[Rd] Development version of R fails a regression test

2025-01-20 Thread Berwin A Turlach
G'day all, I have daily scripts running to install the patched version of the current R version and the development version of R on my linux box (Ubuntu 24.04.1 LTS). The last development version that was successfully compiled and installed on my machine is "R Under development (unstable) (2024-1

Re: [Rd] specials and ::

2024-08-26 Thread Berwin A Turlach
G'day Terry, On Mon, 26 Aug 2024 09:42:10 -0500 "Therneau, Terry M., Ph.D. via R-devel" wrote: [...] > I now get "bug reports" from the growing segment that believes one > should put packagename:: in front of every single instance. [...] > What are other's thoughts? Not that I want to start a

Re: [Rd] specials and ::

2024-08-26 Thread Berwin A Turlach
G'day Terry, On Mon, 26 Aug 2024 09:42:10 -0500 "Therneau, Terry M., Ph.D. via R-devel" wrote: [...] > I now get "bug reports" from the growing segment that believes one > should put packagename:: in front of every single instance.  [...] > What are other's thoughts? Not that I want to start a

Re: [Rd] A potential POSIXlt->Date bug introduced in r-devel

2022-10-06 Thread Berwin A Turlach
G'day all, On Thu, 6 Oct 2022 10:15:29 +0200 Martin Maechler wrote: > > Davis Vaughan > > on Wed, 5 Oct 2022 17:04:11 -0400 writes: > > # Weird, where is the `NA`? > > as.Date(x) > > #> [1] "2013-01-31" "1970-01-01" "2013-03-31" > > ``` > > I agree that the

Re: [Rd] Trying to compile R 4.2.x on Linux as 32bit sub-architecture

2022-06-18 Thread Berwin A Turlach
G'day all, On Sat, 18 Jun 2022 22:58:19 +0800 Berwin A Turlach wrote: > [...] I attach the relevant file from trying to compile R-patched > during last night's run. Mmh, on the web-interface to the mailing list I see that the attachment might have been deleted. Perhaps be

Re: [Rd] Development version of R fails tests and is not installed

2020-02-16 Thread Berwin A Turlach
G'day Jeroen, On Sun, 9 Feb 2020 01:04:24 +0100 Jeroen Ooms wrote: > I think the intention was to add something similar in R's autoconf > script to enable sse on 32-bit unix systems, but seemingly this hasn't > happened. For now I think you should be able to make your 32-bit > checks succeed if

[Rd] Development version of R fails tests and is not installed

2020-02-08 Thread Berwin A Turlach
G'day all, I have daily scripts running to install the patched version of the current R version and the development version of R on my linux box (Ubuntu 18.04.4 LTS). The last development version that was successfully compiled and installed was "R Under development (unstable) (2020-01-25 r77715)"

[Rd] Development version of R fails tests and is not installed

2019-03-05 Thread Berwin A Turlach
G'day all, I have daily scripts running to install the patched version of the current R version and the development version of R on my linux box (Ubuntu 18.04.2 LTS). The last development version that was successfully compiled and installed was "R Under development (unstable) (2019-02-25 r76159)"

[Rd] Problem compiling R patched and R devel on Ubuntu

2017-08-03 Thread Berwin A Turlach
G'day all, since about a week my daily re-compilations of R patched and R devel are falling over, i.e. they stop with an error during "make check" (while building the 32 bit architecture) on my Ubuntu 16.04.3 LTS machine. Specifically, a test in graphics-Ex.R seems to fail and the last lines of g

Re: [Rd] [patch] Error in reg-tests-1c.R (R-devel)

2016-05-18 Thread Berwin A Turlach
G'day Martin, On Wed, 18 May 2016 12:50:21 +0200 Martin Maechler wrote: > > Mikko Korpela > > on Wed, 18 May 2016 13:05:24 +0300 writes: > > > I get an error when running "make check" after building > > R-devel r70629 on Ubuntu 14.04. > > Here are the relevant > >

[Rd] Building R-patched and R-devel fails

2016-04-16 Thread Berwin A Turlach
G'day all, probably you have noticed this by now, but I thought I ought to report it. :) My scripts that update the SVN sources for R-patched and R-devel, run `tools/rsync-recommended' (for both) and then install both these versions from scratch failed this morning. Apparently the new version of

Re: [Rd] Small inaccuracy in the Writing R Extensions manual

2016-01-12 Thread Berwin A Turlach
G'day Duncan, On Tue, 12 Jan 2016 07:32:05 -0500 Duncan Murdoch wrote: > On 11/01/2016 11:59 PM, Berwin A Turlach wrote: > > G'day all, > > > > In Chapter 1.4 (Writing package vignettes) the Writing R Extensions > > manual states: > > > > By

