[Rd] Unable to install R on CentOS 64 bit machine

2008-10-03 Thread Shantanu Unknown
Hi all, I am unable to install R on CentOS5 64 bit machine. When I do ./configure I get the message "checking for X... no configure: error: --with-x=yes (default) and X11 headers/libs are not available" from doing a websearch it seems I need to install x11-xorg. But I could not find it when I

Re: [Rd] Can DESCRIPTION Maintainer: field contain general URL instead of only email address?

2008-10-03 Thread Kasper Daniel Hansen
Why don't you just give a company email address? Remember this email address is to contact the maintainer. Contacting the maintainer is not only done in order to request support, it could be a copy right issue, code re-use request etc - although I do agree that most emails are probably supp

Re: [Rd] Attributes of top level environments clobbered (was Re: [R] possible bug in function 'var' in R 2.7.2?)

2008-10-03 Thread Luke Tierney
On Fri, 3 Oct 2008, Gabor Grothendieck wrote: On Fri, Oct 3, 2008 at 12:46 PM, Luke Tierney <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: On Fri, 3 Oct 2008, Gabor Grothendieck wrote: On Fri, Oct 3, 2008 at 11:43 AM, Luke Tierney <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: I will look into fixing it sometime if no one else fe

Re: [Rd] Can DESCRIPTION Maintainer: field contain general URL instead of only email address?

2008-10-03 Thread Uwe Ligges
William Dunlap wrote: Our firm would like to route support requests through a website instead of using email. However R will refuse to install a package if DESCRIPTION's Maintainer field does not have a valid email adress or the special value "ORPHANED". (The check is done with tools:::.valid

Re: [Rd] Can DESCRIPTION Maintainer: field contain general URL instead of only email address?

2008-10-03 Thread christophe dutang
There is a field URL in the DESCRIPTION file of the package. Could you use it for route support request? 2008/10/3 William Dunlap <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Our firm would like to route support requests through > a website instead of using email. However R will refuse > to install a package if DESCR

[Rd] Can DESCRIPTION Maintainer: field contain general URL instead of only email address?

2008-10-03 Thread William Dunlap
Our firm would like to route support requests through a website instead of using email. However R will refuse to install a package if DESCRIPTION's Maintainer field does not have a valid email adress or the special value "ORPHANED". (The check is done with tools:::.valid_maintainer_field_regexp.)

Re: [Rd] Attributes of top level environments clobbered (was Re: [R] possible bug in function 'var' in R 2.7.2?)

2008-10-03 Thread Gabor Grothendieck
On Fri, Oct 3, 2008 at 12:46 PM, Luke Tierney <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Fri, 3 Oct 2008, Gabor Grothendieck wrote: > >> On Fri, Oct 3, 2008 at 11:43 AM, Luke Tierney <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >>> >>> I will look into fixing it sometime if no one else feels like doing >>> it. The environment

Re: [Rd] Attributes of top level environments clobbered (was Re: [R] possible bug in function 'var' in R 2.7.2?)

2008-10-03 Thread Luke Tierney
On Fri, 3 Oct 2008, Gabor Grothendieck wrote: On Fri, Oct 3, 2008 at 11:43 AM, Luke Tierney <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: I will look into fixing it sometime if no one else feels like doing it. The environment aspect is not high priority; some other related issues are more so (locking and active

Re: [Rd] Attributes of top level environments clobbered (was Re: [R] possible bug in function 'var' in R 2.7.2?)

2008-10-03 Thread Gabor Grothendieck
On Fri, Oct 3, 2008 at 11:43 AM, Luke Tierney <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I will look into fixing it sometime if no one else feels like doing > it. The environment aspect is not high priority; some other related > issues are more so (locking and active bindings as I recall). But > even thoughs m

Re: [Rd] quartz device (PR#13115)

2008-10-03 Thread Simon Urbanek
On Oct 2, 2008, at 14:45 , [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Dear, The quartz device doesn't work in R version 2.7.2 (2008-08-25), on my MacBook Pro. For example, when I just type 'demo(graphics)', the quartz window stays empty and the clockwise time indicator keeps on running in the R window. Wh

Re: [Rd] R CMD install runs out of memory

2008-10-03 Thread hadley wickham
On Fri, Oct 3, 2008 at 10:12 AM, Uwe Ligges <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > Duncan Murdoch wrote: >> >> On 10/3/2008 10:14 AM, hadley wickham wrote: >>> >>> $ R CMD install ggplot2 >>> ... >>> scale-usage-d1texthtmllatex >>> scale_brewer texth

Re: [Rd] Attributes of top level environments clobbered (was Re: [R] possible bug in function 'var' in R 2.7.2?)

