Re: [Rd] proposed changes to RSiteSearch

2009-05-07 Thread spencerg
1. Whatever we do with the "RSiteSearch" function, it should still be available every time R starts. If we put it in its own package, it should still be autoloaded with "base", "utils", "stats", etc. 2. Sundar indicated to me that, "if Jonathan would like to remove the search ca

Re: [Rd] proposed changes to RSiteSearch

2009-05-07 Thread Liviu Andronic
Dear Jonathan, On Thu, May 7, 2009 at 4:18 PM, Jonathan Baron wrote: > can't imagine that someone would want to search just vignettes and not > help pages, or the reverse. > Searching vignettes only can be of interest to users. If someone is interested in (full-fledged) code examples, and not in

Re: [Rd] proposed changes to RSiteSearch

2009-05-07 Thread Gabor Grothendieck
But help really needs to be delivered with R, not an addon. It should not be necessary to know how to install packages just to get this level of help. I think it needs to be where it is now. On Thu, May 7, 2009 at 4:02 PM, Liaw, Andy wrote: > >  I agree!  Recall, though, I had added the RSiteSear

Re: [Rd] proposed changes to RSiteSearch

2009-05-07 Thread Liaw, Andy
I agree! Recall, though, I had added the RSiteSearch() functionality to the Rgui under Windows (Help / search.r-project.org...), so if RSiteSearch() is taken out, this need to go, too. Best, Andy From: Jonathan Baron > > There is something to be said for taking all of these functions, > inclu

Re: [Rd] proposed changes to RSiteSearch

2009-05-07 Thread Romain Francois
We could have a few functions similar to RSiteSearch or gmaneSearch I just posted and then cook a summary html page with R ... Here is a function that grabs relevant groups from gmane: gmaneGroups <- function( prefix = "gmane.comp.lang.r." ){ url <- URLencode( sprintf( "http://dir.gmane.org

Re: [Rd] proposed changes to RSiteSearch

2009-05-07 Thread Liaw, Andy
From: Jonathan Baron > > On 05/07/09 13:48, Liaw, Andy wrote: > > From: Duncan Murdoch > > > I'll incorporate the changes if you like. > > Yes. Please do. I understand that it won't take effect for a while. > When it does, I'll change my site. > > What do you think > > > of the idea > > >

Re: [Rd] proposed changes to RSiteSearch

2009-05-07 Thread Romain Francois
About this: gmaneSearch <- function( string, group = "gmane.comp.lang.r.*", author = "", sort = c("relevance", "date", "revdate"), op = c("and", "or") ){ sort <- match.arg(sort) op <- match.arg( op ) url <- sprintf( 'http://search.gmane.org/?query=%s&author=%s&grou

Re: [Rd] proposed changes to RSiteSearch

2009-05-07 Thread Liaw, Andy
From: Duncan Murdoch > > On 5/7/2009 10:18 AM, Jonathan Baron wrote: > > On 05/07/09 10:05, Liaw, Andy wrote: > >> Can someone in R Core please take a look at the attached patches to > >> RSiteSearch() and its help page? I guess Jon is planning > some changes > >> on his site. Jon: could you

Re: [Rd] proposed changes to RSiteSearch

2009-05-07 Thread Duncan Murdoch
On 5/7/2009 10:18 AM, Jonathan Baron wrote: On 05/07/09 10:05, Liaw, Andy wrote: Can someone in R Core please take a look at the attached patches to RSiteSearch() and its help page? I guess Jon is planning some changes on his site. Jon: could you elaborate on what the patch does? The idea i

Re: [Rd] proposed changes to RSiteSearch

2009-05-07 Thread Liaw, Andy
From: Liaw, Andy > > From: Liaw, Andy > > > > Can someone in R Core please take a look at the attached patches to > > RSiteSearch() and its help page? I guess Jon is planning > some changes > > on his site. > > Apparently the attachments were stripped off the first time. > Here's a second

Re: [Rd] proposed changes to RSiteSearch

2009-05-07 Thread Jonathan Baron
On 05/07/09 10:05, Liaw, Andy wrote: > Can someone in R Core please take a look at the attached patches to > RSiteSearch() and its help page? I guess Jon is planning some changes > on his site. Jon: could you elaborate on what the patch does? The idea is simply to remove the mail archives, so t

[Rd] Kendall's Tau should use Continuity Correction (PR#13691)

2009-05-07 Thread dsimcha
Full_Name: David Simcha Version: 2.9.0 OS: WinXP Submission from: (NULL) (96.234.244.142) > cor.test(c(1,2,3,4,5), c(8,6,7,5,3), method = "kendall") Kendall's rank correlation tau data: c(1, 2, 3, 4, 5) and c(8, 6, 7, 5, 3) T = 1, p-value = 0.08333 alternative hypothesis: true tau is

Re: [Rd] Can we generate exe file using R? What is the maximum file size valid?

2009-05-07 Thread cls59
Chessxm wrote: > > Dear all, > > I have two questions. > > First, I am wondering whether we are able to use R to generate an exe > file, > or sth that can be executable outside R? > > > It sounds as though you are looking for something similar to Matlab's mcc compiler that allows Matlab co

Re: [Rd] proposed changes to RSiteSearch

2009-05-07 Thread Liaw, Andy
From: Liaw, Andy > > Can someone in R Core please take a look at the attached patches to > RSiteSearch() and its help page? I guess Jon is planning some changes > on his site. Apparently the attachments were stripped off the first time. Here's a second try. I've already set "format" to "pla

[Rd] proposed changes to RSiteSearch

2009-05-07 Thread Liaw, Andy
Can someone in R Core please take a look at the attached patches to RSiteSearch() and its help page? I guess Jon is planning some changes on his site. Jon: could you elaborate on what the patch does? Best, Andy Notice: This e-mail message, together with any attachments, contains information

Re: [Rd] Can we generate exe file using R? What is the maximum file size valid?

2009-05-07 Thread Stavros Macrakis
On Wed, May 6, 2009 at 7:45 PM, Chessxm wrote: > First, I am wondering whether we are able to use R to generate an exe file, > or sth that can be executable outside R? > Emacs creates self-contained exe files using a library called 'unexec'; this allows all initialization, library loading, etc.

Re: [Rd] Can we generate exe file using R? What is the maximum file size valid?

2009-05-07 Thread Uwe Ligges
Chessxm wrote: Dear all, I have two questions. First, I am wondering whether we are able to use R to generate an exe file, or sth that can be executable outside R? No, there is no compiler for R. Second, I am wondering whether read.csv can read a csv file with size of 300-400 gigabytes?

Re: [Rd] suggestion for extending ?as.factor

2009-05-07 Thread Petr Savicky
On Wed, May 06, 2009 at 10:41:58AM +0200, Martin Maechler wrote: > PD> I think that the real issue is that we actually do want almost-equal > PD> numbers to be folded together. > > yes, this now (revision 48469) will happen by default, using signif(x, 15) > where '15' is the default f