[Rd] R with multiple processors

2010-08-30 Thread Michel Boaventura
Hello, I was taking a look at R code, and there is some places that should be easily parallelized, as the dist() function, for example. Is there an interest on do such thing on R? I would like to start making patches to parallelize, but how comfortable with this are the main developers team on R?

Re: [Rd] introspective capabilities

2010-08-30 Thread Duncan Murdoch
On 27/08/2010 7:52 AM, Christophe Rhodes wrote: Hi, Is there any way, from R code, to perform introspection as to where certain names acquired their values? The specific functionality I'm looking for in this case is to be able to request my editor to view the definition corresponding to a name

Re: [Rd] S4 Method Rd Warning

2010-08-30 Thread Duncan Murdoch
On 30/08/2010 1:00 AM, Dario Strbenac wrote: Hello, I am using R 2.11.0. I have a curious problem where I get a warning in R CMD check which is seemingly not relevant to my Rd file. 2.11.0 isn't the current release, and there have been fixes to this stuff since 2.11.1 was released. Could

Re: [Rd] Does anyone use Sweave (RweaveLatex) option "expand=FALSE"?

2010-08-30 Thread Duncan Murdoch
On 19/08/2010 5:25 PM, Duncan Murdoch wrote: On 19/08/2010 5:07 PM, Kevin Coombes wrote: > I use it, frequently. The idea for it goes back to some of Knuth's > original literate programming ideas for developing weave and tangle when > he was writing TeX (the program). I want to be able to docu

Re: [Rd] NEWS and readNEWS

2010-08-30 Thread Hadley Wickham
>>   * s.post <- " SERIES NEWS" >>   * s.pre <- "^[\t ]*CHANGES IN R VERSION " > >> Is this a bug or is the documentation incorrect? > > readNEWS() is really for such 3-level files, but then R itself will move > to an 2-level Rd format in R 2.12.0. > > Use news() to read package news files. Ah, ok

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

2010-08-30 Thread Martin Maechler
> Prof Brian Ripley > on Mon, 30 Aug 2010 08:28:24 +0100 (BST) writes: > On Thu, 26 Aug 2010, Martin Maechler wrote: >>> "WD" == William Dunlap >>> on Wed, 25 Aug 2010 17:31:27 -0700 writes: >> WD> Should there be a [[<-.factor() that either throws WD

[Rd] S4 Method Rd Warning

2010-08-30 Thread Dario Strbenac
Hello, I am using R 2.11.0. I have a curious problem where I get a warning in R CMD check which is seemingly not relevant to my Rd file. The warning says : * checking Rd \usage sections ... WARNING Bad \usage lines found in documentation object 'enrichmentCalc': S4method{enrichmentCalc}{Gen

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

2010-08-30 Thread Prof Brian Ripley
On Thu, 26 Aug 2010, Martin Maechler wrote: "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 othe

Re: [Rd] Including C Code for Tcl and Tk in an R package

2010-08-30 Thread Prof Brian Ripley
On Mon, 30 Aug 2010, Adrian Waddell wrote: Dear R Community, I adapted the C-Code found at (http://wiki.tcl.tk/25685) implementing fast image resizing for Tk images for my R package. The C Code differs for tcl/tk version 8.4 and 8.5. I have the working code for both versions. How do I integra