Re: [Rd] R CMD build - will reset the timestamps of all files in a package

2011-10-25 Thread Valentin Todorov
After half a year of silence on this issue I would dare ask again: is this intended, why and how can I avoid it? Best regards, Valentin ... I wonder why (R version 2.13.0 and after) the command "R CMD build" sets the timestamp of all files in the package to the current date/time. This seems not

Re: [Rd] Windows download.file sometimes pauses / truncates large files

2011-10-25 Thread Martin Morgan
On 10/25/2011 11:57 AM, Martin Morgan wrote: With C:\Users\User>R --version R version 2.14.0 RC (2011-10-23 r57410) Copyright (C) 2011 The R Foundation for Statistical Computing ISBN 3-900051-07-0 Platform: x86_64-pc-mingw32/x64 (64-bit) running download.file('http://www.ebi.ac.uk/microarray-a

[Rd] CRAN Master Server Upgrade - Advance Notice

2011-10-25 Thread Stefan Theussl
To all CRAN-users/uploaders/mirror-Providers: The CRAN master server will be upgraded on Nov., 2nd. Technology never stands still, so there comes a point when we need to upgrade our hardware to keep up with todays market. At the moment we are migrating data to the new server and test it as b

[Rd] Windows download.file sometimes pauses / truncates large files

2011-10-25 Thread Martin Morgan
With C:\Users\User>R --version R version 2.14.0 RC (2011-10-23 r57410) Copyright (C) 2011 The R Foundation for Statistical Computing ISBN 3-900051-07-0 Platform: x86_64-pc-mingw32/x64 (64-bit) running download.file('http://www.ebi.ac.uk/microarray-as/ae/files/E-TABM-25/E-TABM-25.raw.1.zip', te

Re: [Rd] R fails when converting units using Hershey-Fonts

2011-10-25 Thread Simon Urbanek
Thanks, now fixed. Simon On Oct 25, 2011, at 5:21 AM, Mark Heckmann wrote: > I run into some problems when trying to convert units using Hershey-Fonts: R > chrashes. > >> library(grid) >> label <- "some text" >> pushViewport(viewport(gp=gpar(fontfamily="HersheySerif"))) >> convertHeight(string

Re: [Rd] strsplit convert data

2011-10-25 Thread Joris Meys
This is a question for R-Help, not for R-devel by all means. You're lucky to get an answer, but please use the right channels in the future. Cheers Joris On Tue, Oct 25, 2011 at 2:59 PM, RMSOPS wrote: > Hello Hans, > > Thanks for the reply, > > already changed and it gives me the following error

Re: [Rd] strsplit convert data

2011-10-25 Thread Hans-Jörg Bibiko
On 25 Oct 2011, at 14:59, RMSOPS wrote: > Error in strsplit(line, ",*") : non-character argument I wrote strsplit(line, ", *") a " " [space] between , and * !! Cheers, --Hans __ R-devel@r-project.org mailing list https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinf

Re: [Rd] strsplit convert data

2011-10-25 Thread RMSOPS
Hello Hans, Thanks for the reply, already changed and it gives me the following error Error in strsplit(line, ",*") : non-character argument #dataset read file dataset num<-nrow(dataset) num #results > dataset A.B 1 A,B,D 2 F,G 3 A,B,E 4 F,G 5 E,H 6 A,E 7 E,H 8 A,B,C 9 E,H

[Rd] R fails when converting units using Hershey-Fonts

2011-10-25 Thread Mark Heckmann
I run into some problems when trying to convert units using Hershey-Fonts: R chrashes. > library(grid) > label <- "some text" > pushViewport(viewport(gp=gpar(fontfamily="HersheySerif"))) > convertHeight(stringHeight(label), unitTo="mm") *** caught segfault *** address 0xadc838f8,

Re: [Rd] droplevels: drops contrasts as well

2011-10-25 Thread Thaler, Thorn, LAUSANNE, Applied Mathematics
> > I think this behaviour is annoying, because if one does not look > > carefully enough, one looses the contrasts silently. Hence may I > suggest > > to change the code of droplevels to something like the following: > > This silently changes the contrasts -- eg, if the first level of the > facto