Re: [Rd] R command line behaving funny

2009-08-25 Thread Yohan Chalabi
"AB" == Abhijit Bera on Tue, 25 Aug 2009 18:22:59 +0530 AB> Hi AB> AB> I am unable to try out examples from the Rmetrics Ebook from AB> the R command AB> prompt. Below is an example of what happens: AB> AB> > Covariance<-cov(SWX.RET) AB> Error in cov.timeSeries(S

Re: [Rd] package dependencies specification

2009-08-25 Thread Prof Brian Ripley
On Tue, 25 Aug 2009, Martin Morgan wrote: [...] In addition I am not sure of the consequences of using charset ISO8859-1. It is not portable: the manual says only 'latin1', 'latin2' and 'UTF-8' are known to be. Versions of iconv think the name is ISO8859-1 or ISO-8859-1 or ISO_8859-1 or 8

Re: [Rd] package dependencies specification

2009-08-25 Thread Christos Hatzis
Hi Martin, Thanks for taking a look and for the explanation of the error message. The problem seems to have been the space in R (>= 2.5.0) in the Depends statement. Removing that space resolved the error. The parser seems to be quite unforgiving. Then I got the error that packages hgu133acdf,

Re: [Rd] package dependencies specification

2009-08-25 Thread Martin Morgan
Hi Christos -- Christos Hatzis wrote: > > Hello, > > After running R CMD check on my package I received the following error on > package dependencies: > > * using log directory 'C:/z-zBackup/Nuvera Bio on > Iatros01/Development/RPackages/nvNormalize/nvNormalize.Rcheck' > * using R version 2.9.

Re: [Rd] Cannot make 3 different R installations for 3 different valgrind-instrumentation levels

2009-08-25 Thread Simon Urbanek
On Aug 25, 2009, at 12:31 PM, pleyd...@supagro.inra.fr wrote: "R Installation and Administration", section 2.5 "Sub-architectures" describes calling specific builds of R using the call "R --arch=name". I am trying to build and install three versions of R-2.9.1, each configured with a diffe

[Rd] R CMD on windows 7

2009-08-25 Thread Robert J. Hijmans
I had difficulties running R CMD check and build on windows 7. The problem seems to be that the script creates folders to which nobody has any access permissions (not even read). So the script can not delete these folders or open files. This worked for me: Go to the properties of the root folder

Re: [Rd] \code{\link{foo}} fails in 2.10.0

2009-08-25 Thread William Revelle
Duncan, Actually, I had this problem building a package of mine (psych) from source. It also happens with one of the core installations (methods in the util package) which I downloaded from the development site for the Mac. Using 2.9.1 See Also S3Methods, class, getS3method. For S4, showMe

[Rd] package dependencies specification

2009-08-25 Thread Christos Hatzis
Hello, After running R CMD check on my package I received the following error on package dependencies: * using log directory 'C:/z-zBackup/Nuvera Bio on Iatros01/Development/RPackages/nvNormalize/nvNormalize.Rcheck' * using R version 2.9.1 (2009-06-26) * using session charset: ISO8859-1 * check

Re: [Rd] \code{\link{foo}} fails in 2.10.0

2009-08-25 Thread Duncan Murdoch
On 8/25/2009 11:59 AM, William Revelle wrote: I have noticed that many cross references in the help files using the \code{\link{foo}} command in the .Rd file fail to work in 2.10.0. Unfortunately, it fails only some of the time. As an example, consider the lines in the factanal help file:

[Rd] Cannot make 3 different R installations for 3 different valgrind-instrumentation levels

2009-08-25 Thread pleydell
"R Installation and Administration", section 2.5 "Sub-architectures" describes calling specific builds of R using the call "R --arch=name". I am trying to build and install three versions of R-2.9.1, each configured with a different valgrind-instrumentation level ("Writing R Extensions", section 4.

Re: [Rd] problem with plot.lm?

2009-08-25 Thread Uwe Ligges
Hi, yes, this looks like a bug. Will investiagte. Best wishes, Uwe Ligges Benilton Carvalho wrote: I'm bringing this issue to r-devel as my idea of sending it to r-help appears to be wrong. The following is reproducible in R-patched and R-devel (also in older versions). An outlier is

Re: [Rd] \code{\link{foo}} fails in 2.10.0

2009-08-25 Thread Duncan Murdoch
On 8/25/2009 11:59 AM, William Revelle wrote: I have noticed that many cross references in the help files using the \code{\link{foo}} command in the .Rd file fail to work in 2.10.0. Unfortunately, it fails only some of the time. As an example, consider the lines in the factanal help file:

[Rd] \code{\link{foo}} fails in 2.10.0

2009-08-25 Thread William Revelle
I have noticed that many cross references in the help files using the \code{\link{foo}} command in the .Rd file fail to work in 2.10.0. Unfortunately, it fails only some of the time. As an example, consider the lines in the factanal help file: Using 2.10.0 See Also , , , ability.cov, Harma

[Rd] Problem with correct usage of formula environment

2009-08-25 Thread Ulrike Groemping
Dear all, I am working on a function formula.design that should automatically generate reasonable lm formulae for a number of different designs. All works well as long as all variables used are columns of the design data frame. For one function, I would like to incorporate a dummy variable for c

[Rd] R command line behaving funny

2009-08-25 Thread Abhijit Bera
Hi I am unable to try out examples from the Rmetrics Ebook from the R command prompt. Below is an example of what happens: > Covariance<-cov(SWX.RET) Error in cov.timeSeries(SWX.RET) : no slot of name "Data" for this object of class "timeSeries" I have loaded Rmetrics and fPortfolio using the

[Rd] Clarifications please.

2009-08-25 Thread Abhijit Bera
Hi I think I have asked these questions earlier, but I been able to find answers from the documentation (which I found poorly written in several places). Will someone be kind enough to give me answers and enlighten me? (as in explain with CODE?) I want to embed R in my application and use the fPo

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

2009-08-25 Thread Martin Maechler
> "HenrikB" == Henrik Bengtsson > on Sat, 22 Aug 2009 08:34:51 -0700 writes: HenrikB> On Sat, Aug 22, 2009 at 1:22 AM, Petr Savicky wrote: >> On Sat, Aug 22, 2009 at 12:00:44AM +0200, Martin Maechler wrote: >>> I have taken up the issue now, >>> and after thinking, st