[Rd] Add "..." argument to generic of "median"

2010-11-10 Thread Andreas Eckner
Dear developers, would it be feasible to add an "..." argument to the "median" generic function (and by extension also to "median.default")? That would allow the implementation of "median" methods for data structures that require optional arguments, as is already supported by the "mean" generic

Re: [Rd] Problem with system2(), directing STDERR to a file

2010-11-10 Thread Dan Tenenbaum
Hi Keith, The problem is not with tempfile(), and is not really a problem of whether a file exists or not. The problem is that system2() does not put the contents of stderr into the file. Here is a demonstration without the use of tempfile(), using a pre-existing output file: klediment:~ dante$ e

Re: [Rd] Problem with system2(), directing STDERR to a file

2010-11-10 Thread Keith Satterley
Looking at help for tempfile, "tempfile" returns a vector of character strings which can be used as names for temporary files. and For "tempfile" a character vector giving the names of possible (temporary) files. Note that no files are generated by "tempfile". try a file.create(t) after

[Rd] Problem with system2(), directing STDERR to a file

2010-11-10 Thread Dan Tenenbaum
According to ?system2, I should be able to direct the output of STDERR to a file by giving the filename as a character vector to the "stderr" argument. But here is what happens. Given a ruby script test.rb (with its executable bit set): #!/usr/bin/env ruby STDOUT.puts "stdout" STDERR.puts "stder

Re: [Rd] callNextMethod fails with "$" generic

2010-11-10 Thread John Chambers
The problem here is that the primitive for `$` does not use standard R evaluation on its second argument, so when it is selected as the next method the call is effectively x$name regardless of the original call. If possible, I would avoid such cascaded calls of methods for `$`, precisely becau

Re: [Rd] "[[" strips the S4 class for classes extending environment

2010-11-10 Thread John Chambers
`[[<-`, that is. Right, the primitive code is not retaining the subclass information. Should be fixed in r-devel and 2.12 patched from revision 53547. Thanks for the catch. On 11/10/10 3:32 AM, Vitalie S. wrote: Dear Developers, A recently patched [[ for environment class returns a blank en

[Rd] installed.packages Error: subscript out of bounds

2010-11-10 Thread Hervé Pagès
Hi, Today we've seen the following problem with the R-2.12 that we use for our Windows builds: > installed.packages() Error: subscript out of bounds After some investigation we discovered that the cause of this failure was that 1 of the 890 packages currently installed on the machine (Windo

Re: [Rd] typo in ?eapply

2010-11-10 Thread Hervé Pagès
On 11/10/2010 10:38 AM, Hervé Pagès wrote: On 11/10/2010 05:02 AM, Prof Brian Ripley wrote: On Tue, 9 Nov 2010, Hervé Pagès wrote: Hi, Found in ?eapply (in current R-devel): \value{ A named (unless \code{USE.NAMES = FALSE}) list. Note that the order of the components is arbitrary for hashed

Re: [Rd] typo in ?eapply

2010-11-10 Thread Hervé Pagès
On 11/10/2010 05:02 AM, Prof Brian Ripley wrote: On Tue, 9 Nov 2010, Hervé Pagès wrote: Hi, Found in ?eapply (in current R-devel): \value{ A named (unless \code{USE.NAMES = FALSE}) list. Note that the order of the components is arbitrary for hashed environments: currently it will be in the or

[Rd] FW: [R] R-2.12.0 problem on Solaris 10

2010-11-10 Thread Zhang,Jun
I used solstutio12.2 to compile a 32-bit R-2.12.0 CC="cc -xc99" CPPFLAGS="-I/opt/csw/include" CFLAGS="-O -xlibmieee" F77=f95 FFLAGS=-O4 CXX="CC -library=stlport4" CXXFLAGS=-O FC=f95 FCFLAGS=$FFLAGS LDFLAGS="-L/opt/csw/lib" export CC CPPFLAGS CFLAGS F77 FFLAGS CXX CXXFLAGS FC FCFLAGS LDFLAGS ./co

[Rd] S4 package warning

2010-11-10 Thread Robin Hankin
Hello everyone. R-2.12.0, suse linux 11.3. I am debugging a package that uses S4 methods and R CMD check gives the following warning: > Warning in methods::findMethods(g, env) : > non-generic function 'mdm' given to findMethods() > See the information on DESCRIPTION files in the chapter 'Creat

Re: [Rd] typo in ?eapply

2010-11-10 Thread Prof Brian Ripley
On Tue, 9 Nov 2010, Hervé Pagès wrote: Hi, Found in ?eapply (in current R-devel): \value{ A named (unless \code{USE.NAMES = FALSE}) list. Note that the order of the components is arbitrary for hashed environments: currently it will be in the order the name-value pairs were added for unhash

[Rd] callNextMethod fails with "$" generic

2010-11-10 Thread Vitalie S.
Dear Developers, callNextMethods does not work with "$" setClass("mylist", contains = "list"): setMethod("$", signature(x = "mylist"), function (x, name){ cat("here:\n") callNextMethod() }) tl <- new("mylist") tl[["x"]] <- 343 tl$x #her

[Rd] "[[" strips the S4 class for classes extending environment

2010-11-10 Thread Vitalie S.
Dear Developers, A recently patched [[ for environment class returns a blank environment for a children class: setClass("myenv", contains = "environment") #[1] "myenv" env <- new("myenv") class(env) #[1] "myenv" #attr(,"package") #[1] ".GlobalEnv" env[["a"]] <- 343 class(env) [1] "environment"

[Rd] R Applications for Force.com/ Salesforce

2010-11-10 Thread Ajay Ohri
Dear List Forgive me for the slightly off topic query Force.com and Salesforce have many (1009) apps at http://sites.force.com/appexchange/home for cloud computing for businesses, but very few forecasting and statistical simulation apps. Example of Monte Carlo based app is here http://sites.for