[Rd] trouble building 2.10?

2009-08-18 Thread Ben Bolker
aving directory `/usr/local/src/R/r-devel/R/src/library' make: [docs] Error 2 (ignored) any ideas? Ben Bolker signature.asc Description: OpenPGP digital signature __ R-devel@r-project.org mailing list https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-devel

Re: [Rd] Accuracy (PR#13999)

2009-10-11 Thread Ben Bolker
witkovsky wrote: > > Full_Name: Viktor Witkovsky > Version: 2.9.2 > OS: Windows XP > Submission from: (NULL) (78.98.89.227) > > > Hello, > > I have found strange behavior of the function qchisq (the non-central > qchisq is > based on inversion of pchisq, which is further based on pgamma). T

[Rd] forwarded: bug (?) in cut.POSIXt with "breaks"=integer

2009-10-15 Thread Ben Bolker
as numeric (and very ugly) ! ## I don't know how to safely convert the breakpoints ! ## back to a character format (e.g. ! ## levels(res) = [1970-01-01 00:00:00,1970-01-01 12:00:00) ! ## instead of [18000,61200) ! } ! } res } -- Ben Bolker As

Re: [Rd] forwarded: bug (?) in cut.POSIXt with "breaks"=integer

2009-10-16 Thread Ben Bolker
to speak) if length(breaks)!=length(levels(res))-1 I could keep working on a patch if requested, but probably won't otherwise. Ben Bolker -- View this message in context: http://www.nabble.com/forwarded%3A-bug-%28-%29-in-cut.POSIXt-with-%22breaks%22%3Dinteger-tp25914604p25926126.html S

Re: [Rd] odd evaluation within correlation argument of glmmPQL

2009-10-27 Thread Ben Bolker
Ben Bolker wrote: > > > [snip] > > It appears that glmmPQL looks in the global workspace, not > within the data frame specified by the "data" argument, for > the variables specified in the "form" argument of spatial > correlation struc

Re: [Rd] odd evaluation within correlation argument of glmmPQL

2009-11-02 Thread Ben Bolker
Ben Bolker ufl.edu> writes: > > [snip example and patches] > The basic issue is that glmmPQL throws out data that are > not involved in the fixed or random model terms, or in the offset > term. It doesn't save variables that are only found in the > correlation formu

[Rd] Typos in ?pdf (was Re: Problem with pdf graphics device)

2009-11-05 Thread Ben Bolker
Marc Schwartz me.com> writes: > [snip] > See ?pdf and read through the "Note" section. > While I was reading this I noticed two minor typos in pdf.Rd. These patches are against the latest SVN devel version. *** pdf.Rd.orig 2009-11-05 14:37:44.0 -0500 --- pdf.Rd 2009-11-0

Re: [Rd] polygon kills X-server (PR#14055)

2009-11-10 Thread Ben Bolker
xs4all.nl> writes: > > Full_Name: Ludo Pagie > Version: 2.10.0 > OS: linux, ubuntu, 8.04 > Submission from: (NULL) (83.163.218.221) > > when I make a polygon with 100,000 vertices my X-server is being > killed. This occurs in R-2.9.0 and a freshly installed R-2.10.0 > I'm running Ubuntu with a

Re: [Rd] p-generalized normal distribution

2009-11-27 Thread Ben Bolker
Steve Kalke uni-rostock.de> writes: > I would like to know if there is an R-package available for > computing the density, distribution function, > quantiles and random > numbers of the p-generalized normal distribution or > if somebody is already working on it. I haven't been able to find

[Rd] tiny typos in R-exts

2009-11-29 Thread Ben Bolker
1. footnote 5, p. 52: "there is only a fine distinction between \dots and \dots" I should hope so :-) (from context, I think one of these should be \ldots instead) 2. under "\keyword{key}", p. 45: "are not part of the packages' API." Should that be "package's" ? signature.asc Descripti

Re: [Rd] lower.tail option in pnorm

2009-12-08 Thread Ben Bolker
Ken Knoblauch inserm.fr> writes: > > Hi, > > I would have thought that these two constructions would > produce the same result but they do not. > > Resp <- rbinom(10, 1, 0.5) > Stim <- rep(0:1, 5) > mm <- model.matrix(~ Stim) > Xb <- mm %*% c(0, 1) > ifelse(Resp, log(pnorm(Xb)), log(1 - pnorm(

