Re: [Rd] nls profiling with algorithm="port" may violate bounds (PR#8508)

2006-01-21 Thread Spencer Graves
Dear Professors. Bolker & Ripley: Thank you both very much for all your creativity and hard work both in your generall contributions to human knowledge and specifically for helping make R the great thing it is today. I had not seen a reply to that email in several days, so I made time t

Re: [Rd] nls profiling with algorithm="port" may viol ate bounds (PR#8508)

2006-01-21 Thread Ben Bolker
Spencer Graves pdf.com> writes: > > Hi, Ben, et al.: > > The issue Ben identified with confint(nls(... )) generates a hard > failure for me. "We" (being Brian Ripley and I) know about this already. I'm sorry I failed to specify enough info in my bug report, but I was using R-dev

Re: [Rd] Bug in xy.coords() or documentation error?

2006-01-21 Thread Gavin Simpson
On Sat, 2006-01-21 at 14:07 -0500, Duncan Murdoch wrote: > On 1/21/2006 1:21 PM, Gavin Simpson wrote: > > On Sat, 2006-01-21 at 13:12 -0500, Gabor Grothendieck wrote: > >> This was discussed just recently. This is a design > >> error but the maintainers claim there are no cases of > >> interest w

[Rd] A patch for do_sample: check replace arg

2006-01-21 Thread Seth Falcon
A colleague sent me the following: If you specify probabilities in the 'sample' function and forget to type 'prob=...', then you get nonsense. E.g. sample(1:10,1,c(0,0,0,0,1,0,0,0,0,0)) does not filter '5', while sample(1:10,1,prob=c(0,0,0,0,1,0,0,0,0,0))

Re: [Rd] Bug in xy.coords() or documentation error?

2006-01-21 Thread Duncan Murdoch
On 1/21/2006 1:21 PM, Gavin Simpson wrote: > On Sat, 2006-01-21 at 13:12 -0500, Gabor Grothendieck wrote: >> This was discussed just recently. This is a design >> error but the maintainers claim there are no cases of >> interest where it matters. > > Thanks Gabor, > > I must have missed that di

Re: [Rd] Bug in xy.coords() or documentation error?

2006-01-21 Thread Gabor Grothendieck
If the latest version does not have it then I guess it was not done. I do agree with you that there is a problem and here and think that the code, not just the docs, should be fixed. On 1/21/06, Gavin Simpson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Sat, 2006-01-21 at 13:39 -0500, Gabor Grothendieck wrote

[Rd] Quits immediately / missing files (PR#8515)

2006-01-21 Thread denswei
Full_Name: Dennis Sweitzer Version: 1.14? 2.2.1? OS: 10.3.5 Submission from: (NULL) (216.83.100.22) I just downloaded R, performed the installation as instructed, but when I run the program it immediately quits. The system generates the following bug report to be sent to Apple. After that is a

Re: [Rd] Bug in xy.coords() or documentation error?

2006-01-21 Thread Gavin Simpson
On Sat, 2006-01-21 at 13:39 -0500, Gabor Grothendieck wrote: > I think the docs have been changed for the next vesion > of R. Not in R Version 2.3.0 Under development (unstable) (2006-01-18 r37123) downloaded today. G > > On 1/21/06, Gavin Simpson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > On Sat, 2006-01-

Re: [Rd] Bug in xy.coords() or documentation error?

2006-01-21 Thread Gabor Grothendieck
I think the docs have been changed for the next vesion of R. On 1/21/06, Gavin Simpson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Sat, 2006-01-21 at 13:12 -0500, Gabor Grothendieck wrote: > > This was discussed just recently. This is a design > > error but the maintainers claim there are no cases of > > in

Re: [Rd] Bug in xy.coords() or documentation error?

2006-01-21 Thread Gavin Simpson
On Sat, 2006-01-21 at 13:12 -0500, Gabor Grothendieck wrote: > This was discussed just recently. This is a design > error but the maintainers claim there are no cases of > interest where it matters. Thanks Gabor, I must have missed that discussion whilst I was on vacation. If what you say was t

Re: [Rd] Bug in xy.coords() or documentation error?

2006-01-21 Thread Gabor Grothendieck
This was discussed just recently. This is a design error but the maintainers claim there are no cases of interest where it matters. On 1/21/06, Gavin Simpson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi, > > I noticed the following problem with xy.coords() in R 2.2.1-patched > (version info at the foot of t

[Rd] Bug in xy.coords() or documentation error?

2006-01-21 Thread Gavin Simpson
Hi, I noticed the following problem with xy.coords() in R 2.2.1-patched (version info at the foot of this email) and R 2.3.0 unstable (subversion no: r37123): > xy.coords(x = matrix(1:20, ncol = 2)) Error in xy.coords(x = matrix(1:20, ncol = 2)) : argument "y" is missing, with no default

Re: [Rd] Loading of namespace on load of .Rdata (was strange behaviour of load)

2006-01-21 Thread Roger Peng
[R-help removed] See below. Heather Turner wrote: > > 1. There is a more general situation where it would be useful to load > the namespace of a package after loading a saved workspace: when the > workspace contains objects of a class for which special methods are > required. E.g. if 'fm' from

Re: [Rd] Minumum memory requirements to run R.

2006-01-21 Thread Uwe Ligges
Liaw, Andy wrote: > From: Kjetil Brinchmann Halvorsen > >>Prof Brian Ripley wrote: >> >>>Quite a while back we set the goal of running R in 16Mb >> >>RAM, as people (I >> >>>think Kjetil) had teaching labs that small. >> >>It's a while since I actually har R used on such small >>machines, I th