Re: [Rd] Wishlist: install.packages to look for the newest version (PR#13852)

2009-07-24 Thread Thomas Lumley
Uwe, I think Ulrike is making a different suggestion, that install.packages() should fetch the binary that has been built for the current version of R. This would be a bad idea for a different reason -- in general it is not possible to be sure that the package works with an older version of R

Re: [Rd] Wishlist: install.packages to look for the newest version (PR#13852)

2009-07-24 Thread ligges
Ulrike, if you install from source, you always get the most recent version of the package given it does not depend on a newer version of R. If you want a binary package, you also get the newest version - that was newest at the time we stopped building binaries for that version of R. We (or bett

Re: [Rd] Bug in seq() (PR#13849)

2009-07-24 Thread Uwe Ligges
Please read how to report bugs (with recent version of R!) and read the FAQs (in thsi case FAQ "Why doesn't R think these numbers are equal?") and the mailing list archives before. Uwe Ligges jeremiah.co...@gmail.com wrote: Full_Name: Jeremiah Cohen Version: 2.9.0 OS: Windows XP Submission

Re: [Rd] Bug in seq() (PR#13849)

2009-07-24 Thread Duncan Murdoch
On 7/23/2009 3:30 PM, jeremiah.co...@gmail.com wrote: Full_Name: Jeremiah Cohen Version: 2.9.0 OS: Windows XP Submission from: (NULL) (129.59.230.235) This is not a bug, it is yet another variation of FAQ 7.31. Duncan Murdoch I believe there is a bug in the seq() function for certain value

Re: [Rd] How to create a permanent dataset in R.

2009-07-24 Thread Jeff Ryan
The biggest help would come by not pretending to be Albert Einstein. hTh, Jeff On Fri, Jul 24, 2009 at 1:11 AM, Albert EINstEIN wrote: > > > Hi everybody, > > Actually, we know that If we create a dataset in R ,after closing the > session the dataset automatically is closed. I tried for creating

[Rd] Wishlist: install.packages to look for the newest version of a package (PR#13851)

2009-07-24 Thread groemping
Full_Name: Ulrike Groemping Version: 2.9.0 (and older) OS: Windows Submission from: (NULL) (84.190.173.190) When using an older version of R, packages are not found although they are available for newer versions of R and do work when installed with the old version. For example, installing DoE.bas

[Rd] Misleading sentence in documentation of data.frame (PR#13850)

2009-07-24 Thread groemping
Full_Name: Ulrike Groemping Version: 2.9.0 OS: Windows Submission from: (NULL) (84.190.173.190) The documentation for data.frame contains the sentence "A data frame is a list of variables of the same length with unique row names, given class "data.frame"." This of course does describe the standar

[Rd] Bug in seq() (PR#13849)

2009-07-24 Thread jeremiah . cohen
Full_Name: Jeremiah Cohen Version: 2.9.0 OS: Windows XP Submission from: (NULL) (129.59.230.235) I believe there is a bug in the seq() function for certain values of the "from" argument. Here are examples: > seq(-.2, .1, .1) [1] -0.2 -0.1 0.0 0.1 > seq(-.3, .1, .1) [1] -3.00e-01 -2.00e

[Rd] How to create a permanent dataset in R.

2009-07-24 Thread Albert EINstEIN
Hi everybody, Actually, we know that If we create a dataset in R ,after closing the session the dataset automatically is closed. I tried for creating dataset permanently in R.I am facing the problem of creating permanent dataset. can we create dataset permanently If possible? Could somebody hel

[Rd] Extend FAQ 7.22

2009-07-24 Thread ONKELINX, Thierry
Dear all, I suggest to extend FAQ 7.22 by mentioning ggplot2 graphics as well. 7.22 Why do lattice/trellis/ggplot2 graphics not work? The most likely reason is that you forgot to tell R to display the graph. Lattice functions such as xyplot() create a graph object, but do not display it (the sa