[Rd] silly SVN question

2009-12-15 Thread Ben Bolker
live somewhere on the same SVN server, which might not be true ...) Any ideas (including pointing out the obvious, or the obvious-in-hindsight)? thanks Ben Bolker signature.asc Description: OpenPGP digital signature __ R-devel@r-project.org mailing

Re: [Rd] silly SVN question

2009-12-15 Thread Ben Bolker
. And https://svn.r-project.org/R/trunk/src/library/Recommended/ shows that only Makefile.in and Makefile.win live here. Does your src/library/Recommended have up-to-date source code for all the packages ... ? cheers Ben Kasper Daniel Hansen wrote: > The obvious: the recommended packages

Re: [Rd] silly SVN question

2009-12-15 Thread Ben Bolker
thanks! Prof Brian Ripley wrote: > On Tue, 15 Dec 2009, Ben Bolker wrote: > >> I followed the suggestions at >> http://developer.r-project.org/SVNtips.html to check out an anonymous >> copy of the development branch of R, but so far I have been unable to >>

[Rd] wiki down?

2010-01-06 Thread Ben Bolker
Does anyone have an address for a maintainer, or know what's going on? cheers Ben Bolker b...@bolker-lap2:~$ ping wiki.r-project.org PING econum.umh.ac.be (193.190.194.5) 56(84) bytes of data. ^C --- econum.umh.ac.be ping statistics --- 8 packets transmitted, 0 received, 100% p

[Rd] snark of the day: new "features" (??) in Mathematica 7

2010-01-11 Thread Ben Bolker
who wants to write rgl code to do these? http://tinyurl.com/yzojfn2 http://tinyurl.com/ylrz2p8 :-) Ben Bolker signature.asc Description: OpenPGP digital signature __ R-devel@r-project.org mailing list https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r

[Rd] adapt package missing because of licensing issue: fix?

2010-01-14 Thread Ben Bolker
gests that they *don't* want it redistributed ... ? Would it be helpful if I did this, or is this the sort of thing the package maintainer should do? Mike Meyer: mi...@andrew.cmu.edu Alan Genz: g...@gauss.math.wsu.edu cheers Ben Bolker -- Ben Bolker Associate professor, Biology Dep't, U

Re: [Rd] Canberra distance

2010-02-07 Thread Ben Bolker
R" where the Bray Curtis distance formula is actually the Canberra > distance (Eq. 10.2 p. 289). There seems to be a certain slipperiness of definition in this field. Actually, the author is M. H. Henry (Hank) Stevens, not "Henry & Stevens" ... Ben Bolker _

Re: [Rd] Feature Request: Multiline Comments

2010-02-14 Thread Ben Bolker
Saptarshi Guha gmail.com> writes: > > Hello, > Is it possible to extend the R lexer/parser to include multiline comments like > /* > acomment > > */ > ? > This way I can integrate emacs org-mode with my R code, so that I can > have a table of contents, > section folding, html-output of source e

Re: [Rd] scale(x, center=FALSE) (PR#14219)

2010-02-25 Thread Ben Bolker
... This does seem like a funny choice, but it is probably stuck that way without an extremely compelling argument to the contrary. If you want to scale columns by sd() instead you can say scale(x,center=FALSE,scale=apply(x,2,sd)) Would you like to submit a patch for the documentation that wo

Re: [Rd] scale(x, center=FALSE) (PR#14219)

2010-02-26 Thread Ben Bolker
[cc'ing back to r-devel] Maria Rizzo wrote: > Ben, > > I receive the digest version of r-devel - so I do not have the > individual messages to reply to. In reply to yours: > > I think this is a bug for the following reasons. While it is true > that one can define

Re: [Rd] Displaying political boundaries in R

2010-03-03 Thread Ben Bolker
e your homework' by searching in various places on the web, or in books, for the answer to your question, before posting to the list. cheers Ben Bolker __ R-devel@r-project.org mailing list https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-devel

Re: [Rd] scale(x, center=FALSE) (PR#14219)

2010-03-04 Thread Ben Bolker
Ben Bolker ufl.edu> writes: [re: behavior of scale() when center=FALSE and scale=TRUE] > Again, I agree with you that the behavior is not optimal, but it is > very hard to make changes in R when the behavior is sub-optimal rather > than actually wrong (by some definition). R-

Re: [Rd] scale(x, center=FALSE) (PR#14219)

2010-03-12 Thread Ben Bolker
ted) ... I went to bugzilla, and bug 14219 doesn't seem to exist any more -- either as open or as closed -- don't know if it got lost, or thrown away, when the bug system migrated? cheers Ben Bolker [re: behavior of scale() when center=FALSE and scale=TRUE] > Again, I

