Re: [Rd] mysteriously persistent generic definition

2009-10-22 Thread Martin Morgan
Ross Boylan wrote: > Originally I made a function yearStop that took an argument "object". I > made a generic, but later changed the argument to "x". R keeps > resurrecting the old definition. Could anyone explain what is going on, > or how to fix it? Note particularly the end of the transcript

[Rd] mysteriously persistent generic definition

2009-10-22 Thread Ross Boylan
Originally I made a function yearStop that took an argument "object". I made a generic, but later changed the argument to "x". R keeps resurrecting the old definition. Could anyone explain what is going on, or how to fix it? Note particularly the end of the transcript below: I remove the generi

Re: [Rd] Error in link in Rd file stops package installation

2009-10-22 Thread William Dunlap
The following patch seems to get the warning message right lag.zoo html Rd warning: ./man/lag.zoo.Rd:54: file link 'diff' in package 'stats' does not exist and so has been treated as a topic Index: src/library/tools/R/Rd2HTML.R =

[Rd] Goto memory alignment query...

2009-10-22 Thread Evan Cooch
Several days back, I posted a comment/question from Kazushige Goto (the developer and maintainer of Goto BLAS) - "By the way, please ask your R developer to rewrite memory allocation function including garbage collection. They give 4 byte offset memory region and never perform well (or it wi

[Rd] Error in link in Rd file stops package installation

2009-10-22 Thread William Dunlap
With a pretty recent version of R 2.11.0 (devel,unstable, svn 50178) on Linux I could not install version 1.5-8 of zoo (the current on on CRAN): % R-devel CMD INSTALL -l Rlib3 zoo * installing *source* package 'zoo' ... ** R ** inst ** preparing package for lazy loading ** help

[Rd] R quits immediately upon start-up (PR#14021)

2009-10-22 Thread gavin . koh
Full_Name: Gavin Koh Version: 2.9.2 OS: OS X Tiger 10.4.11 Submission from: (NULL) (145.117.52.255) Roughly two weeks ago, it became impossible to start-up R. The console window would appear for a fraction of a second and then the programme would exit with no error message. The symptoms are not

[Rd] Advice on how to arrange fix of buglet

2009-10-22 Thread Prof. John C Nash
Recently I reported a small bug in optim's SANN method failing to report that it had exceeded the maximum function evaluation limit in the convergence code. This is a small enough matter that I was reluctant to create a full-blown bug report. Indeed in the optimx package Ravi Varadhan and I h

Re: [Rd] source and textConnection

2009-10-22 Thread Duncan Murdoch
On 10/22/2009 7:21 AM, Erich Neuwirth wrote: Using todays freshly downloaded compiled version of R-2.10.0 beta let me pose this question once again: myconn<-textConnection("print(11*11)") source(myconn) produces [1] 121 Warning message: In source(myconn) : argument 'encoding = "native.enc"' w

Re: [Rd] source and textConnection

2009-10-22 Thread Erich Neuwirth
Using todays freshly downloaded compiled version of R-2.10.0 beta let me pose this question once again: >> myconn<-textConnection("print(11*11)") >> source(myconn) produces > [1] 121 > Warning message: > In source(myconn) : argument 'encoding = "native.enc"' will be ignored So I get a warning abo

Re: [Rd] R Updates or Changes in corporate version of R

2009-10-22 Thread Martin Maechler
> "TV" == Tobias Verbeke > on Wed, 21 Oct 2009 21:20:03 +0200 writes: TV> Hi, >> What is the place to search for *corporate version of R *including >> >> 1) GUI >> >> 2) Documentation >> >> 3) Cloud Computing or HPC TV> R is used *as such* in co

[Rd] trigamma for very large arguments (PR#14020)

2009-10-22 Thread Jerry . Lewis
Full_Name: Jerry W. Lewis Version: 2.9.2 OS: Windows XP Professional Submission from: (NULL) (96.237.55.233) trigamma(x) returns 0 for x>1e152, yet trigamma <- function(x) 1/x gives machine accuracy for any x>1e16 __ R-devel@r-project.org mailing lis