[Rd] Small inaccuracy in the Writing R Extensions manual

2016-01-11 Thread Berwin A Turlach
G'day all, In Chapter 1.4 (Writing package vignettes) the Writing R Extensions manual states: By default @code{R CMD build} will run @code{Sweave} on all Sweave vignette source files in @file{vignettes}. If @file{Makefile} is found in the vignette source directory, then

[Rd] On 'R CMD INSTALL' with multiple architectures

2016-01-11 Thread Berwin A Turlach
--arch=name CMD INSTALL --libs-only' installs only libraries for the specified architecture (as an unwary user might expect). Cheers, Berwin == Full address A/Prof Berwin A Turlach Tel.: +61 (8) 6488 3338 (secr) School of Ma

Re: [Rd] Fortran BLAS giving bad results

2014-01-11 Thread Berwin A Turlach
eturned when an INTEGER is expected creates some confusion. Somewhere at the start of your routine you have to add a "DOUBLE PRECISION ddot" statement. HTH. Cheers, Berwin == Full address A/Prof Berwin A Turlach

Re: [Rd] R CMD config for R >= 3.0.1

2013-05-19 Thread Berwin A Turlach
G'day Brian, On Sun, 19 May 2013 08:40:04 +0100 Prof Brian Ripley wrote: > Could you try current R-patched or R-devel? Works in my tests at > least. Tried R-patched (2013-05-18 r62762) and R-devel (2013-05-18 r62762), installed with my original script. Things seem fine when I try to install m

Re: [Rd] R CMD config for R >= 3.0.1

2013-05-19 Thread Berwin A Turlach
G'day Brian, On Sat, 18 May 2013 10:28:43 +0100 Prof Brian Ripley wrote: [...] > > Is it necessary for R >= 3.0.1 to have one build as > > "main"-architecture and the other one as sub-architecture? I could > > not find anything in the NEWS file or the Admin manual that > > indicated that this w

[Rd] R CMD config for R >= 3.0.1

2013-05-17 Thread Berwin A Turlach
Dear all, When installing the usual packages that I use, after installing R 3.0.1, I noticed that the installation of some packages that query R about its configuration did not succeed. The problem is exemplified by: berwin@bossiaea:~$ R-3.0.1 CMD config CC /opt/R/R-3.0.1/lib/R/bin/config: 222:

Re: [Rd] Recommended way to call/import functions from a Suggested package

2013-02-22 Thread Berwin A Turlach
G'day David, On Fri, 22 Feb 2013 18:50:07 -0800 David Winsemius wrote: > On Feb 22, 2013, at 6:39 PM, David Winsemius wrote: [...] > > I've always wondered: How does lattice manage to use grid functions > > without putting them on the search path? Because lattice imports the grid package and ha

Re: [Rd] Calling FORTRAN function from R issue?

2012-03-06 Thread Berwin A Turlach
G'day Berend, On Tue, 6 Mar 2012 13:06:34 +0100 Berend Hasselman wrote: [... big snip ...] > But I would really like to hear from an Rexpert why you > shouldn't/can't use external here in the Fortran. Probably less a question for an Rexpert but for a Fortran expert If you insert "implicit

Re: [Rd] Calling FORTRAN function from R issue?

2012-03-06 Thread Berwin A Turlach
G'day Berend, On Tue, 6 Mar 2012 11:19:07 +0100 Berend Hasselman wrote: > On 06-03-2012, at 01:21, Dominick Samperi wrote: [...] > >zx[0].r = 1.0; zx[0].i = 0.0; > >zx[1].r = 2.0; zx[0].i = 0.0; > >zx[2].r = 3.0; zx[0].i = 0.0; Just noticing that it is always zx[0].i, same with the

Re: [Rd] Calling FORTRAN function from R issue?

2012-03-05 Thread Berwin A Turlach
G'day Dominick, On Mon, 5 Mar 2012 19:21:01 -0500 Dominick Samperi wrote: > Section 5.2 of the R manual (on Extending R) says that only > FORTRAN subroutines can be called (not functions), probably > because of the non-standard way the compilers map FORTRAN > function names to symbols in the DLL

Re: [Rd] nobs() and logLik()

2012-01-19 Thread Berwin A Turlach
G'day Brian, On Fri, 20 Jan 2012 06:20:30 + Prof Brian Ripley wrote: > I do wonder why people use zero weights rather than 'subset', and I > don't particularly like the discontinuity as a weight goes to zero. I completely agree, and for developers it is a bit of a pain to make sure that al

[Rd] nobs() and logLik()

2012-01-19 Thread Berwin A Turlach
Dear all, I am studying a bit the various support functions that exist for extracting information from fitted model objects. >From the help files it is not completely clear to me whether the number returned by nobs() should be the same as the "nobs" attribute of the object returned by logLik().

