Re: [Rd] typo or stale info in qr man

2016-10-25 Thread Martin Maechler
> Wojciech Musial (Voitek) > on Mon, 24 Oct 2016 15:07:55 -0700 writes: > man for `qr` says that the function uses LINPACK's DQRDC, while it in > fact uses DQRDC2. which is a modification of LINPACK's DQRDC. But you are right, and I have added to the help file (and a tiny bi

Re: [Rd] ACM license link broken

2016-10-25 Thread Martin Maechler
> Ben Bolker > on Mon, 24 Oct 2016 19:26:35 -0400 writes: > The URL listed under > https://svn.r-project.org/R/trunk/share/licenses/license.db for the ACM > license, > http://www.acm.org/publications/policies/softwarecrnotice , > gives a 404 error. I think this

Re: [Rd] typo or stale info in qr man

2016-10-25 Thread Jari Oksanen
And that missing functionality is that Linpack/Lapack routines do not return rank and have a different style of pivoting? For other aspects, the user-interface is very similar in dqrdc2 in R and in dqrdc in Linpack. Another difference seems to be that the final pivoting reported to the user is

Re: [Rd] typo or stale info in qr man

2016-10-25 Thread peter dalgaard
On 25 Oct 2016, at 10:08 , Martin Maechler wrote: >> Wojciech Musial (Voitek) >>on Mon, 24 Oct 2016 15:07:55 -0700 writes: > >> man for `qr` says that the function uses LINPACK's DQRDC, while it in >> fact uses DQRDC2. > > which is a modification of LINPACK's DQRDC. > > But you a

Re: [Rd] Support for signing R packages with GPG

2016-10-25 Thread Martyn Plummer
Thanks Jeroen. The R Foundation has recently formed a working group to look into package authentication. There are basically two models. One is the GPG based model you describe; the other is to use X.509 as implemented in the PKI package. It's not yet clear which way to go but we are thinking about

[Rd] BUG?: On Linux setTimeLimit() fails to propagate timeout error when it occurs (works on Windows)

2016-10-25 Thread Henrik Bengtsson
setTimeLimit(elapsed=1) causes a timeout error whenever a call takes more than one second. For instance, this is how it works on Windows (R 3.3.1): > setTimeLimit(elapsed=1) > Sys.sleep(10); message("done") Error in Sys.sleep(10) : reached elapsed time limit Also, the error propagates immediatel

Re: [Rd] BUG?: On Linux setTimeLimit() fails to propagate timeout error when it occurs (works on Windows)

2016-10-25 Thread Spencer Graves
On 10/25/2016 9:44 PM, Henrik Bengtsson wrote: setTimeLimit(elapsed=1) causes a timeout error whenever a call takes more than one second. For instance, this is how it works on Windows (R 3.3.1): setTimeLimit(elapsed=1) Sys.sleep(10); message("done") Error in Sys.sleep(10) : reached elapsed