[R] R Founding

2010-09-17 Thread R P Herrold
On Fri, 17 Sep 2010, Peter Dalgaard wrote: On 09/17/2010 12:14 AM, Jeremy Miles wrote: As far as I remember, this requires that a real person opens the account, and takes on the associated tax issues. It may be different for US-based projects. Nope -- all around the world, the governments

Re: [R] reliability of R-Forge?

2010-08-26 Thread R P Herrold
On Thu, 26 Aug 2010, Dirk Eddelbuettel wrote: On 26 August 2010 at 11:28, R P Herrold wrote: | Is anyone aware of explanations, other than a release process | that does not require unique versioning of differing content? | [it seems pretty basic to me that a 'receiver' of new conte

[R] reliability of R-Forge?

2010-08-26 Thread R P Herrold
On Thu, 26 Aug 2010, Gavin Simpson wrote: On Thu, 2010-08-26 at 02:30 -0400, David Kane wrote: How reliable is R-Forge? http://r-forge.r-project.org/ It is down now (for me). Reporting "R-Forge Could Not Connect to Database: " late to chime in, so had tossed the first piece. As this relate

[R] R CMD build wiped my computer

2010-07-28 Thread R P Herrold
On Wed, 28 Jul 2010, Jarrod Hadfield wrote: My main concern is that this could happen again and that the "bug" is not limited to R 2.9. I would think that an accidental carriage return at the end of a file name (even a temporary one) would be a reasonably common phenomenon (I'm surprised I ha

[R] R linux install: FORTRAN compiling error

2010-06-03 Thread R P Herrold
On Thu, 3 Jun 2010, vaneet wrote: Is there any way I can get an RPM that has all the necessary packages built in to install and run R? Or do I have to find all these packages that are needed to install these 'R' rpms for which many are not found on the FedoraProject website (libgfortran, gcc-for

[R] Upgrading R using the "global library folder" strategy -, what do you think about it?

2010-04-26 Thread R P Herrold
On Mon, 26 Apr 2010, Marshall Feldman wrote: So why not have the appropriate scripts ask a few questions upon the first installation of R (e.g., "Do you want to configure R with a "global" library for packages to make future upgrading easier?") and at upgrade time ("Your previous version of R

[R] update.packages() and install.packages() does not work more because of "Error in read.dcf"

2010-04-01 Thread R P Herrold
On Thu, 1 Apr 2010, Uwe Ligges wrote: herrold, before: The true fault causing the noted message seems to be that there is a faulty compression/decompression occuring in a carried library -- would't it be better to not bundle a frozen library, and to rather simply 'flag' packages needed a rebuild

[R] update.packages() and install.packages() does not work more because of "Error in read.dcf"

2010-03-30 Thread R P Herrold
On Tue, 30 Mar 2010, Prof Brian Ripley wrote: A hint: I have seen this exact error message with a build configured to use the system's zlib 1.2.4 (which has been out for about 2 weeks), and this incompatibility is noted in the current R 2.11.0 alpha's manuals. We do recommend *not* using the

[R] Problem building R 2.10.0 - Matrix package

2009-11-12 Thread R P Herrold
"TA" == Thomas Adams TA> Attached is the output file from building R 2.10.0 on RedHat Linux. I TA> have never previously experienced any problems when building R from TA> source with new releases. But, now I get a compile error with the Matrix TA> package: The Raw Hide packaging of R 2.10.0 h

[R] R version-2.9.1 for Linux

2009-06-30 Thread R P Herrold
On Tue, 30 Jun 2009, utkarshsinghal wrote: I am currently using R version 2.8.1 on linux cent os 4.4 (i386) and want to upgrade to version 2.9.1. It seems to me that version-2.9.1 is it not for my OS. Am I right? CentOS 4.4 is quite old at this point ... The following Build Requirements for

[R] R version-2.9.1 for Linux

2009-06-30 Thread R P Herrold
On Tue, 30 Jun 2009, Marc Schwartz wrote: There is usually a bit of a delay in the Fedora/EPEL repos releasing a new version of R, but I would expect to see something soon. I have R-2.9.1 on CentOS 5, and did since the day of release announcement. I am not so sure it would build on CentOS 4

[R] Optimization and Linear Programming in R

2009-06-26 Thread R P Herrold
On Fri, 26 Jun 2009, Liviu Andronic wrote: There is `solnp', part of the "Integer and Nonlinear Optimization in R (RINO)" project [1]. It is still in early beta, though. [1] http://r-forge.r-project.org/projects/rino/ I do not find it at the indicated location on: http://r-forge.r-pro

[R] R 2.9 binaries for redhat entreprise 4 / X86_64

2009-04-23 Thread R P Herrold
On Thu, 23 Apr 2009, Mathieu Van der Haegen wrote: I'd like to ask if someone could tell me when the binaries for R 2.9 / redhat entreprise 4 / X86_64 will be available ? I don't need a precise date but some indication like 1 month, 6 month, never ? How about: Now, in Red Hat's RawHide archive

[R] Installing R in Linux: problems with JAVA packages (rJava, RWeka, ...) ?

2008-10-22 Thread R P Herrold
On Wed, 22 Oct 2008, Paulo Cortez wrote: This is becoming a nightmare and I am concluding that installing java1.6 in CentOS5 is particularly hard, specially if you installed previous jdk versions... If you have multiple versions present, you are going to have problems as the Sun Java release

[R] PDF append help

2008-08-05 Thread R P Herrold
On Tue, 5 Aug 2008, Rajasekaramya wrote: Is there any function to append the pdf file. I want to write in a pdf file some 100 plots(in one single pdf containing 100 plots) while all the plot are created using a for loop. I can create 100 pdf one for each for each plot using a for loop but i wa

[R] Off topic: Tcl/Tk outside R.

2008-07-14 Thread R P Herrold
On Mon, 14 Jul 2008, Peter Dalgaard wrote: Rolf Turner wrote: Can anyone give me a hint as to why it doesn't work when the the executable script is invoked directly (from tcsh)? Other than the fact that I'm using a Mac :-) . [Invoking unname -a gives ``Darwin TURNER-ROLF.local 8.11.1 Darwin

[R] Pros and Cons of R

2008-05-22 Thread R P Herrold
On Thu, 22 May 2008, Monica Pisica wrote: I don't consider packages as up-grades, i consider them as enhancements . When a new R version is in place you cannot up-grade your old R version, you have to do a new installation and re-load all the packages you used to have and delete / un-inst