Re: [Rd] Data frames and row names

2006-08-15 Thread Henrik Bengtsson
On 8/14/06, Prof Brian Ripley <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Mon, 14 Aug 2006, Henrik Bengtsson wrote: > > > In R-devel v2.4.0 NEWS: > > > > o The 'row.names' of a data frame may be stored internally as an > > integer or character vector. This can result in considerably > > more c

[Rd] MS installer version of R for Windows

2006-08-15 Thread Prof Brian Ripley
We've had requests from time to time from sysadmins who want a MSI version of R. My sysadmins did recently, and David del Campo made one for R-2.3.0 using the WiX toolkit. I've now scripted this, and it is part of the R-devel and R-patched sources. Duncan Murdoch is on vacation, and I don't kn

[Rd] Shortcuts for help functions

2006-08-15 Thread Yan Wong
Hi, This is a short suggestion for an improvement to R that I can code up if it is deemed sensible. While learning to use R, I found myself using help.search extensively, and would have made use of RSiteSearch had I realised that it was available. I suggest that "shortcuts" to these functi

[Rd] how to include a windows dll in a package

2006-08-15 Thread Gabor Csardi
Dear R Developers, what is the correct way to include a dll in a source package, that is expected to be installed in the libs directory? Or in general is there a better way than supplying the dll to use a third-party library (libxml2) in a package which should build on windows as well? Thank yo

Re: [Rd] how to include a windows dll in a package

2006-08-15 Thread Prof Brian Ripley
On Tue, 15 Aug 2006, Gabor Csardi wrote: > Dear R Developers, > > what is the correct way to include a dll in a source package, that > is expected to be installed in the libs directory? You could put it in inst/libs. But we discourage that. (And if you do do this, watch out for licence conditi

Re: [Rd] how to include a windows dll in a package

2006-08-15 Thread Gabor Csardi
Thank you for the answer. On Tue, Aug 15, 2006 at 02:09:59PM +0100, Prof Brian Ripley wrote: > On Tue, 15 Aug 2006, Gabor Csardi wrote: [...] > > what is the correct way to include a dll in a source package, that > > is expected to be installed in the libs directory? > > You could put it in inst/

Re: [Rd] how to include a windows dll in a package

2006-08-15 Thread Uwe Ligges
Gabor Csardi wrote: > Thank you for the answer. > > On Tue, Aug 15, 2006 at 02:09:59PM +0100, Prof Brian Ripley wrote: >> On Tue, 15 Aug 2006, Gabor Csardi wrote: > [...] >>> what is the correct way to include a dll in a source package, that >>> is expected to be installed in the libs directory?

Re: [Rd] how to include a windows dll in a package

2006-08-15 Thread Gabor Csardi
On Tue, Aug 15, 2006 at 03:34:05PM +0200, Uwe Ligges wrote: > > > Gabor Csardi wrote: > >Thank you for the answer. > > > >On Tue, Aug 15, 2006 at 02:09:59PM +0100, Prof Brian Ripley wrote: > >>On Tue, 15 Aug 2006, Gabor Csardi wrote: > >[...] > >>>what is the correct way to include a dll in a sou

[Rd] axis documentation (PR#9147)

2006-08-15 Thread rmh
# R for Windows will not send your bug report automatically. # Please copy the bug report (after finishing it) to # your favorite email program and send it to # # [EMAIL PROTECTED] # ## ?axis shows the description of the hadj argument:

[Rd] Using TCP/IP sockets in R

2006-08-15 Thread Mark Schultz
Hi All: I've examined the R documentation on sockets and while I can probably figure it out with a bit of experimentation, I wondered if anyone has some sample code they could send me. I'd like to use R as a statistics server to python clients. Is ist possible to have a multithreaded server in R?

Re: [Rd] Using TCP/IP sockets in R

2006-08-15 Thread Greg Snow
Have you looked at the nws package (and the nws server from the same group), they include python to do parallel computing and may give you the examples you need. -- Gregory (Greg) L. Snow Ph.D. Statistical Data Center Intermountain Healthcare [EMAIL PROTECTED] (801) 408-8111 -Original

Re: [Rd] Using TCP/IP sockets in R

2006-08-15 Thread Dirk Eddelbuettel
On 15 August 2006 at 14:31, Mark Schultz wrote: | Hi All: | I've examined the R documentation on sockets and while I can probably | figure it out with a bit of experimentation, I wondered if anyone has | some sample code they could send me. I'd like to use R | as a statistics server to python cl

Re: [Rd] configure on mac

2006-08-15 Thread roger koenker
Apologies for my ignorance about these matters. I think that the multiply defined symbols were probably my fault. After removing some lapack routines and using a modified version of Makevars suggested by Martin Maechler ## we use the BLAS and now also the LAPACK library: PKG_LIBS= $(LAPACK_LIBS

[Rd] graphics documentation omission (PR#9148)

2006-08-15 Thread rmh
# R for Windows will not send your bug report automatically. # Please copy the bug report (after finishing it) to # your favorite email program and send it to # # [EMAIL PROTECTED] # ## ?axis says in Details: "(for example, if the 'plo

Re: [Rd] graphics documentation omission (PR#9148)

2006-08-15 Thread mschwartz
On Tue, 2006-08-15 at 21:04 +0200, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > ?axis says in Details: "(for example, > if the 'plot' argument 'asp' is set)." > > The asp argument is not mentioned in ?plot and is not mentioned in ?par. It is referenced in ?plot.default and ?plot.window, with the former pass

Re: [Rd] graphics documentation omission (PR#9149)

2006-08-15 Thread rmh
Thanks, Marc Neither plot.window or plot.default are natural places for me to look for argument names. par and plot are, for me, the natural places. I realize that asp is not a par argument. Nonetheless, par is still the first place to look for arguments that I would use in the ... position of

Re: [Rd] graphics documentation omission (PR#9149)

2006-08-15 Thread mschwartz
On Tue, 2006-08-15 at 22:13 +0200, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Thanks, Marc Happy to help Rich. > Neither plot.window or plot.default are natural places for me to look for > argument names. par and plot are, for me, the natural places. I realize > that asp is not a par argument. Nonetheless, pa

[Rd] Date and time problems

2006-08-15 Thread Erich Neuwirth
I am running R 2.3.1 on Windows XP. My machine is set (via the Windows Control Panel) to Central European time (Amsterdam, Berlin, Rome, Stockholm, Vienna) and automatically has DST set, so I am 2 hours ahead of GMT. No TZ variable is set. > Sys.timezone() [1] "W. Europe Standard Time" > Sys.Date

[Rd] List 'sssitalk' closed to public posts

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Re: [Rd] Date and time problems

2006-08-15 Thread Prof Brian Ripley
Short answer: these are OS-specific bugs documented in the R help - see the bottom. On Wed, 16 Aug 2006, Erich Neuwirth wrote: > I am running R 2.3.1 on Windows XP. > My machine is set (via the Windows Control Panel) to Central European > time (Amsterdam, Berlin, Rome, Stockholm, Vienna) and au