Re: [Rd] OT: authorship and contacts for releasing packages (Re: reshape scaling with large numbers of times/rows)

2006-08-25 Thread Mitch Skinner
If people are annoyed by the off-topic-ness, just let me know and I'll take it off list. Also, I don't expect to necessarily convert anyone to my point of view, but I would like to try and articulate it a bit better (sorry for the length). More inline: On Thu, 2006-08-24 at 20:23 +0100, Hin-Tak

Re: [Rd] reshape scaling with large numbers of times/rows

2006-08-24 Thread Mitch Skinner
On Thu, 2006-08-24 at 08:57 -0400, Gabor Grothendieck wrote: > If your Z in reality is not naturally numeric try representing it as a > factor and using > the numeric levels as your numbers and then put the level labels back on: > > m <- n <- 5 > DF <- data.frame(X = gl(m*n, 1), Y = gl(m, n), Z =

Re: [Rd] reshape scaling with large numbers of times/rows

2006-08-24 Thread Mitch Skinner
metime in the far future. I don't exactly have a tenured position. I really am trying to give at least as much as I'm taking; hopefully my first email shows that I did a healthy bit of thinking/reading/googling/coding before posting (maybe too much). Apparently the c-solution isn't

[Rd] reshape scaling with large numbers of times/rows

2006-08-23 Thread Mitch Skinner
Hello, I'm mailing r-devel because I think the performance problem I'm having is best solved by re-writing reshape() in C. I've been reading the "writing R extensions" documentation and I have some questions about they best way to write the C bits, but first let me describe my problem: I'm tryin