Re: [Rd] Typo [Was: Rd and guillemots]

2005-09-16 Thread Thomas Lumley
On Fri, 16 Sep 2005, Thomas Lumley wrote: On Fri, 16 Sep 2005, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: The name of the "continental" quotation mark ? is "guillemet". For anyone who is still confused: It should perhaps be noted that the Postscript name for the Unicode "Left pointing guillemet" is guille

Re: [Rd] Typo [Was: Rd and guillemots]

2005-09-16 Thread Thomas Lumley
On Fri, 16 Sep 2005, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: The name of the "continental" quotation mark « is "guillemet". For anyone who is still confused: Left pointing guillemet (U+00BB) http://www.mathmlcentral.com/characters/glyphs/LeftGuillemet.html Left pointing guillemot (Uria aalge) http://www.r

[Rd] Typo [Was: Rd and guillemots]

2005-09-16 Thread Ted Harding
On 16-Sep-05 Duncan Murdoch wrote: > [...] > This seems to happen in Rdconv.pm, around here: > > ## avoid conversion to guillemots > $c =~ s/< $c =~ s/>>/>\{\}>/; The name of the "continental" quotation mark « is "guillemet". The R Development Core Team must have had some bird on

Re: [Rd] Rd and guillemots

2005-09-16 Thread Duncan Murdoch
On 9/16/2005 4:16 PM, Prof Brian Ripley wrote: > There are two instances of this. If I add 'go' to both it works for me. > I guess you only had the first one (the second is used here). Yes, that's it. Thanks! Duncan Murdoch > > On Fri, 16 Sep 2005, Duncan Murdoch wrote: > >> On 9/15/2005 7:5

Re: [Rd] Rd and guillemots

2005-09-16 Thread Prof Brian Ripley
There are two instances of this. If I add 'go' to both it works for me. I guess you only had the first one (the second is used here). On Fri, 16 Sep 2005, Duncan Murdoch wrote: > On 9/15/2005 7:51 PM, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: >> First of all, thanks to those who've set up R to work so smoothly w

Re: [Rd] Rd and guillemots

2005-09-16 Thread Ted Harding
On 16-Sep-05 Ted Harding wrote: > On 16-Sep-05 Duncan Murdoch wrote: >> Yes, this is the tex that gets output: >> >> \code{mlazy( <{}{}>, <>, <>)} >> >> This seems to happen in Rdconv.pm, around here: >> >> ## avoid conversion to guillemots >> $c =~ s/<> $c =~ s/>>/>\{\}>/; >> >>

Re: [Rd] Rd and guillemots

2005-09-16 Thread Ted Harding
On 16-Sep-05 Duncan Murdoch wrote: > On 9/15/2005 7:51 PM, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: >> First of all, thanks to those who've set up R to work so smoothly with >> Miktex-- even a total Latex bunny like me got it to work instantly, so >> that for the first time I'm able to run my Rd files through the

Re: [Rd] Rd and guillemots

2005-09-16 Thread Duncan Murdoch
On 9/15/2005 7:51 PM, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > First of all, thanks to those who've set up R to work so smoothly with > Miktex-- even a total Latex bunny like me got it to work instantly, so > that for the first time I'm able to run my Rd files through the Latex > side of RCMD CHECK. > > Now the

Re: [Rd] loadings() generic in R alpha

2005-09-16 Thread Paul Gilbert
Brian Ok, lets leave this for now. When does the development cycle start for the next version that would allow making a function generic? Paul Prof Brian D Ripley wrote: >On Fri, 16 Sep 2005, Paul Gilbert wrote: > > > >>Brian >> >>It would help if I understood general principles. I thought o

Re: [Rd] loadings() generic in R alpha

2005-09-16 Thread Paul Gilbert
Gavin Simpson wrote: >On Fri, 2005-09-16 at 12:52 -0400, Paul Gilbert wrote: > > >>Brian >> >>It would help if I understood general principles. I thought one would >>want a case for NOT making functions generic, rather than a case for >>making them generic. Hopefully a case for why generics an

Re: [Rd] loadings() generic in R alpha

2005-09-16 Thread Prof Brian D Ripley
On Fri, 16 Sep 2005, Paul Gilbert wrote: > Brian > > It would help if I understood general principles. I thought one would > want a case for NOT making functions generic, rather than a case for > making them generic. Hopefully a case for why generics and methods are > useful will not be necessary.

