Re: [Rd] [R] Function hints

2006-06-19 Thread Mark.Bravington
[This is not about the feasibility of a "hints" function-- which would be incredibly useful, but perhaps very very hard to do-- but about some of the other documentation issues raised in Hadley's post and in Duncan's reply] WRTO documentation & code together: for several years, I've successfully u

Re: [Rd] Fwd: [R-SIG-Mac] Window titles

2006-06-19 Thread Paul Roebuck
On Mon, 19 Jun 2006, Simon Urbanek wrote: > On Jun 17, 2006, at 8:02 AM, Paul Roebuck wrote: > > > Is there a means to provide a title for a Quartz window? > > Yes, now introduced in 3244: you can specify the desired name in the > call to quartz, e.g. > quartz("My Precious Plot") > We have nev

[Rd] Compiling R with ACML on FC5, gcc 4.1.1

2006-06-19 Thread Roger D. Peng
I'm trying to compile R with the AMD core math library (ACML) on Fedora Core 5 with gcc 4.1.1 and am having difficulty getting R to recognize it. I'm using the file acml-3-1-0-gfortran-64bit.tgz from the AMD website. On Fedora Core 4 I had no trouble getting this to work (with gcc 4.0.2) but

Re: [Rd] R Wiki: how useful for developers?

2006-06-19 Thread Spencer Graves
I also want to express my appreciation to the R Wiki developers. I used it 6/18/2006 12:46 PM in answering a post to s-news (citing something I learned from Venables and Ripley). Best Wishes, Spencer Graves Philippe Grosjean wrote: > Henrik Bengtsson wrote

Re: [Rd] [R] Function hints

2006-06-19 Thread Duncan Murdoch
I've moved this from R-help to R-devel, where I think it is more appropriate, and interspersed comments below. On 6/19/2006 8:51 AM, hadley wickham wrote: > One of the recurring themes in the recent UserR conference was that > many people find it difficult to find the functions they need for a

[Rd] write.foreign (SPSS) writes illegal SPSS variable names (PR#9006)

2006-06-19 Thread uhkeller
Full_Name: Ulrich Keller Version: Version 2.3.1 Patched (2006-06-05 r38290) OS: Windows XP SP2 Submission from: (NULL) (158.64.77.159) The variable names specified in SPSS syntax files created by write.foreign(...,package="SPSS") contain hyphens ("-") if these were present in the R variable names

Re: [Rd] building a libR.a for BlueGene/L

2006-06-19 Thread Prof Brian Ripley
On Mon, 19 Jun 2006, Sean Hill wrote: > > We would like to compile a minimal R library that could be linked > into an application that will be run on a BlueGene/L system with > 8,192 processors. This is a system that requires no shared libraries, > no graphical interface, must be single threaded,

Re: [Rd] MacOS X - R crashes & import problem (PR#9005)

2006-06-19 Thread Simon Urbanek
On Jun 19, 2006, at 11:43 AM, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Full_Name: Oliver Balmer > Version: 2.3.1 > OS: Mac OS 10.4.6 > Submission from: (NULL) (157.161.74.75) > > > when working in the editor R crashes regularly. no other program > ever crashes. one quite reliable way to crash it is by markin

Re: [Rd] building a libR.a for BlueGene/L

2006-06-19 Thread Hin-Tak Leung
Quoting the last few lines of config.log is not useful - you need to post the whole of it (or let it be downloaded from somewhere), since the error is a good deal further up. The error and fix is as it says - it seems that your fortran compiler (blrts_xlf) disagree with your C compiler (blrts_xlf

Re: [Rd] MacOS X - R crashes & import problem (PR#9005)

2006-06-19 Thread Peter Dalgaard
[EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: > Another bug: if the imported data frame contains a ยต (greek mu, as in > microliter), R can't read the file. Imported from what? If it is a text file, encoding issues may come into play, and a valid mu in one encoding can be an invalid character in another. -- O__

[Rd] MacOS X - R crashes & import problem (PR#9005)

2006-06-19 Thread oliver . balmer
Full_Name: Oliver Balmer Version: 2.3.1 OS: Mac OS 10.4.6 Submission from: (NULL) (157.161.74.75) when working in the editor R crashes regularly. no other program ever crashes. one quite reliable way to crash it is by marking some code and then pressing the "find" command. I have had this problem

Re: [Rd] R Wiki: how useful for developers?

2006-06-19 Thread Philippe Grosjean
Henrik Bengtsson wrote: > Thank you very much for this Philippe and everyone else who contibuted > to the R Wiki. Great initiative and work. > > I'm interested in the 'R packages section' for adding extra help on my > packages. What kind of backup is there for the wiki? > > Best > > Henrik Fo

Re: [Rd] R Wiki: how useful for developers?

2006-06-19 Thread Henrik Bengtsson
Thank you very much for this Philippe and everyone else who contibuted to the R Wiki. Great initiative and work. I'm interested in the 'R packages section' for adding extra help on my packages. What kind of backup is there for the wiki? Best Henrik On 6/18/06, Philippe Grosjean <[EMAIL PROTEC

[Rd] building a libR.a for BlueGene/L

2006-06-19 Thread Sean Hill
We would like to compile a minimal R library that could be linked into an application that will be run on a BlueGene/L system with 8,192 processors. This is a system that requires no shared libraries, no graphical interface, must be single threaded, and will be cross- compiled. I would sta