Re: [Rd] R's X11 Device Properties

2010-02-01 Thread Prof Brian Ripley
On Mon, 1 Feb 2010, Erik Iverson wrote: Hello, This is an issue that is at the interface of R, X, and my window manager (either icewm or openbox, both latest versions). I am running R 2.10.1 on Ubuntu 9.10. My goal: When an X11 device is started in R (e.g., by simply calling plot), I woul

[Rd] R's X11 Device Properties

2010-02-01 Thread Erik Iverson
Hello, This is an issue that is at the interface of R, X, and my window manager (either icewm or openbox, both latest versions). I am running R 2.10.1 on Ubuntu 9.10. My goal: When an X11 device is started in R (e.g., by simply calling plot), I would like for the resulting window to be in t

[Rd] Error with cut.POSIXt and daylight savings time switchover dates

2010-02-01 Thread Brian Diggs
The following code: cut(as.POSIXct("2009-11-01 04:00:00", tz="America/Los_Angeles"), "1 day") gives the error: Error in seq.int(0, to - from, by) : 'to' must be finite This is related to November 1st, 2009 being the switchover date from daylight savings time to standard time in the America/Los

Re: [Rd] questions as to building R from source under Windows / small corrections for R-admin sec. 3.1.7

2010-02-01 Thread Peter Ruckdeschel
> Yet another clarification: > > [snip] > >>> (4) Did not work for me: build R on D: >>> --- a Vista / Windows 7 issue? >>> In the end I succeeded with my build on drive C: (NTFS formatted) >>> giving the current user full access privileges to the installation >>> folders; before, i

Re: [Rd] questions as to building R from source under Windows

2010-02-01 Thread Peter Ruckdeschel
Yet another clarification: [snip] >> (4) Did not work for me: build R on D: >> --- a Vista / Windows 7 issue? >> In the end I succeeded with my build on drive C: (NTFS formatted) >> giving the current user full access privileges to the installation >> folders; before, in order to cir

Re: [Rd] questions as to building R from source under Windows

2010-02-01 Thread Peter Ruckdeschel
once again me --- just some more precise information... [snip] >>> (1) TMPDIR on a different drive: >>> --- not sure whether this was my fault or you could do anything >>> about it: On my system, I have a separate drive for temp (i.e. E:), >>> and had this set in a corresponding TMPDIR environment

Re: [Rd] qpois Help problems (PR#14200)

2010-02-01 Thread Prof Brian Ripley
On Mon, 1 Feb 2010, maech...@stat.math.ethz.ch wrote: "JL" == Jerry Lewis on Fri, 29 Jan 2010 22:50:12 +0100 (CET) writes: JL> Full_Name: Jerry W. Lewis JL> Version: 2.10.1 JL> OS: Windows XP Professional JL> Submission from: (NULL) (198.180.131.21) JL> In the line JL

Re: [Rd] qpois Help problems (PR#14200)

2010-02-01 Thread maechler
> "JL" == Jerry Lewis > on Fri, 29 Jan 2010 22:50:12 +0100 (CET) writes: JL> Full_Name: Jerry W. Lewis JL> Version: 2.10.1 JL> OS: Windows XP Professional JL> Submission from: (NULL) (198.180.131.21) JL> In the line JL> "The quantile is right continuous: qp

Re: [Rd] questions as to building R from source under Windows

2010-02-01 Thread Peter Ruckdeschel
Hi Uwe, thanks for your quick reply. [... and sorry for not setting you to the CC explicitely, but I am mailing to this list through gmane ...] >> yesterday, on a new computer, in order to check my installation >> of "The Windows Toolset", I tried building R from source under >> Windows (in fact

[Rd] update method for nls

2010-02-01 Thread Ken Knoblauch
Would it be useful to have an update method for nls? I learned recently that the default method can generate an error unless the rhs of a formula is protected by being wrapped in a function, such as log or I(), when terms.formula is called. https://stat.ethz.ch/pipermail/r-help/2010-January/22582

[Rd] Sort order of vignettes in help index and CRAN

2010-02-01 Thread Thomas Petzoldt
Dear developers, there seems to be an inconsistency in the sort order of package vignettes between (1) the "Overview of user guides and package vignettes" in the help index of package itself: FME.pdf FMEdyna.pdf FMEmcmc.pdf FMEother.pdf FMEsteady.pdf and (2) the sort order of CRAN: FMEdyna.

Re: [Rd] questions as to building R from source under Windows

2010-02-01 Thread Uwe Ligges
On 01.02.2010 12:08, Peter Ruckdeschel wrote: Hi R-devels, yesterday, on a new computer, in order to check my installation of "The Windows Toolset", I tried building R from source under Windows (in fact under Windows 7) --- and in the end succeeded. Some minor issues though (which I think sho

[Rd] questions as to building R from source under Windows

2010-02-01 Thread Peter Ruckdeschel
Hi R-devels, yesterday, on a new computer, in order to check my installation of "The Windows Toolset", I tried building R from source under Windows (in fact under Windows 7) --- and in the end succeeded. Some minor issues though (which I think should not be Windows 7 issues) which might be of mo

Re: [Rd] Mksetup() limited to hashing with 32 bits

2010-02-01 Thread Prof Brian Ripley
On Wed, 13 Jan 2010, Benjamin Tyner wrote: The MKsetup() in unique.c throws an error if the vector to be hashed is longer than (2^32)/8: if(n < 0 || n > 536870912) /* protect against overflow to -ve */ error(_("length %d is too large for hashing"), n); I occasionally work with vectors