Re: [Rd] Testing development code?

2008-06-06 Thread Prof Brian Ripley
On Fri, 6 Jun 2008, Spencer Graves wrote: Dear Prof. Ripley: Prof Brian Ripley wrote: On Fri, 6 Jun 2008, Spencer Graves wrote: Hi, R Core Team: How do you test the latest changes to the core R code? Is it just "R CMD check"? Or do you use other tools, like the perl "prove" module?

Re: [Rd] sd function (PR#11586)

2008-06-06 Thread Ben Bolker
yahoo.com> writes: > > Full_Name: Ramón Folgueira Roque > Version: 2.7.0 > OS: Windows > Submission from: (NULL) (200.11.210.98) > > The sd function doesn`t give the same results than older version, when it´s > applied to a data frame object and the object contains some character data. > > Ex

Re: [Rd] Testing development code?

2008-06-06 Thread Spencer Graves
Dear Prof. Ripley: Prof Brian Ripley wrote: On Fri, 6 Jun 2008, Spencer Graves wrote: Hi, R Core Team: How do you test the latest changes to the core R code? Is it just "R CMD check"? Or do you use other tools, like the perl "prove" module? I ask, because I'm about to start

Re: [Rd] Testing development code?

2008-06-06 Thread Prof Brian Ripley
On Fri, 6 Jun 2008, Spencer Graves wrote: Hi, R Core Team: How do you test the latest changes to the core R code? Is it just "R CMD check"? Or do you use other tools, like the perl "prove" module? I ask, because I'm about to start developing routine testing for other (non-R) software

Re: [Rd] Posting Guide

2008-06-06 Thread Steven McKinney
I'd recommend either having two or three good examples of acceptable posts at the end of the posting guide or at least some hyperlinks to good examples. Two or three contrasting poor posts would also be helpful. If people can see a brief email with working code AND the ever-essential sessionInfo(

Re: [Rd] Testing development code?

2008-06-06 Thread Duncan Murdoch
Spencer Graves wrote: Hi, R Core Team: How do you test the latest changes to the core R code? Is it just "R CMD check"? Or do you use other tools, like the perl "prove" module? I ask, because I'm about to start developing routine testing for other (non-R) software, for which I

[Rd] Testing development code?

2008-06-06 Thread Spencer Graves
Hi, R Core Team: How do you test the latest changes to the core R code? Is it just "R CMD check"? Or do you use other tools, like the perl "prove" module? I ask, because I'm about to start developing routine testing for other (non-R) software, for which I can't do "R CMD check", a

[Rd] Makevars or congiure for multi platforms

2008-06-06 Thread Tadashi Kadowaki
Dear all, As previously submitted, I wrote an extending pdf device to embed pop up text and web links. (Patches are available at http://pdf2.r-forge.r-project.org/patches) Now, I'm making a library version of the pdf device. However, with my skill, I'm not sure about writing Makevars or configure

[Rd] Posting Guide

2008-06-06 Thread Gabor Grothendieck
People read the posting guide yet they are still unable to create an acceptable post. e.g. https://stat.ethz.ch/pipermail/r-help/2008-June/164092.html I think the problem is that the guide is not clear or concise enough. I suggest we add a summary at the beginning which gets to the heart of what a

Re: [Rd] read.table underR2.7.0 (PR#11605)

2008-06-06 Thread ripley
This message is in MIME format. The first part should be readable text, while the remaining parts are likely unreadable without MIME-aware tools. --27464147-621931503-1212766709=:10799 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=iso-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8BIT Not a bug, sinc

Re: [Rd] Error Message (PR#11602)

2008-06-06 Thread Erik Iverson
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hello! My Name is Jan Matthias and I am from Cologne University in Germany. I have= problems with R , version 1.9.1. Is this a new record? Jan, update to the latest R, which is about 4 years newer than 1.9.1. __ R-devel@

[Rd] Error Message (PR#11602)

