Re: [Rd] RFC: API to allow identification of warnings and errors in the output stream

2005-10-17 Thread Luke Tierney
On Mon, 17 Oct 2005, Thomas Friedrichsmeier wrote: >> I am strongly opposed to locking in anything from the C internals of >> error handling that is not already part of the API. This is all very >> much subject to change and anything along the lines you propose will >> make that change more diffi

Re: [Rd] mauchly.test (instead of mauchley.test) ?

2005-10-17 Thread Peter Dalgaard
Tobias Verbeke <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Wherever I look up the following reference > the name of the author is spelled Mauchly > contrary to the naming of the R function. > > Mauchly, J.W., > Significance test for sphericity > of a normal $n$-variate distribution, > Annals of mathematical st

[Rd] mauchly.test (instead of mauchley.test) ?

2005-10-17 Thread Tobias Verbeke
Wherever I look up the following reference the name of the author is spelled Mauchly contrary to the naming of the R function. Mauchly, J.W., Significance test for sphericity of a normal $n$-variate distribution, Annals of mathematical statistics, 11(1940), p. 204-209. Is this a typo on the origi

Re: [Rd] RFC: API to allow identification of warnings and errors in the output stream

2005-10-17 Thread Thomas Friedrichsmeier
> I am strongly opposed to locking in anything from the C internals of > error handling that is not already part of the API. This is all very > much subject to change and anything along the lines you propose will > make that change more difficult. Let's discuss this in two separate parts, then. T

Re: [Rd] RFC: API to allow identification of warnings and errors in the output stream

2005-10-17 Thread Luke Tierney
I am strongly opposed to locking in anything from the C internals of error handling that is not already part of the API. This is all very much subject to change and anything along the lines you propose will make that change more difficult. Condition handling was added to make this sort of thing p

Re: [Rd] [R-gui] R GUI considerations

2005-10-17 Thread Philippe Grosjean
Duncan, I agree totally with you on all points, now that we clarified our respective ideas. I am afraid I probably agree also with your last point, from a theoretical point-of-view ("I still think we need more glue and am working on that while we continue to experiment with the design of GUIs

Re: [Rd] [R-gui] R GUI considerations

2005-10-17 Thread Duncan Temple Lang
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Hi Philippe. I am sorry that you are upset by what I wrote. I did not intend to cause offense. And I was not considering you as "just a professor only interested by the results of your students". However, the discussion has unfortunately degenerat

Re: [Rd] [R-gui] R GUI considerations

2005-10-17 Thread Philippe Grosjean
Duncan, Could you, please, stop considering me as just a professor in biostatistics only interested by the results of my students and nothing else. Do you need a couple of evidences that I am working with other people, other applications, and that they require totally different GUIs? Here they

[Rd] RFC: API to allow identification of warnings and errors in the output stream

2005-10-17 Thread Thomas Friedrichsmeier
Dear R developers, this mail is basically a summary / clarification of some previous mails I sent to this list last week (subject "Catching warning and error output"). Duncan Murdoch pointed out that these were badly organized, and suggested I repost, collecting the main points previously sprea

Re: [Rd] Embedded R in C

2005-10-17 Thread Hin-Tak Leung
NGUYEN Truong Hoan wrote: > Hello everyone, > > I would like to call the R functions from the C++ language > interface, for example from a program composed on Microsoft Visual C++. > I have referred the manual Writing R Extensions but i don't understand > exactly how to make a declarat

[Rd] Embedded R in C

2005-10-17 Thread NGUYEN Truong Hoan
Hello everyone, I would like to call the R functions from the C++ language interface, for example from a program composed on Microsoft Visual C++. I have referred the manual Writing R Extensions but i don't understand exactly how to make a declaration for the headers Rinternals.h o

Re: [Rd] Display a plot in an applet.

2005-10-17 Thread Prof Brian Ripley
What sort of `Applet' did you have in mind? Does package HTMLapplets do what you want? Would package RSvgDevice help? On Mon, 17 Oct 2005, Vasundhara Akkineni wrote: > Hello, > I am trying to display a plot produced in R as part of an Applet. Stating > more clearly, i want to display a scatter pl

Re: [Rd] formatC using a "single" as argument (PR#8211)

2005-10-17 Thread ripley
Reading the help page for formatC x: an atomic numerical or character object, typically a vector of real numbers. and that for as.single I think you got what you should have expected! Nevertheless we will build some protection into 2.3.0. On Mon, 17 Oct 2005 [EMAIL PROTECTED]

[Rd] Display a plot in an applet.

