Re: [Rd] C vs. C++ as learning and development tool for R

2007-01-19 Thread Kimpel, Mark William
Thanks to all for your excellent suggestions. I think will I proceed working through the Stroustrup book. He has a section on comparing C with C++ and one on working with legacy C code that may prove helpful. I also have a "C for Dummies" (something like that, I don't have it right next to me) that

[Rd] C vs. C++ as learning and development tool for R

2007-01-19 Thread Kimpel, Mark William
I have 3 years of experience with R and have an interest in becoming a better programmer so that I might someday be able to contribute packages. Other than R, my only experience was taking Lisp from Daniel Friedman in the 1970's. I would like to learn either C or C++ for several reasons: To gain a

[Rd] lazyLoadDBfetch error

2006-07-31 Thread Kimpel, Mark William
I am getting the following output when I try to load R package gmodels under R-devel. This does not occur in R 2.3.1. In searching the R archives it appears that this message regarding lazyLoadDBfetch should not be occurring in recent R releases. I have redownloaded R-devel and gmodels and the