Re: [Rd] possibly stupid question about RPM building

2006-07-18 Thread Prof Brian Ripley
On Tue, 18 Jul 2006, Ben Bolker wrote: > > I'm trying to build an RPM of R 2.3.1 on a very old RedHat system > (specifically, a ROCKS 3.3.0 cluster which is built on RH enterprise > 3 (I think??)) `Very old' to me suggested 7.x or so > I downloaded R-2.3.1.tgz from CRAN; downloaded the

[Rd] ASCII dump from an REXP (JRI)

2006-07-18 Thread way4thesub
Hi Simon, Thanks so much for your help. Your advice has been taken to heart. I now pass in blocks of 100,000 records, and it does 100,000 predictions in seconds and returns a logical vector with the predictions to an int array. It works like a charm! I want to reference what we were talking abou

Re: [Rd] [BioC] Errors using biocLite on Apple OS X

2006-07-18 Thread Steven McKinney
The warnings from make.packages.html() on the Apple Mac OS X platform can be dealt with as follows: (1) make.packages.html() uses the function tempdir() and attempts to create a temporary directory in the default location /tmp/ which fails due

[Rd] possibly stupid question about RPM building

2006-07-18 Thread Ben Bolker
I'm trying to build an RPM of R 2.3.1 on a very old RedHat system (specifically, a ROCKS 3.3.0 cluster which is built on RH enterprise 3 (I think??)) I downloaded R-2.3.1.tgz from CRAN; downloaded the R.spec file cran.r-project.org/http://cran.r-project.org/bin/linux/redhat/SRPMS/ ; and ran r

Re: [Rd] Patch to allow negative argument in head() and tail()

2006-07-18 Thread François Pinard
[Vincent Goulet] >For me, this usage of head() and tail() is, at first, completely >unintuitive since I more used to, say, "start from the beginning (head) >of the vector and drop the first n elements" than "return the end of >the vector except the first n elements". But I must agree your >con

Re: [Rd] Patch to allow negative argument in head() and tail()

2006-07-18 Thread Vincent Goulet
Le Mardi 18 Juillet 2006 04:42, Martin Maechler a écrit : > > "Vincent" == Vincent Goulet <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > on Mon, 17 Jul 2006 15:03:34 -0400 writes: > > Vincent> Dear developeRs (and other abuseRs ;-), > > Vincent> I would like to contribute a patch against > Vincent

Re: [Rd] documentation for argument to screen (PR#9085)

2006-07-18 Thread Seth Falcon
> On Tue, 18 Jul 2006, Douglas Grove wrote: >> And for future reference, is there a source that documents >> how to create a patch for documentation or source code? >> I have never made a patch but I would like to be able >> to do this in the future. One way to do this is: 1. Obtain the Subversio

Re: [Rd] documentation for argument to screen (PR#9085)

2006-07-18 Thread Prof Brian Ripley
On Tue, 18 Jul 2006, Douglas Grove wrote: > The reason I noticed this is that I do not know how > the screens are numbered. Well, the S documentation also does not say, so it is regarded as obvious. AFAIK sequentially from the last used number, either in the order of the rows of 'figs' or row-m

Re: [Rd] documentation for argument to screen (PR#9085)

2006-07-18 Thread Douglas Grove
The reason I noticed this is that I do not know how the screens are numbered. And for future reference, is there a source that documents how to create a patch for documentation or source code? I have never made a patch but I would like to be able to do this in the future. Thanks, Doug On Tue

Re: [Rd] documentation for argument to screen (PR#9085)

2006-07-18 Thread Prof Brian Ripley
Patch, please On Tue, 18 Jul 2006, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Full_Name: Doug Grove > Version: 2.3.1 patched (2006-07-03 r38485) > OS: Windows > Submission from: (NULL) (24.19.37.159) > > > A msg. to R-help prompted me to read the help page for split.screen/screen, > etc. > I understand w

[Rd] documentation for argument to screen (PR#9085)

