Re: [Rd] Spearman's rank correlation test (PR#13574)

2009-05-15 Thread Prof Brian Ripley
On Fri, 15 May 2009, Petr Savicky wrote: Bug report "Spearman's rank correlation test (PR#13574)" was moved to trashcan with empty Notes field. I would like to learn, what was wrong with this bug report. Can i ask the developers to add a note to it? The move was not intended: JitterBug does so

Re: [Rd] View() crashy on Ubuntu 9.04

2009-05-15 Thread Ben Bolker
Prof Brian Ripley wrote: > > Thank you, included in R-patched and R-devel now. > [snip] thanks! > I do wonder sometimes if people who only work with data in ASCII or in > a Western European language covered by Latin-1 realize the extent of > the overhead that using a UTF-8 locale impli

Re: [Rd] Spearman's rank correlation test (PR#13574)

2009-05-15 Thread Petr Savicky
Bug report "Spearman's rank correlation test (PR#13574)" was moved to trashcan with empty Notes field. I would like to learn, what was wrong with this bug report. Can i ask the developers to add a note to it? Thank you in advance. Petr. __ R-devel@r-pr

Re: [Rd] Problem building (binary) packages for Windows

2009-05-15 Thread Uwe Ligges
Peter Ruckdeschel wrote: Prof Brian Ripley schrieb: That version of R-devel is not current, so please update it. I think it might have been in an interval where we tried out verious fixes for building bundles and some of them broke other things. Yes, I really should have updated; in fact the

Re: [Rd] different results on linux and windows

2009-05-15 Thread Klaus Nordhausen
Thanks a lot for all the replies! We managed now to solve our problem by replacing the rand / srand functions by R's random number generator and now the results on windows and linux agree. Thanks again! Klaus Paul Gilbert wrote: I cannot say what the problem is in your code, but in general it

Re: [Rd] will one of you help me advocate a change in t.test (patch attached)

2009-05-15 Thread Paul Johnson
On Fri, May 15, 2009 at 10:05 AM, Kevin W wrote: > My view from the sidelines > > I think you have done the right thing to include a patch, but you have > provided no justification for the patch in terms of why it would be useful. > > Sincerely, > > Kevin > Ah, I see. I thought it was obvious

Re: [Rd] Problem building (binary) packages for Windows

2009-05-15 Thread Peter Ruckdeschel
Prof Brian Ripley schrieb: > That version of R-devel is not current, so please update it. > I think it might have been in an interval where we tried out > verious fixes for building bundles and some of them broke > other things. Yes, I really should have updated; in fact the error re-disappeared ag

Re: [Rd] View() crashy on Ubuntu 9.04

2009-05-15 Thread Prof Brian Ripley
Thank you, included in R-patched and R-devel now. BTW, it looks like the original problem is in MBCS locales only, which postdate the X11 View() code (but we had patches from Mr Nakama: input contexts are needed for entering CJK languages). I do wonder sometimes if people who only work with d

Re: [Rd] Problem building (binary) packages for Windows / resolved

2009-05-15 Thread Peter Ruckdeschel
Hi Dunchan, thanks for your quick answer. >> Searching the help archives, I found a posting by Uwe Ligges, >>http://article.gmane.org/gmane.comp.lang.r.general/64574/ >> saying that >>R CMD INSTALL --build >> was preferable to >>R CMD build --binary >> --- in which respect

Re: [Rd] Problem building (binary) packages for Windows

2009-05-15 Thread Prof Brian Ripley
That version of R-devel is not current, so please update it. I think it might have been in an interval where we tried out verious fixes for building bundles and some of them broke other things. In general if you use R-devel or R-patched you need to update before reporting any difficulties. '

Re: [Rd] Mac and tcltk

2009-05-15 Thread Marc Schwartz
On May 15, 2009, at 8:11 AM, Gabor Grothendieck wrote: Does the Mac version of R include tcltk? There is a section in the R Mac FAQ: http://cran.r-project.org/bin/macosx/RMacOSX-FAQ.html#TclTk-issues about tcltk issues on R for Mac but its not clear to me from this whether tcltk is or is not

[Rd] Mac and tcltk

2009-05-15 Thread Gabor Grothendieck
Does the Mac version of R include tcltk? There is a section in the R Mac FAQ: http://cran.r-project.org/bin/macosx/RMacOSX-FAQ.html#TclTk-issues about tcltk issues on R for Mac but its not clear to me from this whether tcltk is or is not included and I don't have a Mac to try it out. ___

Re: [Rd] Problem building (binary) packages for Windows

2009-05-15 Thread Duncan Murdoch
On 5/15/2009 8:10 AM, Peter Ruckdeschel wrote: Hi, I am having a problem building binary packages for Windows recently. Normally, I use the "Murdoch-Sutherland" tool set, http://www.murdoch-sutherland.com/Rtools/ just build source packages by R CMD build and install these with

[Rd] Problem building (binary) packages for Windows

2009-05-15 Thread Peter Ruckdeschel
Hi, I am having a problem building binary packages for Windows recently. Normally, I use the "Murdoch-Sutherland" tool set, http://www.murdoch-sutherland.com/Rtools/ just build source packages by R CMD build and install these with R CMD INSTALL But now, for someone without

Re: [Rd] using a "third party" DLL in my package

2009-05-15 Thread Prof Brian Ripley
On Thu, 14 May 2009, Seija Sirkiä wrote: Hello all, it seems my efforts in reading the manuals and help files aren't enough so here I am. The question is, how would I go about linking a pre-compiled DLL in to my package? I have previously successfully built packages with Fortran and C source