Re: [Rd] scale(x, center=FALSE) (PR#14219)

2010-03-12 Thread Ben Bolker
Thanks Simon! How irritating/wrong would it be if I opened a new bug to submit my suggested documentation patch? As detailed below, I think the documentation is somewhat confusing (it depends on a highly non-standard definition of "standard deviation" ...) cheers Ben Bolk

Re: [Rd] GAMs and survival data

2010-04-08 Thread Ben Bolker
estion 2: For this type of model (GAM), is there a simple way * of constructing an equation for the model * (e.g., to come up with predicted values). You probably want to use the predict() functions provided with mgcv/GAM. It wouldn't hurt to read Simon Wood's book

[Rd] possible bug in tools:::getRemotePkgDepends ?

2010-04-09 Thread Ben Bolker
sunsite.utk.edu/CRAN"; rather than contrib.url(getOption("repos")) [1] "http://mira.sunsite.utk.edu/CRAN/src/contrib"; Is this (as it seems to me) a bug? Should I report it as such? -- Ben Bolker Associate professor, Biology Dep't, Univ. of Florida bol...@ufl.edu /

[Rd] tiny typo in ?prop.test: "if" for "is"

2010-04-18 Thread Ben Bolker
{alternative}. A confidence interval for the underlying proportion with confidence level as specified by -- Ben Bolker Associate professor, Biology Dep't, Univ. of Florida bol...@ufl.edu / people.biology.ufl.edu/bolker GPG key: people.biology.ufl.edu/bolker/benbolker-publickey.asc signatur

Re: [Rd] bug in cut.POSIXt(..., breaks = < numeric> ) and cut.Date

2010-04-29 Thread Ben Bolker
Felix Andrews nfrac.org> writes: > > x <- seq(as.POSIXct("2000-01-01"), by = "days", length = 20) > > cut(x, breaks = 3) > # Error in `levels<-.factor`(`*tmp*`, value = character(0)) : > # number of levels differs > > cut(as.Date(x), breaks = 3) > # Error in `levels<-.factor`(`*tmp*`, value

[Rd] warning from install.packages()

2010-05-25 Thread Ben Bolker
(" If missing, defaults to the first element of ‘.libPaths()’.") It's one of the most common questions I have to answer for students during introductory R sessions ... If there's not, would anyone get annoyed if I submitted a wishlist ite

Re: [Rd] warning from install.packages()

2010-06-01 Thread Ben Bolker
> On 25/05/10 23:25 PM, "Ben Bolker" ufl.edu> wrote: > Just curious: is there a particular reason why install.packages() > gives a warning in normal use when 'lib' is not specified (e.g. argument > 'lib' is missing: using '/usr/local/lib/R/site

Re: [Rd] warning from install.packages()

2010-06-02 Thread Ben Bolker
Michael Dewey wrote: > At 13:40 01/06/2010, Ben Bolker wrote: > >>> On 25/05/10 23:25 PM, "Ben Bolker" ufl.edu> wrote: >>> Just curious: is there a particular reason why install.packages() >>> gives a warning in normal use when 'lib' is

Re: [Rd] warning from install.packages()

2010-06-03 Thread Ben Bolker
Martin Maechler wrote: >>>>>> "BB" == Ben Bolker >>>>>> on Wed, 02 Jun 2010 13:45:18 -0400 writes: > > BB> Michael Dewey wrote: > >> At 13:40 01/06/2010, Ben Bolker wrote: > >> > >>>>

Re: [Rd] [R] Wrong symbol rendering in plots (Ubuntu)

2010-06-07 Thread Ben Bolker
propto \beta $$ \end{document} (7514 bytes) and try to figure out how the fonts are being treated differently ... Yvonnick Noel wrote: > Hello Ben, >> Does the workaround pointed out later in the thread you're >> responding to (from the last paragraph of a very long 'Note&#

[Rd] strategies for incorporating a data= argument

2007-02-08 Thread Ben Bolker
yone who has read this far: right now I am calling my extended function mle(), but that seems to be asking for trouble [i.e. confused questions from users who don't know they're using bbmle::mle and not stats4::mle]. Any recommendations for what to call it? mle2? mlex ("extended mle&q

[Rd] environment confusion

2007-02-14 Thread Ben Bolker
ssian = TRUE, ...) 10: function (par) 11: fn(par, ...) 12: do.call("minuslogl", args, envir = environment(minuslogl)) 13: minuslogl(ltheta = 2.30970721353114, lmu = -2.18543734742826) 14: lapply(arglist1, eval, envir = data, enclos = sys.frame(sys.nframe())) 15: is.vector(X)

