Re: [Rd] [BioC] enabling reproducible research & R package management & install.package.version & BiocLite

2013-03-05 Thread Steve Lianoglou
case someone else tries to institute such a regime but is getting friction due to that point in particular. Good stuff, though .. thanks for sharing that! -steve -- Steve Lianoglou Graduate Student: Computational Systems Biology | Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center | Weill Medica

Re: [Rd] [BioC] enabling reproducible research & R package management & install.package.version & BiocLite

2013-03-04 Thread Steve Lianoglou
that these tools (vagrant, chef, puppet) are built to handle such cases. I'd imagine you'd probably need a location where you can grab the precise (versioned) packages for the things you are specifying, but ... -steve -- Steve Lianoglou Graduate Student: Computational Systems Biology

Re: [Rd] conflict between rJava and data.table

2013-02-28 Thread Steve Lianoglou
Ugh, sorry, I meant to say: On Thu, Feb 28, 2013 at 8:49 PM, Steve Lianoglou wrote: [snip] > The development version of data.table no longer exports J from, but > once could still use J inside data.tabe[ ... ] calls. The development version of data.table no longer exports J, so this sho

Re: [Rd] conflict between rJava and data.table

2013-02-28 Thread Steve Lianoglou
not sure what version of data.table you can get by installing from R-forge, but you can either check out from subversion or download the latest source tar-ball from R-forge and install from source ... HTH, -steve -- Steve Lianoglou Graduate Student: Computational Systems Biology | Memorial Sloan-K

Re: [Rd] installing spam package is failing (spam_0.29-1)

2012-07-18 Thread Steve Lianoglou
. > (also, who decided to name this thing "spam"? i suppose it seemed > cute at the time but it is virtually impossible to google for. ) That would be the author of the package. -- Steve Lianoglou Graduate Student: Computational Systems Biology | Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Cent

Re: [Rd] installing spam package is failing (spam_0.29-1)

2012-07-16 Thread Steve Lianoglou
ue, then yes: http://cran.cnr.Berkeley.edu/bin/linux/ubuntu/ HTH, -steve -- Steve Lianoglou Graduate Student: Computational Systems Biology | Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center | Weill Medical College of Cornell University Contact Info: http://cbio.mskcc.

Re: [Rd] Column(row)wise minimum and maximum

2012-04-19 Thread Steve Lianoglou
ffering such functions would make it more clear and consitent to use >>> R here, because all those functions are then available for row and >>> col and the functionality is appended in the name (Mean, Sum etc.). >>> >>> I think the basic things that should be ava

Re: [Rd] merge bug fix in R 2.15.0

2012-03-18 Thread Steve Lianoglou
Hi, I'm not sure I follow ... I think we're in total agreement, but it sounds like you're suggesting we aren't. On Sun, Mar 18, 2012 at 4:40 PM, Peter Meilstrup wrote: > On Sun, Mar 18, 2012 at 12:48 PM, Steve Lianoglou > wrote: [snip] >> > Right, the user

Re: [Rd] merge bug fix in R 2.15.0

2012-03-18 Thread Steve Lianoglou
is "exhibit B" ... and not (using R-2.15.0 beta) (exhibit B): Error in merge.data.frame(d1, d2, by = "a", suffixes = c("", ".y")) : there is already a column named 'b' I can take a crack at a patch to keep the "rescue user from surprises&qu

Re: [Rd] Why cant my S4 class have a slot named `C`?

2012-02-21 Thread Steve Lianoglou
...) XXX >  f(2, X=3) # returns 3 > > so name your arg to new [/snip] [facepalm] Jeez ... I totally knew that, too ... just wasn't putting 2 and 2 together, here. Thanks for taking the time to point that out. -steve -- Steve Lianoglou Graduate Student: Computational Systems Bi

[Rd] Why cant my S4 class have a slot named `C`?

