Re: [Rd] Quotation marks (PR#11353)

2008-04-30 Thread Prof Brian Ripley
On Wed, 30 Apr 2008, hadley wickham wrote: Single (') and double (") quotation marks are not being read as quotation marks when commands are copied from Word; they produce an error message whenever they are used. To correct this, one has to retype everything in the R console. I tried using

Re: [Rd] New version of X11, png and jpeg

2008-04-30 Thread Prof Brian Ripley
On Wed, 30 Apr 2008, Maarten Blaauw wrote: The now default Cairo results in much prettier graphs, but dense graphs such as plot(rnorm(1e4)) take considerably longer to plot than using X11(type="Xlib"). This has already been mentioned, but I was wondering if we users could expect Cairo speed inc

Re: [Rd] New version of X11, png and jpeg

2008-04-30 Thread Michael Lawrence
On Wed, Apr 30, 2008 at 10:26 AM, Maarten Blaauw <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > The now default Cairo results in much prettier graphs, but dense graphs > such > as plot(rnorm(1e4)) take considerably longer to plot than using > X11(type="Xlib"). This has already been mentioned, but I was wondering

Re: [Rd] build packages with vignettes in Windows

2008-04-30 Thread Simon Urbanek
On Apr 30, 2008, at 4:29 PM, Duncan Murdoch wrote: On 4/30/2008 4:01 PM, Simon Urbanek wrote: On Apr 30, 2008, at 2:31 PM, Duncan Murdoch wrote: On 4/30/2008 11:56 AM, Michael wrote: On 29 Apr 2008, Duncan Murdoch wrote: Right, you don't need to set the system path for everything, but you

Re: [Rd] build packages with vignettes in Windows

2008-04-30 Thread Duncan Murdoch
On 4/30/2008 4:01 PM, Simon Urbanek wrote: On Apr 30, 2008, at 2:31 PM, Duncan Murdoch wrote: On 4/30/2008 11:56 AM, Michael wrote: On 29 Apr 2008, Duncan Murdoch wrote: Right, you don't need to set the system path for everything, but you do need to set it in CMD (or other shell) before ru

Re: [Rd] New version of X11, png and jpeg

2008-04-30 Thread Maarten Blaauw
The now default Cairo results in much prettier graphs, but dense graphs such as plot(rnorm(1e4)) take considerably longer to plot than using X11(type="Xlib"). This has already been mentioned, but I was wondering if we users could expect Cairo speed increases in the near future? >Slower under some

Re: [Rd] build packages with vignettes in Windows

2008-04-30 Thread Simon Urbanek
On Apr 30, 2008, at 2:31 PM, Duncan Murdoch wrote: On 4/30/2008 11:56 AM, Michael wrote: On 29 Apr 2008, Duncan Murdoch wrote: Right, you don't need to set the system path for everything, but you do need to set it in CMD (or other shell) before running Rcmd. For Win 2K/XP/Vista, the system

Re: [Rd] build packages with vignettes in Windows

2008-04-30 Thread Duncan Murdoch
On 4/30/2008 11:56 AM, Michael wrote: On 29 Apr 2008, Duncan Murdoch wrote: Right, you don't need to set the system path for everything, but you do need to set it in CMD (or other shell) before running Rcmd. For Win 2K/XP/Vista, the system path can be set (through the GUI interface, not sure

Re: [Rd] Quotation marks (PR#11353)

2008-04-30 Thread hadley wickham
> > Single (') and double (") quotation marks are not being read as quotation > marks > when commands are copied from Word; they produce an error message whenever > they > are used. To correct this, one has to retype everything in the R console. I > tried using courier new, as well as the goo

Re: [Rd] build packages with vignettes in Windows

2008-04-30 Thread Gabor Grothendieck
You can use the Windows batch PATH command. On Wed, Apr 30, 2008 at 11:56 AM, Michael <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On 29 Apr 2008, Duncan Murdoch wrote: > > > Right, you don't need to set the system path for everything, but you do > > need to set it in CMD (or other shell) before running Rcmd. > >

