Re: [Rd] R 2.10 and help

2010-05-26 Thread Hadley Wickham
>> I've tried various ways to access the help as HTML since then, but >> I've had no luck. I was wondering if anyone would be able to suggest >> an approach where I could run 'help(plot)', and then take the >> resulting .rd file and generate the necessary html help from it. >> > > It's much more si

Re: [Rd] SVN vs DVCS

2010-05-26 Thread Hadley Wickham
On Wednesday, May 26, 2010, Peter Dalgaard wrote: > Antonio, Fabio Di Narzo wrote: > >> Beside, people working simultaneously on the same files and needing >> svn to tell them of that? And that happening often? I would hope on >> better human interaction and work division, rather than svn conflict

Re: [Rd] SVN vs DVCS

2010-05-26 Thread Peter Dalgaard
Antonio, Fabio Di Narzo wrote: > Beside, people working simultaneously on the same files and needing > svn to tell them of that? And that happening often? I would hope on > better human interaction and work division, rather than svn conflicts > checks. But... >> [Note: again, this is rather about

Re: [Rd] R 2.10 and help

2010-05-26 Thread Simon Urbanek
On May 26, 2010, at 4:51 PM, Jamie Love wrote: > Hi all, > > I've been developing a little project for the past few months on R2.9. > The project utilises RServe to access R over at tcp/ip connection. > > One feature of the project is to take R-Help and display it to the > user through my own U

Re: [Rd] SVN vs DVCS

2010-05-26 Thread Antonio, Fabio Di Narzo
2010/5/26 Simon Urbanek : > > On May 26, 2010, at 12:26 PM, Antonio, Fabio Di Narzo wrote: > >> 2010/5/26 Hadley Wickham : > Yes, that's a very good point (although in my experience it takes a > very long time to do the initial download of the SVN repository). I'm > not an expert on the

[Rd] R 2.10 and help

2010-05-26 Thread Jamie Love
Hi all, I've been developing a little project for the past few months on R2.9. The project utilises RServe to access R over at tcp/ip connection. One feature of the project is to take R-Help and display it to the user through my own UI. In 2.9 this worked well as all the html help was pre-generat

Re: [Rd] SVN vs DVCS

2010-05-26 Thread Seth Falcon
On 5/26/10 4:16 AM, Gabor Grothendieck wrote: Note that one can also use any of the dvcs systems without actually moving from svn by using the dvcs (or associated extension/addon) as an svn client or by using it on an svn checkout. FWIW, I have been using git for several years now as my vsc of

Re: [Rd] SVN vs DVCS

2010-05-26 Thread Simon Urbanek
On May 26, 2010, at 12:26 PM, Antonio, Fabio Di Narzo wrote: > 2010/5/26 Hadley Wickham : Yes, that's a very good point (although in my experience it takes a very long time to do the initial download of the SVN repository). I'm not an expert on these systems, but I imagine the main

Re: [Rd] SVN vs DVCS

2010-05-26 Thread Gabor Grothendieck
On Wed, May 26, 2010 at 11:38 AM, Hadley Wickham wrote: > It's a real > shame that this unique component of R-forge is so closely connected to > the tools that many other sites provide. R-Forge does have the capability of mirroring an external subversion repository according to section 4.2 of the

Re: [Rd] SVN vs DVCS

2010-05-26 Thread Simon Urbanek
On May 26, 2010, at 11:35 AM, Hadley Wickham wrote: >>> Yes, that's a very good point (although in my experience it takes a >>> very long time to do the initial download of the SVN repository). I'm >>> not an expert on these systems, but I imagine the main downside (other >>> than speed) of havin

Re: [Rd] SVN vs DVCS

2010-05-26 Thread Antonio, Fabio Di Narzo
2010/5/26 Hadley Wickham : >>> Yes, that's a very good point (although in my experience it takes a >>> very long time to do the initial download of the SVN repository). I'm >>> not an expert on these systems, but I imagine the main downside (other >>> than speed) of having SVN upstream is that you

Re: [Rd] SVN vs DVCS

2010-05-26 Thread Hadley Wickham
> and .. for R-forge, e.g., which of these provide nice and > flexible tools (as svn does) for an automatic web interface to > inspect file histories, differences, etc. Every svn alternative provides tools that are as good as or better than R-forge, with the exception of package building. It's a

Re: [Rd] SVN vs DVCS

2010-05-26 Thread Hadley Wickham
>> Yes, that's a very good point (although in my experience it takes a >> very long time to do the initial download of the SVN repository). I'm >> not an expert on these systems, but I imagine the main downside (other >> than speed) of having SVN upstream is that you have to keep the >> history lin

