r-devel@r-project.org discussions for March 2004

13	[Rd] exit() and stop() documentation (PR#6706)

Full_Name: ivo welch Version: any OS: linux Submission from: (NULL) (130.132.33.212) hi: in "?stop", in "See Also", please add "quit()" as a mention. Similarly, I would create a help for ?exit, which ...

Ivo Welch
Mar 27, 2004 at 5:43 pm
Mar 29, 2004 at 6:38 pm

12	[Rd] cygwin tar?

I've been attempting to create a new R package and recently removed the cygwin installation from my machine since R requires the use of the MingW tools for building an R package with C code. However, ...

Jeff D. Hamann
Mar 16, 2004 at 7:32 pm
Mar 18, 2004 at 7:26 pm

10	[Rd] can you library(MASS) with R 1.9.0?

I'm trying to track down a rather critical problem. This happens both on Debian's current unstable as well a from anoncvs built this morning, reinstalling MASS. Is anyone else seeing this or am I ...

A.J. Rossini
Mar 4, 2004 at 6:31 pm
Mar 10, 2004 at 9:09 am

9	[Rd] optim-Bug (PR#6720)

Full_Name: Dr. Hans A. Kestler Version: 1.8.1. OS: Linux, Win, Mac OSX Submission from: (NULL) (134.60.73.116) The code below produces after a different number of iterations i the following error ...

Kestler
Mar 30, 2004 at 7:21 pm
Apr 21, 2004 at 8:32 pm

9	[Rd] Distributed computing

Dear all, does anyone know if there exists an effort to bring some kind of distributed computing to R? The most simple functionality I'm after is to be able to explicitly perform a task on a ...

Anders Sjögren
Mar 22, 2004 at 10:21 am
Mar 24, 2004 at 5:46 pm

8	[Rd] cbind/rbind fail on matrixes containing lists (PR#6702)

[,1] [,2] [,3] [,4] [1,] NA NA NA NA [2,] NA NA NA NA [3,] NA NA NA NA [4,] NA NA NA NA platform sparc-sun-solaris2.8 arch sparc os solaris2.8 system sparc, solaris2.8 status beta major 1 minor 9.0 ...

Gregory_r_warnes
Mar 26, 2004 at 11:09 pm
Mar 31, 2004 at 10:29 pm

7	[Rd] unit testing framework for R?

In a quick search of the R website just now, I found no mention of a unit testing framework for R. I hope to find something in the style of Java's JUnit, or Python's unittest. Is such a thing ...

Paul Shannon
Mar 17, 2004 at 7:11 pm
Mar 18, 2004 at 12:56 am

6	[Rd] segfault in browseURL()

Hello ... Using Win2K (and reportedly WinXP), when the length of the 'url' string This doesn't seem to be affecting unix machines. Thanks -J

Jeff Gentry
Mar 31, 2004 at 9:41 pm
Mar 31, 2004 at 11:26 pm

6	[Rd] Mac OS X Limited User cannot access R (PR#6700)

Full_Name: Adam nave Version: 1.8.1 OS: OS X - 10.2.x and 10.3.x Submission from: (NULL) (141.140.9.48) When trying to give a limited user set to "use only these applications" access to the R ...

Nave
Mar 26, 2004 at 5:01 pm
Mar 26, 2004 at 9:33 pm

6	[Rd] qnorm(2) ends with segmentation fault (PR#6648)

Full_Name: Xiong Guanglei Version: 1.8.1 OS: Linux Submission from: (NULL) (202.38.103.50) qnorm(x) when x 1.0

Linuxfavor
Mar 5, 2004 at 3:21 pm
Mar 5, 2004 at 6:23 pm

6	[Rd] cat() in long-running functions only shows up on window resize (PR#6634)

Full_Name: Peter McMahan Version: R 1.8.0 GUI OS: Windows 2000 Submission from: (NULL) (67.107.205.66) when running long functions with cat() commands inside, the requested data doesn't show up until ...

Peter_mcmahan
Mar 2, 2004 at 5:36 pm
Mar 2, 2004 at 6:36 pm

4	[Rd] R 1.9.0 alpha

I saw a reort on R-help (without answer) about not being able to load old workspaces (.RData files) in 1.9.0alpha. I have seen the same problem with some of my workspace, although most of them loads ...

Kjetil
Mar 25, 2004 at 1:34 am
Mar 26, 2004 at 11:54 pm

4	[Rd] update forgets about offset() (PR#6656)

In R1.7 and above (including R 1.9 alpha), 'update.formula' forgets to copy any offset(...) term in the original '.' formula: test df <- data.frame( x=1:4, y=sqrt( 1:4), z=c(2:4,1)) test fit1 <- glm( ...

Mark Bravington
Mar 9, 2004 at 6:52 am
Mar 18, 2004 at 11:47 am

4	[Rd] R search engine broken (PR#6653)

Full_Name: St?phane Gourichon Version: R 1.7.1 (2003-06-16). OS: GNU/Linux Submission from: (NULL) (132.227.205.226) The HTML help is great. But the search engine is broken. It used to work in Galeon ...

