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  • Dear R users / devs, There's been requests in the past for a text editor built into the Rgui for Windows, from which code can be submitted to the R console. Something along the lines of the script ...
    Chris JacksonChris Jackson
    Feb 25, 2004 at 2:10 pm
    Feb 27, 2004 at 8:44 pm
  • Using ATLAS with R is an old topic quite covered in the "R Administration" manual (and by R's "configure" script collection). I still do not easily manage to build R properly on our new AMD Opteron ...
    Martin MaechlerMartin Maechler
    Feb 26, 2004 at 10:16 am
    Feb 10, 2006 at 3:53 pm
  • I came across this in connection with an unrelated issue Error in "[<-"(`*tmp*`, 2, value = 5) : object is not subsetable One of the messages must be wrong, but I need a native English speaker to ...
    P DalgaardP Dalgaard
    Feb 11, 2004 at 1:13 am
    Feb 16, 2004 at 10:00 pm
  • You may find some value in looking at the Java distribution library that I created a couple of years ago by porting the R distribution functions: http://statdistlib.sourceforge.net/ A separate java ...
    Warnes, Gregory RWarnes, Gregory R
    Feb 2, 2004 at 10:21 pm
    Feb 3, 2004 at 3:50 pm
  • I maintain the Irregular Time Series (its) package on CRAN. I am currently testing a release. Under 1.8.1 I am able to define a S4 generic 'start' as follows: if(!isGeneric("start")) ...
    Heywood, GilesHeywood, Giles
    Feb 26, 2004 at 6:09 pm
    Feb 27, 2004 at 7:19 pm
  • I did: ./configure --with-blas='-framework vecLib' --with-lapack --with-aqua make sudo make install sudo make install-aqua Everything seems to be OK (some warnings about multiple definitions of some ...
    Na LiNa Li
    Feb 13, 2004 at 5:43 pm
    Feb 14, 2004 at 8:42 pm
  • Dear R-devel, Is there a way to find the size in bytes of a save() command --before-- the file has been saved? If not, can anyone point me to some resources on XDR so I can find a way to calculate ...
    Nathan WhitehouseNathan Whitehouse
    Feb 26, 2004 at 5:21 pm
    Feb 26, 2004 at 8:58 pm
  • I've just committed changes to R-devel (to become 1.9.0) to allow scripts to be invoked using the Unix-style "R CMD command" in Windows. "Rcmd command" will still work, but is no longer documented. A ...
    Duncan MurdochDuncan Murdoch
    Feb 21, 2004 at 7:22 pm
    Feb 22, 2004 at 1:11 pm
  • Hi, src/scripts/Makefile uses @ as the separator for sed. This is fine unless the path names happen to contain @, which would frequently be the case in sites where AFS is used and the AFS magic path ...
    Atro TossavainenAtro Tossavainen
    Feb 18, 2004 at 1:45 pm
    Feb 8, 2006 at 8:37 am
  • Is there any way to get a fixed width plot in graphs? I want to put a text matrix into a plot and this would make it easy. -Greg LEGAL NOTICE\ Unless expressly stated otherwise, this ...
    Warnes, Gregory RWarnes, Gregory R
    Feb 13, 2004 at 2:50 am
    Feb 14, 2004 at 10:54 pm
  • y 1 2 z 1 1 1 x 1 z 1 2 Since x and y are identical, the two ftable results should be the same, but they are not. I've only been able to see this when the column variable is named "x", so it looks ...
    DmurdochDmurdoch
    Feb 4, 2004 at 7:32 pm
    Feb 5, 2004 at 9:05 am
  • {moved from R-help to R-devel} UweL Sebastien Durand wrote: UweL By setting par(fg = "white"): UweL plot(1:10) UweL par(fg="white") UweL legend(2,2, col="white", legend="A", bg="black") or par(col = ...
    Martin MaechlerMartin Maechler
    Feb 25, 2004 at 2:50 pm
    Feb 26, 2004 at 9:43 am
  • Full_Name: Roland Puntaier Version: 1.8.1 OS: Windows XP Submission from: (NULL) (62.99.238.78) I have a data frame with some columns being logical. I wanted to calculate a column that is an AND ...
