Re: [Rd] Helping out - simple bugs to help familiarize with R design, source, etc

2006-06-02 Thread Kevin B. Hendricks
Hi, Please forgive me but I am just learning how to debug in this environment. Info on Bug 7924, as far as I understand the comment, if someone knew how calling identical(call1,call2) actually helped set NAMED it might lead them to a solution. Here is my attempt to track down when how this

Re: [Rd] Helping out - simple bugs to help familiarize with R design, source, etc

2006-06-02 Thread Kevin B. Hendricks
Hi Thomas, > A key fact here is that NAMED(object) is 0 if the object is not > (part of) an R variable, 1 if it is (part of) exactly one R > variable, 2 if it is part of more than one R variable. > The point is that NAMED=0 or 1 objects can be safely modified, but > NAMED=2 have to be copi

[Rd] Helping out - simple bugs to help familiarize with R design, source, etc

2006-06-02 Thread Kevin B. Hendricks
Hi All, Well I finally have found the time to get svn working and I have successfully built my own tuned atlas (multi-threaded version) libs and have both the r-devel and r-patched trees building daily on my box. The problem is I still do not have a good idea of the layout and design of R,

Re: [Rd] helping out

2006-05-19 Thread Kevin B. Hendricks
Hi, I have built my own tuned atlas libs enabling multiple processors and pthread support. Then based on the note on page 23 of the "R Installation and Administration" manual, I added --disable-R- profiling to the configuration options Unfortunately, the code in R/src/main/eval.c [updated f

Re: [Rd] helping out

2006-05-19 Thread Peter Dalgaard
Prof Brian Ripley <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > R-bugs tends to mangle attachments (or perhaps not unmangle what a mailer > has done to them), inline patches get mangled (wrapped, tabs expanded) and > attachments get stripped (even though some are allowed). This happens in the remailing step. I

Re: [Rd] helping out

2006-05-19 Thread Prof Brian Ripley
On Thu, 18 May 2006, Thomas Lumley wrote: > On Thu, 18 May 2006, Kevin B. Hendricks wrote: >> >> I found this mailing list by accident looking for something to tell >> me about the NULL environment issue that hit me when I moved from >> version 2.2.1 to version 2.3.0. If there is a developers pag

Re: [Rd] helping out

2006-05-18 Thread Thomas Lumley
On Thu, 18 May 2006, Kevin B. Hendricks wrote: > > I found this mailing list by accident looking for something to tell > me about the NULL environment issue that hit me when I moved from > version 2.2.1 to version 2.3.0. If there is a developers page that > lists cvs checkout info (or do you use s

Re: [Rd] helping out

2006-05-18 Thread Paul Gilbert
Kevin The developers page is available from the left side menu frame on the main R page , but not from CRAN. (BTW, R-devel does not have nearly as much traffic as R-help, so digest mode may not be so important.) Paul Gilbert Kevin B. Hendricks wrote: >Hi, > >I j

[Rd] helping out

2006-05-18 Thread Kevin B. Hendricks
Hi, I just joined the list and wanted to introduce myself. I am a professor of operations management at a Canadian University and an empirical researcher (using mainly archival data from finance and accounting primarily with econometric methods). I have finally made the leap to remove al