[Rd] Fedora 10, R and yes...help.start()...deja vu all over again...

2008-11-25 Thread Marc Schwartz
Hi all, I installed F10 Final today. This was a clean install, not an upgrade from F9. Kudos the the Fedora team as the level of maturity noted in the install process, including using encrypted partitions, keeps getting better with each release. I'd still like to see easier options in the GUI wit

Re: [Rd] dots methods: dispatch issues

2008-11-25 Thread Michael Lawrence
As an extra curiosity, courtesy of Herve, selectMethod() does not seem to be confused: > rbind(1) Error in .Method(..., na.last = na.last, decreasing = decreasing, deparse.level = deparse.level) : object "na.last" not found > foo <- selectMethod("rbind", "numeric") > foo Method Definition (Class

[Rd] dots methods: dispatch issues

2008-11-25 Thread Michael Lawrence
There seems to be a bug arising when using multiple S4 generics with "..." as the signature. The following code works as expected: ## > setGeneric("rbind", function(..., deparse.level=1) standardGeneric("rbind"), +signature

[Rd] Problem with installed.packages (PR#13332)

2008-11-25 Thread lhansen
Full_Name: Lars Hansen Version: 2.8.0 OS: Linux Submission from: (NULL) (70.90.201.133) Hi, Calling installed.packages() on a directory with only one package causes an error if the priority argument is set to "NA": > installed.packages(lib.loc = "/home/lhansen/R/libs", priority = "NA") Error in

Re: [Rd] Suggestions for improving R-FAQ

2008-11-25 Thread hadley wickham
On Tue, Nov 25, 2008 at 3:10 PM, Max Kuhn <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hadley, > > These are good suggestions. > >> * Remove infrequently asked questions - e.g. 2.3, 2.4, 7.9, 7.11, >> 7.12, 7.15, 7.19, 7.23, 7.28 Maybe 7.28 should be titled: How can I make read.table (and read.csv and read.fwf))

Re: [Rd] Suggestions for improving R-FAQ

2008-11-25 Thread Max Kuhn
Hadley, These are good suggestions. > * Remove infrequently asked questions - e.g. 2.3, 2.4, 7.9, 7.11, > 7.12, 7.15, 7.19, 7.23, 7.28 I'd like to lobby to keep 7.23 and 7.28. I still get questions about those. Sampling bias might be an issue: we don't get questions (to r-help) for those becau

Re: [Rd] Suggestions for improving R-FAQ

2008-11-25 Thread hadley wickham
On Tue, Nov 25, 2008 at 12:41 PM, hadley wickham <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Currently, if you were to print out the R frequently asked questions > (http://cran.r-project.org/doc/FAQ/R-FAQ.html), it would be 132 pages > long. Is it any wonder that so many question could be answered by > looking a

[Rd] Suggestions for improving R-FAQ

2008-11-25 Thread hadley wickham
Currently, if you were to print out the R frequently asked questions (http://cran.r-project.org/doc/FAQ/R-FAQ.html), it would be 132 pages long. Is it any wonder that so many question could be answered by looking at the FAQ but are not? Here are a few (contentious) suggestions to improve the doc

Re: [Rd] handling a matrix and .C

2008-11-25 Thread Rory.WINSTON
> Last I looked at the source code of e1071 and of the core itself and > recognized (I hope I understood this), that you (and the "e1071" people) use > "as.double()" and give ".C" an array and one have to "parse" the matrix again > in the C function. I think this is the simplest way to handle m

Re: [Rd] FW: read.ssd

2008-11-25 Thread BXC (Bendix Carstensen)
Peter D told me the attachments went astray. The files of interest are now in http://staff.pubhealth.ku.dk/~bxc/R-ex/, as read.ssd7.r and for an excample SAS-program that illustrates the the features, see x-xpt.sas. Bendix > -Original Message- > From: Peter Dalgaard [mailto:[EMAIL PROTEC

[Rd] handling a matrix and .C

2008-11-25 Thread Wilm Schumacher
Hello R-devel, I want to write extensions for R in C (maybe C++ and Fortran later) and it works fine, but there is one problem, which I cannot solve (in my view). I want to handle a matrix from R in C. For arrays there is "as.double(...)", but nothing for a matrix. I searched a while, but didn