Re: [Rd] Changed behaviour of 'R CMD INSTALL'

2012-01-11 Thread Berwin A Turlach
G'day Simon, On Wed, 11 Jan 2012 08:53:27 -0500 Simon Urbanek wrote: > try --no-multiarch Thanks, works perfectly. And now I notice that this option is given as an example in the help file for install.packages() as a possible value that one wants to pass to 'R CMD INSTALL'. Could kick myself.

[Rd] Changed behaviour of 'R CMD INSTALL'

2012-01-11 Thread Berwin A Turlach
G'day all, I found the following snippet in the NEWS file for R 2.14.1: • R CMD INSTALL will now do a test load for all sub-architectures for which code was compiled (rather than just the primary sub-architecture). This seems to have the following (unintended?) consequence: Mos

Re: [Rd] CRAN: How to list a non-Sweave doc under "Vignettes:" on package page?

2011-11-07 Thread Berwin A Turlach
G'day Henrik, On Sun, 6 Nov 2011 16:41:22 -0800 Henrik Bengtsson wrote: > is it possible to have non-Sweave vignettes(*) in inst/doc/ be listed > under 'Downloads' on CRAN package pages? As far as I know, only by a little trick. Create an Sweave based vignette that uses the pdfpages package

Re: [Rd] Clean up after "R CMD INSTALL" and/or "R CMD check"

2010-12-03 Thread Berwin A Turlach
G'day Brian, On Fri, 3 Dec 2010 13:14:44 + (GMT) Prof Brian Ripley wrote: > > I noticed the following (new) behaviour of R 2.12.0, running on > > Kubuntu 10.10, when installed with sub-architectures: > > Yes, there are new features when there are multiple sub-architectures. Indeed. One ne

[Rd] Clean up after "R CMD INSTALL" and/or "R CMD check"

2010-12-03 Thread Berwin A Turlach
G'day all, I noticed the following (new) behaviour of R 2.12.0, running on Kubuntu 10.10, when installed with sub-architectures: When I run "R CMD INSTALL" or "R CMD check" on the source directory of a package that contains C or FORTRAN code, R creates sub-directories src-32/ and src-64/ that see

Re: [Rd] Trying to understand the search path and namespaces

2010-11-16 Thread Berwin A Turlach
G'day Hadley, On Tue, 16 Nov 2010 07:35:09 -0600 Hadley Wickham wrote: > > Well, as the part of "Writing R Extensions" that Martin quoted > > states, the normal search path is part of the search path used by > > packages with name spaces.  So if you attach another package via > > library(), the

Re: [Rd] Trying to understand the search path and namespaces

2010-11-16 Thread Berwin A Turlach
G'day Hadley, On Mon, 15 Nov 2010 19:45:30 -0600 Hadley Wickham wrote: > > 1.6 of Writing R Extensions says > > > > Note that adding a name space to a package changes the search > > strategy. The package name space comes first in the search, then > > the imports, then the base name space and the

Re: [Rd] Query about .check_packages_used_in_examples

2010-10-11 Thread Berwin A Turlach
G'day Brian, On Mon, 11 Oct 2010 11:11:42 +0100 (BST) Prof Brian Ripley wrote: > Sounds reasonable to count Imports, so we'll alter this. Thanks for that. I noticed the changes to R-devel and to the R-2-12-branch. Looking at the diffs (an example is appended below), it seems to me that, except

Re: [Rd] Query about .check_packages_used_in_examples

2010-10-10 Thread Berwin A Turlach
G'day all, sorry, should proof-read better before hitting the send button... On Mon, 11 Oct 2010 06:06:46 +0800 Berwin A Turlach wrote: > But then I noticed that for another package I have on R-forge a > similar note is issued: > https://r-forge.r-project.org/R/?gr

[Rd] Query about .check_packages_used_in_examples

2010-10-10 Thread Berwin A Turlach
G'day all, looking at http://cran.at.r-project.org/web/checks/check_results_Sleuth2.html I noticed that r-prerel-* and r-devel-* issue notes. Apparently, now examples are more thoroughly checked by R CMD check and the note pointed out that a package used in the examples was not declared. This wa

Re: [Rd] checking user interrupts in C(++) code

2010-09-29 Thread Berwin A Turlach
G'day Simon, since Karl brought up this topic, I thought I might use it to seek clarification for something that bothered me for some time. On Tue, 28 Sep 2010 14:55:34 -0400 Simon Urbanek wrote: > There are several ways in which you can make your code respond to > interrupts properly - which o

Re: [Rd] Matrix install fails because of defunct save in require

2010-09-17 Thread Berwin A Turlach
G'day Uwe, On Fri, 17 Sep 2010 19:22:04 +0200 Uwe Ligges wrote: > > > On 17.09.2010 16:04, Thomas Petzoldt wrote: > > Dear R-Devel, > > > > I've just tried to compile the fresh R-devel and found that the > > install of package Matrix failed: > > > >

Re: [Rd] Indexing bug?

