[Rd] R 2.7.2 for Windows fails to install local zip package (PR#12612)

2008-08-27 Thread rubinson
R version 2.7.2 for Windows fails to install local (zipped) packages with following messages: > utils:::menuInstallLocal() updating HTML package descriptions Error in .readRDS(pfile) : error reading from connection > __ R-devel@r-project.org mailing lis

Re: [Rd] R 2.7.2 for Windows fails to install local zip package (PR#12612)

2008-08-27 Thread Duncan Murdoch
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: R version 2.7.2 for Windows fails to install local (zipped) packages with following messages: utils:::menuInstallLocal() updating HTML package descriptions Error in .readRDS(pfile) : error reading from connection It works for me. I suspect you have permissi

[Rd] S4 coercion

2008-08-27 Thread Paul Gilbert
I am extending a DBI connection by setClass("TSPostgreSQLConnection", contains=c("PostgreSQLConnection","TSdbOptions")) but the first time I use this I am getting a warning when it tries to coerce the TSPostgreSQLConnection to a PostgreSQLConnection. After the first use the warning stops,

Re: [Rd] S4 coercion

2008-08-27 Thread Martin Morgan
Hi Paul -- does this make the problem more explicit? > ## class hierarchy > setClass("A", representation=representation(a="numeric")) [1] "A" > setClass("B", representation=representation(b="numeric")) [1] "B" > setClass("C", contains=c("A", "B")) [1] "C" > ## coerce methods -- in some instances

[Rd] format.data.frame handles names in nested data frames badly (PR#12624)

2008-08-27 Thread timhesterberg
> d <- data.frame(x=1:3, y=2:4) > d[["r"]] <- d[1]/d[2] > d x y x 1 1 2 0.500 2 2 3 0.667 3 3 4 0.750 It appears that the name "x" was given instead of "r". That is not correct: > names(d) [1] "x" "y" "r" > showStructure(d) # from package splus2R list[3,3] S3 class: data.f

[Rd] standard errors for glm

2008-08-27 Thread christophe dutang
Hi, I'm currently using biglm package to compute GLM outputs on a very large dataset. But no function computes standard erros of predictions. I look in what is done in R, namely in the function predict.glm.R in stats package. In this function, we call predict.lm to compute the standard errors (lin

[Rd] specifying compiler path in configure

2008-08-27 Thread Mark Kimpel
I'm having trouble building some packages while running Debian Lenny (testing) and suspect that the issues are related to the default use of gcc-4.3. With Lenny, build-essentials depends on 4.3, so I'd like to leave it installed but have also installed 4.2.1. How do I tell ./configure the path to

Re: [Rd] specifying compiler path in configure

2008-08-27 Thread Prof Brian Ripley
On Wed, 27 Aug 2008, Mark Kimpel wrote: I'm having trouble building some packages while running Debian Lenny (testing) and suspect that the issues are related to the default use of gcc-4.3. You might want to compare your problems with the CRAN checks at http://cran.r-project.org/web/checks/ch

Re: [Rd] specifying compiler path in configure

2008-08-27 Thread Dirk Eddelbuettel
Mark, On 27 August 2008 at 16:21, Mark Kimpel wrote: | I'm having trouble building some packages while running Debian Lenny | (testing) and suspect that the issues are related to the default use | of gcc-4.3. With Lenny, build-essentials depends on 4.3, so I'd like | to leave it installed but ha