/ University of Oxford, Tel: +44 1865 272861 (self) 1 South Parks Road, +44 1865 272866 (PA) Oxford OX1 3TG, UKFax: +44 1865 272595 === Jan de Leeuw; Distinguished Professor and Chair, UCLA Department of Statistics; Director: UCLA Center for Environmental Statistics (CES); Editor: Journal of Multivariate Analysis, Journal of Statistical Software; US mail: 8125 Math Sciences Bldg, Box 951554, Los Angeles, CA 90095-1554 phone (310)-825-9550; fax (310)-206-5658; email: dele...@stat.ucla.edu .mac: jdeleeuw ++ aim: deleeuwjan ++ skype: j_deleeuw homepages: http://gifi.stat.ucla.edu ++ http://www.cuddyvalley.org - No matter where you go, there you are. --- Buckaroo Banzai http://gifi.stat.ucla.edu/sounds/nomatter.au - __ R-devel@r-project.org mailing list https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-devel
Re: [Rd] R-intro
On Sun, 4 Jan 2009, Jan de Leeuw wrote:
Brian,
See below. It hangs after typesetting p 21, so I gave a ^C. It's the
current R-devel from svn, OS X 10.5.6, and the current TeXLive-2008
from svn (i.e. from tlmgr).
The problem seems to be the version of texinfo.tex, which does not seem to
be the one from TexLive 2008. My MacTeX has
tystie% kpsewhich texinfo.tex
/usr/local/texlive/2008/texmf-dist/tex/texinfo/texinfo.tex
\def\texinfoversion{2008-04-18.10}
and your log has
(./R-intro.texi
(/usr/local/texlive/2008/texmf-dist/tex/texinfo/texinfo.tex
Loading texinfo [version 2009-01-01.14]:
Note the date ... not in 2008. This would not be the first time that a
broken texinfo.tex has been released, but I don't see a texinfo release
since 4.13a on 2008-09-22. Please revert to a released version.
Brian
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Re: [Rd] R-intro
Thanks. Works with a previous version of texinfo.tex from Time Machine.
If you run tlmgr you'll see that CTAN now has the (broken) 2009-01-01
version, released by the FSF in 2009.
-- J.
On Jan 4, 2009, at 15:02 , Prof Brian Ripley wrote:
On Sun, 4 Jan 2009, Jan de Leeuw wrote:
Brian,
See below. It hangs after typesetting p 21, so I gave a ^C. It's the
current R-devel from svn, OS X 10.5.6, and the current TeXLive-2008
from svn (i.e. from tlmgr).
The problem seems to be the version of texinfo.tex, which does not
seem to be the one from TexLive 2008. My MacTeX has
tystie% kpsewhich texinfo.tex
/usr/local/texlive/2008/texmf-dist/tex/texinfo/texinfo.tex
\def\texinfoversion{2008-04-18.10}
and your log has
(./R-intro.texi (/usr/local/texlive/2008/texmf-dist/tex/texinfo/
texinfo.tex
Loading texinfo [version 2009-01-01.14]:
Note the date ... not in 2008. This would not be the first time
that a broken texinfo.tex has been released, but I don't see a
texinfo release since 4.13a on 2008-09-22. Please revert to a
released version.
Brian
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University of Oxford, Tel: +44 1865 272861 (self)
1 South Parks Road, +44 1865 272866 (PA)
Oxford OX1 3TG, UKFax: +44 1865 272595
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Statistics;
Director: UCLA Center for Environmental Statistics (CES);
Editor: Journal of Multivariate Analysis, Journal of Statistical
Software;
US mail: 8125 Math Sciences Bldg, Box 951554, Los Angeles, CA 90095-1554
phone (310)-825-9550; fax (310)-206-5658; email: dele...@stat.ucla.edu
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