Re: [Rd] Bug in the parser (?) (PR#13504)

2009-02-06 Thread Wacek Kusnierczyk
Peter Dalgaard wrote: > johnc.d...@yahoo.com wrote: > >> Full_Name: John C. Deva >> Version: 2.8.1 >> OS: Fedora Linux 8, 64 bit >> Submission from: (NULL) (193.200.150.189) >> >> >> I notice that it is possible to redefine 'if' as a function of an arbitrary >> number of arguments. Such redefin

[Rd] Use of cfortran.h?

2009-02-06 Thread nashjc
I'm planning to try to use Mike Powell's new BOBYQA optimization routine to see if it is a good candidate to eventually replace Nelder-Mead as the optim() default. (Don't panic -- this won't happen quickly.) Mike writes f77 code. After some chasing about, I've realized that because optimization cod

Re: [Rd] Use of cfortran.h?

2009-02-06 Thread Prof Brian Ripley
All you need to do is to write a fortran-callable wrapper for a C interface: there are F77_* macros to allow this. They do not work on every possible platform, but they work on the platforms R runs on (since building R relies on them). E.g. intpr (a call to R's print routines from Fortran) pr

[Rd] New package test results available

2009-02-06 Thread Prof Brian Ripley
We've added a column at http://cran.r-project.org/web/checks/check_summary.html of test results using the Sun Studio compiler: it is intended that these will be updated weekly. The Sun Studio compiler is that used on Solaris: these runs were on the Linux version. All the other platforms are