Re: [Rd] problem with R installation package

2012-01-10 Thread Martin Maechler
> Jeroen Ooms > on Mon, 9 Jan 2012 13:56:44 -0800 writes: > Hi Regis, > As you can see on the cran page of your package, no binaries have been build > yet for windows or osx. This can take a couple of days, you have to be > patient. For now you can install your packa

Re: [Rd] CRAN binary packages (was problem with R installation package)

2012-01-10 Thread Prof Brian Ripley
On 10/01/2012 08:16, Martin Maechler wrote: Jeroen Ooms on Mon, 9 Jan 2012 13:56:44 -0800 writes: > Hi Regis, > As you can see on the cran page of your package, no binaries have been build > yet for windows or osx. This can take a couple of days, you have to be >

Re: [Rd] serializing recordedplot object

2012-01-10 Thread Simon Urbanek
On Jan 10, 2012, at 1:06 AM, Jeroen Ooms wrote: > The underlying problem turns out to be serialization of objects of > class "NativeSymbolInfo". When these are serialized and unserialized, > the memory address turns into a nullpointer, causing the fail. To fix > it, one can simply create new nati

Re: [Rd] serializing recordedplot object

2012-01-10 Thread Prof Brian Ripley
I don't think anyone has yet mentioned that the canonical way to save lattice plots is to save the object produced by lattice, and print() it again when required. recordPlot was only ever intended to be a temporary expedient, as the help page says. On 10/01/2012 14:17, Simon Urbanek wrote:

Re: [Rd] S4 summary method not being called (VGAM)

2012-01-10 Thread John Chambers
A relevant report, not just for VGAM but for maintainers of other packages that define methods for functions that have both generic and non-generic versions in other packages. The problem is that VGAM "Depends" on stats4 but does not import from it. So when VGAM is loaded, only the old versio

[Rd] inconsistent overflow handling by strtoi() on 32-bit Windows

2012-01-10 Thread William Dunlap
Using the precompiled R 2.14.1 on 32-bit Windows XP strtoi(x) gives 2^31-1 for x>2^31-1 but NA when x goes out of range in the negative direction: > x <- c("2147483646", "2147483647", "2147483648", "2147483649") > str(strtoi(x)) int [1:4] 2147483646 2147483647 2147483647 2147483647 > str(strtoi(s

Re: [Rd] S4 summary method not being called (VGAM)

2012-01-10 Thread Prof Brian Ripley
All maintainers of CRAN packages which produced such a report were asked for an update a week or so ago. Several have already done so. The remaining list is DMwR FAiR VGAM arm arulesSequences dcmle depmixS4 flip mirt spacom tlemix On 10/01/2012 16:43, John Chambers wrote: A relevant report,

Re: [Rd] Updated Windows toolchain

2012-01-10 Thread Dan Tenenbaum
On Mon, Nov 28, 2011 at 11:56 PM, Prof Brian Ripley wrote: > An updated toolchain is now being used for Windows' builds of R-devel: > details are in the R-admin manual and at > http://www.murdoch-sutherland.com/Rtools/ and > http://www.stats.ox.ac.uk/pub/Rtools/ > Thanks for the update. I saw tha

Re: [Rd] Updated Windows toolchain

2012-01-10 Thread Uwe Ligges
On 10.01.2012 18:51, Dan Tenenbaum wrote: On Mon, Nov 28, 2011 at 11:56 PM, Prof Brian Ripley wrote: An updated toolchain is now being used for Windows' builds of R-devel: details are in the R-admin manual and at http://www.murdoch-sutherland.com/Rtools/ and http://www.stats.ox.ac.uk/pub/Rto

Re: [Rd] Updated Windows toolchain

2012-01-10 Thread Duncan Murdoch
On 10/01/2012 12:51 PM, Dan Tenenbaum wrote: On Mon, Nov 28, 2011 at 11:56 PM, Prof Brian Ripley wrote: > An updated toolchain is now being used for Windows' builds of R-devel: > details are in the R-admin manual and at > http://www.murdoch-sutherland.com/Rtools/ and > http://www.stats.ox.a

Re: [Rd] serializing recordedplot object

2012-01-10 Thread Jeroen Ooms
On Tue, Jan 10, 2012 at 6:17 AM, Simon Urbanek wrote: > Unfortunately R doesn't provide a way for this. Without changes to > unserialization (on the wishlist for a few years now, but not easy to design) > the best you can do is to check the native symbols for NULL pointers on usage > and then r

Re: [Rd] serializing recordedplot object

2012-01-10 Thread Simon Urbanek
On Jan 10, 2012, at 4:12 PM, Jeroen Ooms wrote: > On Tue, Jan 10, 2012 at 6:17 AM, Simon Urbanek > wrote: >> Unfortunately R doesn't provide a way for this. Without changes to >> unserialization (on the wishlist for a few years now, but not easy to >> design) the best you can do is to check the

Re: [Rd] serializing recordedplot object

2012-01-10 Thread Martin Morgan
On 01/10/2012 02:54 PM, Simon Urbanek wrote: On Jan 10, 2012, at 4:12 PM, Jeroen Ooms wrote: On Tue, Jan 10, 2012 at 6:17 AM, Simon Urbanek wrote: Unfortunately R doesn't provide a way for this. Without changes to unserialization (on the wishlist for a few years now, but not easy to design)