[Rd] rhel5 rpm spec mods

2007-04-17 Thread Ben Walton
h those changes? Thanks -Ben -- Ben Walton Systems Programmer Office of Planning & IT Faculty of Arts & Science University of Toronto Cell: 416.407.5610 GPG Key Id: 8E89F6D2; Keyserver: pgp.mit.edu Contact me to arrange for a CAcert assurance meeting. Please Note: This e-mail is intended

Re: [Rd] rhel5 rpm spec mods

2007-04-17 Thread Ben Walton
for this reason. I prefer fewer surprises in production machines when possible. I'll discuss the required(1) changes with Martyn and submit them if he's agreeable. Thanks -Ben (1) assuming that they are required and I'm not missing the obvious. -- Ben Walton Systems Programmer Office of P

Re: [Rd] rhel5 rpm spec mods

2007-04-17 Thread Ben Walton
ines/workstations, etc). FC has it's (very important) place and I do suggest that home users work with it (or Ubuntu/Debian). The other issue with FC in production is the legacy support one. I can't be bothered to upgrade machines as often as the fc support cycle would have me do (I miss

[Rd] bounties

2007-05-09 Thread Ben Bolker
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Re: [Rd] bounties

2007-05-11 Thread Ben Bolker
Tony Plate wrote: > I've wondered about this sort of thing too. Are there any successful > models like this for other program languages/systems? > > -- Tony Plate > > Ben Bolker wrote: >> Has anyone considered a bounty system for R? >> (i.e., some kind of s

[Rd] citation question

2007-05-16 Thread Ben Bolker
d I think Peter Dalgaard in particular) in writing the original code. If I add "R Development Core Team" to the author list I feel I am suggesting that they might be responsible for my changes. Neither seems entirely appropriate. Suggestions? Ben Bolker PS this is my current DESCRIPT

[Rd] importing a function, generic conflicts

2007-05-20 Thread Ben Bolker
specify it explicitly instead. Does anyone have clever (or elegant) solutions to these two problems? Ben Bolker signature.asc Description: OpenPGP digital signature __ R-devel@r-project.org mailing list https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-devel

Re: [Rd] bug from nlm function (PR#9711)

2007-05-29 Thread Ben Bolker
udec.cl> writes: > > Full_Name: bernardo moises lagos alvarez > Version: 2.4.0 > OS: Windows XP professional > Submission from: (NULL) (152.74.219.16) > > > nlm(fllwfuncHnew,p=c(1,20),x=xdat) > > Erro en log(b) : el argumento "b" está ausente, sin default > > __

[Rd] small typo in NEWS

2007-06-12 Thread Ben Bolker
The current NEWS file on the R site states that there is a new relink (sic) function, which should probably be relist ... Ben Bolker __ R-devel@r-project.org mailing list https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-devel

[Rd] putting binary files in a package

2007-06-22 Thread Ben Bolker
I have some binaries I would like to distribute with a package (I am not the original author; I have the source code but can't distribute it because it contains _Numerical Recipes_ code. The long-term solution is to replace the code with new code written in R, or in clean C, but in the meantim

Re: [Rd] nonlinear fitting documentation error (PR#9749)

2007-06-23 Thread Ben Bolker
fastmail.fm> writes: > The problem is that fn is not the model to be fitted. > The model is y = p1*x/(p2 > + x). Actually, I would say the model is y_i ~ Normal(p1*x_i/(p2+x_i),sigma^2) ... __ R-devel@r-project.org mailing list https://stat.eth

[Rd] navel-gazing

2007-06-27 Thread Ben Bolker
I did some trawling on the ISI web of science, selecting all papers citing all papers with "R DEV COR TEAM" in the author field (which is how ISI seems to be tagging things). The results are interesting -- about 2400 references. Enjoy these summaries ... urlpref = "http://www.zoo.ufl.edu/bolke

[Rd] sweep sanity checking?

2007-06-29 Thread Ben Bolker
themselves with ... (of course this won't prevent you from sweeping the wrong margin of a square matrix, but nothing will). cheers Ben Bolker sweep <- function (x, MARGIN, STATS, FUN = "-", check.margin=TRUE, ...) { FUN <- match.fun(FUN) dims <- dim(x)

Re: [Rd] sweep sanity checking?

