[Rd] question about --with-valgrind-instrumentation=level

2009-09-06 Thread Charles Geyer
Does --with-valgrind-instrumentation=2 slow down R when valgrind or gctorture are not in use? I am thinking of compiling the R that the whole department uses for research and teachin with --with-valgrind-instrumentation=2. Is that a good idea or a bad idea? -- Charles Geyer Professor, School of

Re: [Rd] question about --with-valgrind-instrumentation=level

2009-09-06 Thread Prof Brian Ripley
On Sun, 6 Sep 2009, Charles Geyer wrote: Does --with-valgrind-instrumentation=2 slow down R when valgrind or gctorture are not in use? I am thinking of compiling the R that the whole department uses for research and teachin with --with-valgrind-instrumentation=2. Is that a good idea or a bad i

[Rd] question about ... passed to two different functions

2009-09-06 Thread Charles Geyer
I have hit a problem with the design of the mcmc package I can't figure out, possibly because I don't really understand the R function call mechanism. The function metrop in the mcmc package has a ... argument that it passes to one or two user-supplied functions, which are other arguments to metro

Re: [Rd] question about ... passed to two different functions

2009-09-06 Thread Duncan Murdoch
On 06/09/2009 1:50 PM, Charles Geyer wrote: I have hit a problem with the design of the mcmc package I can't figure out, possibly because I don't really understand the R function call mechanism. The function metrop in the mcmc package has a ... argument that it passes to one or two user-supplied

[Rd] R v2.9.2 patched still referred to as RC

2009-09-06 Thread Henrik Bengtsson
R v2.9.2 patched is still referred to as RC: http://cran.r-project.org/bin/windows/base/rpatched.html Since v2.9.2 is already out, this should be 'pat', correct? /Henrik __ R-devel@r-project.org mailing list https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-de

Re: [Rd] R v2.9.2 patched still referred to as RC

2009-09-06 Thread Duncan Murdoch
On 06/09/2009 5:57 PM, Henrik Bengtsson wrote: R v2.9.2 patched is still referred to as RC: http://cran.r-project.org/bin/windows/base/rpatched.html Since v2.9.2 is already out, this should be 'pat', correct? The label was correct: that was still the RC version. The problem was that I for