[Rd] improvements to plm fitting

2010-09-16 Thread Kyle Matoba
In the course of some work I have been doing for Revolution Analytics I have had the necessity of modifying the plm function so that it would not die halfway through fitting. In particular, I was able to more than halve the runtime (for my particular run) and improve its memory usage with three sm

Re: [Rd] a small suggestion for improving the building of packages

2010-09-15 Thread Kyle Matoba
Yes, well, anyone clever enough to do this will not be stopped by automatically manipulating some text to fill in the minimal documentation necessary to pass checks. On Wed, Sep 15, 2010 at 8:01 AM, Liaw, Andy wrote: > From: Uwe Ligges > > > > > > > On 29.08.2010

Re: [Rd] a small suggestion for improving the building of packages

2010-09-15 Thread Kyle Matoba
> > > On 29.08.2010 22:34, Kyle Matoba wrote: > >> All, >> >> I just finished the process of build a package for the first time and >> found >> it characteristically (for R) very straightforward and well documented. >> >> Whenever I deal with open s

[Rd] a small suggestion for improving the building of packages

2010-08-29 Thread Kyle Matoba
All, I just finished the process of build a package for the first time and found it characteristically (for R) very straightforward and well documented. Whenever I deal with open source software I always endeavor to finish the task I have in mind, and upon completing this, I then revisit all of t

[Rd] pictex

2010-02-18 Thread Kyle Matoba
The example at ?pictex does not work (the driver apparently uses 'rotatebox') for me as stated. It did compile after including the graphicsx package. A MWE is at the help page for pictex. I tried to get in touch with Valerio but his email bounced. Probably we want to add a \usepackage{graphicsx