2006-07-18 Thread dgrove
Full_Name: Doug Grove Version: 2.3.1 patched (2006-07-03 r38485) OS: Windows Submission from: (NULL) (24.19.37.159) A msg. to R-help prompted me to read the help page for split.screen/screen, etc. I understand what the function is for, but could not find information that described how the argume

Re: [Rd] send a list from R to C

2006-07-18 Thread Jörn Schulz
O.k., thanks. I think, I tried your suggesion before I post here, but I made a mistake in my first approach. Now, it opperate. Again, thank you for the reply. -- View this message in context: http://www.nabble.com/send-a-list-from-R-to-C-tf1960161.html#a5377955 Sent from the R devel forum at N

Re: [Rd] Final patch for bug 8141 - rewriting substituteList

2006-07-18 Thread Kevin B. Hendricks
Hi, Is there anybody interested in this patch to fix bug 8141 - the rewriting substituteList in coerce.c? If so, I have updated it to today's tree. Testers welcome as well. If not, please let me know. Thanks, Kevin Attached is both the patch and a gzipped version of the patch that is t

Re: [Rd] send a list from R to C

2006-07-18 Thread Prof Brian Ripley
On Tue, 18 Jul 2006, Jörn Schulz wrote: > > Hello at all ! > > What is the correct form to give a list form R (e.g. list(c(-1,1), > "TestFile") ) to C. I have no problems, if I don't use character and I have > also no problems to give a character vector form R to C. But, if I combine > real and

[Rd] send a list from R to C

2006-07-18 Thread Jörn Schulz
Hello at all ! What is the correct form to give a list form R (e.g. list(c(-1,1), "TestFile") ) to C. I have no problems, if I don't use character and I have also no problems to give a character vector form R to C. But, if I combine real and strings in a list then I don't know the correct syntax

Re: [Rd] R-2.3.1.tar.gz does not contain VR bundle (PR#9084)

2006-07-18 Thread jtuimala
Dear professor Ripley, I downloaded the file from the CRAN mirrow at Austria, and it seemed very strange that nobody had noticed the same problem. But the same phenomenan appeared several times, so I was rather convinced that the file was missing. I now double-checked this on another system, an

Re: [Rd] R-2.3.1.tar.gz does not contain VR bundle (PR#9084)

2006-07-18 Thread ripley
Where did you get this file from? The version on the CRAM master does contain the bundle (and did it not seem strange to you that no one had reported this in the 6 weeks that the version had been out if there was a problem?). gannet% wget http://cran.r-project.org/src/base/R-2/R-2.3.1.tar.gz --

Re: [Rd] Matrices given to pt? [was: [R] for loops and counters]

2006-07-18 Thread Prof Brian Ripley
There is a general rule that scalar operations (that is functions that work element-by-element and return a scalar result) preserve attributes including names, dims and dimnames. Similarly, there is a general rule about binary operations and attributes. These things should definitely be in the

[Rd] R-2.3.1.tar.gz does not contain VR bundle (PR#9084)

2006-07-18 Thread jarno . tuimala
Full_Name: Jarno Tuimala Version: 2.3.1 OS: Solaris / Linux Submission from: (NULL) (193.166.2.98) Today I downloaded the latest source code release R-2.3.1.tar.gz, and it seems not to contain the VR bundle. After running ./configure I get the following error message: checking for recommended pa

[Rd] raw data documentation

2006-07-18 Thread Heinz Tuechler
Dear Developers, after several discussions on r-help I got the impression that the "standard" R distribution, including the recommended packages, does not offer much to document raw data, imported into R. Hmisc has some functionality in this respect, and others like Richard Heiberger solved some o

Re: [Rd] Patch to allow negative argument in head() and tail()

2006-07-18 Thread Martin Maechler
> "Vincent" == Vincent Goulet <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > on Mon, 17 Jul 2006 15:03:34 -0400 writes: Vincent> Dear developeRs (and other abuseRs ;-), Vincent> I would like to contribute a patch against Vincent> functions head() and tail() of package utils to Vincent> allow f