Re: [Rd] external pointers

2005-12-12 Thread Prof Brian Ripley
On Mon, 12 Dec 2005, Byron Ellis wrote: > There's also Luke's own site, in particular http://www.stat.uiowa.edu/ > ~luke/R/weakfinex.html Hmm, that _is_ a link on the page I pointed you to, under its actual subject, weak references. > On Dec 12, 2005, at 12:16 AM, Prof Brian Ripley wrote: > >>

Re: [Rd] external pointers

2005-12-12 Thread Byron Ellis
There's also Luke's own site, in particular http://www.stat.uiowa.edu/ ~luke/R/weakfinex.html On Dec 12, 2005, at 12:16 AM, Prof Brian Ripley wrote: > On Mon, 12 Dec 2005, Roger Bivand wrote: > >>> Where would be best to read about externalptr? I'm having trouble >>> finding material in the manu

Re: [Rd] extension to missing()? {was "hist() ... helpful warning? (PR#8376)"}

2005-12-12 Thread Andrew Clausen
Hi Martin, On Mon, Dec 12, 2005 at 12:20:06PM +0100, Martin Maechler wrote: > AndrewC> I didn't occur to me to check the plot.histogram() > AndrewC> help page. > > [ even though it's prominently mentioned on help(hist) ?? ] Yes. I expected plot.histogram() was something that no-one

Re: [Rd] FW: Bug in sum() with named data frame arguments

2005-12-12 Thread Gregory Warnes
I got an email error message when I attempted to send this from my work account. I have manually added it to the bug tracker, and am resending from my personal account. -G On 12/12/05, Warnes, Gregory R <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > > -Original Message- > > From: Warnes, Gr

[Rd] notification (PR#8383)

2005-12-12 Thread patricia . peter
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[Rd] Problems with sending data to FORTRAN subrutine

2005-12-12 Thread Ales Ziberna
Dear ExpeRts! I have problem with sending data to FORTRAN subroutine on Windows XP and R 2.1.1. When I call it using .Fortran, I get the following error: R for Windows GUI front-end has encountered a problem and needs to close. We are sorry for the inconvenience. Error signature AppName: rgui.

Re: [Rd] [R] data.frame() size

2005-12-12 Thread Peter Dalgaard
Hin-Tak Leung <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Prof Brian Ripley wrote: > > Data frames have unique row names *by definition* (White Book p.57). > > Yes - I happened to have the White Book on my desk (not mine...) > - indeed, the first sentence on page 57 is (quote verbatim, the > "never" is in ital

Re: [Rd] [R] data.frame() size

2005-12-12 Thread Hin-Tak Leung
Prof Brian Ripley wrote: > Data frames have unique row names *by definition* (White Book p.57). Yes - I happened to have the White Book on my desk (not mine...) - indeed, the first sentence on page 57 is (quote verbatim, the "never" is in italic in the book, which I have added the "*" before and

Re: [Rd] [R] data.frame() size

2005-12-12 Thread Prof Brian Ripley
Data frames have unique row names *by definition* (White Book p.57). Note that R is extensible, so any package writer has (for 14 years since the White Book) been entitled to assume that. A minimum test suite is to run R CMD check on all CRAN packages, and to read all the relevant documentati

Re: [Rd] [R] data.frame() size

2005-12-12 Thread Matthew Dowle
I guess the mail list precludes attachments then, makes sense. I have sent the modified source directly to anyone who has asked. I had a look at the light-weight data.frame class post (http://tolstoy.newcastle.edu.au/R/devel/05/05/0837.html) : > Now the transcript itself: > # the motivation: su

[Rd] extension to missing()? {was "hist() ... helpful warning? (PR#8376)"}

2005-12-12 Thread Martin Maechler
[taken off R-bugs as a non-bug] > "AndrewC" == clausen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > on Sun, 11 Dec 2005 08:40:01 +0100 (CET) writes: AndrewC> Hi Brian, AndrewC> On Sun, Dec 11, 2005 at 04:34:50AM +, Prof Brian Ripley wrote: >> Did you check the help page? ?plot.histo

Re: [Rd] external pointers

2005-12-12 Thread Prof Brian Ripley
On Mon, 12 Dec 2005, Roger Bivand wrote: >> Where would be best to read about externalptr? I'm having trouble >> finding material in the manuals or the site-search. >> >> And would I need to use all the .Call machinery and C headers and SEXP >> etc in order to handle externalptr objects? > > One p