[Rd] compiling packages without Framework and CoreFoundation options on OSX

2009-10-07 Thread Jeff Hamann
I've been trying to get R+PostgreSQL+PL/R to work together on a OSX machine without the Framework and CoreFoundation options and have noticed some suspicious switches when compiling packages. I've installed R (on OSX) with the following ./configure: ./configure \ CC="gcc -arch i386" \ CXX

[Rd] Improved Function Information with Key

2009-10-07 Thread Lee Kelvin
Hello, Pressing the key when typing a function into an R terminal does not produce the expected output. Currently, R will order all of the available function inputs into alphabetical order and present them as options, whereas it should display the inputs in the order they appear in the function.

Re: [Rd] how to document stuff most users don't want to see

2009-10-07 Thread baptiste auguie
If help was only displayed in the form of html pages, one could perhaps mimic the javascript trick sometimes found in wikipedia, e.g. "http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mathematical_induction#Example"; (see the "show/hide" toggle at the bottom). I don't see how this could work with plain text or pdf ou

Re: [Rd] how to document stuff most users don't want to see

2009-10-07 Thread William Dunlap
> -Original Message- > From: Patrick Burns [mailto:pbu...@pburns.seanet.com] > Sent: Tuesday, October 06, 2009 12:53 AM > To: spencerg > Cc: William Dunlap; char...@stat.umn.edu; r-devel@r-project.org > Subject: Re: [Rd] how to document stuff most users don't want to see > > I think the p

Re: [Rd] Buglet in qbeta?

2009-10-07 Thread Martin Maechler
> "JL" == Josef Leydold > on Wed, 7 Oct 2009 14:48:26 +0200 writes: JL> Hi, JL> I sometimes play around with extreme parameters for distributions and JL> found that qbeta is not always monotone as the following example shows. JL> I don't know whether this is serious en

[Rd] Buglet in qbeta?

2009-10-07 Thread Josef Leydold
Hi, I sometimes play around with extreme parameters for distributions and found that qbeta is not always monotone as the following example shows. I don't know whether this is serious enough to submit a bug report (as this example is near to the limitations of floating point arithmetic). Josef >

Re: [Rd] inconsistency in return value of peaks() {splus2R} (PR#13988)

2009-10-07 Thread Duncan Murdoch
vi...@phil.uu.nl wrote: Full_Name: Benny van der Vijgh Version: 2.7.2 OS: Windows Vista Submission from: (NULL) (194.171.252.108) The return value of peaks() in package splus2R is not consistent. This is not an R bug. Please contact the author of that package. Duncan Murdoch This is be

[Rd] inconsistency in return value of peaks() {splus2R} (PR#13988)

2009-10-07 Thread vijgh
Full_Name: Benny van der Vijgh Version: 2.7.2 OS: Windows Vista Submission from: (NULL) (194.171.252.108) The return value of peaks() in package splus2R is not consistent. This is because of the call to max.col() without additional parameters which peaks() makes. max.col() has a parameter 'ties.

Re: [Rd] how to document stuff most users don't want to see

2009-10-07 Thread Duncan Murdoch
Patrick Burns wrote: I think the problem is more subtle than Spencer implies. It is good to have as much documentation as possible. However, if a help file is long and complex, then people get intimidated and don't read it at all. It would be nice to have a feature so that help files can be di

Re: [Rd] Bug (PR#13987)

2009-10-07 Thread Prof Brian Ripley
Please do read the FAQ and R posting guide. (i) You were asked not to report on obselete versions of R (2.9.2 and 2.10.0 alpha are current). (ii) There is no reproducible code here, but the error is almost certainly not in R but in a contributed package or in 'BRB Array tools' (whatever that

Re: [Rd] how to document stuff most users don't want to see

2009-10-07 Thread Patrick Burns
Under the system of development we now have, I agreee with Seth's assertion. But if there were people dedicated to documentation, then I think something like what I described could be workable. Pat Seth Falcon wrote: Writing good documentation is hard. I can appreciate the desire to find tec

[Rd] Bug (PR#13987)

2009-10-07 Thread Bockmeyer
Full_Name: Clemens Bockmeyer Version: 2.9.0 OS: Submission from: (NULL) (193.174.111.250) Dear helpdesk, the following bug occurs when working with BRB Array tools trying to generate a heat map: Error in rgb (bitAnd(Max color 255), bit and Max color %/%256, 255 bit And Max color... could not fi