Re: [Rd] [RFC] A case for freezing CRAN

2014-03-20 Thread Ted Byers
rs and those authors that use their packages, rather than imposing additional work on those responsible for CRAN, especially when the means for doing things a little differently than how CRAN does it are readily available. Cheers Ted R.E.(Ted) Byers, Ph.D.,Ed.D. > > Statistics is the g

Re: [Rd] [RFC] A case for freezing CRAN

2014-03-20 Thread Ted Byers
On Thu, Mar 20, 2014 at 5:11 PM, Tim Triche, Jr. wrote: > That doesn't make sense. > > If an API changes (e.g. in Matrix) and a program written against the old > API can no longer run, that is a very different issue than if the same > numbers (data) give different results. The latter is what I am

Re: [Rd] [RFC] A case for freezing CRAN

2014-03-20 Thread Ted Byers
On Thu, Mar 20, 2014 at 4:53 PM, Jeroen Ooms wrote: > On Thu, Mar 20, 2014 at 1:28 PM, Ted Byers wrote: >> >> Herve Pages mentions the risk of irreproducibility across three minor >> revisions of version 1.0 of Matrix. My gut reaction would be that if the >> results

Re: [Rd] [RFC] A case for freezing CRAN

2014-03-20 Thread Ted Byers
. That is not a trivial task, and may require contributors obtaining the assistance of a software engineer. I am sure anyone in this list who programs in C++ knows how the ANSI committees handle change management. Introduction of new features is something that is largely irr

Re: [Rd] R datasets ownership(copyright) and license

2012-04-03 Thread Ted Byers
> -Original Message- > From: r-devel-boun...@r-project.org [mailto:r-devel-boun...@r-project.org] > On Behalf Of Hadley Wickham > Sent: April-03-12 5:01 PM > To: r-devel@r-project.org; pystatsmod...@googlegroups.com; Dirk > Eddelbuettel > Subject: Re: [Rd] R datasets ownership(copyright) an

Re: [Rd] CRAN policies

2012-03-31 Thread Ted Byers
> -Original Message- > From: Spencer Graves [mailto:spencer.gra...@prodsyse.com] > Sent: March-31-12 1:56 PM > To: Ted Byers > Cc: 'Paul Gilbert'; mark.braving...@csiro.au; r-de...@stat.math.ethz.ch > Subject: Re: [Rd] CRAN policies > > Hi, Ted: >

Re: [Rd] CRAN policies

2012-03-31 Thread Ted Byers
> -Original Message- > From: r-devel-boun...@r-project.org [mailto:r-devel-boun...@r-project.org] > On Behalf Of Paul Gilbert > Sent: March-31-12 9:57 AM > To: mark.braving...@csiro.au > Cc: r-de...@stat.math.ethz.ch > Subject: Re: [Rd] CRAN policies > Greetings all > Mark > > I would li

Re: [Rd] Question about Rweb

2011-10-05 Thread Ted Byers
Hi Simon, > -Original Message- > From: Simon Urbanek [mailto:simon.urba...@r-project.org] > Sent: October-05-11 5:07 PM > To: Ted Byers > Cc: 'Tonidandel, Scott'; r-devel@r-project.org > Subject: Re: [Rd] Question about Rweb > > Ted, > > On

Re: [Rd] Question about Rweb

2011-10-05 Thread Ted Byers
Hi Simon, Any chance of getting step by instructions on setting it up to work with a web server like Apache's httpd server (I have Apache's web server running, actually a couple instances on different ports, and I do all my CGI programming using Perl)? I am not so much looking to provide a web in

Re: [Rd] Detecting development environment

2011-06-13 Thread Ted Byers
One option would be to use autoconf and automake, and related tools. That is exactly what they're designed for, in the simplest case. In more advanced cases, I have seen them used to verify not only the existance of selected tools and libraries, but also whether or not the implementation of selec

Re: [Rd] Wishlist: write R's bin path to the PATH variable and remove the version string in the installation dir under Windows

2011-05-04 Thread Ted Byers
> -Original Message- > From: r-devel-boun...@r-project.org [mailto:r-devel-bounces@r- > project.org] On Behalf Of Gabor Grothendieck > Sent: May-04-11 10:35 AM > To: Duncan Murdoch > Cc: R-devel > Subject: Re: [Rd] Wishlist: write R's bin path to the PATH variable and remove > the version s