Re: [Rd] loadings() generic in R alpha

2005-09-16 Thread Gavin Simpson
On Fri, 2005-09-16 at 12:52 -0400, Paul Gilbert wrote: > Brian > > It would help if I understood general principles. I thought one would > want a case for NOT making functions generic, rather than a case for > making them generic. Hopefully a case for why generics and methods are > useful will

Re: [Rd] loadings() generic in R alpha

2005-09-16 Thread Paul Gilbert
Brian It would help if I understood general principles. I thought one would want a case for NOT making functions generic, rather than a case for making them generic. Hopefully a case for why generics and methods are useful will not be necessary. The situation with loadings() is that I construc

Re: [Rd] MikTeX will be assumed in R 2.2.0 in Windows

2005-09-16 Thread Prof Brian Ripley
We've made some further changes that enable the scripts to figure out if MiKTeX or some more standard latex is being used, so hopefully it should work for everyone out-of-the-box. On Fri, 9 Sep 2005, Duncan Murdoch wrote: > I've just committed some changes to allow R to be built and to use > Mi

Re: [Rd] Month recognition issue

2005-09-16 Thread Gabor Grothendieck
month.abb is hard coded English but I don't think its used by the routines you are interested in anyways. To momentarily set locale try this: Sys.setlocale("LC_ALL","EN") and Sys.setlocale("LC_ALL","FR") On 9/7/05, Sebastien Durand <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Dear all, > > I am running > R

Re: [Rd] Month recognition issue

2005-09-16 Thread Prof Brian Ripley
On Wed, 7 Sep 2005, Sebastien Durand wrote: Dear all, I am running R : Copyright 2005, The R Foundation for Statistical Computing Version 2.1.1 (2005-06-20), ISBN 3-900051-07-0 Under Mac os X, a french version! There is no `french version', but you may be in a French locale. I am preparing

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

2005-09-16 Thread John Fox
Dear Werner, > -Original Message- > From: Werner Stahel [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: Friday, September 16, 2005 2:37 AM > To: Martin Maechler > Cc: R-devel@stat.math.ethz.ch; John Maindonald; Werner > Stahel; John Fox > Subject: Re: plot(): new behavior in R-2.2.0 alpha > . . .

[Rd] incomplete make clean for grDevices ( Windows only) (PR#8137)

2005-09-16 Thread thomas . petzoldt
Full_Name: Thomas Petzoldt Version: R 2.2.0 alpha OS: Windows Submission from: (NULL) (141.30.20.2) Symptom: If one moves a source tree to another drive letter, a following compile will fail when compiling grDevices. The bug is found on Windows only. Reason: When performing a "make clean" for

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

2005-09-16 Thread Werner Stahel
Dear Martin, dear Johns Thanks for including me into your discussion. I am a strong supporter of "Residuals vs. Hii" >> One remaining problem I'd like to address is the "balanced AOV" >> situation, ... In order to keep the plots consistent, I suggest to draw a histogram. Other alternatives wil

Re: [Rd] loadings() generic in R alpha

2005-09-16 Thread Prof Brian Ripley
On Thu, 15 Sep 2005, Paul Gilbert wrote (in two separate messages) > Could loadings() in R-2.2.0 please be made generic? > Could acf() in R-2.2.0 please be made generic? I think it is too late in the process for this (and especially for acf). In particular, it could have knock-on consequenc

Re: [Rd] Rprofile not executed in R 2.2.0 alpha for Windows

2005-09-16 Thread Prof Brian Ripley
Do you mean R_HOME/etc/Rprofile (not Profile)? That is not supposed to be executed: see ?Startup. See the NEWS item o R_HOME/etc/Rprofile is no longer looked for if R_HOME/etc/Rprofile.site does not exist. (This has been undocumented since R 1.4.0.) We will rename the