[Rd] Writing new probability functions

/distribution/quantile functions over the complete domain of the probability laws? Comments appreciated. -- Vincent Goulet, Associate Professor École d'actuariat Université Laval, Québec [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://vgoulet.act.ulaval.ca __ R-de

Re: [Rd] arr.ind argument to which.min and which.max

Le lun. 5 juil. à 05:56, Martin Maechler a écrit : >> "PatB" == Patrick Burns >>on Sun, 04 Jul 2010 09:43:44 +0100 writes: > >PatB> Is there a reason that 'which.min' and >PatB> 'which.max' don't have an 'arr.ind' >PatB> argument? > > well, help(which.min) tells you th

[Rd] Suggested tidying up

packages on CRAN, though. May I propose to remove this apparently useless function from the sources? [I stubbled upon this function because my package actuar also has a cm() function that masks the one from grDevices.] Dr. Vincent Goulet Full Professor École d'actuariat, Université Laval

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

L] > if(length(.libPaths()) > 1L) > -warning(gettextf("argument 'lib' is missing: using '%s'", lib), > -immediate. = TRUE, domain = NA) > +message(gettextf("argument 'lib' is missing: us

Re: [Rd] IDE for R C++ package writing ?

ca/emacs Please note that the bells and whistles of EmacsW32 are not included. It is a plain GNU Emacs 21.3 with AUCTeX, ESS, Aspell and other minor enhancements thrown in. HTH -- Vincent Goulet, Associate Professor École d'actuariat Université Laval, Québec [EMAIL PROTECTED]

[Rd] C function with unknown output length

nough" to 1. Hence, the number of probabilities is not known in advance. I would like to have an idea what is the best way to handle this situation in R. Thanks in advance! --- Vincent Goulet, Associate Professor École d'actuariat Université Laval, Québec [EMAIL PR

Re: [Rd] C function with unknown output length

Le 07-06-06 à 15:20, Herve Pages a écrit : > Vincent Goulet wrote: >> Hi all, >> >> Could anyone point me to one or more examples in the R sources of a C >> function that is called without knowing in advance what will be the >> length (say) of the output vector?

Re: [Rd] developing a package: increase the number of functions

e, while internal ones can > only be accessed with > > myInternalFun:::myPackage Or rather myPackage:::myInternalFun > > Gregor > > __ > R-devel@r-project.org mailing list > https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-devel

[Rd] Matrix exponential in R

ughts. Best, --- Vincent Goulet, Associate Professor École d'actuariat Université Laval, Québec [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://vgoulet.act.ulaval.ca __ R-devel@r-project.org mailing list https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-devel

Re: [Rd] bug in r-base (PR#10521)

the instructions in the Ubuntu README at http://cran.r-project.org/bin/linux/ubuntu/ ? What is the result of apt-cache policy r-base ? We should be able to help you with this information. Best, --- Vincent Goulet, Associate Professor École d'actuariat Universi

[Rd] Small encoding question

ets grDevices graphics methods base other attached packages: [1] CarbonEL_0.1-4 loaded via a namespace (and not attached): [1] tools_2.6.2 Thanks in advance! --- Vincent Goulet, Associate Professor École d'actuariat Université Laval, Québec [EMAIL PROTECTED

Re: [Rd] How to create a function calling two functions with unknown number of parameters?

- > View this message in context: > http://www.nabble.com/How-to-create-a-function-calling-two-functions-with-unknown-number-of-parameters--tp16501233p16501233.html > Sent from the R devel mailing list archive at Nabble.com. > > __ > R

Re: [Rd] Adding a Matrix Exponentiation Operator

Le dim. 6 avr. à 07:01, Rory Winston a écrit : > Hi Martin > > Thanks for the detailed reply. I had a look at the matrix power > implementation in the actuar package and the modified version in the > expm > package. I have a couple of questions/comments: > > 1. Firstly, I seem to have trouble lo

Re: [Rd] HOW TO AVOID LOOPS

)), function(y) cumsum(x[y]))) [1] 0 0 1 0 1 2 3 0 0 1 2 0 1 0 1 2 3 4 5 6 (The mapply() part is used to create the indexes of each sequence in x starting with a 0. The rest is then straightforward.) HTH --- Vincent Goulet, Associate Professor École d'actuariat

Re: [Rd] r won't start: "r: symbol lookup error: r: undefined symbol: R_Visible" (PR#11265)

