[Rd] R 2.3.0 (alpha) on FreeBSD 6.1 fails make check-all

2006-03-27 Thread Andrew Robinson
Hi Developers, The alpha, compiles successfully, but it is failing make check-all (on two seperate machines, both FreeBSD 6.1). Here is the version string: platform i386-unknown-freebsd6.1 arch i386 os freebsd6.1 system i386, freebsd6.1 status alpha ma

Re: [Rd] Matrix inner product crashes on x86_64 (PR#8715)

2006-03-27 Thread ripley
On Mon, 27 Mar 2006, Jussi T Lindgren wrote: > On Mon, 27 Mar 2006, Prof Brian Ripley wrote: > >> Not reproducible for me (and do you really think that something as simple as >> this would not have been found on x86_64 long before now?) >> This is almost certainly caused by your use of an inapprop

[Rd] Error once having applied (PR#8718)

2006-03-27 Thread pinard
Hi, people. Here is a transcript of a "R --vanilla" session: ==> R : Copyright 2005, The R Foundation for Statistical Computing Version 2.2.1 (2005-12-20 r36812) ISBN 3-900051-07-0 R est un logiciel libre livré sans AUCUNE GA

[Rd] sink(..., split=T) gives segmentation fault (PR#8716)

2006-03-27 Thread Rbugs06
Full_Name: D Kreil Version: R 2.2.1 (2005-12-20). OS: Linux, Fedora FC4 Submission from: (NULL) (62.178.15.60) sink("filename",split=T); cat("sometext\n"); for (...) { cat(some terms); } reproducibly gives a segmentation fault. No other problems with this installation. Removing the split=T fix

Re: [Rd] Matrix inner product crashes on x86_64 (PR#8715)

2006-03-27 Thread jtlindgr
On Mon, 27 Mar 2006, Prof Brian Ripley wrote: > Not reproducible for me (and do you really think that something as simple as > this would not have been found on x86_64 long before now?) > This is almost certainly caused by your use of an inappropriate external BLAS. > Something has probably been c

Re: [Rd] Matrix inner product crashes on x86_64 (PR#8715)

2006-03-27 Thread ripley
Not reproducible for me (and do you really think that something as simple as this would not have been found on x86_64 long before now?) This is almost certainly caused by your use of an inappropriate external BLAS. Something has probably been compiled for a different processor than the one you

[Rd] Matrix inner product crashes on x86_64 (PR#8715)

2006-03-27 Thread jtlindgr
Matrix inner product seems to crash R2.2.1 on a 64bit arch. More precisely, the crash happens atleast if the matrix is non-square. The bug can be reproduced (atleast here) with bash$ bin/R > X<-matrix(data=0,nrow=100,ncol=10); > mat<-X%*%t(X); Illegal instruction bash$ The crash doesnt happen

Re: [Rd] Operator masks in R, restrict set of applicable functions

2006-03-27 Thread Prof Brian Ripley
On Mon, 27 Mar 2006, Michael Dondrup wrote: > Thank you very much, > Sorry for bothering again, but how about this: > >> assignInNamespace('system',function(...)stop('No system!'),'base') >> system() > Error in system() : No system! >> base::system() > Error in base::system() : No system! >> detac

Re: [Rd] Operator masks in R, restrict set of applicable functions

2006-03-27 Thread Michael Dondrup
Thank you very much, Sorry for bothering again, but how about this: > assignInNamespace('system',function(...)stop('No system!'),'base') > system() Error in system() : No system! > base::system() Error in base::system() : No system! > detach(package:utils) # no way back? I guess there is a wa

[Rd] not a problem: a submission (PR#8714)

2006-03-27 Thread toby
Full_Name: TOBY MARTHEWS Version: 2.1.1 OS: Windows XP Submission from: (NULL) (139.133.7.38) I think you should have better examples on the ?plot man page, if you don't mind me saying. Can I suggest something like this, which would probably stop so many emails to the R help about how to put on e

Re: [Rd] Creating a package bundle.