    Roland PuntaierRoland Puntaier
    Feb 9, 2004 at 6:13 pm
    Feb 9, 2004 at 7:14 pm
  • The process leading up to the release of 1.9.0 is detailed below. Package maintainers may want to take notice of important dates and make sure that their packages still work with the alpha/beta ...
    Peter DalgaardPeter Dalgaard
    Feb 29, 2004 at 10:25 pm
    Mar 1, 2004 at 1:39 am
  • A possible regex bug when working with large strings. The following code snippet t5 <- paste( c( "# === TEST", rep(' ', 2452294) ), collapse='') str( sub("^.*TEST", "xyz", t5) ) str( sub("^.*TEST", ...
    MjwMjw
    Feb 27, 2004 at 12:19 pm
    Feb 28, 2004 at 4:16 pm
  • Yes, lots of packages do use C/Fortran code ... it would be great if there were more packages that are "pure R" especially since the advent of S4 classes and namespaces. Is it worth suggesting that ...
    Marsland, JohnMarsland, John
    Feb 27, 2004 at 3:13 pm
    Feb 27, 2004 at 7:23 pm
  • I've just committed a new version of the quartz device to R-devel. This seems to fix the problem with displaying math symbols in plots under Panther. I can't not more test R under Jaguar (at least ...
    Stefano iacusStefano iacus
    Feb 19, 2004 at 2:55 am
    Feb 21, 2004 at 3:56 pm
  • This might be worth a wishlist/bug report (I'll submit it as such if nobody disagrees). The following objects are nonsense in a way (too huge). It may happen, that you have got a bug in your code ...
    Uwe LiggesUwe Ligges
    Feb 19, 2004 at 2:10 pm
    Feb 20, 2004 at 8:40 am
  • Hello... I tried to build R-devel today on Fedora Core 1 (with gcc 3.3.2) but I am running into a couple of errors. On the same system R-1.8.1 compiles just fine, as did a previous version of ...
    Korbinian StrimmerKorbinian Strimmer
    Feb 15, 2004 at 9:08 pm
    Feb 16, 2004 at 9:50 am
  • I'm putting together a data package and am finding that I get enormous savings in space by using bzip instead of the usual gzip in save(). Is it safe to assume that for R versions, say = 1.7.1, that ...
    Roger D. PengRoger D. Peng
    Feb 1, 2004 at 2:37 am
    Feb 1, 2004 at 8:22 am
  • *********************** El sistema de Deteccion de Virus en el Correo de la UNED ha detectado el virus (WORM_MYDOOM.A) en el fichero (document.zip/document.doc .exe) de este mensaje dirigido a ...
    HotelvilladealmazanHotelvilladealmazan
    Feb 5, 2004 at 1:21 pm
    Feb 28, 2004 at 12:23 am
  • Hi all, Before posting to r-bugs, I thought that I would just verify this one first. It looks like the help for axTicks() needs to be corrected. It presently says: 'axTicks()' can be regarded as an R ...
    Marc SchwartzMarc Schwartz
    Feb 19, 2004 at 4:45 pm
    Feb 24, 2004 at 4:11 pm
  • Full_Name: Anton Zgonc Version: 1.8.1 OS: Linux RH 9.0 Submission from: (NULL) (193.2.208.9) The SearchEngine, accessible through generated documentation by help.start() like ...
    Tone ZgoncTone Zgonc
    Feb 24, 2004 at 11:06 am
    Feb 24, 2004 at 1:09 pm
  • Full_Name: David Steinsaltz Version: 1.8.1 OS: Mac 10.3.2 Submission from: (NULL) (216.175.92.195) A new installation of R on a new computer running OS 10.3.2 simply wouldn't start. When I tried to ...
    DspublicDspublic
    Feb 17, 2004 at 6:10 am
    Feb 17, 2004 at 9:03 am
  • Recipient of the infected attachment: Marianne Buckley\Inbox Subject of the message: One or more attachments were quarantined. Attachment readme.zip was Quarantined for the following reasons: Virus ...
