Re: [Rd] Fwd: [R] size of point symbols

2009-05-25 Thread Prof Brian Ripley
I don't know where you get your claims from. R graphics is handled internally in inches, with a device-specific mapping to pixels/points etc (which is documented for each device on its help page). This has to be done carefully, as pixels may not be square. What the meaning of pch=1:23 is in

[Rd] Vista authorization issues (PR#13718)

2009-05-25 Thread dpkesling
Full_Name: David Kesling Version: 2.9.0 OS: Windows Vista & XP sp2 Submission from: (NULL) (65.166.169.237) I upgraded to 2.9.0 on my desktop (XP) and my laptop (Vista Home Basic). The XP machine (with both Tinn-R and JGR) is running just fine... very happy. The laptop is NOT doing too well. I've

[Rd] Fwd: [R] size of point symbols

2009-05-25 Thread baptiste auguie
Dear all, Having received no answer in r-help I'm trying r-devel (hoping this is not a stupid question). I don't understand the rationale behind the absolute sizes of the point symbols, and I couldn't find it documented (I got lost in the C code graphics.c and gave up). The example below u

Re: [Rd] [R] step by step debugger in R?

2009-05-25 Thread Romain Francois
Simon Urbanek wrote: On May 25, 2009, at 4:54 PM, Romain Francois wrote: Simon Urbanek wrote: [snip] I need to read more about embedding R (as in section 8 of WRE). I know you can supply your own implementation of the REPL, but I am not sure this includes the one that goes on once trapp

Re: [Rd] [R] step by step debugger in R?

2009-05-25 Thread Simon Urbanek
On May 25, 2009, at 4:54 PM, Romain Francois wrote: Simon Urbanek wrote: [snip] I need to read more about embedding R (as in section 8 of WRE). I know you can supply your own implementation of the REPL, but I am not sure this includes the one that goes on once trapped into the browser

[Rd] "interpolator constructor"; was "Scope problem?"

2009-05-25 Thread Martin Maechler
Hi Barry, this is just a side-remark, probably not at all something you were interested in, but to be put along this thread in the list archives, in case some readers are side-tracked there ... > "BaRow" == Barry Rowlingson > on Fri, 22 May 2009 17:28:42 +0100 writes: BaRow> I'v

Re: [Rd] [R] step by step debugger in R?

2009-05-25 Thread Romain Francois
Simon Urbanek wrote: [snip] I need to read more about embedding R (as in section 8 of WRE). I know you can supply your own implementation of the REPL, but I am not sure this includes the one that goes on once trapped into the browser. Yes - it would be quite useless otherwise ;) there are

Re: [Rd] (PR#13705) [wishlist, patch] make row() and col() preserve dimnames

2009-05-25 Thread Prof Brian Ripley
On Sun, 17 May 2009, goodr...@fas.harvard.edu wrote: Full_Name: Ben Goodrich Version: 2.9.0 OS: Linux (Debian unstable) Submission from: (NULL) (128.103.220.16) row(x), col(x), and functions that call them like lower.tri(x) and upper.tri(x) do not retain the rownames or colnames of x in the

Re: [Rd] qbinom (PR#13711)

2009-05-25 Thread maechler
> "PS" == Petr Savicky > on Sat, 23 May 2009 18:22:26 +0200 writes: PS> On Wed, May 20, 2009 at 11:10:11PM +0200, wolfgang.re...@gmail.com wrote: PS> ... >> Strange behavior of qbinom: >> >> > qbinom(0.01, 5016279, 1e-07) >> [1] 0 >> > qbinom(0.01, 501627

Re: [Rd] inconsistency in ?factor

2009-05-25 Thread Petr Savicky
On Mon, May 25, 2009 at 03:58:06PM +0800, Berwin A Turlach wrote: > Well, the first statement is a remark on comparison in general while > the second statement is specific to "comparison operators and generic > methods". There are other ways of comparing objects; note: > > R> f1 <- factor(c("a",

Re: [Rd] [R] step by step debugger in R?

2009-05-25 Thread Simon Urbanek
On May 24, 2009, at 10:18 AM, Romain Francois wrote: Robert Gentleman wrote: Hi, I stripped the cc's as I believe that all read this list. Romain Francois wrote: [moving this to r-devel] Robert Gentleman wrote: Hi, Romain Francois wrote: Duncan Murdoch wrote: On 5/22/2009 10:59 AM,

Re: [Rd] inconsistency in ?factor

2009-05-25 Thread Berwin A Turlach
G'day Petr, On Mon, 25 May 2009 09:04:14 +0200 Petr Savicky wrote: > The first formulation "Be careful to compare ... levels in the same > order" may be just a warning against a potential problem if the > levels have different order, however this is not clear. Well, the first statement is a rem

[Rd] inconsistency in ?factor

2009-05-25 Thread Petr Savicky
In the almost current development version (2009-05-22 r48594) and also in https://svn.r-project.org/R/trunk/src/library/base/man/factor.Rd ?factor contains (compare the formulations marked by ^^) \section{Warning}{ The interpretation of a factor depends on both the codes and the \code{"