Re: [R] R script doesn't load libraries when called from cron

Actually, i think i figured it out. My bad, i am inexperienced with cron. When it runs, it doesn't have the environment. Once i wrapped my R script into shell script that sourced the .bashrc file, i was back in business. Maybe there is more elegant solution, without additional shell script -- poss

[R] R script doesn't load libraries when called from cron

I have R script that i need to run in cron. Either R libraries or some .so libraries that they depend on don't get loaded correctly. Here is an example. I have a file, call it tmp.R tmp.R = R --slave --args $0 $* < tryCatchList -> tryCatchOne -> Execution halted

[R] masking of objects between mtrace() and getYahooData()

I am using getYahooData from TTR to get daily data. When i do it standalone, it is fine. It also works fine inside my code. However, when i run code inside mtrace(), i always get the following error: Error in xts(cbind(adj[[1]], adj[[2]]), index(obj)): order.by requires an appropriate time-base

Re: [R] bigmemory package woes

Jay, thanks a bunch. New package seems to work just fine and great improvement in docs by the way:). I tried the same example, new version deals with it smoothly. In terms of usefulness of my sample code -- sure i am writing same stuff to disk many times with only one handle -- it was some toy cod

[R] bigmemory package woes

I have pretty big data sizes, like matrices of .5 to 1.5GB so once i need to juggle several of them i am in need of disk cache. I am trying to use bigmemory package but getting problems that are hard to understand. I am getting seg faults and machine just hanging. I work by the way on Red Hat Linu

Re: [R] efficient rolling rank

Gabor, Charles, Whit -- i've been walking the woods of R alone so far, and i got to say that your replies to that trivial question are eye-opening experience for me. Gentlemen, what i am trying to say in a roundabout way is that i am extremely grateful and that you guys are frigging awesome. Let

[R] efficient rolling rank

Could someone give me an idea on how to do rolling ranking, i.e. rank in the moving window of last 100 numbers in a long vector? I tried naive solution like roll.rank<-function(v, len){ r<-numeric(length(v)-len+1) for(i in len:length(v)) r[i-len+1]<-rank(v[(i-len+1):i])[len] r

[R] package debug not available in Ubuntu

Hi, i have 8.10 Ubuntu, R version 2.7.1 on 64 bit pc. I install packages fine, but when i try to do install.packages("debug") i get error message package 'debug' is not available Does this package exist for Ubuntu? -- View this message in context: http://n4.nabble.com/package-debug-not-avail