2007-07-09 Thread Ben Bolker
Ben Bolker zoo.ufl.edu> writes: > What would R-core think of the following 'enhanced' > sweep? (now posted at http://wiki.r-project.org/rwiki/doku.php?id=rdoc:base:sweep ) It always warns if dim(x)[MARGIN] is > not a multiple of length(STATS) {it's very hard in

[Rd] trivial typo in ?crimtab

2007-07-19 Thread Ben Bolker
"New Scottland Yard" should be "New Scotland Yard" cheers Ben Bolker __ R-devel@r-project.org mailing list https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-devel

Re: [Rd] anova tables in survreg (PR#9806)

2007-07-25 Thread Ben Bolker
riate signs of df and deviance, and how to fix it ... Ben Bolker __ R-devel@r-project.org mailing list https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-devel

[Rd] behavior of L-BFGS-B with trivial function triggers bug in stats4::mle

2007-07-30 Thread Ben Bolker
h(start)==0 and then setting oout <- list(par=start, value=f(start), hessian = matrix(numeric(0),0,0) or something along those lines. Or one could change L-BFGS-B to behave the same as the other methods. cheers Ben Bolker - library(stats4) ## usi

[Rd] behavior of L-BFGS-B with trivial function triggers bug in stats4::mle

2007-07-30 Thread Ben Bolker
something along those lines. Or one could change L-BFGS-B to behave the same as the other methods. cheers Ben Bolker - library(stats4) ## using example from ?mle x <- 0:10 y <- c(26, 17, 13, 12, 20, 5, 9, 8, 5, 4, 8) ll <- function(ymax=15, xhalf=6) -sum(st

[Rd] the amazing prof. ripley ...

2007-08-01 Thread Ben Bolker
x = readLines("http://developer.r-project.org/R.svnlog.2007";) rx = x[grep("^r",x)] who = gsub(" ","",sapply(strsplit(rx,"\\|"),"[",2)) twho = table(who) twho["ripley"]/sum(twho) 74% of all commits! __ R-devel@r-project.org mailing list https://stat.e

[Rd] fortune() candidate?

2007-08-06 Thread Ben Bolker
R will always be arcane to those who do not make a serious effort to learn it. It is ***not*** meant to be intuitive and easy for casual users to just plunge into. -- Bert Gunter, R-help, 06/08/2007 __ R-devel@r-project.org mailing list https://stat.

[Rd] [Fwd: behavior of L-BFGS-B with trivial function triggers bug in stats4::mle]

2007-08-13 Thread Ben Bolker
hat its other implications are. Or one could change L-BFGS-B to behave the same as the other methods. If I don't hear anything in a few days would it be appropriate to submit this as a bug report? cheers Ben Bolker - library(stats4) ## using example from ?mle x <

Re: [Rd] [Fwd: behavior of L-BFGS-B with trivial functi on triggers bug in stats4::mle]

2007-08-14 Thread Ben Bolker
ne and above the diff/patch. Sorry if I wasn't clear about that. cheers Ben Bolker __ R-devel@r-project.org mailing list https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-devel

Re: [Rd] Sligthly OT Re: Makefile for embedding OpenBUGS in R package

2007-08-14 Thread Ben Bolker
kage at some point ... ??? Ben Bolker __ R-devel@r-project.org mailing list https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-devel

Re: [Rd] [Fwd: behavior of L-BFGS-B with trivial function triggers bug in stats4::mle]

2007-08-15 Thread Ben Bolker
Prof Brian Ripley wrote: > On Tue, 14 Aug 2007, Peter Dalgaard wrote: > >> Ben Bolker wrote: >>> Petr Savicky cs.cas.cz> writes: >>> >>> >>> >>>> Could you also include a script, which reproduces the problem? Just >>>>

[Rd] buglet (?) in de.restore()

2007-08-21 Thread Ben Bolker
If one calls data.entry() with a matrix: A = matrix(0,2,2) data.entry(A) everything works fine except that it triggers a warning: Warning message: the condition has length > 1 and only the first element will be used in: if (dim(x) == dim(args[[i]])) rn <- dimnames(args[[i]])[[1]] else rn

[Rd] buglet in dist() ?

2007-09-02 Thread Ben Bolker
the first line of dist() says if (!is.na(pmatch(method, "euclidian"))) shouldn't that be "euclidean" ? - R version 2.5.1 (2007-06-27) i486-pc-linux-gnu locale: LC_CTYPE=en_US.UTF-8;LC_NUMERIC=C;LC_TIME=en_US.UTF-8;LC_COLLATE=en_US.UTF-8;LC_MONETARY=en_US.UTF-8;LC_MESSA

[Rd] contact with GeneR developers?