2006-03-27 Thread Seth Falcon
Hi Steve, Are you sure you want a bundle? If you are writing your own package Foo that depends on two pacakges already available via CRAN, then all you need to do is list those two pacakges in the Depends field of your package's DESCRIPTION file. This will give you the automatic downloading of F

Re: [Rd] R 2.3.0 scheduled for April 24, Grand-Feature freeze is active

2006-03-27 Thread Peter Dalgaard
Peter Dalgaard <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > The release of version 2.3.0 has been scheduled for April 24, 2006. > > The first alpha release should be available later today, once I have > reviewed the build scripts. Done. The first version is now sitting in http://biostat.ku.dk/~pd/R-pre Fu

Re: [Rd] Creating a package bundle.

2006-03-27 Thread Uwe Ligges
Steve Su wrote: > Dear All, > > > > What is the easiest way to create a package bundle in R? I have three > packages I would like to group together in which one package will > depends on three others. It looks like from > > http://tolstoy.newcastle.edu.au/R/help/01a/0284.html, all that is > r

Re: [Rd] Safe to UNPROTECT() when object is assigned to a list?

2006-03-27 Thread Peter Dalgaard
"Henrik Bengtsson" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Hi, > > I'm troubleshooting some native code on Windows that very occationally > (and semi-randomly) crashes R. Already looked at "everything", I just > want to double check that it is safe to UNPROTECT() allocated > variables as soon as they are

[Rd] R 2.3.0 scheduled for April 24, Grand-Feature freeze is active

2006-03-27 Thread Peter Dalgaard
The release of version 2.3.0 has been scheduled for April 24, 2006. The first alpha release should be available later today, once I have reviewed the build scripts. The detailed release schedule is as follows March 27: Declare start of release process. The build process is assumed to

Re: [Rd] Help please: please test timestamping of command history

2006-03-27 Thread Duncan Murdoch
On 3/27/2006 1:47 AM, Martin Maechler wrote: > [from a semi-private diversion of the R-devel thread ] > >> "Duncan" == Duncan Murdoch <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >> on Sat, 25 Mar 2006 12:28:30 -0500 writes: > > Duncan> On 3/25/2006 11:30 AM, Martin Maechler wrote: > >> Hi Duncan, >

[Rd] Safe to UNPROTECT() when object is assigned to a list?

2006-03-27 Thread Henrik Bengtsson
Hi, I'm troubleshooting some native code on Windows that very occationally (and semi-randomly) crashes R. Already looked at "everything", I just want to double check that it is safe to UNPROTECT() allocated variables as soon as they are assigned to, say, a PROTECTed list. >From (R v2.3.0) Sectio

[Rd] ?symbols man page (PR#8713)

2006-03-27 Thread toby
Full_Name: TOBY MARTHEWS Version: 2.2.1 OS: Windows XP Submission from: (NULL) (139.133.7.37) Just a small one, but it did trip me up today. On the ?symbols man page the following paragraph: inches: If 'inches' is 'FALSE', the units are taken to be those of the x axis... should say:

Re: [Rd] Suggest patch for princomp.formula and prcomp.formula

2006-03-27 Thread Berwin A Turlach
G'day Brian, > "BDR" == Prof Brian Ripley <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: BDR> The proposed fix regretably will not work, since one can do BDR> things like BDR> library(MASS) BDR> prcomp(~ dist + dist:climb, hills) Yes, I had the impression that this would work with the current v

Re: [Rd] Operator masks in R, restrict set of applicable functions

2006-03-27 Thread Prof Brian Ripley
On Mon, 27 Mar 2006, Michael Dondrup wrote: > Hi, > is there a way to restrict the set of admissible functions for an eval() > statement to a possibly 'safe' set, excluding all potentially dangerous > functions like 'system', 'open', etc.(like, for instance, in the 'Safe' > module for Perl)? In s

[Rd] Operator masks in R, restrict set of applicable functions

2006-03-27 Thread Michael Dondrup
Hi, is there a way to restrict the set of admissible functions for an eval() statement to a possibly 'safe' set, excluding all potentially dangerous functions like 'system', 'open', etc.(like, for instance, in the 'Safe' module for Perl)? The background for this question is, that this would be