[Rd] robustness of install.packages/update.packages (was Re: bug in L-BFGS-B? (PR#8099))

2005-08-28 Thread Berwin A Turlach
G'day Brian, I am splitting my reply to your e-mail into two since there are two separate spinoffs. > "BDR" == Prof Brian Ripley <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: BDR> Check your versions of MASS. The Windows one appears to be BDR> an outdated version, and does different things. Thanks, y

[Rd] Coding standards (was Re: bug in L-BFGS-B? (PR#8099))

2005-08-28 Thread Berwin A Turlach
G'day Brian, > "BDR" == Prof Brian Ripley <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: BDR> As for the problem, yes it probably is a bug in L-BFGS-B. BDR> Fancy debugging the code? I was afraid that somebody would ask this. ;-) I looked a bit at the code and it seems to be non-trivial. Moreover, it

[Rd] xerbla called from BLAS routine (PR#8100)

2005-08-28 Thread gb
Full_Name: Göran Broström Version: R-2.1.1, 2.2.0 OS: Debian unstable Submission from: (NULL) (213.65.9.59) Some BLAS routines call xerbla for error messages, which results in a message like "LAPACK routine DGER gave error code -9". Suggested solution: In void F77_NAME(xerbla)(char *srname, in

Re: [Rd] Coding standards (was Re: bug in L-BFGS-B? (PR#8099))

2005-08-28 Thread Peter Dalgaard
Berwin A Turlach <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > The problem is, that the code produced by f2c is decrementing pointers > to simulate 1-based vectors and the C FAQ is pretty unambigious about > the fact that this provokes undefined behaviour, see > http://www.eskimo.com/~scs/C-faq/q6.17.html

Re: [Rd] .Call and Segmentation Fault

2005-08-28 Thread Ricardo Luiz Andrade Abrantes
> It cannot be .Call: your .Call passed no parameters so there was nothing > to be uninitialized. I did ask you why you were doing that. This .Call without parameters is just for a test. I am constructing an interface to this C/Fortran optimization package, and because this segmentation fault pr

Re: [Rd] robustness of install.packages/update.packages (was Re: bug in L-BFGS-B? (PR#8099))

2005-08-28 Thread Prof Brian Ripley
We've never encountered this lying mirror problem. Perhaps you (or another user of the unreliable mirror) could contribute suitable fixes. On Sun, 28 Aug 2005, Berwin A Turlach wrote: > G'day Brian, > > I am splitting my reply to your e-mail into two since there are two > separate spinoffs. > >

[Rd] Additional Books on R for Web Site Listing

2005-08-28 Thread Marc Schwartz
Hi all, I noted that the books below are not included on the R web site Documentation section under "Books". I thought that I would provide these and have created some bib entries consistent with the style used on the site. The abstract sections were copied from the publisher sites. I hope that t