Re: [Rd] Phrase "package writer" in R-exts

2011-04-01 Thread Ted Byers
> From: r-devel-boun...@r-project.org [mailto:r-devel-bounces@r- > project.org] On Behalf Of Davor Cubranic > Sent: April-01-11 2:23 PM > > In a conversation with a programmer new to writing R packages, he > mentioned that he was very confused by phrase "package writer" used in > the document, and

Re: [Rd] Request: Suggestions for "good teaching" packages, esp. with C code

2011-02-15 Thread Ted Byers
>From: r-devel-boun...@r-project.org [mailto:r-devel-boun...@r-project.org] On Behalf Of Gabor Grothendieck >Sent: February-15-11 6:10 PM >On Tue, Feb 15, 2011 at 5:43 PM, wrote: >> >> On 2/15/11 4:35 PM, "Gabor Grothendieck" wrote: >> >>>I think the real good programming practice is to have a s

Re: [Rd] dependencies on system packages

2011-02-04 Thread Ted Byers
From: r-devel-boun...@r-project.org [mailto:r-devel-boun...@r-project.org] On Behalf Of ken.willi...@thomsonreuters.com >Sent: February-04-11 1:58 PM >To: simon.urba...@r-project.org; cbelei...@units.it >Cc: r-devel@r-project.org >Subject: Re: [Rd] dependencies on system packages >On 2/4/11 9:01 AM

[Rd] trouble compiling RMySQL (and others) for 64 bit windows.

2010-09-21 Thread Ted Byers
I have a 64 bit machine running 64 bit windows 7 pro, 64 bit MySQL, and 64 bit R 2.11.1. I have also installed RTools for 64 bit windows for this version of R (archive name is oldWin64toolchain.zip; the install path for its contents is C:\RTools, if that matters). I can open up a commandline wind

Re: [Rd] How to connect R to Mysql?

2010-09-17 Thread Ted Byers
I encountered RMySQL issues recently, but ONLY when using 64 bit MySQL and 64 bit R 2.11.1 On my 32 bit machines, RMySQL works very well. On my 64 bit machine, when using the 64 bit distribution of MySQL, the 32 bit R is not able to load the DLLs from the 64 bit distribution of MySQL, and I can n

Re: [Rd] Non identical numerical results from R code vs C/C++ code?

2010-09-10 Thread Ted Byers
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Re: [Rd] No RTFM?

2010-08-21 Thread Ted Byers
I am reminded of a cartoon I saw recently in a urologists office that said: "In this line of work, I see a lot of ass holes and pricks." There is no shortage of people who are nasty, both among those who seek help and those who are able to give it, in any community. I would say, though, that inst

Re: [Rd] suggestion for R >= 3.0: computer-readable CHANGELOG

2009-04-17 Thread Ted Byers
On Fri, Apr 17, 2009 at 10:12 AM, Dirk Eddelbuettel wrote: > > On 17 April 2009 at 09:05, Duncan Murdoch wrote: > | That would be a waste of time.  People don't use the package > | documentation schemes that are in place; why would they use a new one? > > Because of scattered documentation and lac

Re: [Rd] R thread safe

2009-03-18 Thread Ted Byers
On Wed, Mar 18, 2009 at 9:28 AM, Simon Urbanek wrote: > Things cannot happen if you don't ask ... > > Cheers, > Simon > Then I have two questions. 1) What multicore package? I didn't know there was one, and would be interested in seeing what it does. 2) Has there been any consideration of using

Re: [Rd] Function to recognise convert dates between gregorian and other calendars (e.g. Persian)?

2009-01-07 Thread Ted Byers
On Wed, Jan 7, 2009 at 10:23 AM, Amy Mikhail wrote: > Dear list, > > I will shortly have some data that contains numeric dates in the Persian / > Jalali calendar format, which I would like to convert to gregorian. At the > moment there doesn't seem to be a function for this in R, but it would be

Re: [Rd] education task view

2008-07-04 Thread Ted Byers
Having just started using R, after almost 30 years writing my own code (in fortran or C++) to do stats as needed, I don't really know what these "Task Views" are, but from what I can infer from what the two of you have written, it seems to me that the beginning of the process to produce an educatio