[Rd] patch] writeForeignSAS writes invalid SASdata for logical columns

2011-09-16 Thread Patrick McCormick
Hi, I have been trying to encourage R use among my colleagues who use SAS, and part of that is demonstrating that R can perform a high fidelity export to SAS with the foreign package.  Recently one of my exports caused a SAS error, and I found that logical vectors within a dataframe are not export

Re: [Rd] package snow/parallel doesnt make any clusters

2011-09-16 Thread Uwe Ligges
Have you tried Admin privileges? It may be necessary to have some additional permissions (and Admin includes those). Best, Uwe Ligges On 16.09.2011 09:28, Maarten Schipper wrote: I am running R.And I want to make parallel computations. When using the snow package under R-2.13.1patched or th

Re: [Rd] R license for a derived data-only package

2011-09-16 Thread Paul Gilbert
Michael You might look at my TSzip package on CRAN. There are examples in the Guide: http://cran.at.r-project.org/web/packages/TSzip/vignettes/Guide.pdf. The package may not work directly, since it is designed for time series data (the example is daily market data.) But the general idea of just

Re: [Rd] R license for a derived data-only package

2011-09-16 Thread Simon Urbanek
On Sep 16, 2011, at 10:32 AM, Michael Friendly wrote: > I'm looking for guidance or advice about the R license to use in preparing a > package containing the > Baseball Database from http://baseball1.com/statistics/ > My main purpose is to make it available to students in a course, and to > deve

[Rd] R license for a derived data-only package

2011-09-16 Thread Michael Friendly
I'm looking for guidance or advice about the R license to use in preparing a package containing the Baseball Database from http://baseball1.com/statistics/ My main purpose is to make it available to students in a course, and to develop it with others I'd like to put it on R-Forge, and then perh

Re: [Rd] grep problem in R-devel 2.14 r57004

2011-09-16 Thread Simon Urbanek
I forgot to mention the more obvious ;) - yes, it is a known issue in PCRE 8.13 which is hitting more people. After re-reading the standard I think the problem was that PCRE did not require enclosing [ to treat [. as special. This has been addressed in the PCRE trunk since and it also has a com

Re: [Rd] grep problem in R-devel 2.14 r57004

2011-09-16 Thread Simon Urbanek
Mark, quick googling gives the answer - [.] is not what you think it is, you probably meant [\.]. Bracket expressions starting with [. are collating symbols which is unsupported by PCRE (only [:xxx:] is supported, neither [=xxx=] nor [.xxx.] is) but that's probably not what you intended. See POS

[Rd] package snow/parallel doesnt make any clusters

2011-09-16 Thread Maarten Schipper
I am running R.And I want to make parallel computations. When using the snow package under R-2.13.1patched or the parallel package under R 2.14.0dev, R isn't able to create a cluster. When typing: cl <- makeCluster(4) R doesn't respond. It doesn't crash either. specs: OS: 32 bit, Windows XP Pr