2005-10-17 Thread Vasundhara Akkineni
Hello, I am trying to display a plot produced in R as part of an Applet. Stating more clearly, i want to display a scatter plot(X axis data:1,2,4,5 and Y-axis data:4,6,5, 7)produced in R as an Applet. How can this be done? Please let me know. Thanks, Vasu. [[alternative HTML version dele

[Rd] formatC using a "single" as argument (PR#8211)

2005-10-17 Thread jmaydt
Full_Name: Jochen Maydt Version: R2.2.0 OS: Windows Submission from: (NULL) (139.19.34.7) formatC does not handle "single"s correctly: > formatC(as.single(1)) [1] "5.264e-315" attr(,"Csingle") [1] TRUE This seems to be an unlikely use-case, however. Thank you for creating a great programming l

Re: [Rd] Make problem (PR#8210)

2005-10-17 Thread ripley
In what sense is this a bug in R? The R-admin manual tells you R 2.2.0 has been successfully compiled on several such systems. There is something amiss with your Solaris setup, not generically with R. By guess is that you are out of file space. On Mon, 17 Oct 2005 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: >

[Rd] Make problem (PR#8210)

2005-10-17 Thread JHZhang
Solaris 8 Gnu Make 3.79.1 R-2.2.0 ./configure --prefix=/path/to/here is ok. make error messages, creating doc/html/resources.html *** Error code 255 make: Fatal error: Command failed for target `../html/resources.html' Current working directory /home/zhangj/apps/R/R-patched/doc/manual cp: ../../b

Re: [Rd] [R-gui] R GUI considerations (was: R, Wine, and multi-threadedness)

2005-10-17 Thread Peter Dalgaard
Hin-Tak Leung <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Hi, > > Since you mentioned tcltk2 and python+wxWidgets, what about Tkinter > (python's built-in binding to tk)? It is somewhere between the two, > and is shipped as standard these days with python 2.x. Also, if Perl/Tk > works, and Tkinter works, ther

Re: [Rd] [R-gui] R GUI considerations (was: R, Wine, and multi-threadedness)

2005-10-17 Thread James Wettenhall
Hi, One point I forgot to make last time is that I'm a big fan of prototyping. I have almost no experience whatsoever in Java Swing, but there are plenty of people in the R community who do - e.g. Simon Urbanek and the JGR team. In the past, I have had trouble finding any elegant prototypes (e.g

Re: [Rd] Control R from another program (written in Delphi)

2005-10-17 Thread Simon Urbanek
Rainer, On Oct 17, 2005, at 1:13 PM, Rainer M. Krug wrote: > At the moment I am using the (D)COM interface but as I would like > to run R on a Linux Cluster, thits is not an option any more. > What is the easiest way of copntrolluing R over the network? I > thought about sockets, but I am a

Re: [Rd] checking S3 generic/method consistency

2005-10-17 Thread Paul Gilbert
Kurt Ok, but I'm still confused about what "as seen from the package" means. I'm especially confused because at first in my testing (on Linux) a method (in a package not in dse but using dse1) was being compared against the stats generic, so I put in a work around. Then I discovered in Solaris

Re: [Rd] [R-gui] R GUI considerations (was: R, Wine, and multi-threadedness)

2005-10-17 Thread Richard Haney
For example, there is a need in proteomics for a special-purpose proteomics-based statistical graphics engine and GUI. In this context, for example, over this past year SAS has released a special-purpose plotting engine built on top of their JMP system, that I believe is very good. One wou

[Rd] Control R from another program (written in Delphi)

2005-10-17 Thread Rainer M. Krug
Hi I want to analysis data (generatet in a simulation written in Delphi) in R and the user interface will also written in Delpni -0 i.e. I want to control R from another program which is written in Delphi. At the moment I am using the (D)COM interface but as I would like to run R on a Linux Clu

Re: [Rd] [R-gui] R GUI considerations (was: R, Wine, and multi-threadedness)

2005-10-17 Thread John Fox
Dear Marc et al., As the author of an R GUI, I've been following this thread with interest. I think that both a session at the UseR! conference and a more informal meeting to provide an opportunity for discussion are a great idea. It's hard to make much progress on this kind of issue via email d

Re: [Rd] [R-gui] R GUI considerations

2005-10-17 Thread Thomas Friedrichsmeier
Hi Philippe, > I answer to Marc's email, because I think it is the most constructive > one. I am a little bit dissapointed that the discussion about R GUIs, > whatever the initial subject, inevitably shifts to an endless discussion > about which graphical toolkit to use, and whether one should int

Re: [Rd] Cross compiler taqrgeting Mac OS X

2005-10-17 Thread Hin-Tak Leung
If it is open-source work, get yourself an account on sourceforge - they have a compile-farm for this sort of purpose, and they have one (or two?), I have used the Mac OS X machine there. This way, at least you can test your work natively on Mac OS X. A bit easier to do than cross-compiling. Goo

Re: [Rd] R GUI considerations (was: R, Wine, and multi-threadedness)

2005-10-17 Thread Hin-Tak Leung
Hi, Since you mentioned tcltk2 and python+wxWidgets, what about Tkinter (python's built-in binding to tk)? It is somewhere between the two, and is shipped as standard these days with python 2.x. Also, if Perl/Tk works, and Tkinter works, there is no reason why one can't do R/Tk, without the Tcl (

Re: [Rd] [R-gui] R GUI considerations (was: R, Wine, and multi-threadedness)

2005-10-17 Thread Dan Putler
Hi All, While I don't have the "sweat equity" that either Philippe Grosjean and James Wettenhall have in developing R GUI's, I have been involved in two different projects (obveRsive as part of the founding development team, and R Commander as a contributor) over the past three years. In a