[Rd] simulate in stats

2005-09-14 Thread Paul Gilbert
(Sorry if this was posted twice. I seem to be having some email issues.) Can the arguments nsim and seed be passed as part of ... in the new simulate generic in R-2.2.0alpha package stats? This would potentially allow me to use the stats generic rather than the one I define in dse. There are co

[Rd] simulate in stats

2005-09-14 Thread Paul Gilbert
Can the arguments nsim and seed be passed as part of ... in the new simulate generic in R-2.2.0alpha package stats? This would potentially allow me to use the stats generic rather than the one I define in dse. There are contexts where nsim and seed do not make sense. I realize that the default

Re: [Rd] as.Date() , feature or bug?

2005-09-14 Thread Uwe Ligges
Bo Peng wrote: >>Well, bug, if you really want to call it a bug that you cannot represent >>the year . ;-) > > > So I guess we need a warning message and a line in help(as.Date)? Even better a fix (than an *error* message), since the POSIX classes can handle the date and I do not (yet) see

Re: [Rd] NUMERIC_POINTER question

2005-09-14 Thread Witold Eryk Wolski
Thanks Roger, Simon, Reid, It's indeed trivial, if you stop to believe that S4 provides any type of type safety. However, having in mind all the arguments why S4, and that it was designed in order to incorporate type safety on both the R and C side I was not expecting that when trying for th

Re: [Rd] as.Date() , feature or bug?

2005-09-14 Thread Bo Peng
> Well, bug, if you really want to call it a bug that you cannot represent > the year . ;-) So I guess we need a warning message and a line in help(as.Date)? Bo __ R-devel@r-project.org mailing list https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-devel

Re: [Rd] R CMD check

2005-09-14 Thread jing hua zhao
yes, it does work now by putting the R environments in front of the original %path%. >From: Duncan Murdoch <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >To: jing hua zhao <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >CC: r-devel@r-project.org >Subject: Re: [Rd] R CMD check >Date: Wed, 14 Sep 2005 07:04:57 -0400 > >jing hua zhao wrote: >>Dear r-

Re: [Rd] plot(): new behavior in R-2.2.0 alpha

2005-09-14 Thread John Fox
Dear Martin, > -Original Message- > From: Martin Maechler [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: Wednesday, September 14, 2005 3:56 AM > To: John Fox > Cc: 'Martin Maechler'; 'Werner Stahel'; 'John Maindonald'; > R-devel@stat.math.ethz.ch > Subject: Re: [Rd] plot(): new behavior in R-2.2.0 al

Re: [Rd] plot(): new behavior in R-2.2.0 alpha

2005-09-14 Thread John Fox
Dear John, > -Original Message- > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of John Maindonald > Sent: Wednesday, September 14, 2005 1:09 AM > To: Martin Maechler > Cc: Werner Stahel; R-devel@stat.math.ethz.ch; John Fox > Subject: Re: [Rd] plot(): new behavior in R-2.

Re: [Rd] as.Date() , feature or bug?

2005-09-14 Thread Uwe Ligges
Bo Peng wrote: > Under linux and windows, > > >>as.Date("-06-06") > > [1] "-06-06" > >>as.Date("-07-07") > > [1] "1970-01-01" > > > Feature? Bug? help(as.Date) does not mention this case. Well, bug, if you really want to call it a bug that you cannot represent the year . ;

Re: [Rd] R CMD check

2005-09-14 Thread Duncan Murdoch
jing hua zhao wrote: > Dear r-devel members, > > I tried to build R packages on a PC running Windows XP but experience > problems. However, it is ok when there is no inst directory in a package. > > Any help would be appreciated. > > The following is an example, > > C:\work>R CMD check VR_7.2-

Re: [Rd] plot(): new behavior in R-2.2.0 alpha

2005-09-14 Thread Martin Maechler
Thank you, John, for Dear > "JohnF" == John Fox <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > on Tue, 13 Sep 2005 16:41:28 -0400 writes: JohnF> A couple of comments on the new plots (numbers 5 and 6): JohnF> Perhaps some more thought could be given to the JohnF> plotted contours for Cook's D (whi

[Rd] R CMD check

2005-09-14 Thread jing hua zhao
Dear r-devel members, I tried to build R packages on a PC running Windows XP but experience problems. However, it is ok when there is no inst directory in a package. Any help would be appreciated. The following is an example, C:\work>R CMD check VR_7.2-19.tar.gz * checking for working latex ..

Re: [Rd] plot(): new behavior in R-2.2.0 alpha

2005-09-14 Thread John Maindonald
Following the >20 messages that Martin mentioned, I had private discussion with John Fox, which in part lies behind following questions: (1) In plot 5, should we have, maybe as an option, vertical lines at 2hbar and 3hbar, as in the plots produced by the function that John Fox sent me. I think th