Re: [Rd] SVN vs DVCS

2010-05-26 Thread Simon Urbanek
On May 26, 2010, at 10:01 AM, Felix Andrews wrote: > I'm not necessarily advocating a migration; probably an administrative > nightmare, and everyone involved would be forced to learn new stuff... > I was just enthusing because I recently started using a DVCS for the > first time. > > > On 26 M

Re: [Rd] SVN vs DVCS

2010-05-26 Thread Felix Andrews
I'm not necessarily advocating a migration; probably an administrative nightmare, and everyone involved would be forced to learn new stuff... I was just enthusing because I recently started using a DVCS for the first time. On 26 May 2010 21:16, Gabor Grothendieck wrote: > Note that one can also

Re: [Rd] segfault on 2.11.0 with large POSIXct vector using as.character

2010-05-26 Thread Jeff Ryan
> > > This has been fixed for a while in R-patched. The 2.11.1 release on Monday > should be fine. > Apparently people aren't running the betas/release candidates. You really > should run the test versions to flush out bugs. If you'd run the > pre-release versions of 2.11.0, this bug would likel

Re: [Rd] segfault on 2.11.0 with large POSIXct vector using as.character

2010-05-26 Thread Duncan Murdoch
Jeff Ryan wrote: Running "as.character" on a large POSIXct causes a segfault on my 2.11 (2010-04-22) install. Seems to crash at around 9e4 ... on OSX and Ubuntu at least. This has been fixed for a while in R-patched. The 2.11.1 release on Monday should be fine. Apparently people aren't

Re: [Rd] Indexing bug?

2010-05-26 Thread Duncan Murdoch
Duncan Murdoch wrote: Is this expected behaviour? x <- factor(c("c", "b", "a","c")) results <- c(c=4, b=5) results[x] giving > results[x] bc NA54 NA (i.e. it appears to give results[levels(x)] Thanks to all for pointing out my misinterpretation.It's clearly not

Re: [Rd] segfault on 2.11.0 with large POSIXct vector using as.character

2010-05-26 Thread Gabor Grothendieck
On my Vista system there is no seg fault: > invisible(as.character(Sys.time()+1:5e5)) > win.version() [1] "Windows Vista (build 6002) Service Pack 2" > R.version.string [1] "R version 2.11.0 Patched (2010-04-26 r51822)" On Wed, May 26, 2010 at 7:29 AM, Jeff Ryan wrote: > Running "as.character"

[Rd] segfault on 2.11.0 with large POSIXct vector using as.character

2010-05-26 Thread Jeff Ryan
Running "as.character" on a large POSIXct causes a segfault on my 2.11 (2010-04-22) install. Seems to crash at around 9e4 ... on OSX and Ubuntu at least. > invisible(as.character(Sys.time()+1:7e4)) > invisible(as.character(Sys.time()+1:8e4)) > invisible(as.character(Sys.time()+1:9e4)) Error: segf

Re: [Rd] SVN vs DVCS

2010-05-26 Thread Gabor Grothendieck
Note that one can also use any of the dvcs systems without actually moving from svn by using the dvcs (or associated extension/addon) as an svn client or by using it on an svn checkout. On Wed, May 26, 2010 at 5:44 AM, Martin Maechler wrote: >> Felix Andrews >>     on Wed, 26 May 2010 11

Re: [Rd] Indexing bug?

2010-05-26 Thread Berwin A Turlach
G'day Duncan, On Wed, 26 May 2010 05:57:38 -0400 Duncan Murdoch wrote: > Is this expected behaviour? Yes, according to the answer that this poster https://stat.ethz.ch/pipermail/r-devel/2008-March/048674.html got. Indeed, the help page of '[' states: The index object i can be numeric, logic

Re: [Rd] Indexing bug?

2010-05-26 Thread Deepayan Sarkar
On Wed, May 26, 2010 at 3:27 PM, Duncan Murdoch wrote: > Is this expected behaviour? > > x <- factor(c("c", "b", "a","c")) > results <- c(c=4, b=5) > results[x] > > giving > >> results[x] >    b    c >  NA    5    4   NA > > (i.e. it appears to give results[levels(x)] I would say it gives resu

[Rd] Indexing bug?

2010-05-26 Thread Duncan Murdoch
Is this expected behaviour? x <- factor(c("c", "b", "a","c")) results <- c(c=4, b=5) results[x] giving > results[x] bc NA54 NA (i.e. it appears to give results[levels(x)] whereas results[as.character(x)] does what I expected: as.character(x) results[as.character(x)] > a

Re: [Rd] SVN vs DVCS

2010-05-26 Thread Martin Maechler
> Felix Andrews > on Wed, 26 May 2010 11:20:12 +1000 writes: > On second thoughts it is really none of my business how the R sources > are managed. > But I would encourage package developers and/or r-forge maintainers to > consider these systems. Thank you, Felix, for