2008-10-03 Thread Luke Tierney
I will look into fixing it sometime if no one else feels like doing it. The environment aspect is not high priority; some other related issues are more so (locking and active bindings as I recall). But even thoughs may not make it to the top of my queue any time soon. The issue of placing attri

Re: [Rd] R CMD install runs out of memory

2008-10-03 Thread Uwe Ligges
Duncan Murdoch wrote: On 10/3/2008 10:14 AM, hadley wickham wrote: $ R CMD install ggplot2 ... scale-usage-d1texthtmllatex scale_brewer texthtmllatex example perl(90227) malloc: *** mmap(size=31488) failed (error code=12) *** e

[Rd] Attributes of top level environments clobbered (was Re: [R] possible bug in function 'var' in R 2.7.2?)

2008-10-03 Thread Gabor Grothendieck
On Fri, Oct 3, 2008 at 3:23 AM, Martin Maechler <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > a much better (and much less error-prone) idea would be to install > R 2.8.0 alpha even now. > It will become 'beta' early next week. > > We are asking the R community to please install and use > pre-release versions of R

Re: [Rd] R CMD install runs out of memory

2008-10-03 Thread Duncan Murdoch
On 10/3/2008 10:14 AM, hadley wickham wrote: $ R CMD install ggplot2 ... scale-usage-d1texthtmllatex scale_brewer texthtmllatex example perl(90227) malloc: *** mmap(size=31488) failed (error code=12) *** error: can't allocate regi

[Rd] R CMD install runs out of memory

2008-10-03 Thread hadley wickham
$ R CMD install ggplot2 ... scale-usage-d1texthtmllatex scale_brewer texthtmllatex example perl(90227) malloc: *** mmap(size=31488) failed (error code=12) *** error: can't allocate region *** set a breakpoint in malloc_error_break t

Re: [Rd] metafiles under windows (PR#13116)

2008-10-03 Thread ligges
Probably not a bug, not tested on a recent version of R, no reproducible code given, hence no chance for us to identify any problem. If you have questions, please use R-help *after* reading its posting guide. Best, Uwe Ligges [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Full_Name: David Stevens > Version: 2.7.0

Re: [Rd] A strange behaviour of file.path in Windows? (PR#13119)

2008-10-03 Thread Prof Brian Ripley
On Fri, 3 Oct 2008, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Full_Name: Enrico Pegoraro Version: 2.7.2 OS: Windows (Vista or Xp PRO) Italian Submission from: (NULL) (87.4.189.202) If you send these lines of code: outdir="c:/pippo" file.path(outdir,"pluto.html") R replies correctly: [1] "c:/pippo/pluto.html

Re: [Rd] Memory crash

2008-10-03 Thread Göran Broström
Prof Brian Ripley wrote: Very likely your C code is writing out of bounds and has corrupted R's memory heap. Use the tools discussed in 'Writing R Extensions' (such as Valgrind) to help you track this down. Brian, thanks a lot; I installed valgrind, and the error was promptly spotted (your q

Re: [Rd] A strange behaviour of file.path in Windows? (PR#13119)

2008-10-03 Thread Richard . Cotton
> If you send these lines of code: > > outdir="c:/pippo" > file.path(outdir,"pluto.html") > > R replies correctly: > > [1] "c:/pippo/pluto.html" > > But if you change the first steps to: > > outdir="" > file.path(outdir,"pluto.html") > > R replies (uncorrectly, I think) > > [1] "/c:/pippo/pl

Re: [Rd] Memory crash

2008-10-03 Thread Prof Brian Ripley
Very likely your C code is writing out of bounds and has corrupted R's memory heap. Use the tools discussed in 'Writing R Extensions' (such as Valgrind) to help you track this down. On Fri, 3 Oct 2008, Göran Broström wrote: Hello, I get a segfault when running glmmboot in my own package glm

[Rd] Memory crash

2008-10-03 Thread Göran Broström
Hello, I get a segfault when running glmmboot in my own package glmmML. Has happened many time before, but this time I get no hint of where in my C functions the error might be. I give the output below. Can this be an R bug? I suspect it has to do with repeated calls to 'vmmin' like this:

[Rd] metafiles under windows (PR#13116)

2008-10-03 Thread david . stevens
Full_Name: David Stevens Version: 2.7.0 OS: Window SP Submission from: (NULL) (129.123.9.110) Lately I've been copying graphics to a metafile to paste to a document. No matter what the graphics window size, the pasted graphic only fills the upper left 1/3 of the allocated space. How can I make it

[Rd] A strange behaviour of file.path in Windows? (PR#13119)

2008-10-03 Thread pego . enrico
Full_Name: Enrico Pegoraro Version: 2.7.2 OS: Windows (Vista or Xp PRO) Italian Submission from: (NULL) (87.4.189.202) If you send these lines of code: outdir="c:/pippo" file.path(outdir,"pluto.html") R replies correctly: [1] "c:/pippo/pluto.html" But if you change the first steps to: outdir