2010-05-26 Thread Berwin A Turlach
G'day Duncan, On Wed, 26 May 2010 05:57:38 -0400 Duncan Murdoch wrote: > Is this expected behaviour? Yes, according to the answer that this poster https://stat.ethz.ch/pipermail/r-devel/2008-March/048674.html got. Indeed, the help page of '[' states: The index object i can be numeric, logic

Re: [Rd] Bugs? when dealing with contrasts

2010-04-21 Thread Berwin A Turlach
which contains pertinent examples; in your case: R> model.matrix(lm(seq(15) ~ fac, contrasts = list(fac="contr.sum"))) (Intercept) fac1 fac2 1110 2110 3110 4110 5110 61

Re: [Rd] LOGICAL arguments in FORTRAN code

2010-04-08 Thread Berwin A Turlach
G'day Brian, On Thu, 8 Apr 2010 12:40:45 +0100 (BST) Prof Brian Ripley wrote: > On Thu, 8 Apr 2010, Berwin A Turlach wrote: [...] > > Thus, given that the port of quadprog existed for quite some time, I > > am wondering whether it is o.k. to pass R objects with storage m

[Rd] LOGICAL arguments in FORTRAN code

2010-04-08 Thread Berwin A Turlach
G'day all, I just took over maintenance of the quadprog package from Kurt Hornik and noticed that one of the FORTRAN routines has an argument that is declared to be a LOGICAL. The R code that calls this routine (via the .Fortran interface) passes the argument down wrapped in a call to as.logical(

Re: [Rd] build, data and vignettes

2010-02-26 Thread Berwin A Turlach
G'day Uwe, On Fri, 26 Feb 2010 17:03:10 +0100 Uwe Ligges wrote: > R CMD check executes the R code in the vignettes and checks if that > works, and it checks if the PDFs are available. It does not check if > it can build the vignettes, because that is only necessary on the > maintainer's machin

Re: [Rd] inconsistency in ?factor

2009-05-25 Thread Berwin A Turlach
, "a"), levels=c("a", "b", "c")) R> f2 <- factor(c("a", "b", "c", "c", "b", "a"), levels=c("c", "b", "a")) R> f1==f2 [1] TRUE TRUE TRUE TRUE TRUE TRUE R&

[Rd] Patch proposal for logspace_sub

2009-04-27 Thread Berwin A Turlach
"#include " R> fn <- cfunction(sig,code,convention=".C",language="C",includes=incl) R> lx <- 1e-16 R> ly <- 1e-20 R> fn(lx, ly, res=0)$res [1] -36.7368005696771 === Full address = Berwin A Turlach

Re: [Rd] surprising behaviour of names<-

2009-03-15 Thread Berwin A Turlach
G'day Wacek, On Sun, 15 Mar 2009 21:01:33 +0100 Wacek Kusnierczyk wrote: > Berwin A Turlach wrote: > > > > Obviously, assuming that R really executes > > *tmp* <- x > > x <- "names<-"('*tmp*', value=c("a",&qu

Re: [Rd] surprising behaviour of names<-

2009-03-14 Thread Berwin A Turlach
On Sat, 14 Mar 2009 07:22:34 +0100 Wacek Kusnierczyk wrote: [...] > > Well, I don't see any new object created in my workspace after > > x <- 4 > > names(x) <- "foo" > > Do you? > > > > of course not. that's why i'd say the two above are *not* > equivalent. > > i haven't noticed th

Re: [Rd] surprising behaviour of names<-

2009-03-13 Thread Berwin A Turlach
On Fri, 13 Mar 2009 19:41:42 +0100 Wacek Kusnierczyk wrote: > > Glad to see that we agree on this. > > > > owe you a beer. O.k., if we ever meet is is first your shout and then mine. > >> haven't objected to that. i object to your 'r uses pass by value', > >> which is only partially corre

Re: [Rd] surprising behaviour of names<-

2009-03-13 Thread Berwin A Turlach
On Fri, 13 Mar 2009 11:43:55 +0100 Wacek Kusnierczyk wrote: > Berwin A Turlach wrote: > > > And it is documented behaviour. > > sure! Glad to see that we agree on this. > > Read section 2.1.10 ("Environments") in the R > > Language Definition, >

Re: [Rd] surprising behaviour of names<-

2009-03-12 Thread Berwin A Turlach
On Thu, 12 Mar 2009 21:26:15 +0100 Wacek Kusnierczyk wrote: > > YMMV, but when I read a passage like this in R documentation, I > > start to wonder why it is stated that > > names(x) <- c("a","b") > > is equivalent to > > *tmp* <- x > > x <- "names<-"('*tmp*', value=c("a","b")) > >

Re: [Rd] surprising behaviour of names<-

2009-03-12 Thread Berwin A Turlach
On Thu, 12 Mar 2009 15:21:50 +0100 Wacek Kusnierczyk wrote: [...] > >>> And the R Language manual (ignoring for the moment that it is a > >>> draft and all that), > >>> > >> since we must... > >> > >> > >>> clearly states that > >>> > >>> names(x) <- c("a","b") > >>> > >>> is e

