[Rd] nls profile with port/constraints

2006-01-17 Thread Ben Bolker
Sorry to report further difficulties with nls and profiling and constraints ... the problem this time (which I didn't check for in my last round of testing) is that the nls profiler doesn't seem to respect constraints that have been set when using the port algorithm. See test code below ...

Re: [Rd] natural sorting

2006-01-17 Thread Warnes, Gregory R
The 'mixedsort' function in the 'gtools' package does this. It is probably slower than the c version you point to, but it is already working in R. -G > -Original Message- > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of Andrew Piskorski > Sent: Thursday, January 12, 2006

[Rd] [OT] GPL3 draft

2006-01-17 Thread Thomas Lumley
Since someone is bound to point this out soon I will note that a) A discussion draft of the proposed GPL version 3 is up at http://gplv3.fsf.org/ b) If you have comments on the draft, send them to the FSF rather than to r-devel -thomas Thomas Lumley Assoc. Professo

[Rd] CRAN mirror at StatLib

2006-01-17 Thread Friedrich . Leisch
Dear Pantelis, there have been numerous reports on the R mailing lists that the StatLib mirror of CRAN is not up to date, and I also have written several emails to you asking about the nature of the problems. E.g., http://lib.stat.cmu.edu/R/CRAN/bin/windows/contrib/ shows an old listing,

Re: [Rd] Section 7.1 HML documentation (PR#8484)

2006-01-17 Thread Greg Kochanski
Well, I don't know how it can be precise and correct when it has dangling antecedents. Gramatically speaking, that's the equivalent of an uninitialized pointer. However, I agree with you that it probably just needs a minor bit of fiddling to make sure it answers "Instead of what?" and "Earlier tha

Re: [Rd] Section 7.1 HML documentation (PR#8484)

2006-01-17 Thread Hin-Tak Leung
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Full_Name: Greg Kochanski > Version: 2.2.0 > OS: Debian Linux i686 > Submission from: (NULL) (212.159.16.190) > > > In /usr/share/doc/r-doc-html/manual/R-data.html (at least that's where > it is on Debian...) the documentation is unclear. Comments below. The document

[Rd] data.matrix returns mode logical for zero rows (PR#8496)

2006-01-17 Thread jonathan . swinton
Full_Name: Jonathan Swinton Version: 2.2.1 OS: Windows Submission from: (NULL) (193.132.159.169) #The first line of description for data.matrix says that it will # 'Return the matrix obtained by converting all the variables in a #data frame to numeric mode and then binding them together