Re: [Rd] can't compile on OSX: unsetenv header issues

2007-01-08 Thread Simon Urbanek
Thanks, Seth, it's now fixed in R-devel. Cheers, Simon On Jan 8, 2007, at 10:54 AM, Seth Falcon wrote: > Hi, > > A recent change has R failing to compile (for me) on ppc OSX 10.4.8 > like this: > > ../../../../R-devel/src/main/datetime.c: In function `reset_tz': > ../../../../R-devel/src/mai

Re: [Rd] can't compile on OSX: unsetenv header issues

2007-01-08 Thread Simon Urbanek
On Jan 8, 2007, at 12:47 PM, Prof Brian Ripley wrote: > On Mon, 8 Jan 2007, Seth Falcon wrote: > >> Hi, >> >> A recent change has R failing to compile (for me) on ppc OSX >> 10.4.8 like this: >> >> ../../../../R-devel/src/main/datetime.c: In function `reset_tz': >> ../../../../R-devel/src/main/

Re: [Rd] Scoping issues

2007-01-08 Thread Gabor Grothendieck
On 1/8/07, Chris Eisley <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hello Prof Ripley, > > Prof Brian Ripley wrote: > > I don't undersand what the issues are, but he actually said > > > >>> These files make up a package, > > > > and all the source files on an R packages are concatenated and loaded > > into a sing

Re: [Rd] Scoping issues

2007-01-08 Thread Chris Eisley
Hello Prof Ripley, Prof Brian Ripley wrote: > I don't undersand what the issues are, but he actually said > >>> These files make up a package, > > and all the source files on an R packages are concatenated and loaded > into a single environment. So my understanding of the answer to > >>> I as

[Rd] undocumented name mangling during unlist?

2007-01-08 Thread Seth Falcon
The documentation for unlist says: By default, 'unlist' tries to retain the naming information present in 'x'. If 'use.names = FALSE' all naming information is dropped. Hence, I find it odd that I see the following: > b <- list("highway1"=1:5) > unlist(b) highway11 hi

Re: [Rd] How to execute R scripts simultaneously from multiple threads

2007-01-08 Thread Vladimir Dergachev
On Monday 08 January 2007 6:36 am, Hin-Tak Leung wrote: > Erik van Zijst wrote: > > Vladimir Dergachev wrote: > > > > >> At some point (years ago) there was even an argument on some mailiing > >> list (xfree86-devel ?) about whether Xserver should support shared > >> memory as unix socket was "fas

Re: [Rd] can't compile on OSX: unsetenv header issues

2007-01-08 Thread Prof Brian Ripley
On Mon, 8 Jan 2007, Seth Falcon wrote: > Hi, > > A recent change has R failing to compile (for me) on ppc OSX 10.4.8 like this: > > ../../../../R-devel/src/main/datetime.c: In function `reset_tz': > ../../../../R-devel/src/main/datetime.c:511: error: void value not ignored as > it ought to be > >

[Rd] klin: a package for solving linear equations with Kronecker structure

2007-01-08 Thread Tamas K Papp
Hi, I decided to package some functions I wrote. klin is a package that implements efficient ways to evaluate and solve equations of the form Ax=b, where A is a kronecker product of matrices. Functions to solve least squares problems of this type are also included. The exact algorithm used was

Re: [Rd] Wish list

2007-01-08 Thread Gabor Grothendieck
On 1/8/07, Gabor Grothendieck <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On 1/8/07, Martin Maechler <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > "Duncan" == Duncan Murdoch <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > > on Sat, 06 Jan 2007 19:45:31 -0500 writes: > > > >Duncan> On 1/1/2007 1:28 AM, Gabor Grothendieck wrote: > >

[Rd] can't compile on OSX: unsetenv header issues

2007-01-08 Thread Seth Falcon
Hi, A recent change has R failing to compile (for me) on ppc OSX 10.4.8 like this: ../../../../R-devel/src/main/datetime.c: In function `reset_tz': ../../../../R-devel/src/main/datetime.c:511: error: void value not ignored as it ought to be I suspect there is some sort of configure magic that n

Re: [Rd] Wish list

2007-01-08 Thread Gabor Grothendieck
On 1/8/07, Martin Maechler <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > "Duncan" == Duncan Murdoch <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > on Sat, 06 Jan 2007 19:45:31 -0500 writes: > >Duncan> On 1/1/2007 1:28 AM, Gabor Grothendieck wrote: >>> 7. documentation standards for packages - NEWS/ChangeLog >>>

Re: [Rd] Wish list

2007-01-08 Thread Martin Maechler
> "Duncan" == Duncan Murdoch <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > on Sat, 06 Jan 2007 19:45:31 -0500 writes: Duncan> On 1/1/2007 1:28 AM, Gabor Grothendieck wrote: >> 7. documentation standards for packages - NEWS/ChangeLog >> (also should be accessible from CRAN page for package and

Re: [Rd] (PR#9437) pb in regular expression with the character "-"

2007-01-08 Thread Prof Brian Ripley
On Mon, 8 Jan 2007, Hin-Tak Leung wrote: > May I chip in at this point - I agree the bug report was invalid, but > many of the replies were missing the point, as far as I see. It > wasn't the backslash escape that "Fan" is *mainly* confused about > (which he obviously is...), but the uses of the d

Re: [Rd] (PR#9437) pb in regular expression with the character "-"

2007-01-08 Thread Hin-Tak Leung
May I chip in at this point - I agree the bug report was invalid, but many of the replies were missing the point, as far as I see. It wasn't the backslash escape that "Fan" is *mainly* confused about (which he obviously is...), but the uses of the different brackets: [] ,() . He/She was expecting

Re: [Rd] How to execute R scripts simultaneously from multiple threads

2007-01-08 Thread Hin-Tak Leung
Erik van Zijst wrote: > Vladimir Dergachev wrote: >> At some point (years ago) there was even an argument on some mailiing list >> (xfree86-devel ?) about whether Xserver should support shared memory as unix >> socket was "fast enough" - with the other side arguing that when you pass >> megabyt