Re: [Rd] surprising behaviour of names<-

2009-03-12 Thread Berwin A Turlach
On Thu, 12 Mar 2009 10:53:19 +0100 Wacek Kusnierczyk wrote: > well, ?'names<-' says: > > " > Value: > For 'names<-', the updated object. > " > > which is only partially correct, in that the value will sometimes be > an updated *copy* of the object. But since R supposedly uses call-by-val

Re: [Rd] surprising behaviour of names<-

2009-03-12 Thread Berwin A Turlach
On Thu, 12 Mar 2009 10:05:36 +0100 Wacek Kusnierczyk wrote: > well, as far as i remember, it has been said on this list that in r > the infix syntax is equivalent to the prefix syntax, [...] Whoever said that must have been at that moment not as precise as he or she could have been. Also, R doe

Re: [Rd] surprising behaviour of names<-

2009-03-12 Thread Berwin A Turlach
On Wed, 11 Mar 2009 20:29:14 +0100 Wacek Kusnierczyk wrote: > Simon Urbanek wrote: > > Wacek, > > > > Peter gave you a full answer explaining it very well. If you really > > want to be able to trace each instance yourself, you have to learn > > far more about R internals than you apparently know

Re: [Rd] surprising behaviour of names<-

2009-03-12 Thread Berwin A Turlach
On Wed, 11 Mar 2009 20:31:18 +0100 Wacek Kusnierczyk wrote: > Simon Urbanek wrote: > > > > On Mar 11, 2009, at 10:52 , Simon Urbanek wrote: > > > >> Wacek, > >> > >> Peter gave you a full answer explaining it very well. If you really > >> want to be able to trace each instance yourself, you have

Re: [Rd] bug (PR#13570)

2009-03-05 Thread Berwin A Turlach
G'day Peter, On Thu, 05 Mar 2009 09:09:27 +0100 Peter Dalgaard wrote: > rha...@stat.purdue.edu wrote: > > <> > > > > This is a CRITICAL bug!!! I have verified it in R 2.8.1 for mac > > and for windows. The problem is with loess degree=0 smoothing. > > For example, try the following: > > > >

Re: [Rd] [R] Semantics of sequences in R

2009-02-24 Thread Berwin A Turlach
G'day Dimitris, On Tue, 24 Feb 2009 11:19:15 +0100 Dimitris Rizopoulos wrote: > in my opinion the point of the whole discussion could be summarized > by the question, what is a design flaw? This is totally subjective, > and it happens almost everywhere in life. [...] Beautifully summarised and

Re: [Rd] [R] Semantics of sequences in R

2009-02-24 Thread Berwin A Turlach
On Tue, 24 Feb 2009 09:39:51 +0100 Wacek Kusnierczyk wrote: > Berwin A Turlach wrote: [...] > why not read some fortunes? I am well aware of those fortunes and maybe you missed the one: > fortune("Watson") Getting flamed for asking dumb questions on a public mailing

Re: [Rd] [R] Semantics of sequences in R

2009-02-24 Thread Berwin A Turlach
On Mon, 23 Feb 2009 20:27:23 +0100 Wacek Kusnierczyk wrote: > Berwin A Turlach wrote: > >> [...] > >> judging from your question, you couldn't possibly see sorting > >> routines in other languages. > >> > > > > Quite likely, or the ot

Re: [Rd] [R] Semantics of sequences in R

2009-02-23 Thread Berwin A Turlach
On Mon, 23 Feb 2009 13:27:08 +0100 Wacek Kusnierczyk wrote: > Berwin A Turlach wrote: > > > > >> can you give one concrete example, and suggest how to estimate how > >> much old code would involve the same issue? > >> > > > > Check

Re: [Rd] [R] Semantics of sequences in R

2009-02-23 Thread Berwin A Turlach
On Mon, 23 Feb 2009 11:31:16 +0100 Wacek Kusnierczyk wrote: > Berwin A Turlach wrote: > > On Mon, 23 Feb 2009 08:52:05 +0100 > > Wacek Kusnierczyk wrote: [...] > >> and you mean that sort.list not being applicable to lists is a) > >> good design, and b) some

Re: [Rd] [R] Semantics of sequences in R

2009-02-23 Thread Berwin A Turlach
On Mon, 23 Feb 2009 08:52:05 +0100 Wacek Kusnierczyk wrote: > Berwin A Turlach wrote: > > G'day Stavros, > > >> In many cases, the orthogonal design is pretty straightforward. > >> And in the cases where the operation is currently an error (e.g. > >&

Re: [Rd] [R] Semantics of sequences in R

2009-02-22 Thread Berwin A Turlach
e new name. I guess this might break quite a few packages on CRAN. Cheers, Berwin === Full address = Berwin A TurlachTel.: +65 6516 4416 (secr) Dept of Statistics and Applied Probability+65 6516 6650 (self) Facu

