[Rd] R | vnc | X11 fonts

2006-07-29 Thread Evan Cooch
Greetings - Users of the box I'm putting together will need to be able to run R remotely, using a virtual desktop. One approach (that I'm trying) is to use VNC. So far, I can get the remote gnome desktop up on the server (running Fedora Core 5), and can start R from a terminal. However, for a

Re: [Rd] R | vnc | X11 fonts

2006-07-29 Thread Peter Dalgaard
Evan Cooch <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Greetings - > > Users of the box I'm putting together will need to be able to run R > remotely, using a virtual desktop. One approach (that I'm trying) is to > use VNC. So far, I can get the remote gnome desktop up on the server > (running Fedora Core 5

Re: [Rd] R | vnc | X11 fonts

2006-07-29 Thread Evan Cooch
> > I don't think xset q is the right diagnostic tool. I suspect that it > just reflects a default setting of vnc. Those directories could be > empty for all that it knows. xfontsel might be more to the point if > you need to know whether the fonts are actually available. > > However, I can't repr

Re: [Rd] R | vnc | X11 fonts

2006-07-29 Thread Evan Cooch
Quick followup - works fine with fluxbox (and, as noted, default twm). Simply can't get it to work with the gnome desktop, which ultimately I would like to. __ R-devel@r-project.org mailing list https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-devel

Re: [Rd] Any interest in "merge" and "by" implementations specifically for sorted data?

2006-07-29 Thread Kevin B. Hendricks
Hi Bill, So you wrote one routine that can calculate any single of a variety of stats and allows weights, is that right? Can it return a data frame of any subset of requested stats as well (that is what I was thinking of doing anyway). I think someone can easily calculate all of those thin

[Rd] download.file crashes on OSX

2006-07-29 Thread Seth Falcon
Hi, I'm seeing a 'memory not mapped' crash on OSX (10.4.7) with R-devel (r38715) when calling download.file() with a URL that doesn't exist. Here is what reproduces it for me: u404 <- "http://bioconductor.org/packages/doesnotexist..3"; f <- "output.u404.txt" download.file(u404, f