[Rd] Quotation marks (PR#11353)

2008-04-30 Thread mitchell . wachtel
Full_Name: Mitchell Steven Wachtel, MD Version: 2.7.0 RC OS: Vista Submission from: (NULL) (66.230.2.56) Single (') and double (") quotation marks are not being read as quotation marks when commands are copied from Word; they produce an error message whenever they are used. To correct this, one h

Re: [Rd] apply and monthly time series (PR#11352)

2008-04-30 Thread Gabor Grothendieck
See ?apply If X is not an array but has a dimension attribute, apply attempts to coerce it to an array via as.matrix if it is two-dimensional (e.g., data frames) or via as.array. So for example, try this noting that time is 1, 2, 3, ... apply(monthly, 2, time) Try lm(monthly ~ time(monthly))

Re: [Rd] reproducible segmentation fault caused by textConnection()

2008-04-30 Thread Gregoire Pau
Dear Bill, Thanks for having had a look on this bug. I am now using an anonymous file() connection to store my stuffs instead of textConnection(): it is much faster and doesn't raise any seg faults. Regards, Greg --- Gregoire Pau EMBL/EBI Cambridge, UK http://www.ebi.ac.uk/~gpau Bill Dunlap

[Rd] apply and monthly time series (PR#11352)

2008-04-30 Thread stephen . mcintyre
Full_Name: Stephen McIntyre Version: 2.7 OS: Windows XP Submission from: (NULL) (99.231.2.44) When I use the apply function to calculate a trend for a matrix of monthly time series, it yields a different answer than when the trend is calculated one at a time (by a factor of 12) rather than the id

Re: [Rd] build packages with vignettes in Windows

2008-04-30 Thread Michael
On 29 Apr 2008, Duncan Murdoch wrote: > Right, you don't need to set the system path for everything, but you do > need to set it in CMD (or other shell) before running Rcmd. For Win 2K/XP/Vista, the system path can be set (through the GUI interface, not sure how to do it with scripts) without re

[Rd] Read/write file locking mechanism using SQL?

2008-04-30 Thread Henrik Bengtsson
Hi, I've got data stored in multiple files on a shared file system. I wish to have multiple processes/hosts read and write to these files simultaneously. When a process wish to write to a file no other processes may write to nor read from the file. If no process is writing to the file, any numb

[Rd] weighted nonlinear fits: `nls' and `eval'

2008-04-30 Thread Joerg van den Hoff
2 days ago I asked this on r-help, but no luck... since this is actually a programming question, I post it here again: my question concerns the use of `eval' in defining the model formula for `nls' when performing weighted fits. (I use version 2.6.2., but according to NEWS there we

[Rd] [PATCH] Typo in 'help' documentation

2008-04-30 Thread Roger D. Peng [audrey]
--- I think this should be "package is loaded" and not "library is loaded". At least, I can't see how it can be correct the way it's currently written. -roger src/library/utils/man/help.Rd |2 +- 1 files changed, 1 insertions(+), 1 deletions(-) diff --git src/library/utils/man/help.Rd src/

Re: [Rd] RFC: What should ?foo do?

2008-04-30 Thread Prof Brian Ripley
On Wed, 30 Apr 2008, Duncan Murdoch wrote: On 30/04/2008 2:44 AM, Martin Maechler wrote: "DM" == Duncan Murdoch <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> on Sat, 26 Apr 2008 17:21:06 -0400 writes: DM> On 25/04/2008 2:47 PM, Prof Brian Ripley wrote: >> On Fri, 25 Apr 2008, Deepayan Sarkar wrote: >>

Re: [Rd] RFC: What should ?foo do?

2008-04-30 Thread Duncan Murdoch
On 30/04/2008 2:44 AM, Martin Maechler wrote: "DM" == Duncan Murdoch <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> on Sat, 26 Apr 2008 17:21:06 -0400 writes: DM> On 25/04/2008 2:47 PM, Prof Brian Ripley wrote: >> On Fri, 25 Apr 2008, Deepayan Sarkar wrote: >> >>> For what it's worth, I use ?foo most