Re: [Rd] vignette compilation times

2009-02-20 Thread Berwin A Turlach
G'day Fritz, On Fri, 20 Feb 2009 12:46:49 +1100 Friedrich Leisch wrote: [...] > It is also unclear to me whether including a PDF without sources in a > GPLed package isn't a violation of the GPL (I know people who very > strongly think so). And source according to the GPL means "the > preferred

Re: [Rd] vignette compilation times

2009-02-20 Thread Berwin A Turlach
G'day Gabor, On Thu, 19 Feb 2009 17:47:53 -0500 Gabor Grothendieck wrote: > [...] > Unless this has changed recently,I've tried including a PDF but it > does not appear in library(help = myPackage) nor on the CRAN site on > http://cran.r-project.org/package=myPackage > while Sweave'd PDFs do. I

Re: [Rd] vignette compilation times

2009-02-20 Thread Berwin A Turlach
G'day Robin, On Thu, 19 Feb 2009 11:10:45 + Robin Hankin wrote: > I am preparing a number of vignettes that require a very long time to > process with Sweave. The longest one takes 10 hours. Is the sum of all chunks taking this time? Or is it mostly the code in only a view chunks? And

Re: [Rd] unloadNamespace (Was: How to unload a dll loaded via library.dynam()?)

2009-02-20 Thread Berwin A Turlach
G'day Brian, On Fri, 20 Feb 2009 11:37:18 + (GMT) Prof Brian Ripley wrote: > This was rather a large shift of subject, [...] Well, yes, from the clean unloading of compiled code to the clean unloading of R code. :-) Though, I also confirmed that the former is possible on a cooperative O

Re: [Rd] unloadNamespace (Was: How to unload a dll loaded via library.dynam()?)

2009-02-20 Thread Berwin A Turlach
understand why the order matters for R code. I could not find anything in the documentation that would explain this behaviour, or indicate that this is the intended behaviour. Enlightening comments and/or pointers to where this behaviour is documented would be welcome. Cheers, Berwin ==

Re: [Rd] Warning: missing text for item ... in \describe?

2008-12-05 Thread Berwin A Turlach
G'day Brian, On Fri, 5 Dec 2008 17:32:58 + (GMT) Prof Brian Ripley <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: [...] > > Which platform are we talking here? I was using linux and "R CMD > > check fda", using R 2.8.0, on the command line said: > > That writes to a file, and writes to a file are buffered. Tr

Re: [Rd] Warning: missing text for item ... in \describe?

2008-12-05 Thread Berwin A Turlach
G'day Brian, On Fri, 5 Dec 2008 15:35:00 + (GMT) Prof Brian Ripley <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Mon, 1 Dec 2008, Berwin A Turlach wrote: > > > G'day Spencer, > > > > On Sun, 30 Nov 2008 22:31:54 -0800 > > Spencer Graves <[EMAIL PROTEC

Re: [Rd] Warning: missing text for item ... in \describe?

2008-11-30 Thread Berwin A Turlach
be nice if the name of the .Rd files that produces the problem is actually mentioned. :) Don't ask me how I found this, let us just say that long live find-grep-dired in emacs and perseverance (or should that be stubbornness?) HTH. Cheers, Berwin ===

Re: [Rd] chisq.test with simulate.p.value=TRUE (PR#13292)

2008-11-17 Thread Berwin A Turlach
0) > X-squared = 138.2898, df = NA, p-value = 1e-06 > ... > > Also tested the same R version under Windows XP and got the same > results. Cheers, Berwin === Full address = Berwin A Turlach

Re: [Rd] typo in ?pie

2008-11-11 Thread Berwin A Turlach
G'day Brian, On Mon, 10 Nov 2008 21:07:44 + (GMT) Prof Brian Ripley <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > 'British' spelling is in the majority amongst R-core, and preferred > for R documentation (that is in the guidelines somewhere). I have a vague memory of a discussion that ended with the conclusi

Re: [Rd] (PR#13132) splinefun gives incorrect derivs when extrapolating to the left

2008-10-12 Thread Berwin A Turlach
Dear Brian, On Thu, 9 Oct 2008 07:27:24 +0100 (BST) Prof Brian Ripley <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Thanks, I've merged this (second version) patch into 2.8.0 beta. My pleasure. I thought it would be only fair that I fix the infelicity in the code after having provided the initial patch that int

Re: [Rd] why is \alias{anRpackage} not mandatory?