2008-06-06 Thread Jan . Matthias
Hello! My Name is Jan Matthias and I am from Cologne University in Germany. I have= problems with R , version 1.9.1. I also use the package tcltk and follow the instructions from a command fil= e which i will send with. My problem is that the program always stops at the same step, showing diffe=

[Rd] read.table underR2.7.0 (PR#11605)

2008-06-06 Thread Holger . Mitterer
L.S., after having updated to 2.7.0, read.table seems to have bug. I read in a file (see a view lines pasted below) with: phon = read.table("D:/Data/underspec/FULish/exp1/analysis/phoned111_200.txt", header = T); the second variable, being "+" or "-" is converted into zeros (0) and treated as

Re: [Rd] RFC: Add 'postinstall' hook to R CMD INSTALL ?

2008-06-06 Thread Jeffrey Horner
Prof Brian Ripley wrote: On Fri, 6 Jun 2008, Dirk Eddelbuettel wrote: Brian, Thanks for the follow-up. On 6 June 2008 at 11:34, Prof Brian Ripley wrote: | Isn't this what Type: Frontend is for? That gives you complete control | and would seem appropriate for both of your examples. Interest

Re: [Rd] RFC: Add 'postinstall' hook to R CMD INSTALL ?

2008-06-06 Thread Dirk Eddelbuettel
On 6 June 2008 at 13:13, Prof Brian Ripley wrote: | > On 6 June 2008 at 11:34, Prof Brian Ripley wrote: | > | Isn't this what Type: Frontend is for? That gives you complete control | > | and would seem appropriate for both of your examples. | > | > Interesting. But the R Extensions manual says |

Re: [Rd] RFC: Add 'postinstall' hook to R CMD INSTALL ?

2008-06-06 Thread Prof Brian Ripley
On Fri, 6 Jun 2008, Dirk Eddelbuettel wrote: Brian, Thanks for the follow-up. On 6 June 2008 at 11:34, Prof Brian Ripley wrote: | Isn't this what Type: Frontend is for? That gives you complete control | and would seem appropriate for both of your examples. Interesting. But the R Extensions

Re: [Rd] RFC: Add 'postinstall' hook to R CMD INSTALL ?

2008-06-06 Thread Prof Brian Ripley
Isn't this what Type: Frontend is for? That gives you complete control and would seem appropriate for both of your examples. On Thu, 5 Jun 2008, Dirk Eddelbuettel wrote: I have been mulling over an idea I had meant to flesh out with a prototype but haven't gotten around to. So here it goes

Re: [Rd] memory.size() for large memory usage (PR#11596)

2008-06-06 Thread ripley
On Thu, 5 Jun 2008, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > This amusing behaviour is from R2.6.1 on WinXP Pro SP2 running with boot.in= > i /3GB flag, exploring memory limits. > > =20 > > When actual (object, not total) memory usage hits 2048 MB, memory.size star= > ts counting down again, but reports a negat

[Rd] doc buglet / as.Date method

2008-06-06 Thread Paul Roebuck
Under Details section for as.Date: as.Date will accept numeric data (the number of days since an epoch), but only is origin is supplied. ^^ should be "if" R version 2.7.0 Patched (2008-06-04 r45830) -- SIGSIG -- s

[Rd] memory.size() for large memory usage (PR#11596)

2008-06-06 Thread bowden
This amusing behaviour is from R2.6.1 on WinXP Pro SP2 running with boot.in= i /3GB flag, exploring memory limits. =20 When actual (object, not total) memory usage hits 2048 MB, memory.size star= ts counting down again, but reports a negative amount, e.g. -2046.333. Is t= his an intended (or unav

[Rd] sd function (PR#11586)

2008-06-06 Thread rfolgueira
Full_Name: Ramón Folgueira Roque Version: 2.7.0 OS: Windows Submission from: (NULL) (200.11.210.98) The sd function doesn`t give the same results than older version, when it´s applied to a data frame object and the object contains some character data. Ex: datos=data.frame( ) fix(datos)