2012-02-21 Thread Steve Lianoglou
3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 Slot "Cost": [1] 1 Slot "eps": [1] 0. === I was fishing around the R-devel mailing list w/ that error message to see if anything turned up but I wasn't having any luck so it took a while to figure out what was going on. Is this kn

Re: [Rd] informal conventions/checklist for new predictive modeling packages

2012-01-05 Thread Steve Lianoglou
gt; > (13) Packages that have their own cross-validation functions should > allow the users to pass in the specific folds/resamping indicators to > maintain consistency across similar functions in other packages. > > (14) [OCD] For binary classification models, model the probability of &g

Re: [Rd] Contributors on R-Forge

2011-10-21 Thread Steve Lianoglou
hub.com/hadley/devtools/blob/master/R/install.r#L57 -steve -- Steve Lianoglou Graduate Student: Computational Systems Biology  | Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center  | Weill Medical College of Cornell University Contact Info: http://cbio.mskcc.org/~lianos/contact _

Re: [Rd] Contributors on R-Forge

2011-10-21 Thread Steve Lianoglou
ersion repo when you are ready to submit to CRAN and take advantage of r-forge's automated building and submission mojo. My 2 cents, -steve -- Steve Lianoglou Graduate Student: Computational Systems Biology  | Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center  | Weill Medi

Re: [Rd] As a package author, is there a way to specify that your package is architecture (x86_64) specific?

2011-09-09 Thread Steve Lianoglou
Hi Simon, On Fri, Sep 9, 2011 at 5:32 PM, Simon Urbanek wrote: > > On Sep 9, 2011, at 10:30 AM, Steve Lianoglou wrote: > >> Hi Simon, Prof. Ripley, and Dirk, >> >> First: thanks again for the tips, it's great to have some of the "top >> bRass&qu

Re: [Rd] As a package author, is there a way to specify that your package is architecture (x86_64) specific?

2011-09-09 Thread Steve Lianoglou
: >> On Thu, 8 Sep 2011, Steve Lianoglou wrote: [snip] About the architecture thing: >>> Ok, sorry for being imprecise. Let's see if we can figure out what it >>> is (more precise details are at the bottom of the email). I see x86_64 >>> on every 64bi

Re: [Rd] As a package author, is there a way to specify that your package is architecture (x86_64) specific?

2011-09-08 Thread Steve Lianoglou
Hi Simon, Thanks for the quick response. Comments in line: On Thu, Sep 8, 2011 at 4:11 PM, Simon Urbanek wrote: > > On Sep 8, 2011, at 3:59 PM, Steve Lianoglou wrote: > >> Hi, >> >> Essentially: subject line says it all. >> >> I've created a package

Re: [Rd] As a package author, is there a way to specify that your package is architecture (x86_64) specific?

2011-09-08 Thread Steve Lianoglou
t; via Makevars, or somehow specify the package as 64bit only to see if the package can go up on CRAN until I can find time to fix the problem (if/when). Thanks, -steve On Thu, Sep 8, 2011 at 3:59 PM, Steve Lianoglou wrote: > Hi, > > Essentially: subject line says it all. > > I'

[Rd] As a package author, is there a way to specify that your package is architecture (x86_64) specific?

2011-09-08 Thread Steve Lianoglou
y install instructions for people to d/l my source package externally and use it that way. Thanks, -steve -- Steve Lianoglou Graduate Student: Computational Systems Biology  | Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center  | Weill Medical College of Cornell University C

Re: [Rd] Suggestions for R-devel / R-help digest format

2011-07-07 Thread Steve Lianoglou
email boxes don't get flooded. gmail then takes care of the threading as you'd expect for each mailing list ... Maybe you'd find that setup helpful. -steve -- Steve Lianoglou Graduate Student: Computational Systems Biology  | Memorial Sloan-Kett

Re: [Rd] Recent and upcoming changes to R-devel

2011-07-06 Thread Steve Lianoglou
with two sets of code. And you could also try using Hadley's devtools package: https://github.com/hadley/devtools/ Last I tried to use it, there was some problems with some S4isms (that maybe were my fault(?)) so I switched back to sourcing my development-package-dirs (which is fine until yo

Re: [Rd] How to document man/*.Rd pages with images?

2011-05-11 Thread Steve Lianoglou
ore or less ordinary LaTeX files that you can embed R code into. Very handy to know how to use, actually, even outside of the "Package Authoring" context, so ... perhaps you can consider it as good exercise if you decide to take it on :-) But again, you can always go the other rout

Re: [Rd] Recursive objects

2011-05-05 Thread Steve Lianoglou
case you've never stumbled on this gem: google for "recursion" and look for Google's "Did you mean" suggestion ... -- Steve Lianoglou Graduate Student: Computational Systems Biology  | Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center  | Weill Medical College of Cornell University Con

Re: [Rd] R CMD check and Suggests Packages

2011-04-29 Thread Steve Lianoglou
ctions of *.Rd files are run during R CMD check ... so, if you're trying to load data from a suggested package that may not be installed, perhaps you can wrap those code blocks with \dontrun{}. For more info: this is covered in the "Writing R Extensions," but is also describe