Re: [Rd] crossprod(): g77 versus gfortran

2013-03-05 Thread Simon Urbanek
On Mar 5, 2013, at 10:38 PM, Benjamin Tyner wrote: > Thank you Brian. So it sounds like appendix B.6 of > > http://cran.r-project.org/doc/manuals/R-admin.html > > should be updated to reflect that g77 is no longer supported; I will > notify c...@r-project.org of this unless you suggest a diff

Re: [Rd] crossprod(): g77 versus gfortran

2013-03-05 Thread Benjamin Tyner
Thank you Brian. So it sounds like appendix B.6 of http://cran.r-project.org/doc/manuals/R-admin.html should be updated to reflect that g77 is no longer supported; I will notify c...@r-project.org of this unless you suggest a different recipient. In any case, I tried again but using gfortran

Re: [Rd] [BioC] enabling reproducible research & R package management & install.package.version & BiocLite

2013-03-05 Thread Cook, Malcolm
Paul, I think your balanced and reasoned approach addresses all my current concerns. Nice! I will likely adopt your methods. Let me ruminate. Thanks for this. ~ Malcolm .-Original Message- .From: Paul Gilbert [mailto:pgilbert...@gmail.com] .Sent: Tuesday, March 05, 2013 4:34 PM

Re: [Rd] [BioC] enabling reproducible research & R package management & install.package.version & BiocLite

2013-03-05 Thread Steve Lianoglou
Hi Paul, You outline some great suggestions! I just wanted to point that in this case: On Tue, Mar 5, 2013 at 5:34 PM, Paul Gilbert wrote: [snip] > Regarding NFS mounts, it is relatively robust. There can be occasional > problems, especially for users that have a habit of keeping an R session

Re: [Rd] [BioC] enabling reproducible research & R package management & install.package.version & BiocLite

2013-03-05 Thread Paul Gilbert
(More on the original question further below.) On 13-03-05 09:48 AM, Cook, Malcolm wrote: All, What got me started on this line of inquiry was my attempt at balancing the advantages of performing a periodic (daily or weekly) update to the 'release' version of locally installed R/Bioconductor pa

[Rd] Patch for format.ftable()

2013-03-05 Thread Marius Hofert
Dear expeRts, Please find attached the .diff for a bug fix in R-devel 62124. format.ftable() fails to format ftable()s correctly which have no row.vars or no col.vars. That should work with the patch (the example code below also runs correctly for all the (new) 'method's). Cheers, Marius --8<-

Re: [Rd] [BioC] enabling reproducible research & R package management & install.package.version & BiocLite

2013-03-05 Thread Prof Brian Ripley
One comment: I have found numerical changes due to updates to the OS's compilers or runtime at least as often as I have been by changes in R or packages when trying to reproduce results from a year or two back. That aspect is rarely mentioned in these discussions. On 05/03/2013 15:09, Cook, M

Re: [Rd] [BioC] enabling reproducible research & R package management & install.package.version & BiocLite

2013-03-05 Thread Cook, Malcolm
.> So, even if I wanted to go where dragons lurked, it would not be .> possible to cobble a version of biocLite that installed specific .> versions of software. .> .> Thus, I might rather consider an approach that at 'publish' time .> tarzips up a copy of the R package dependencies based on a

Re: [Rd] [BioC] enabling reproducible research & R package management & install.package.version & BiocLite

2013-03-05 Thread Geoff Jentry
On Tue, 5 Mar 2013, Cook, Malcolm wrote: Thus, I might rather consider an approach that at 'publish' time tarzips up a copy of the R package dependencies based on a config file defined from sessionInfo and caches it in the project directory. If you had a separate environment for every project,

Re: [Rd] [BioC] enabling reproducible research & R package management & install.package.version & BiocLite

2013-03-05 Thread Cook, Malcolm
All, What got me started on this line of inquiry was my attempt at balancing the advantages of performing a periodic (daily or weekly) update to the 'release' version of locally installed R/Bioconductor packages on our institute-wide installation of R with the disadvantages of potentially chang

Re: [Rd] [BioC] enabling reproducible research & R package management & install.package.version & BiocLite

2013-03-05 Thread Dr Gregory Jefferis
On 5 Mar 2013, at 14:36, Cook, Malcolm wrote: So, even if I wanted to go where dragons lurked, it would not be possible to cobble a version of biocLite that installed specific versions of software. Thus, I might rather consider an approach that at 'publish' time tarzips up a copy of the R pa

Re: [Rd] [BioC] enabling reproducible research & R package management & install.package.version & BiocLite

2013-03-05 Thread Cook, Malcolm
.>>> * where do the dragons lurk .>>> .>> .>> webs of interconnected dynamically loaded libraries, identical versions of .>> R compiled with different BLAS/LAPACK options, etc. Go with the VM if you .>> really, truly, want this level of exact reproducibility. .> .> Sounds like the best bet

Re: [Rd] [BioC] enabling reproducible research & R package management & install.package.version & BiocLite

2013-03-05 Thread Mike Marchywka
I hate to ask what go this thread started but it sounds like someone was counting on  exact numeric reproducibility or was there a bug in a specific release? In actual  fact, the best way to determine reproducibility is run the code in a variety of packages. Alternatively, you can do everything

Re: [Rd] [BioC] enabling reproducible research & R package management & install.package.version & BiocLite

2013-03-05 Thread Aaron Mackey
On Mon, Mar 4, 2013 at 4:13 PM, Cook, Malcolm wrote: > * where do the dragons lurk > webs of interconnected dynamically loaded libraries, identical versions of R compiled with different BLAS/LAPACK options, etc. Go with the VM if you really, truly, want this level of exact reproducibility. An