Le ven. 25 avr. à 07:09, Dirk Eddelbuettel a écrit : > > On 24 April 2008 at 20:20, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > | Full_Name: Jakob Stoeger > | Version: 2.7.0 > | OS: ubuntu 7.10 > | Submission from: (NULL) (137.248.74.38) > | > | > | Hi! > | > | I hope, it is justified to write this email... > | I'

[Rd] Out of bounds negative index

e? Thanks in advance --- Vincent Goulet, Associate Professor École d'actuariat Université Laval, Québec [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://vgoulet.act.ulaval.ca __ R-devel@r-project.org mailing list https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-devel

Re: [Rd] Out of bounds negative index

Le ven. 02 mai à 15:46, Duncan Murdoch a écrit : On 5/2/2008 3:23 PM, Vincent Goulet wrote: Hi, From the R Language Definition, Section 3.4.1: "If i is positive and exceeds length(x) then the corresponding selection is NA. A negative out of bounds value for i causes an error."

[Rd] Typo in polygon.Rd (PR#8605)

Hi, Small typo in the description of argument 'col' of function polygon(): "(For back-compatibiility, ..." should obviously be "(For back-compatibility...". The mistake was still there in 2.3.0 minutes ago... Best, -- Vincent Goulet, Associate Professor

[Rd] New probability law functions

ehand since my current implementation is simpler than what is found in random.c and I would prefer to go one route or another. Thanks in advance for any feedback. -- Vincent Goulet, Associate Professor École d'actuariat Université Laval, Québec [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://vg

[Rd] Patch to allow negative argument in head() and tail()

xcept code using the (undocumented) "feature" mentioned in my first remark, above. I hope you will find my (albeit small) contribution useful. Best regards, - [1] See previous messages to r-devel by myself <https://stat.ethz.ch/pipermail/r-devel/2005-April/032881.html> and B

Re: [Rd] Patch to allow negative argument in head() and tail()

Le Mardi 18 Juillet 2006 04:42, Martin Maechler a écrit : > >>>>> "Vincent" == Vincent Goulet <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > >>>>> on Mon, 17 Jul 2006 15:03:34 -0400 writes: > > Vincent> Dear developeRs (and other abuseRs ;-)

Re: [Rd] Patch to allow negative argument in head() and tail()

Le Mardi 18 Juillet 2006 04:42, Martin Maechler a écrit : > >>>>> "Vincent" == Vincent Goulet <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > >>>>> on Mon, 17 Jul 2006 15:03:34 -0400 writes: > > Vincent> Dear developeRs (and other abuseRs ;-)

Re: [Rd] building windows packages under wine/linux an d cross-compiling.

t; > Windows machines are cheap. You don't need a new one to build a package > or to run R. I can't imagine there is any change to the build procedure > that would cost less in our time than the cost to you of getting an old > Windows box. > > Duncan Murdoch I already w

[Rd] S3 methods for cbind/rbind

ut by C-internal dispatching. Therefore, there is no need for, e.g., 'rbind.default'. This seems to imply I cannot add my own method. Is there 1) a workaround to and 2) a rationale for this? (Other than creating a generic Rbind() or whatever, that is.) I'm using S3 me

Re: [Rd] S3 methods for cbind/rbind

ually you can add your own method. See > > library(zoo) > rbind.zoo > > for an example. > > On 9/27/06, Vincent Goulet <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > I created a type of object similar to a data frame. In some > > circumstances, It needs special methods for &

[Rd] "R CMD Sweave --driver=..." woes

ple patch below should fix the issue, but I wasn't able to test it. Hope this helps. v. Vincent Goulet Professeur titulaire École d'actuariat, Université Laval Index: src/library/utils/R/Sweave.R === --- src/library

[Rd] Adding RtangleRuncode and RtangleFinish to exports of utils

Hi, Could R-Core consider adding 'RtangleRuncode' and 'RtangleFinish' to the exports of utils. Their weave equivalent 'makeRweaveLatexCodeRunner' and 'RweaveLatexFinish' are exported, as well as the other tangle utility functions 'RtangleSetup' and 'RtangleWritedoc'. The rationale is not just

[Rd] Typo in Writing R Extensions

Hi, Just noticed this: on line 15296 of the current (master) R-exts.texi (section 7 of the compiled document), one reads would do most likely do different things, to the justifiable Either one of the "do" is in extra. Best, Vincent Goulet Univer

[Rd] Small typo in ?NumericConstants

Hi, I stumbled upon this small typo in ?base::NumericConstants: Index: library/base/man/NumericConstants.Rd === --- library/base/man/NumericConstants.Rd(révision 80490) +++ library/base/man/NumericConstants.Rd(copie d