[Rd] Question on help system under windows

G'day all, I spend today sometime playing around with R under Windows since our lecturing starts in 2 weeks again and our IT guys want to know which version to put onto our lab machines. I noticed the following: Under R-2.2.1, I obtain the following output: > R.home() [1] "C:\\PROGRA

Re: [Rd] Question on help system under windows

Berwin A Turlach wrote: > G'day all, > > I spend today sometime playing around with R under Windows since our > lecturing starts in 2 weeks again and our IT guys want to know which > version to put onto our lab machines. > > I noticed the following: > > Under R-2.2.1, I obtain the following out

Re: [Rd] [R] readline detection problems

Dear Mr. Ripley, Mr. Leung, Mrs. Hawkins, many thanks for the intensive help you provided me concerning the readline problem although I should have looked in the installation manual more thoroughly. It turned out as you already suspected that the problem with getting the configure script detecting

Re: [Rd] corruption of data with serialize(ascii=TRUE)

Okay, I just wasn't sure of the source of the changes. In retrospect, character and other vectors did serialize/unserialize to the original objects. -roger Prof Brian Ripley wrote: > It is known (happens with save() too and did in earlier save formats). > Nothing particularly clever is done (

[Rd] R, Rcmdr crash on WinXP PRO laptop (PR#8583)

My system is a Dell laptop running Win XP Pro with SP2 and all current updates. R is version 2.2.1, Rcmdr is version 1.1-6 (also happens with 1.1-5). First attempt to import data from text file (in Rcmdr) works correctly with no errors or warnings. Second, third or fourth attempt to load same da

Re: [Rd] R, Rcmdr crash on WinXP PRO laptop (PR#8583)

On 2/9/2006 9:02 AM, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > My system is a Dell laptop running Win XP Pro with SP2 and all current > updates. R is version 2.2.1, Rcmdr is version 1.1-6 (also happens with 1.1-5). > > First attempt to import data from text file (in Rcmdr) works correctly with > no errors or w

Re: [Rd] NAMESPACE Q: does import as exist?

Hi Luke, Thanks very much for the explanation. On 8 Feb 2006, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Allowing for renaming complicates the code; it also may prevent, or > at least significantly complicate, changes in the implementation we > might want to make. Makes sense that this feature is not of highes

Re: [Rd] How to change names when importing with a NAMESPACE

On 8 Feb 2006, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > This is indeed described in > > http://www.stat.uiowa.edu/~luke/R/namespaces/morenames.html > > linked from developer.r-project.org. > > with the comment > > The purpose of baz is to import some of the exports of foo and bar > and re-export them, using ren

[Rd] make: Target `all' not remade because of errors. (PR#8585)

Full_Name: Je Cade Version: R-2.2.1 OS: RedHat 9 Submission from: (NULL) (129.49.108.173) I followed the instructions. tar -xvf, configure, then make. I get these error messages at the end of make and with make check. == ==

Re: [Rd] make: Target `all' not remade because of errors. (PR#8585)

Why did you think this was an error in R? This is an error from a *system* header file about a missing *system* header file. It look like on your system libpng-devel has been installed without its dependency zlib-devel. In all the years this has been in R we have never encountered such a syste