Re: [Rd] Request: Documentation of formulae

2008-06-02 Thread Martin Maechler
> "MP" == Mike Prager <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > on Mon, 02 Jun 2008 16:29:16 -0400 writes: MP> Mike Prager <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> I was at a loss to understand the use of "/" until I looked in >> "An Introduction [!] to R," where I found the explanation. >> >>

[Rd] More information on R segfaults, tcltk package, and graphics devices

2008-06-02 Thread Erik Iverson
Dear R-devel - I have investigated the report I made at https://stat.ethz.ch/pipermail/r-devel/2008-May/049683.html some more, and believe I have enough information to warrant an update. My sessionInfo() immediately after starting R is at the bottom of this message. I decided to first conce

[Rd] benchmarking R installations

2008-06-02 Thread Mark Kimpel
Recently I posted to this list with a question about using the Intel 10.1 compilers in building R and one response was basically, "why in the heck would you want to do that?" The answer is that my sysadmin believes that there will be a performance boost with the Intel vs. Gnu compilers on our Linux

[Rd] configure.args from install.packages passed on to subsequent update.packages?

2008-06-02 Thread Mark Kimpel
>From the help pages I see that there is a configure.args argument to install.packages, and I am using that successfully. I do not see anything similar for update.packages(). Does each package keep track of the configure.args used to build in initially and pass this on to subsequent updates or I am

Re: [Rd] Request: Documentation of formulae

2008-06-02 Thread Mike Prager
Mike Prager <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I was at a loss to understand the use of "/" until I looked in > "An Introduction [!] to R," where I found the explanation. > > My request is that more complete material on model formulae be > lifted from "Introduction to R" (or elsewhere) and put into th

[Rd] Revised help pages for methods package

2008-06-02 Thread John Chambers
A number of the help pages have been revised, so far only on the r-devel version, although the great majority of the revisions apply to 2.7.0 as well. Much of the existing documentation is out of date, some of it badly. Also, a goal of the revision is that readers could start with package?me

Re: [Rd] NAMESPACE & methods guidance, please

2008-06-02 Thread John Chambers
(Comment near the bottom of the text.) Seth Falcon wrote: > * On 2008-06-01 at 11:30 -0400 John Chambers wrote: > >> My impression (but just as a user, not an implementer) is that the >> NAMESPACE mechanism is intended to search for anything, not just for >> methods, as follows: >> >> - look

Re: [Rd] (PR#11537) help (using ?) does not handle trailing whitespace

2008-06-02 Thread maechler
> "BDR" == Prof Brian Ripley <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > on Fri, 30 May 2008 22:34:28 +0100 (BST) writes: BDR> I think it is ESS that is parsing this as a help BDR> request (so it can divert it to an ESS buffer). BDR> Looks like this is an ESS issue, not an R one. yes, indeed,