    NAV for Microsoft Exchange-EXCHCLUSTERNAV for Microsoft Exchange-EXCHCLUSTER
    Feb 12, 2004 at 12:42 am
    Feb 12, 2004 at 12:42 am
  • Hello. Do the core team plans to add new device procedure for 3D drawing in the NewDevDesc struct ? Laurent
    L BizeL Bize
    Feb 4, 2004 at 7:22 pm
    Feb 5, 2004 at 1:57 pm
  • According to the manual, system() splits output lines into 8096-char chunks; under UNIX, actually seems to return 8094 chars, and drop the 8095th. Spot missing digits in: x2 <- system("perl -e 'print ...
    MjwMjw
    Feb 28, 2004 at 4:33 pm
    Feb 28, 2004 at 5:16 pm
  • [Moved to R-devel, as that is where `wishlist' items fit best.] It is not currently possible. Furthermore, the R base code is riddled with uses of partial argument matching (check out the uses of ...
    Prof Brian RipleyProf Brian Ripley
    Feb 27, 2004 at 2:36 pm
    Feb 27, 2004 at 7:15 pm
  • R-Folks - I have a little, old computer (486 processor, 40M RAM, 500M HD). Is there a little, old version of R that will run on such a machine? It currently has Windows 3.1, but I could install a ...
    VansicklVansickl
    Feb 25, 2004 at 6:00 pm
    Feb 25, 2004 at 6:09 pm
  • Full_Name: ivo welch Version: 1.8.1 OS: linux Submission from: (NULL) (130.132.33.212) please define aliases for the 5 essential data set operations delete row insert row delete column insert column ...
    Ivo WelchIvo Welch
    Feb 25, 2004 at 4:14 pm
    Feb 25, 2004 at 4:57 pm
  • _ platform i386-pc-linux-gnu arch i386 os linux-gnu system i386, linux-gnu status major 1 minor 8.1 year 2003 month 11 day 21 language R Error in rep.int(unclass(x), times) : Argument "times" is ...
    Svetlana EdenSvetlana Eden
    Feb 24, 2004 at 9:20 pm
    Feb 25, 2004 at 9:04 am
  • Full_Name: Federico Gherardini Version: 1.8.1 OS: Gentoo linux Submission from: (NULL) (81.208.36.89) When I use fix() to edit a matrix R immediately quits with a segmentation fault if I use the copy ...
    F GherardiniF Gherardini
    Feb 23, 2004 at 1:27 am
    Feb 25, 2004 at 1:39 am
  • Hi, a colleague of mine encountered some unexpected behavior regarding the postscript output from R. It's difficult for me to tell whether or not this is an R problem or a ghostview/gv/interpreter ...
    Roger D. PengRoger D. Peng
    Feb 20, 2004 at 4:30 pm
    Feb 23, 2004 at 5:19 pm
  • Full_Name: Alex Loguinov Version: 1.8.1 OS: Windows XP Prof Submission from: (NULL) (24.7.84.58) My R-code is working great but periodically I have error message for the same working code, like ...
    Alog53Alog53
    Feb 21, 2004 at 9:50 pm
    Feb 22, 2004 at 11:49 am
  • If you start R from the terminal and then do non-X11 graphics, you get SetFrontProcess errors. For instance, I have a version of R configured without x11 and with the Aqua version of tcl/tk. If I ...
    Jan de LeeuwJan de Leeuw
    Feb 21, 2004 at 11:16 pm
    Feb 21, 2004 at 11:28 pm
  • Full_Name: Eric van Gyzen Version: 1.8.1 OS: FreeBSD 5.1-RELEASE Submission from: (NULL) (152.3.22.120) After updating perl from 5.6.1 to 5.8.2, R no longer builds. Also note that the build continued ...
    VangyzenVangyzen
    Feb 17, 2004 at 8:32 pm
    Feb 21, 2004 at 10:21 pm
  • Getting a crash with R1.8.1 on windows 2000 an linux with the strsplit. Version: platform = i386-pc-mingw32 arch = i386 os = mingw32 system = i386, mingw32 status major = 1 minor = 8.1 year = 2003 ...
    WolskiWolski
    Feb 19, 2004 at 7:07 pm
    Feb 19, 2004 at 8:48 pm
  • Hello. I am not sure if this is a bug. I loaded into R a very large matrix, around 600,000 X 30 integers. My machine has 2G ram. After trying to write.table a modification of this matrix, R generated ...
