Re: [Rd] Florida mirror (cran.hostingzero.net) dead?

2008-12-07 Thread Marc Schwartz
on 12/07/2008 02:00 PM Ben Bolker wrote: > The CRAN host in Tampa, FL (cran.hostingzero.net) > isn't responding, and hasn't responded in quite a while -- > at least problems were reported more than a year ago > (Oct 2007) > > http://finzi.psych.upenn.edu/R/Rhelp02a/archive/116706.html > > altho

[Rd] Florida mirror (cran.hostingzero.net) dead?

2008-12-07 Thread Ben Bolker
The CRAN host in Tampa, FL (cran.hostingzero.net) isn't responding, and hasn't responded in quite a while -- at least problems were reported more than a year ago (Oct 2007) http://finzi.psych.upenn.edu/R/Rhelp02a/archive/116706.html although someone apparently succeeded in July 2008 http://fi

Re: [Rd] nlminb: names of parameter vector not passed to objective function (fixed)

2008-12-07 Thread Thomas Petzoldt
NEWS, rev. 47094 now says: o nlminb() copies names from 'start' to the parameter vector used (for consistency with optim()). Dear Prof. Ripley, thank you very much for doing this. Thomas Petzoldt __ R-devel@r-project.org mailing list

[Rd] R in a sandbox/jail

2008-12-07 Thread Barry Rowlingson
Someone recently suggested building a system for automatically testing student's R programs. They would upload them to our Virtual Learning Environment, which would then run the code on some inputs and see if it got the right output. If it does, the student scores points for that course. My first

Re: [Rd] Checking your package's help files

2008-12-07 Thread Peter Dalgaard
Prof Brian Ripley wrote: 3) Grep the installed help for internal constructs, e.g. grep nornal-bracket /help/* I see that you're following the time-honored empirical law, that every spelling flame contains at least one misteak itself... -- O__ Peter Dalgaard Ă˜ster Farim

[Rd] Checking your package's help files

2008-12-07 Thread Prof Brian Ripley
It seems that many package authors do not proofread the help installed with their packages. The Rd converter is not a parser, and it will silently produce incorrect results on incorrect input (and some correct input). Here are a few hints about some common errors: 1) When you run R CMD check

Re: [Rd] Error in R CMD INSTALL on Windows XP using Rtools28

2008-12-07 Thread cstrato
I understand, thank you, Christian Gabor Grothendieck wrote: Any Windows batch script that uses the Windows find command. On Sat, Dec 6, 2008 at 1:08 PM, cstrato <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Dear Gabor, Sorry, my mistake, here are my correct path settings: System Path: C:\Rtools\bin;C:\Rtoo