[Rd] dnbinom unreliable for absurdly large "size" parameter

2008-07-03 Thread Ben Bolker
Check it out: curve(dnbinom(1,mu=0.5,size=x),log="x",from=1,to=1e18) abline(h=dpois(1,lambda=0.5),col=2,lty=2) text(1,dpois(1,lambda=0.5)+0.02,"Poisson",col=2,pos=4) I will take a look in the C code when I get a chance to see if I can offer a patch, but in the meantime wanted to alert peopl

[Rd] education task view

2008-07-03 Thread G. Jay Kerns
Dear R-Devel, I have had it in my mind for some time now that a Task View related to R and education might be a good thing. There are currently 19 Task Views, covering a broad spectrum of general topics for which R may be used. The homepage lists 64 books related to R, and several of them have a

[Rd] update on dnbinom with large "size"

2008-07-03 Thread Ben Bolker
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 ~ turns out I don't need to look at the C code. ~ if one uses the mu/size parameterization of the negative binomial, R computes size/(size+mu) to switch parameterizations. If size>>mu this gets rounded to 1 ... should be easy enough to test and r

Re: [Rd] [.data.frame speedup

2008-07-03 Thread Tim Hesterberg
I made a couple of a changes from the previous version: - don't use functions anyMissing or notSorted (which aren't in base R) - don't check for dup.row.names attribute (need to modify other functions before that is useful) I have not tested this with a wide variety of inputs; I'm assuming tha

Re: [Rd] [.data.frame speedup

2008-07-03 Thread Martin Maechler
> "TH" == Tim Hesterberg <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > on Tue, 1 Jul 2008 15:23:53 -0700 writes: TH> There is a bug in the standard version of [.data.frame; TH> it mixes up handling duplicates and NAs when subscripting rows. TH> x <- data.frame(x=1:3, y=2:4, row.names=c("a","b","N

[Rd] Rgui.exe(R.dll) crashes when set the locale to "Korean" (PR#11903)

2008-07-03 Thread ksdori
Full_Name: Sang Hyun Koh Version: 2.7.0, 2.7.1 OS: MS Windows XP, Server 2003 Submission from: (NULL) (202.30.14.68) Since R 2.7.0 & recent 2.7.1, Rgui.exe crashes on Korean Windows XP and 2003. After change the locale language to Japanese, Chinese, English, and etc on control panel, I had no pr

Re: [Rd] GetRNGstate and PutRNGstate

2008-07-03 Thread Prof Brian Ripley
On Thu, 3 Jul 2008, tyler wrote: Hi, I've got a simulation function, written in C and called from R, that uses the R random number functions. It's not a very complicated simulation - 280 lines total, with the main function (the one called with .C) repeatedly calling another function, with multi

[Rd] GetRNGstate and PutRNGstate

2008-07-03 Thread tyler
Hi, I've got a simulation function, written in C and called from R, that uses the R random number functions. It's not a very complicated simulation - 280 lines total, with the main function (the one called with .C) repeatedly calling another function, with multiple calls to unif_rand() in both fun

[Rd] Bug repository down Friday

2008-07-03 Thread Peter Dalgaard
There needs to be a physical relocation of servers tomorrow (email and home directories), so things are likely to be dysfunctional for the day (hopefully not more). I'll be out of email reach myself, for the same reason. -- O__ Peter Dalgaard Øster Farimagsgade 5, Entr.B c

Re: [Rd] --enable-BLAS-shlib conflict with --with-lapack in configure?

2008-07-03 Thread Dirk Eddelbuettel
On 3 July 2008 at 14:08, Peter Dalgaard wrote: | As for the subject matter, you _can_ actually create such at thing as an | optimized, shared BLAS/Lapack, and it is probably faster than an | unoptimized, shared one (well, at least you could create them when I | played with this some years ago). It

Re: [Rd] --enable-BLAS-shlib conflict with --with-lapack in configure?

2008-07-03 Thread Peter Dalgaard
Bjørn-Helge Mevik wrote: >> If you are concerned about performance you definitely do not want to use >> shared R, not a shared BLAS. >> > > I'm sorry, I don't quite follow you here. Do you mean not create a shared R > and not create a shared BLAS, or was there a "not" too many? > "Nor", I

Re: [Rd] --enable-BLAS-shlib conflict with --with-lapack in configure?

2008-07-03 Thread Bjørn-Helge Mevik
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Re: [Rd] --enable-BLAS-shlib conflict with --with-lapack in configure?

2008-07-03 Thread Prof Brian Ripley
On Thu, 3 Jul 2008, Bjørn-Helge Mevik wrote: Prof Brian Ripley <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: This is intentional. Ok. Please note what the R-admin manual says about --with-lapack, including 'definitely *not* recommended' Oh. I have always understood that as referring to --with-lapack, not

Re: [Rd] --enable-BLAS-shlib conflict with --with-lapack in configure?

2008-07-03 Thread Bjørn-Helge Mevik
Prof Brian Ripley <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > This is intentional. Ok. > Please note what the R-admin manual says about > --with-lapack, including 'definitely *not* recommended' Oh. I have always understood that as referring to --with-lapack, not --with-lapack="-L/something...". > If you ar

[Rd] Filename bug in png

2008-07-03 Thread Richard Cotton
In R2.7.1, the first line of the body of png() reads: checkIntFormat(filename) This should really be: if (!checkIntFormat(file)) stop("invalid 'file'") Otherwise a command such as png("foo%s.png") causes R to crash (see bug #10571). - Regards, Richie. Mathematical Sciences Unit H

Re: [Rd] --enable-BLAS-shlib conflict with --with-lapack in configure?

2008-07-03 Thread Prof Brian Ripley
This is intentional. Please note what the R-admin manual says about --with-lapack, including 'definitely *not* recommended' If you are concerned about performance you definitely do not want to use shared R, not a shared BLAS. On Thu, 3 Jul 2008, Bjørn-Helge Mevik wrote: Dear developeRs, I'

[Rd] --enable-BLAS-shlib conflict with --with-lapack in configure?

2008-07-03 Thread Bjørn-Helge Mevik
Dear developeRs, I'm trying to build R (2.7.1, on an x86_64 running Linux, but I believe I have observed this on x86 and with earlier versions of R as well) using external BLAS and LAPACK libraries _and_ generating libR.so, libRblas.so and libRlapack.so. Without --enable-BLAS-shlib, configure is