Re: [Rd] R patched & devel versions as portable ZIP files

2009-08-07 Thread Duncan Murdoch
On 8/7/2009 3:35 PM, Hans W Borchers wrote: I wonder if it would be possible to provide R patched and development versions for Windows as simple zip files without using any installers. Yes, it would be quite easy to do. I'll set R-devel to do it as of tomorrow's build; let me know if the form

Re: [Rd] R patched & devel versions as portable ZIP files

2009-08-07 Thread Uwe Ligges
- You can tell the installer not to use the registry. - You can install to a fixed location (e.g. also to the USB stick) Using both options mentioned above means the same as unpacking a zip file over there. Uwe Ligges Hans W Borchers wrote: I wonder if it would be possible to provide R patc

Re: [Rd] Bug in nlm, found using sem; failure in several flavors (PR#13882)

2009-08-07 Thread jeff . a . ryan
Adam, It seems that your attachment didn't make it through. That aside, my experience with strange errors like those (random type not implemented ones) has been that you may be looking at a memory problem on you machine. Given that you can't replicate on another platform (and the .csv file didn't

Re: [Rd] Bug in nlm, found using sem; failure in several flavors (PR#13881)

2009-08-07 Thread Jeff Ryan
Adam, It seems that your attachment didn't make it through. That aside, my experience with strange errors like those (random type not implemented ones) has been that you may be looking at a memory problem on you machine. Given that you can't replicate on another platform (and the .csv file didn't

[Rd] R patched & devel versions as portable ZIP files

2009-08-07 Thread Hans W Borchers
I wonder if it would be possible to provide R patched and development versions for Windows as simple zip files without using any installers. There are more and more free and open source software projects providing such portable versions, among them Python (since V2.5), the new MikTex 2.8, OpenOffi

[Rd] Bug in nlm, found using sem; failure in several flavors (PR#13881)

2009-08-07 Thread adik
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Re: [Rd] identical(0, -0)

2009-08-07 Thread Duncan Murdoch
On 8/7/2009 11:41 AM, Martin Maechler wrote: "DM" == Duncan Murdoch on Fri, 07 Aug 2009 11:25:11 -0400 writes: DM> On 8/7/2009 10:46 AM, Martin Maechler wrote: >>> "TH" == Ted Harding >>> on Fri, 07 Aug 2009 14:49:54 +0100 (BST) writes: >> TH> On 07-Aug-09 11:

Re: [Rd] identical(0, -0)

2009-08-07 Thread Martin Maechler
> "DM" == Duncan Murdoch > on Fri, 07 Aug 2009 11:25:11 -0400 writes: DM> On 8/7/2009 10:46 AM, Martin Maechler wrote: >>> "TH" == Ted Harding >>> on Fri, 07 Aug 2009 14:49:54 +0100 (BST) writes: >> TH> On 07-Aug-09 11:07:08, Duncan Murdoch wrote: >>

Re: [Rd] identical(0, -0)

2009-08-07 Thread Duncan Murdoch
On 8/7/2009 10:46 AM, Martin Maechler wrote: "TH" == Ted Harding on Fri, 07 Aug 2009 14:49:54 +0100 (BST) writes: TH> On 07-Aug-09 11:07:08, Duncan Murdoch wrote: >> Martin Maechler wrote: William Dunlap on Thu, 6 Aug 2009 15:06:08 -0700 writes: >>> >

Re: [Rd] identical(0, -0)

2009-08-07 Thread Martin Maechler
> "TH" == Ted Harding > on Fri, 07 Aug 2009 14:49:54 +0100 (BST) writes: TH> On 07-Aug-09 11:07:08, Duncan Murdoch wrote: >> Martin Maechler wrote: William Dunlap on Thu, 6 Aug 2009 15:06:08 -0700 writes: >>> >> -Original Message- From:

Re: [Rd] options( "menu" )

2009-08-07 Thread Prof Brian Ripley
There are plans for more wide-ranging GUI hooks, so please be patient. (They are likely to make 2.10.0.) On Fri, 7 Aug 2009, Romain Francois wrote: Hello, The current implementation of the menu function (in utils) makes it difficult for front-ends to hook in and propose an alternative display

Re: [Rd] Changing the compiler gfortran to ifort

2009-08-07 Thread Duncan Murdoch
On 8/7/2009 9:43 AM, Fabio Mathias Corrêa wrote: I tried the manual R Installation and Administration to change the gcc compiler to icc and ifort for gfotran. However I could not find the correct path for the R to identify the icc and ifort. In which file I define the change of compiler? That

Re: [Rd] identical(0, -0)

2009-08-07 Thread Ted Harding
On 07-Aug-09 11:07:08, Duncan Murdoch wrote: > Martin Maechler wrote: >>> William Dunlap >>> on Thu, 6 Aug 2009 15:06:08 -0700 writes: >> >> -Original Message- From: >> >> r-help-boun...@r-project.org >> >> [mailto:r-help-boun...@r-project.org] On Behalf Of >> >

[Rd] Changing the compiler gfortran to ifort

2009-08-07 Thread Fabio Mathias Corrêa
I tried the manual R Installation and Administration to change the gcc compiler to icc and ifort for gfotran. However I could not find the correct path for the R to identify the icc and ifort. In which file I define the change of compiler? Thanks very much!!!   Fábio Mathias Corrêa Estat

Re: [Rd] exec subdirectory of a package

2009-08-07 Thread Romain Francois
Anyone ? I guess I'll have to make a package that ships the execute script Romain On 08/05/2009 11:32 AM, Romain Francois wrote: Hello, WRE contains the following information about the "exec" subdirectory of a package : "Subdirectory exec could contain additional executables the package need

Re: [Rd] identical(0, -0)

2009-08-07 Thread Duncan Murdoch
Martin Maechler wrote: William Dunlap on Thu, 6 Aug 2009 15:06:08 -0700 writes: >> -Original Message- From: >> r-help-boun...@r-project.org >> [mailto:r-help-boun...@r-project.org] On Behalf Of >> Giovanni Petris Sent: Thursday, August 06, 2009 3:00 PM

[Rd] options( "menu" )

2009-08-07 Thread Romain Francois
Hello, The current implementation of the menu function (in utils) makes it difficult for front-ends to hook in and propose an alternative display. Can there be something like options( "menu" ) to give control over it in case graphics = TRUE. The default could be then be factored out of the c

[Rd] Help with embedding R

2009-08-07 Thread Abhijit Bera
Hi I plan to use the Rmetrics package in a software tool for risk management written in C. I have some questions regarding embedding R: 1) Can someone elaborate more on R_tryEval? a) I was looking at the Rpackage.c example under the testing/Embedding folder. I vaguely understood that R_tryEval

[Rd] identical(0, -0)

2009-08-07 Thread Martin Maechler
> William Dunlap > on Thu, 6 Aug 2009 15:06:08 -0700 writes: >> -Original Message- From: >> r-help-boun...@r-project.org >> [mailto:r-help-boun...@r-project.org] On Behalf Of >> Giovanni Petris Sent: Thursday, August 06, 2009 3:00 PM >> To: milton.ru...@gma