2007-09-02 Thread Ben Bolker
were (fixable) problems compiling under R-devel. cheers Ben Bolker Package: GeneR Title: R for genes and sequences analysis Description: Package manipulating nucleotidic sequences (Embl, Fasta, GenBank) Version: 2.6.0 Date: 2006-03-17 bioc

Re: [Rd] buglet in dist() ?

2007-09-02 Thread Ben Bolker
oops. sorry. should have figured something this obvious would have been on purpose. Ben Peter Dalgaard wrote: > Ben Bolker wrote: >> the first line of dist() says >> >> if (!is.na(pmatch(method, "euclidian"))) >> >> shouldn't that be

[Rd] buglet?? in nlme:::corRatio documentation

2007-09-03 Thread Ben Bolker
my geostats books to check this, but found at least one paper that cites the "correct" (1/(1+(d/r)^2) formula -- see below cheers Ben Bolker @ARTICLE{Ekstrom+2005, author = {Ekstr{\o}m, Claus T. and Bak, S{\o}ren and Rudemo, Mats}, title = {Pixel-level Signal Modelling with Spati

[Rd] [Fwd: buglet (?) in de.restore()]

2007-09-10 Thread Ben Bolker
I'm resending this after a decent interval of 20 days -- any opinions? Should I file it as a bug report? Is it my mistake? cheers Ben Bolker Original Message Subject:buglet (?) in de.restore() Date: Tue, 21 Aug 2007 13:29:33 -0400 From: Ben B

[Rd] trivial typo in ?AIC

2007-09-11 Thread Ben Bolker
"if more than one object are provided, " could be "if more than one object is provided" or "if multiple objects are provided" cheers Ben Bolker > sessionInfo() R version 2.5.1 (2007-06-27) i486-pc-linux-gnu locale: LC_CTYPE=en_US.UTF-8

[Rd] trivial typo in ?strip.default

2007-09-12 Thread Ben Bolker
under factor.levels: specicifying __ R-devel@r-project.org mailing list https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-devel

Re: [Rd] to overcome error while computing sd for each subset of data (PR#9931)

2007-10-02 Thread Ben Bolker
question to r-help * hint: the third argument to aggregate needs to be a function, further optional arguments can be specified. sd(x) is not a function. sd is. sincerely Ben Bolker -- View this message in context: http://www.nabble.com/to-overcome-error-while-computing-sd-for-each-subse

Re: [Rd] Sweave/ESS-like tools for HTML

2007-10-19 Thread Ben Bolker
e, check out ttm (TeX-to-MathML) as well. The SGML approach does seem like the wave of the future, but in the meanwhile TeX/tth works well for me. Ben Bolker -- View this message in context: http://www.nabble.com/Sweave-ESS-like-tools-for-HTML-tf4635106.html#a132

[Rd] re sponses to issues on r-devel

2007-11-16 Thread Ben Bolker
7;t blame Petr for these comments, I'm just using his ideas as an example) cheers Ben Bolker -- View this message in context: http://www.nabble.com/responses-to-issues-on-r-devel-tf4806780.html#a13752138 Sent from the R devel mailing list archive at Nabble.com. _

Re: [Rd] Bug in package stats function ar() (PR#10459)

2007-11-24 Thread Ben Bolker
tly more detail: in the "eureka" function, in stats/src/eureka.f, the last element of "vars" in the return list is bogus and varies among calls; if it comes out to NaN or NA it triggers the bug. Haven't spent any more time yet tracking this down, but hope that will

[Rd] r-forge http server down?

2007-11-24 Thread Ben Bolker
e.r-project.org";) works. Ben Bolker -- View this message in context: http://www.nabble.com/r-forge-http-server-down--tf4869110.html#a13932760 Sent from the R devel mailing list archive at Nabble.com. __ R-devel@r-project.org mailing list https://

Re: [Rd] suggested modification to the 'mle' documentation?

2007-12-06 Thread Ben Bolker
evel@r-project.org mailing list > https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-devel > > At this point I'd just like to advertise the "bbmle" package (on CRAN) for those who respectfully disagree, as I do, with Peter over this issue. I have added a data= argument to my version

Re: [Rd] suggested modification to the 'mle' documentation?

2007-12-07 Thread Ben Bolker
be used more creatively and flexibly by those who know how. *** >>> It is not at all an unlikely design to have mle() as a generic function >>> which works on many kinds of objects, the default method being >>> function(object,...) mle(minuslogl(obj)

Re: [Rd] suggested modification to the 'mle' documentation?

