Re: [Rd] One more note

2009-02-09 Thread Brian D Ripley
tem, you will not be able to use the symbols and it does not matter. The call is inside try(), so the error is ignored. -- Brian D. Ripley, rip...@stats.ox.ac.uk Professor of Applied Statistics, http://www.stats.ox.ac.uk/~ripley/ University of Oxford, Tel: +44 1865 2

Re: [Rd] [R] pdf() and pch problems

2009-01-22 Thread Brian D Ripley
On Thu, 22 Jan 2009, Gavin Simpson wrote: On Thu, 2009-01-22 at 15:21 +0100, Martin Maechler wrote: "TZ" == T Zumbrunn on Thu, 22 Jan 2009 14:52:37 +0100 writes: TZ> Quoting Brian D Ripley : >> On Thu, 22 Jan 2009, Robin Hankin wrote: >> >>>

Re: [Rd] Italics in svg output display as bold (PR#13463)

2009-01-22 Thread Brian D Ripley
(0.5,0.5,labels=expression(italic("This should be in italics"))) dev.off() Yan __ R-devel@r-project.org mailing list https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-devel -- Brian D. Ripley, rip...@stats.ox.ac.uk Professor of

Re: [Rd] (PR#13464) encountering difficulty asking R to manipulate the correct columns in Expression Set class (object 4)

2009-01-22 Thread Brian D Ripley
is troubling that R did not do what it was told. __ R-devel@r-project.org mailing list https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-devel -- Brian D. Ripley, rip...@stats.ox.ac.uk Professor of Applied Statistics, http://www.stats.ox.a

Re: [Rd] termplot with uniform y-limits

2007-07-02 Thread Prof Brian D Ripley
+61 4 8819 4402 Home Phone: +61 7 3286 7700 mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.cmis.csiro.au/bill.venables/ __ R-devel@r-project.org mailing list https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-devel -- Brian D. Ripley,

Re: [Rd] curious package behaviors under cross-build and/or between windows/unix

2007-04-18 Thread Prof Brian D Ripley
y the difference > in behavior? > > Thanks for an ideas. > > Hin-Tak Leung > > __ > R-devel@r-project.org mailing list > https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-devel > -- Brian D. Ripley, [EMAIL PROTECTED] Prof

Re: [Rd] function to remove attributes?

2007-01-30 Thread Prof Brian D Ripley
al anything. as.vector is usually used for this purpose, but note the caveat on the help page. (And if you have a classed object you probably do not want to remove all attributes, since class is one.) -- Brian D. Ripley, [EMAIL PROTECTED] Professor of Applied Statistics,

Re: [Rd] Building R from the source

2006-11-11 Thread Prof Brian D Ripley
ing your exact OS and what compilers you have available to you. -- Brian D. Ripley, [EMAIL PROTECTED] Professor of Applied Statistics, http://www.stats.ox.ac.uk/~ripley/ University of Oxford, Tel: +44 1865 272861 (self) 1 South Parks Road, +44 1865

Re: [Rd] Problem tracking down an R CMD check syntax error

2006-10-20 Thread Prof Brian D Ripley
own-an-R-CMD-check-syntax-error-tf2481045.html#a6920950 Sent from the R devel mailing list archive at Nabble.com. __ R-devel@r-project.org mailing list https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-devel -- Brian D. Ripley, [EMAIL PROTECTE

Re: [Rd] demo names with spaces?

2006-09-13 Thread Prof Brian D Ripley
roblem going back to MyDemoName.R, > but I'm curious to know if there is support for > names containing spaces. -- Brian D. Ripley, [EMAIL PROTECTED] Professor of Applied Statistics, http://www.stats.ox.ac.uk/~ripley/ University of Oxford, Tel: +44 1865 27

Re: [Rd] Any interest in "merge" and "by" implementations specifically for sorted data?

2006-07-28 Thread Brian D Ripley
se of R? Or is this something too specialized? > Is there an R function implemented in c or fortran that would make a > good "model" to follow for implementing something like this? > Would/should they be extensions of current implementations of "merge" > and "by&q

Re: [Rd] [R] insert insertRow?

2006-07-21 Thread Prof Brian D Ripley
functions to R. My view is that they are often just another thing for users to learn and possibly misunderstand, as seems to be the case here. -- Brian D. Ripley, [EMAIL PROTECTED] Professor of Applied Statistics, http://www.stats.ox.ac.uk/~ripley/ University of

Re: [Rd] simple C function segfaults

2006-02-21 Thread Prof Brian D Ripley
is off with an optimizing compiler. They are better at optimizing register use than humans! I believe there are only a few dozen `register' statements in the R code base, almost all of which are in code borrowed or generated (e.g. gram.c). -- Brian D. Ripley, [EMAIL PROTECT

Re: [Rd] R 2.2.1 installation trouble on SGI/Sun (PR#8575)

2006-02-08 Thread Brian D Ripley
/ employs me, but my opinions are my own. > < URL : http : / / www . helsinki . fi / %7E atossava / > NO FILE ATTACHMENTS > > __ > R-devel@r-project.org mailing list > https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-devel > -- B

Re: [Rd] checkpointing

2006-01-03 Thread Brian D Ripley
to optim as one of > the control parameters. > > I thought I'd check here to see if anyone is aware of any work in this > area or has any thoughts about how to proceed. In particular, is save a > reasonable way to save a few variables to disk? I could also make the > code a

Re: [Rd] R's parsing of command line arguments using commandArgs()

2005-09-26 Thread Prof Brian D Ripley
ith a solution provided by Robert McGehee, which works here. > > The solution is as follows: > > echo "a <- c(5, 5); b <- c(0.5, 0.5)" | cat - RScript.R | R --slave \ > --vanilla > > > This uses echo and cat to pre-pend the 'a' and 'b' ve

Re: [Rd] loadings() generic in R alpha

2005-09-16 Thread Prof Brian D Ripley
On Fri, 16 Sep 2005, Paul Gilbert wrote: > Brian > > It would help if I understood general principles. I thought one would > want a case for NOT making functions generic, rather than a case for > making them generic. Hopefully a case for why generics and methods are > useful will not be necessary.

Re: [Rd] FW: Slovenian translation strings for R "installation programs"

2005-06-12 Thread Brian D Ripley
just set up multiple users, one per > language and you won't have to reboot. No. The default codepage is set for all users, and a reboot is needed to change it. Different users can have different languages (or a user can select a language at login), but that only works for lang