Re: [Rd] Non-default build options

2012-01-25 Thread Sharpie
Dirk Eddelbuettel wrote > >b) having BLAS as a defined interface is wonderful for swapping default > (unaccelerated) BLAS for accelerated BLAS like Atlas, Goto, > OpenBLAS, > MKL, ... Several of these BLAS have in fact been available for > either > Debian or Ubuntu in some f

Re: [Rd] Non-default build options

2012-01-25 Thread Dirk Eddelbuettel
On 25 January 2012 at 12:33, Ivan Zaigralin wrote: | Hi! I am a current maintainer of the R slackbuild script (for Slackware | GNU/Linux distribution). I received requests from users to build R with | --enable-R-shlib and --enable-BLAS-shlib, so now I am trying to decide | whether to do so by defa

[Rd] Non-default build options

2012-01-25 Thread Ivan Zaigralin
Hi! I am a current maintainer of the R slackbuild script (for Slackware GNU/Linux distribution). I received requests from users to build R with --enable-R-shlib and --enable-BLAS-shlib, so now I am trying to decide whether to do so by default. Is there a downside to building R with either option?

Re: [Rd] [R] x11() graphic device, displaying raster

2012-01-25 Thread Johannes Radinger
> > Hello, > > > > I am wondering about the X11() graphic device on Windows. > > I try to plot a raster image but nothing gets displayed. I > > found some pages where it is mentioned that x11() not > > always supports raster rendering. > > Is there any add on for x11, an

Re: [Rd] [R] x11() graphic device, displaying raster

2012-01-25 Thread Uwe Ligges
On 25.01.2012 16:44, Johannes Radinger wrote: Hello, I am wondering about the X11() graphic device on Windows. I try to plot a raster image but nothing gets displayed. I found some pages where it is mentioned that x11() not always supports raster rendering. Is there any add on for x11, any upd

Re: [Rd] factor S4 class is NA when as.character method exists

2012-01-25 Thread Dan Murphy
But my NA issue does not arise from the S3 generic 'unique' alone but from the interaction of that S3 generic with the non-S3 generic 'as.character' (R.methodsS3::isGenericS3.default("as.character") returns FALSE). Here is Bill's code with his S3 as.character foo method replaced by my S4. > setCla

Re: [Rd] Failure to get compactPDF to compact a pdf file

2012-01-25 Thread Uwe Ligges
On 24.01.2012 22:22, John Maindonald wrote: Quoting from the R-2.14.1 help page for compactPDF: " This by default makes use of 'qpdf', available fromhttp://qpdf.sourceforge.net/> (including as a Windows binary) and included with the CRAN Mac OS X distribution of R. If 'gs_cmd' is no