2007-12-07 Thread Ben Bolker
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Luke Tierney wrote: > On Fri, 7 Dec 2007, Duncan Murdoch wrote: > > > > For working at the general likelihood I think is is better to > encourage the approach of definign likelihood constructor functions. > The problem with using f, data is that you

[Rd] buglet in curve?

2007-12-08 Thread Ben Bolker
range(pu, f = -1/27) ll <- if (par("xlog")) 10^pu else pu ll }) i.e., extend pu, not ll ... cheers Ben Bolker -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.4.6 (GNU/Linux) Comment: Using GnuPG with M

[Rd] writing S4 documentation

2007-12-08 Thread Ben Bolker
i.edu.au/limma/Rdocs.html exist anywhere, any more? Ben Bolker -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.4.6 (GNU/Linux) Comment: Using GnuPG with Mozilla - http://enigmail.mozdev.org iD8DBQFHW4GNc5UpGjwzenMRAhVbAJoCtN0kyUmiSVSwW3cjQYQmgQd0qACdGigo LMMGnNdlodrCETGuIWunTd4= =JF

[Rd] another S4 question ...

2007-12-11 Thread Ben Bolker
d a new generic, "display", which does a similar thing but has an intermediate level of detail (between "print/show" and "summary") Ben Bolker signature.asc Description: OpenPGP digital signature __ R-devel@r-project.org mailing list https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-devel

Re: [Rd] another S4 question ...

2007-12-11 Thread Ben Bolker
Agreed. It turns out a similar hack is done in the lme4 package for printMer ... Martin Morgan wrote: > Ben -- > > My vote would be against overriding the generic for show. If for some > reason your version proves inadequate, you force the user to > (conditional on loadi

[Rd] S4 class extending data.frame?

2007-12-12 Thread Ben Bolker
m having trouble sorting out what the limitations are ...) hoping for enlightenment (it would be lovely to be shown how to make this work, but a definitive statement that it is impossible would be useful too). cheers Ben Bolker -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.4.6 (GNU

Re: [Rd] S4 class extending data.frame?

2007-12-15 Thread Ben Bolker
being restricted to atomic vectors + Date/factor). cheers Ben Martin Morgan wrote: > > Ben, Oleg -- > > Some solutions, which you've probably already thought of, are (a) move > the data.frame into its own slot, instead of extending it, (b) manage > the data.frame attribut

[Rd] request for addition to R-int

2007-12-21 Thread Ben Bolker
. It would have been helpful to have it in the R-ints manual section as well ... thanks Ben Bolker signature.asc Description: OpenPGP digital signature __ R-devel@r-project.org mailing list https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-devel

Re: [Rd] re quest for addition to R-int

2007-12-23 Thread Ben Bolker
Bjørn-Helge Mevik wrote: > > Ben Bolker wrote: > >> http://cran.r-project.org/doc/manuals/R-ints.html#R-coding-standards >> >> gives detailed advice on how to set the indentation level for >> C code to 4, but it took me a bit of poking around in the archiv

Re: [Rd] re quest for addition to R-int

2007-12-24 Thread Ben Bolker
Martin Maechler stat.math.ethz.ch> writes: > > >>>>> "BB" == Ben Bolker ufl.edu> > >>>>> on Sun, 23 Dec 2007 15:31:23 -0800 (PST) writes: > > BB> Bjørn-Helge Mevik wrote: > >> > >> Ben Bol

[Rd] R-ints typos

2007-12-24 Thread Ben Bolker
) are posted at http://www.zoo.ufl.edu/bolker/R-ints_diff.txt ... cheers Ben Bolker -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.4.6 (GNU/Linux) Comment: Using GnuPG with Mozilla - http://enigmail.mozdev.org iD4DBQFHb/LGc5UpGjwzenMRAv82AJdSx8PcYXi0dFTo4XatJzZ5WO4HAJ47acGW bA/phOy/h/BwLS7RK1b

Re: [Rd] Addendum: nls (with SSlogis model and upper li mit) never returns (PR#10548)

2008-01-05 Thread Ben Bolker
gmx.net> writes: > > Peter Dalgaard reminded me to be more specific about my computing platform; it's Debian 4.1.1-19 on a > 32-bit Pentium 4 machine (Dell Optiplex GX620). > > The problem I described (nls not returning) also occurs with different > data at > other values of the scal paramete

Re: [Rd] [wishlist, patch] Removing .bzr/ directory when calling R CMD build (PR#10625)

