Re: [Rd] R-Cocoa Bridge

2007-12-07 Thread elw
>>> I had seen old posts on the list (circa 2002) regarding a Cocoa-R >>> bridge that was under development, but I can't find anything recent >>> about it. Does anyone know if this is available somewhere? If not, >>> does anyone have any experience/pointers calling R functions from >>> Cocoa?

Re: [Rd] R-Cocoa Bridge

2007-12-06 Thread elw
> I had seen old posts on the list (circa 2002) regarding a Cocoa-R bridge > that was under development, but I can't find anything recent about it. > Does anyone know if this is available somewhere? If not, does anyone > have any experience/pointers calling R functions from Cocoa? The R build

Re: [Rd] Advice on parsing / overriding function calls

2007-08-16 Thread elw
> The issue is more about whether he wants to limit *all* file system > access or just limiting to certain areas. For the former, > I would set up a chroot jail and run R from within; for the latter, > I would probably do something with LD_LIBRARY_PRELOAD to override > all the file system accessin

Re: [Rd] Compiling R for the Sony Playstation 3?

2007-08-05 Thread elw
> I bought a Wiimote and a Nunchuck (which has a couple extra buttons, > trigger, a 'hat'-style analog joystick, and a few more accelerometers) a > couple months ago with the intent of eventually doing some experimenting > with them. No time available, yet. (for folks who don't already know t

Re: [Rd] Compiling R for the Sony Playstation 3?

2007-08-05 Thread elw
>> Beyond that, there may be a few more things that can be done to make R >> run "stupidly fast" on ps3 or IBM Cell blades. > Wouldn't the right way to go here be to make it use the PS3 graphics > hardware, in a http://www.gpgpu.org/ kind of way? Or are the Cell > processors on the PS3 graphi

Re: [Rd] Compiling R for the Sony Playstation 3?

2007-08-03 Thread elw
I've been working off-and-on for a few months on devising some patches to R to make it much happier with a Cell processor; to be honest I've not had much time to work at it lately. Douglas is right that it is mostly a PPC64 sort of architecture; taking real advantage of the hardware is going

[Rd] Planet R - a weblog aggregator for statistical computing

2007-07-09 Thread elw
Announcing... Planet R - a weblog aggregator for statistical computing Q: What is it? A: An aggregator for weblog posts about statistical computing topics, focused primarily around the R community. Q2: Where is it? A2: For now, at http://planetr.stderr.org Q3: What's it good for? A3: Ho

Re: [Rd] Building R on Solaris

2007-05-05 Thread elw
> Sun Studio 11 compilers (which are now a free download). > A set of Open Source tools from www.sunfreeware.com in /usr/sfw. > A large set of Open Source tools in /opt/csw. > > The latter was new to me, and uses a repository at www.blastwave.org and > a nifty tool called 'pkg-get'. My sysadmin

Re: [Rd] IDE for R C++ package writing ?

2007-02-26 Thread elw
Ya, copy/paste from .Rhistory is pretty common. Especially among newbies and oldsters who dislike IDEs. :) [I got burned by Borland, way back when, and basically can't stand "wizards" and the like now...] Looks like someone wrote a "send-to-R" plugin for vim last year: http://www.vim.org

Re: [Rd] IDE for R C++ package writing ?

2007-02-26 Thread elw
> First, great thanks to all for all the answers. I confess i was a bit > scared about (re)learning a possible tomorrow obsolete tool. > > I'm however quite astonished nobody proposes another tool. Do 100% R > package developers use emacs ? Plenty of folks don't use an IDE at all. Copy/pastin

Re: [Rd] Rscript on Windows

2007-02-17 Thread elw
> Surely R has higher standards than that. How about quality and > completeness of implementation? > > Every other major scripting language has implemented this for good > reason and its a glaring omission. Gabor, can we get a URL from you to a patch that implements this functionality? Than

Re: [Rd] Whine in dual core Windows PC if R uses full CPU capacity

2007-01-15 Thread elw
> I think I've only come across it a couple of times, and didn't have any > replication, so I don't know if they were unusual individuals or a > design problem. From your description of replacing the mb, it sounds as > though it's a design problem -- unless as Uwe suggested, it's a power > s