Re: [Rd] Package Matrix does not compile in R-devel_2009-01-10

2009-01-11 Thread Prof Brian Ripley
You need to take this up with the package maintainers: although recommended packages are distributed with R, they are still contributed packages with separate maintainers. At one point Matrix did work with a non-GNU make (the Solaris one) after suggestions from R-core members on how to remove

[Rd] complex-valued sparse matrices

2009-01-11 Thread Juha Vierinen
Hi, I was looking at the sparse matrix packages and I noticed that complex valued sparse matrices are not supported. Is there anybody working on adding complex-support for the SparseM or the Matrix package? juha __ R-devel@r-project.org mailing list ht

[Rd] Package Matrix does not compile in R-devel_2009-01-10

2009-01-11 Thread Rainer Hurling
Dear developers, today I tried to build and install R-devel_2009-01-10 on FreeBSD 8.0-CURRENT (i386) for testing purposes. All went well until compiling the now recommended (integrated) Matrix package. At this point the following break occured: --

Re: [Rd] R as a scripting engine

2009-01-11 Thread Dirk Eddelbuettel
On 11 January 2009 at 20:18, Prof Brian Ripley wrote: | Those of you tracking R development will have noticed that we are | moving towards using R as a scripting engine. [...] | Reasons: | | - it is platform-independent and needs no other tools installed. [...] | - it is fast. [...] Indeed. I

Re: [Rd] R as a scripting engine

2009-01-11 Thread Gabor Grothendieck
On Sun, Jan 11, 2009 at 3:18 PM, Prof Brian Ripley wrote: > Those of you tracking R development will have noticed that we are moving > towards using R as a scripting engine. (It is often overlooked as such.) ... > In due course we see phasing out the use of Perl, at least at run time (and > that

[Rd] R as a scripting engine

2009-01-11 Thread Prof Brian Ripley
Those of you tracking R development will have noticed that we are moving towards using R as a scripting engine. (It is often overlooked as such.) Thus far INSTALL, REMOVE, SHLIB and massage-examples have been moved to R. Reasons: - it is platform-independent and needs no other tools install

Re: [Rd] NY Times article

2009-01-11 Thread Nicholas Lewin-Koh
Hi Frank, Thank you for the correction, I don't work in clinical, so good you keep me honest. Nicholas On Sun, 11 Jan 2009 09:21:23 -0600, "Frank E Harrell Jr" said: > Nicholas please note that FDA does not require type III sums of squares, > LOCF, and the use of any particular software. It is j

Re: [Rd] cat cannot write more than 10000 characters? [R 2.8.1]

2009-01-11 Thread Prof Brian Ripley
On Sun, 11 Jan 2009, Daniel Sabanés Bové wrote: Yes, I set the encoding to UTF-8 in my .Rprofile. Sorry that I didn't You really don't want to do that: it adds a considerable overhead and relies on a bug-free iconv The latest R-patched should work around this. mention it already. So

Re: [Rd] code validation (was Re: NY Times article)

2009-01-11 Thread Marc Schwartz
on 01/10/2009 03:06 PM Spencer Graves wrote: > Hi, All: > What support exists for 'regression testing' > (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Regression_testing) of R code, e.g., as > part of the "R CMD check" process? > The"RUnit" package supports "unit testing" > (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/

Re: [Rd] NY Times article

2009-01-11 Thread Frank E Harrell Jr
Nicholas please note that FDA does not require type III sums of squares, LOCF, and the use of any particular software. It is just the fact that FDA does not disallow type III tests and LOCF that prevents pharma from abandoning these terrible methods. Frank -- Frank E Harrell Jr Professor an

Re: [Rd] cat cannot write more than 10000 characters? [R 2.8.1]

2009-01-11 Thread Prof Brian Ripley
Looks like a bug in your iconv. However, that section of code is conditionalized by if(con->outconv) { /* translate the buffer */ and I don't see that as non-NULL on my systems. It should only be called when you specify an encoding on the output connection, so have you set an option (e.

Re: [Rd] Problem with compiling shared C/C++ library for loading into R (Linux)

2009-01-11 Thread torpedo fisken
I think you're not linking it together when you call R CMD SHLIB, use something like R CMD SHLIB mylib.c yourlib1.o yourlib2.o Otherwise mail again with your Makefile, or all the commands you are using good luck 2009/1/11 Samsiddhi Bhattacharjee : > Dear all, > > I am using the .Call interface

Re: [Rd] code validation (was Re: NY Times article)

2009-01-11 Thread Philippe Grosjean
Hello, To answer Spencer Graves questions, I would like to mention that there an alternative to RUnit that could easy writing of test units, regression tests and integration tests for R. It is svUnit. See http://www.sciviews.org/SciViews-K/index.html. It is not on CRAN yet, but on R-Forge bec