2008-01-23 Thread Ben Goodrich
and the .bzrignore file, it seems to be necessary to specify [.]bzr$ [.]bzrignore in the .Rbuildignore file before calling R CMD build. This is certainly sufficient in my case, but since the patch is just one line, perhaps it should be considered for inclu

[Rd] argument order for Math2 group functions in R 2.6.x (PR#10679)

2008-02-02 Thread ben . hansen
Full_Name: Ben Hansen Version: 2.6.1 OS: Windows Submission from: (NULL) (66.93.3.101) Hi, In R 2.6.0 or 2.6.1 on Windows, I get the following upon opening the GUI (no previous commands or special settings): > signif(digits=4, x=1/3) [1] 4 It seems to be taking 4 to be the "x"

[Rd] fortune() candidate?

2008-02-05 Thread Ben Bolker
hits=-2.6 tests=BAYES_00,SPF_HELO_PASS,SPF_PASS X-USF-Spam-Flag: NO -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 From: Bert Gunter gene.com> Subject: Re: Maximum number of variables allowed in a multiple linearregression model Newsgroups: gmane.comp.lang.r.general Date: 2008-02-05 18:00:40 GMT

[Rd] View() + "End" key on Ubuntu=segfault

2008-02-09 Thread Ben Bolker
I can repeatably crash R (segfault) by doing n <- 10 z <- data.frame(a=1:n,b=1:n) View(z) and then hitting the "End" key on my keyboard. I haven't got debugging going yet, but running under gdb (without debugging symbols) does give this: 0xb7b63583 in strlen () from /lib/tls/i686/cm

Re: [Rd] choose incorrect for fractional and some negative integer values (PR#10766)

2008-02-16 Thread Ben Bolker
be an integer -- so I don't think this is a bug. Should the function either (a) test for k == (or close to ==) an integer or (b) be rewritten to work more generally? Ben __ R-devel@r-project.org mailing list https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-devel

[Rd] tiny typo (sort of) in plot.c

2008-02-26 Thread Ben Bolker
The warning in "identify" when no point is close enough to the clicked point is ./src/main/plot.c:3190: REprintf(_("warning: no point with %.2f inches\n"), tol); that should probably be "within" ... Ben Bolker __

[Rd] merging environments

2008-03-07 Thread Ben Bolker
Despite the spirited arguments of various R-core folks who feel that mle() doesn't need a "data" argument, and that users would be better off learning to deal with function closures, I am *still* trying to make such things work in a reasonably smooth fashion ... Is there a standard idiom for

[Rd] graphics defaults

2008-03-13 Thread Ben Bolker
there are overlapping values -- and this would be a reason that pch=1 gives an open circle ...] cheers Ben Bolker signature.asc Description: OpenPGP digital signature __ R-devel@r-project.org mailing list https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r

Re: [Rd] choose incorrect for fractional and some negative integer values (PR#10766)

2008-03-19 Thread Ben Bolker
rs */", so I think it's intended as a way to get the desired answer when a little bit of numeric fuzz is present -- but I agree it seems like overkill. I don't know whether R-core members have on the top of their heads the standard ways of dealing with this situation ... Ben Bolker

Re: [Rd] idea for GSoC: an R package for fitting Bayesian Hierarchical Models

2008-03-23 Thread Ben Bolker
get started in relaxing the assumptions of mixed models (e.g. allowing for non-normal random effects distributions). Ben Bolker __ R-devel@r-project.org mailing list https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-devel

Re: [Rd] idea for GSoC: an R package for fitting Bayesian Hierarchical Models

2008-03-24 Thread Ben Bolker
models (e.g. allowing for non-normal random effects distributions). > > That sounds interesting. However, I currenlty don't have enough > know-how to work at something like it now. Do you think so? I don't think it would be too hard, if you were interested ... Ben __ R-devel@r-project.org mailing list https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-devel

[Rd] Google Summer of Code: cross-listing

2008-03-26 Thread Ben Bolker
quite different from those listed for R, so this shouldn't mean any competition.) sincerely Ben Bolker __ R-devel@r-project.org mailing list https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-devel

[Rd] suggested minor patch for optim.R

2008-04-04 Thread Ben Bolker
optim ignores misspelled control parameters, so that trying to set (e.g.) "maxint=1000" in the control argument silently does nothing. The patch below (watch out for line breaks! also posted at http://www.zoo.ufl.edu/bolker/optim_patch.R , and http://www.zoo.ufl.edu/bolker/optim_new.R) adds

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