Re: [Rd] Can you share a working example of R program aided by fast BLAS?

2010-08-26 Thread Allan Engelhardt
On 19/08/10 19:49, Paul Johnson wrote: Can one of you give me an R program that displays the benefits an accelerated BLAS in R? I thought the standard benchmark was (the somewhat artificial) R-benchmark-25.R from http://r.research.att.com/benchmarks/R-benchmark-25.R . I have some exampl

Re: [Rd] Speeding up transpose

2010-08-26 Thread Radford Neal
> I've appended below the new version of the modified part of the > do_transpose function in src/main/array.c. A quick correction... A "break" went missing from the case INTSXP: section of the code I posted. Corrected version below. Radford Neal --

Re: [Rd] reliability of R-Forge? (moved to R-Devel)

2010-08-26 Thread Matthew Dowle
Hi Spencer, Each commit increments the svn revision number regardless of the build status. md5sums on pkg may not change for commits (only) to www and branches. Yes, the DESCRIPTION file contains a field containing the package version number. The author edits that field and commits that change wh

Re: [Rd] RCMD CHECK and non-methods

2010-08-26 Thread Simon Urbanek
On Aug 26, 2010, at 11:36 AM, Martin Maechler wrote: >> >>on Wed, 25 Aug 2010 14:06:07 +1000 writes: > >> I recently moved a function 'subset.with.warning' into the 'mvbutils' >> package (a version not yet on CRAN). When I tried RCMD CHECK, I got this >> warning: >> * checking S3

[Rd] reliability of R-Forge? (moved to R-Devel)

2010-08-26 Thread Spencer Graves
Hi, Russ: As noted by Brian Peterson in a separate email, R-Forge has a "Revision" number in addition to the version number. For example, the 'fda' package is currently at version 2.2.3 with Rev.: 484 on R-Forge. Each SVN Commit increments the Rev. number [after a successful build, I thi

[Rd] reliability of R-Forge? (moved to R-Devel)

2010-08-26 Thread Spencer Graves
I earlier moved a part of this thread to R-Devel, and got some replies there. At least one page on R-Forge says, "We are currently adapting the R-packages-plugin in order to work together with the new FusionForge infrastructure. Some services are thus not yet available." I don't

Re: [Rd] RCMD CHECK and non-methods

2010-08-26 Thread Martin Maechler
> > on Wed, 25 Aug 2010 14:06:07 +1000 writes: > I recently moved a function 'subset.with.warning' into the 'mvbutils' package (a version not yet on CRAN). When I tried RCMD CHECK, I got this warning: > * checking S3 generic/method consistency ... WARNING > subset:

Re: [Rd] reliability of R-Forge? (moving to r-Devel)

2010-08-26 Thread baptiste Auguié
On Aug 26, 2010, at 2:22 PM, Gabor Grothendieck wrote: >> > > I haven't tried it but I understand from the r-forge manual that it > now supports foreign subversion repositories. One could host > software on googlecode or other free subversion repository and still > have it available through r-f

Re: [Rd] reliability of R-Forge? (moving to r-Devel)

2010-08-26 Thread Gabor Grothendieck
On Thu, Aug 26, 2010 at 4:52 AM, Spencer Graves wrote: >  Hello: > > >      Can anyone comment on plans for R-Forge?  Please see thread below. > > >      Ramsay, Hooker and I would like to release a new version of "fda" to > CRAN.  We committed changes for it last Friday.  I'd like to see reports

Re: [Rd] reliability of R-Forge? (moving to r-Devel)

2010-08-26 Thread Matthew Dowle
Spencer and David, My experience of R-Forge : i) SVN access and project management web pages have been *very* reliable all this year ... up until the weekend. This week was the first time I ever saw "R-Forge Could Not Connect to Database". ii) The nightly build and checks have been consisten

[Rd] reliability of R-Forge? (moving to r-Devel)

2010-08-26 Thread Spencer Graves
Hello: Can anyone comment on plans for R-Forge? Please see thread below. Ramsay, Hooker and I would like to release a new version of "fda" to CRAN. We committed changes for it last Friday. I'd like to see reports of their "daily checks", then submit to CRAN from R-Forge. Un

Re: [Rd] No [[<-.factor()

2010-08-26 Thread Martin Maechler
> "WD" == William Dunlap > on Wed, 25 Aug 2010 17:31:27 -0700 writes: WD> Should there be a [[<-.factor() that either throws WD> an error or acts like [<-.factor() to avoid making WD> an illegal object of class factor? Yes, one or the other. Note that both `[<-` and `[[<-

Re: [Rd] Decision tree and factor variables

2010-08-26 Thread Gavin Simpson
On Thu, 2010-08-26 at 00:06 -0700, clusty wrote: > Hello, > > I'm building a decision tree in R with the rpart package. Modeling is > fine. But when it comes to scoring, I have the following issue: > > factor 'cust_language' has new level(s) OT > > I think this comes from the fact that when lear

[Rd] Decision tree and factor variables

2010-08-26 Thread clusty
Hello, I'm building a decision tree in R with the rpart package. Modeling is fine. But when it comes to scoring, I have the following issue: factor 'cust_language' has new level(s) OT I think this comes from the fact that when learning, the DT doesn't see all the possible value of the factor va