    Michael C HerronMichael C Herron
    Feb 18, 2004 at 8:27 pm
    Feb 19, 2004 at 8:54 am
  • This is a multi-part message in MIME format. ------_=_NextPart_001_01C3F5AA.C089F9C9 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable <<R.bug.report <<test ...
    Feiming_chenFeiming_chen
    Feb 18, 2004 at 12:07 am
    Feb 18, 2004 at 11:34 am
  • I've been trying to create/load/call a dll from R-1.8.1 on Windows without much success. I've been able to at least load the library on FreeBSD (1.8.1). I've been able to perform this before using ...
    Jeff D. HamannJeff D. Hamann
    Feb 17, 2004 at 9:53 pm
    Feb 18, 2004 at 2:48 am
  • Full_Name: Stephen Weigand Version: 1.8.1 OS: solaris2.8 Submission from: (NULL) (129.176.151.124) There may be typo in the 'help(names)' documentation. R version platform sparc-sun-solaris2.8 arch ...
    WeigandWeigand
    Feb 17, 2004 at 4:24 pm
    Feb 17, 2004 at 6:30 pm
  • Full_Name: Andrew Stryker Version: 1.8.1 OS: Linux/Win XP Submission from: (NULL) (65.124.252.58) See Also: '[.factor' for subsetting of factors. 'gl' for construction of "balanced" factors and 'C' ...
    Axs2pdxAxs2pdx
    Feb 17, 2004 at 12:32 am
    Feb 17, 2004 at 8:54 am
  • Hello all, I notice that the R package, the manuals and even the FAQ have ISBN numbers. I help write the Gnumeric (GNOME's spreadsheet) manual and wondered how you all managed to get those numbers ...
    Adrian CusterAdrian Custer
    Feb 13, 2004 at 10:07 pm
    Feb 16, 2004 at 4:26 am
  • I just wrote a graphics device taking the X11 device in R-devel as a guide (I was told it's the reference device). It works perfectly with R-devel, but I just noticed that the API (e.g. the use of ...
    Simon UrbanekSimon Urbanek
    Feb 9, 2004 at 11:46 pm
    Feb 10, 2004 at 9:04 pm
  • Sender, Gestionnaire-email has detected virus(es) in your e-mail attachment. Date: Thu, 05 Feb 2004 01:33:34 +0100 Method: Mail From: <[email protected] To: <span class="m_body_email_addr" ...
    Gestionnaire-EmailGestionnaire-Email
    Feb 5, 2004 at 1:33 am
    Feb 6, 2004 at 2:58 pm
  • With today's r-devel, help(seq) says: The last generates the sequence '1, 2', ..., 'length(along)', unless the argument is of length 1 when it is interpreted as a 'length' argument. referring to the ...
    Deepayan SarkarDeepayan Sarkar
    Feb 4, 2004 at 9:15 pm
    Feb 5, 2004 at 9:01 am
  • Full_Name: Martin Schlather Version: R.1.9.0 (2004-02-02) OS: Linux SuSe 9.0 Submission from: (NULL) (193.168.1.228) Dear all, the sequence close.screen(close.screen()) split.screen(c(1,2)) scr <- ...
    SchlatherSchlather
    Feb 3, 2004 at 2:02 pm
    Feb 3, 2004 at 3:22 pm
  • Full_Name: Oleg Raisky Version: 1.8.1 OS: Windows 2000 Submission from: (NULL) (63.246.203.107) This is a completely fresh R install. I'm trying to use Design package. Every time I run the first ...
    VolontirVolontir
    Feb 2, 2004 at 6:44 pm
    Feb 2, 2004 at 6:54 pm
  • I am trying to compile the R-dev sources on WinXP using mingw 3.1.0-1 and fpTeX 0.7. In the past I have been able to build the sources fine but now I receive an error in the process that I havent ...
    Jamie JarabekJamie Jarabek
    Feb 1, 2004 at 2:11 am
    Feb 1, 2004 at 8:41 am
  • Full_Name: Chanseok Park Version: 1.8.1 OS: linux-gnu Submission from: (NULL) (130.127.112.183) digamma with any negative value does not give a right answer. It gives -1.797693e+308 for any negative ...
    CsparkCspark
    Feb 29, 2004 at 10:15 pm
    Feb 29, 2004 at 10:15 pm
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