2008-10-07 Thread Berwin A Turlach
excluded from lasso2_x.y-z.tar.gz via an entry in .Rbuildignore but the vignette is distributed and listed under vignette(). And "R CMD check" on works the .tar.gz file too. Cheers, Berwin === Full address = Berwin A Turl

Re: [Rd] splinefun gives incorrect derivs when extrapolating to the left (PR#13132)

2008-10-07 Thread Berwin A Turlach
On Tue, 7 Oct 2008 19:31:03 +0800 Berwin A Turlach <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > The attached patch (against the current SVN version of R) implements > the latter strategy. With this patch applied, "make check > FORCE=FORCE" passes on my machine. The version of R that

Re: [Rd] splinefun gives incorrect derivs when extrapolating to the left (PR#13132)

2008-10-07 Thread Berwin A Turlach
0,1, 0.1), deriv=3 ) [1] 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 HTH. Cheers, Berwin === Full address = Berwin A TurlachTel.: +65 6516 4416 (secr) Dept of Statistics and Applied Probability+65 6516 6650 (self) Fac

Re: [Rd] literate programming

2008-08-05 Thread Berwin A Turlach
ttp://www.wiwi.uni-bielefeld.de/~wolf/software/relax/relax.html Cheers, Berwin ======= Full address = Berwin A TurlachTel.: +65 6515 4416 (secr) Dept of Statistics and Applied Probability+65 6515 6650 (s

Re: [Rd] troubles with R CMD check and examples under Ubuntu gutsy

2008-05-05 Thread Berwin A Turlach
G'day Patrick, since you seem to be hell-bent on having r-devel in this discussion, I guess I might CC this there too. :) On Mon, 05 May 2008 08:50:04 +0200 Patrick Giraudoux <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > There has been a threat on something similar in R-devel on August > 2007... but I cannot

Re: [Rd] prod(0, 1:1000) ; 0 * Inf etc

2008-04-21 Thread Berwin A Turlach
G'day Martin, On Mon, 21 Apr 2008 18:40:43 +0200 Martin Maechler <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I think most of us would expect prod(0:1000) to return 0, and ... > ... it does. > > However, many of us also expect > prod(x1, x2)to be equivalent to > prod(c(x1,x2)) > the same as we can e

Re: [Rd] NA warnings for r() {aka "patch for random.c"}

2008-03-11 Thread Berwin A Turlach
G'day Martin, On Tue, 11 Mar 2008 18:07:35 +0100 Martin Maechler <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >>>>> "BAT" == Berwin A Turlach <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > >>>>> on Tue, 11 Mar 2008 13:19:46 +0800 writes: [...] > BAT&g

Re: [Rd] NA warnings for r() {aka "patch for random.c"}

2008-03-10 Thread Berwin A Turlach
G'day Martin and others, On Mon, 10 Mar 2008 12:06:01 +0100 Martin Maechler <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >>>>> "BAT" == Berwin A Turlach <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > >>>>> on Fri, 7 Mar 2008 23:54:06 +0800 writes: > > BAT&

Re: [Rd] NA warnings for r() {aka "patch for random.c"}

2008-03-07 Thread Berwin A Turlach
G'day Martin (and "listeners"), On Fri, 7 Mar 2008 15:01:26 +0100 Martin Maechler <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: [...] > >> If you feel like finding another elegant patch... > > BAT> Well, elegance is in the eye of the beholder. :-) > > BAT> I attach two patches. One that adds warning

Re: [Rd] A patch

2008-03-05 Thread Berwin A Turlach
On Wed, 5 Mar 2008 21:02:34 +0800 Berwin A Turlach <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > since a day or two "make dvi" and "make pdf" fails on my machine when > I try to install the latest version of R from scratch. The attached > patch seems to solve this problem. Sor

[Rd] A patch

2008-03-05 Thread Berwin A Turlach
Dear all, since a day or two "make dvi" and "make pdf" fails on my machine when I try to install the latest version of R from scratch. The attached patch seems to solve this problem. Cheers, Berwin === Full address ==========

Re: [Rd] patch for random.c

2008-03-05 Thread Berwin A Turlach
G'day Martin, On Mon, 3 Mar 2008 10:16:45 +0100 Martin Maechler <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >>>>> "BAT" == Berwin A Turlach <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > >>>>> on Fri, 29 Feb 2008 18:19:40 +0800 writes: > > BAT> while

[Rd] patch for random.c

2008-02-29 Thread Berwin A Turlach
Dear all, while looking for some inspiration of how to organise some code, I studied the code of random.c and noticed that for distributions with 2 or 3 parameters the user is not warned if NAs are created while such a warning is issued for distributions with 1 parameter. E.g: R version 2.7.0 Un

[Rd] On Section 2.5:Sub-architectures in the R Installation and Administration manual

2008-02-13 Thread Berwin A Turlach
Linux distribution. (Presumably the same holds for Debian and all other distributions derived from Debian.) Cheers, Berwin === Full address = Berwin A TurlachTel.: +65 6515 4416 (secr) Dept of Statistics and Ap

Re: [Rd] 0.45<0.45 = TRUE (PR#10744)

