[Rd] bug in `pmatch' (error with too long 'choices')?

2009-10-30 Thread Joerg van den Hoff
I observed the following: match.arg("white", colors()) yields 'white', but match.arg("whit", colors()) yields: `Error in match.arg("whit", colors()) : 'arg' should be one of "white", "aliceblue", '... this message actually comes from `pmatch'. using a suitable subset of `colors()' works

[Rd] weigths in nls (PR#13991)

2009-10-13 Thread Joerg van den Hoff
> Message: 6 > Date: Fri, 09 Oct 2009 10:35:51 -0600 > From: Tony Plate > Subject: Re: [Rd] weigths in nls (PR#13991) > To: stephen.b...@cibc.com > Cc: r-b...@r-project.org, r-de...@stat.math.ethz.ch > Message-ID: <4acf6667.4060...@acm.org> > Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=fl

Re: [Rd] prevent `R CMD INSTALL' from reading `.Rprofile'

2008-06-05 Thread Joerg van den Hoff
On Thu, Jun 05, 2008 at 08:57:58AM -0400, Simon Urbanek wrote: > > On Jun 5, 2008, at 7:41 AM, Joerg van den Hoff wrote: > > >I tripped over the following problem: > > > >due to (my?) unresolved problems with cairo graphics under > >MacOS (graphic window block

[Rd] prevent `R CMD INSTALL' from reading `.Rprofile'

2008-06-05 Thread Joerg van den Hoff
I tripped over the following problem: due to (my?) unresolved problems with cairo graphics under MacOS (graphic window blocks unrecoverably) I modified my `.Rprofile' to issue `X11(type = "Xlib")` on each R startup (as a workaround to automatic opening of a `cairo' device when issu

Re: [Rd] X11cairo with antialias="none" buggy under MacOS?

2008-05-01 Thread Joerg van den Hoff
On Thu, May 01, 2008 at 02:23:13PM +0100, Barry Rowlingson wrote: > Joerg van den Hoff wrote: > > >X11(antialias="none") > > > >I obviously am going to plot to the screen device. where > >a line width below one pixel does'nt make sense to me. >

Re: [Rd] X11cairo with antialias="none" buggy under MacOS?

2008-05-01 Thread Joerg van den Hoff
On Thu, May 01, 2008 at 01:00:24PM +0100, Prof Brian Ripley wrote: > On Thu, 1 May 2008, Joerg van den Hoff wrote: > > > > >using > > > >X11(antialias="none") > >plot(1:10) > > > >produces an incomplete plot with 2.7.0. under > >M

[Rd] X11cairo with antialias="none" buggy under MacOS?

2008-05-01 Thread Joerg van den Hoff
using X11(antialias="none") plot(1:10) produces an incomplete plot with 2.7.0. under MacOS 10.4.11: both y-axes are missing.the y-ticks (except the tick at `2' wich is missing) including labels are there. this happens with a 1280x854 labtop monitor. is this known behaviour/a cairo bug? joer

[Rd] weighted nonlinear fits: `nls' and `eval'

2008-04-30 Thread Joerg van den Hoff
2 days ago I asked this on r-help, but no luck... since this is actually a programming question, I post it here again: my question concerns the use of `eval' in defining the model formula for `nls' when performing weighted fits. (I use version 2.6.2., but according to NEWS there we

[Rd] "sub-optimal" message from R CMD INSTALL

2008-04-21 Thread Joerg van den Hoff
I received the following message when installing a private package: ** preparing package for lazy loading Loading required package: roiutils Loading required package: fzrutils Loading required package: pkc ** help >>> Building/Updating help pages for package 'psflib' Formats: text html latex examp

[Rd] strange `nls' behaviour

2007-11-06 Thread Joerg van den Hoff
dear list, I stumbled over the follwing strange behaviour/error when using `nls' which I'm tempted (despite the implied "dangers") to call a bug: I've written a driver for `nls' which allows specifying the model and the data vectors using arbitrary symbols. these are internally mapped to consiste

[Rd] non-linear fitting (nls) and confidence limits

2007-09-25 Thread Joerg van den Hoff
dear list members, my question concerns computation of confidence intervals in nonlinear fits with `nls' when weigthing the fit. the seemingly correct procedure does not work as (I) expected. I'm posting this here since: (A) the problem might suggest a modification to the `m' component in the retu

[Rd] R CMD CHECK problem

2007-03-19 Thread Joerg van den Hoff
I tried two times to get some help for this from the help list but to no avail. I hope, it's OK to post this here (once...). if not, please ignore (the rest of) this mail: for one of my private packages R CMD CHECK {package} givves me annoying warnings due to 'missing links' in the manpages for

[Rd] inconsistent matplot behaviour?

2006-06-29 Thread Joerg van den Hoff
I raised this question quite some time ago but it quitly went down the river. I'll give it a second try (before keeping my modified version of matplot for ever...): matplot supports vectors (and/or character strings) for a number of arguments namely `type', `lty', `lwd', `pch', `col', `cex'. al

[Rd] Bug or not? (PR#8977)

2006-06-14 Thread Joerg van den Hoff
Hi, I am writing this email, because I am not sure if the issue I have discovered is a bug or not. For a few days I have been fiddling around with a small program that calculates the reflectance of multilayer dielectric mirrors (eg. bragg mirrors). It does not really matter what I did, what ma

[Rd] symbols plot

2006-03-30 Thread Joerg van den Hoff
before getting scolded for submitting a (non-)bug report: when using the 'symbols' function for plotting boxplot data (i.e. using 'boxplots' symbols), I noted that the x/y-position of the symbols is associated with the center of the box. while this is obviously natural for a usual plotting symbol

[Rd] read.table with ":" in column names (PR#8511)

2006-01-20 Thread Joerg van den Hoff
in my view it's not always good to get this answer, but your "problem" is not too deeply hidden in the manpages, so simply read the documentation of read.table: ?read.table (and look out for the "check.names" flag) regards, joerg __ R-devel@r-proje

[Rd] nls and weigthing the fit

2005-11-23 Thread Joerg van den Hoff
hi everybody, which each release I hope that the section "weights: an optional numeric vector of (fixed) weights. When present, the objective function is weighted least squares. _not yet implemented_" in the help page of 'nls' is missing the last sentence. are their any p