Re: [Rd] (PR#8192) [ subscripting sometimes loses names

2009-02-01 Thread Christian Brechbühler
Andy had written: > >... The drop=FALSE argument has nothing to do with what > >Christian was talking about. The kind of thing he meant is PR# 8192, > >"Subject: [ subscripting sometimes loses names": > > > > http://bugs.r-project.org/cgi-bin/R/wishlist?id=8192 > On Sun, Feb 1, 2009 at 12:25 PM

Re: [Rd] R.home() of R 2.8.1 Mac OS X is wrong (PR#13494)

2009-02-01 Thread Andreas Fischlin
Thank you all for the replies. However, I figured it now out, there is nothing broken. The reason I got confused is only because there are symbolic links used extensively and some tests failed in my script as a consequence (see below). My installation is fine and looks in fact like this: afis

[Rd] possible memory leak involving looping, optimization, and gam

2009-02-01 Thread Christopher Paciorek
When I run the gam function as part of an optimization and do the optimization many times using a loop, I'm finding that memory use increases over time (based on simply monitoring top). Below is some example code that involves varying the penalty parameter in gam, trying to find the value that

Re: [Rd] R.home() of R 2.8.1 Mac OS X is wrong (PR#13494)

2009-02-01 Thread Prof Brian Ripley
It is present on my system (R reinstalled yesterday), so it looks like you broke yours. More precisely, there is a link at /Library/Frameworks/R.framework/Resources to the correct place. How did you think R could possibly work with this broken? R.home() is used all over the place in R's own

Re: [Rd] R.home() of R 2.8.1 Mac OS X is wrong (PR#13494)

2009-02-01 Thread Simon Urbanek
On Feb 1, 2009, at 1:50 PM, andreas.fisch...@env.ethz.ch wrote: Full_Name: Andreas Fischlin Version: 2.8.1 OS: Mac OS X 10.5.6 Submission from: (NULL) (84.75.178.229) R.home() returns "/Library/Frameworks/R.framework/Resources" although there is no such directory present. Then your instal

[Rd] R.home() of R 2.8.1 Mac OS X is wrong (PR#13494)

2009-02-01 Thread andreas . fischlin
Full_Name: Andreas Fischlin Version: 2.8.1 OS: Mac OS X 10.5.6 Submission from: (NULL) (84.75.178.229) R.home() returns "/Library/Frameworks/R.framework/Resources" although there is no such directory present. Inspecting the actual directory structure of the R installation indicates that the corre

[Rd] non-duplicate names in data frames

2009-02-01 Thread Tim Hesterberg
I wrote on another thread (with subject "[ subscripting sometimes loses names"): >I like R's 'automatic' row names. This is a big help working with >huge data frames (and I do this often, at Google). But this doesn't >go far enough; subscripting and other operations sometimes convert the >automat

Re: [Rd] (PR#8192) [ subscripting sometimes loses names

2009-02-01 Thread Tim Hesterberg
>... >Simon, no, the drop=FALSE argument has nothing to do with what >Christian was talking about. The kind of thing he meant is PR# 8192, >"Subject: [ subscripting sometimes loses names": > > http://bugs.r-project.org/cgi-bin/R/wishlist?id=8192 > >In R, subscripting with "[" USUALLY retains name