2008-02-12 Thread Berwin A Turlach
option is FALSE. Perhaps that will help. :) Cheers, Berwin ======= Full address = Berwin A TurlachTel.: +65 6516 4416 (secr) Dept of Statistics and Applied Probability+65 6516 6650 (self) Faculty

Re: [Rd] Solve.QP

2007-12-06 Thread Berwin A Turlach
ents on r-help, I wonder whether this package is one of those on his list of downright dangerous packages. LOL. Hope this helps. Cheers, Berwin === Full address = Berwin A TurlachTel.: +65 6516 4416 (secr) D

Re: [Rd] ?mean

2007-01-26 Thread Berwin A Turlach
G'day Gabor, On Thu, 25 Jan 2007 09:53:49 -0500 "Gabor Grothendieck" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > The help page for mean does not say what happens when one > applies mean to a matrix. Well, not directly. :-) But the help page of mean says that one of the arguments is: x: An R object.

Re: [Rd] "stem" does not give a correct answer (PR#9359)

2006-11-12 Thread Berwin A Turlach
| 18 5 | 1 6 | 7 | 044 Cheers, Berwin == Full address Berwin A Turlach Tel.: +61 (8) 6488 3338 (secr) School of Mathematics and Statistics+61 (8) 6488 3383 (self) The University of Western Aus

Re: [Rd] Numerical error in R (win32) (PR#8909)

2006-05-30 Thread Berwin A Turlach
ld probably do the same thing as I did yesterday and hit the delete button and go home instead of hitting the sent button. But this time I won't. If anybody feels offended, my apologies. Cheers, Berwin == Full address Berwin A Turlach

[Rd] Patch proposal for match.fun()

2006-05-27 Thread Berwin A Turlach
G'day all, some time ago I sent an email regarding the following behaviour of match.fun(): > x <- matrix(rnorm(200), ncol=2) > var <- "fred" > apply(x, 2, var) Error in get(x, envir, mode, inherits) : variable "fred" of mode "function" was not found and asked whether it would be desirable to ch

[Rd] Question about match.fun()

2006-05-09 Thread Berwin A Turlach
Dear all, I was recently contacted by a user about an alledged problem/bug in the latest version of lasso2. After some investigation, we found out that it was a user error which boils down to the following: > x <- matrix(rnorm(200), ncol=2) > var <- "fred" > apply(x, 2, var) Error in get(x, envi

Re: [Rd] bounding box in PostScript

2006-04-17 Thread Berwin A Turlach
Berwin == Full address Berwin A Turlach Tel.: +61 (8) 6488 3338 (secr) School of Mathematics and Statistics+61 (8) 6488 3383 (self) The University of Western Australia FAX : +61 (8) 6488 1028 35 Stirling

Re: [Rd] Suggest patch for princomp.formula and prcomp.formula

2006-03-27 Thread Berwin A Turlach
G'day Brian, > "BDR" == Prof Brian Ripley <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: BDR> The proposed fix regretably will not work, since one can do BDR> things like BDR> library(MASS) BDR> prcomp(~ dist + dist:climb, hills) Yes, I had the impression that this would work with the current v

[Rd] Suggest patch for princomp.formula and prcomp.formula

2006-03-25 Thread Berwin A Turlach
Dear all, perhaps I am using princomp.formula and prcomp.formula in a way that is not documented to work, but then the documentation just says: formula: a formula with no response variable. Thus, to avoid a lot of typing, it would be nice if one could use '.' and '-' in the formula, e.g.

Re: [Rd] Internal codes of the factor

2006-03-14 Thread Berwin A Turlach
;-th element of the result is 'j'". This pretty much documents that the internal codes are 1:n and 'NA', as documented in the following sentence. Cheers, Berwin == Full address Berwin A Turlach

Re: [Rd] Links to non-vignette documentation

2006-02-25 Thread Berwin A Turlach
G'day all, > "HW" == hadley wickham <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: >> There aren't any immediate plans to change help(package=XXX), but I >> think in the long run, if package?XXX receives wider support than it has >> now, it would make sense to make that change. HW> When was this

Re: [Rd] Links to non-vignette documentation

2006-02-24 Thread Berwin A Turlach
G'day all, > "DM" == Duncan Murdoch <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: DM> On 2/24/2006 7:27 AM, Romain Francois wrote: >> >> What about using the latex package pdfpages to copy the pages from your >> PDF file `interface96.pdf` to your Sweave file. Merci beaucoup, I wasn't aware t

Re: [Rd] Links to non-vignette documentation

2006-02-23 Thread Berwin A Turlach
- Source of dummy vignette - \documentclass[a4paper]{article} %\VignetteIndexEntry{Interface '96 paper by Marron et al. (1997)} %\VignettePackage{clps} \usepackage{hyperref} \usepackage{natbib} \title{Interface '96 paper by \cite{mar:tur:wan:96}}

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