Stephane Gourichon
Mar 8, 2004 at 1:58 pm
Mar 8, 2004 at 3:37 pm

4	[Rd] Bug in points.formula (PR#6652)

Dear all, I noticed the following bug in points.formula Error in if (length(x) == l) x[s] else x : argument is of length zero This seems to be due to the fact that the data used was attached before ...

Berwin
Mar 8, 2004 at 9:17 am
Mar 8, 2004 at 2:35 pm

4	[Rd] error? at stem() (PR#6645)

Full_Name: Yutaka Hamaoka Version: 1.8.1(Raqua) OS: OSX 10.3 Submission from: (NULL) (218.140.186.74) Hi, I've found "stem()" falls into infinit loop when x has no variance. Let's try ...

Hamaoka
Mar 4, 2004 at 1:28 pm
Mar 5, 2004 at 6:18 pm

4	[Rd] Margins on tables

It has long been a nuisance to me not being able to form margins on multiway tables in a simple fashion, so i wrote margins(). In my opinion it should go into the base package. The code and the ...

BXC (Bendix Carstensen)
Mar 2, 2004 at 2:20 pm
Mar 3, 2004 at 5:09 am

3	[Rd] Maximum number of connections in R

It appears that the maximum number of connections available in R is about 48. Can anyone tell me how to bump this number up? I've been perusing the source, but any info would speed things up. Is ...

Samuelson, Frank*
Mar 31, 2004 at 5:29 pm
Mar 31, 2004 at 6:23 pm

3	[Rd] Odd error in R CMD check (PR#6695)

I'm seeing an odd error message when running R CMD check gregmisc with R-1.9.0beta_2004-03-22.tar.gz * checking package dependencies ... WARNING Error in switch(type, code = c("R", "r", "S", "s", ...

Gregory_r_warnes
Mar 25, 2004 at 9:05 pm
Mar 26, 2004 at 5:23 pm

3	[Rd] as.matrix(1:10,nrow=1) not work (PR#6650)

Full_Name: Xiong Guanglei Version: 1.8.1 OS: Linux Submission from: (NULL) (202.38.103.50) Error in as.matrix(1:10, nrow = 1) : unused argument(s) (nrow ...)

Linuxfavor
Mar 6, 2004 at 3:00 pm
Mar 6, 2004 at 3:15 pm

2	[Rd] change in behavior of <<-

There has been a change to the behavior of <<-. See the error thrown at the bottom of the transcript below. I don't believe this is an intended change. ========== older version of R-devel ========== ...

Vincent Carey 525-2265
Mar 30, 2004 at 8:40 pm
Apr 1, 2004 at 9:17 pm

2	[Rd] R-1.9.0 Beta print.power.htest problem?

Hi all, I just used power.t.test() in Version 1.9.0 beta (2004-03-31) today under FC1. The following is the output: $n [1] 53.94062 $delta [1] 0.5 $sd [1] 1 $sig.level [1] 0.05 $power [1] 0.95 ...

Marc Schwartz
Mar 31, 2004 at 8:44 pm
Mar 31, 2004 at 9:00 pm

2	[Rd] Re: How to purchase R on CD

(moved from R to R-devel) Other responses to this were along the lines of "how to buy a cheap CD," which may not be the way to think about what you are asking. If the R Foundation were to sell an "as ...

Paul Gilbert
Mar 30, 2004 at 12:19 am
Mar 30, 2004 at 10:25 pm

2	[Rd] Help Documentation (PR#6717)

Ivo, Let me address your points in reverse order: 1. There is a `wishlist' category for bug reports, which I guess you've overlooked. 2. There is also a `Contributed Documentation' section on the R ...

Andy_liaw
Mar 29, 2004 at 4:14 pm
Mar 30, 2004 at 9:26 pm

2	[Rd] (no subject)

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Mar 30, 2004 at 4:48 am
Mar 30, 2004 at 5:18 am

2	[Rd] compilers for R on AMD64

Dear R-devel, A while ago Prof. Ripley had mentioned that g77 on AMD64 isn't the greatest, and the Salford Fortran is likely to be better. My question is, has anyone tried compiling R with Salford ...

Liaw, Andy
Mar 25, 2004 at 1:31 pm
Mar 25, 2004 at 1:50 pm

2	[Rd] "==" gives incorrect answers! (PR#6691)

Full_Name: Dong-Yun Kim Version: 1.7.0/1.8.1 OS: WinMe/WinXP Submission from: (NULL) (4.33.147.192) Hi all, It appears that R has a problem with evaluating logical "==" operator. The following are a ...

Dongyunhkim
Mar 24, 2004 at 3:35 pm
Mar 24, 2004 at 3:50 pm

2	[Rd] pgeom accuracy (PR#6687)

Full_Name: M. Welinder Version: 1.6.2 and 1.8.1 OS: Solaris Submission from: (NULL) (65.213.85.223) The common lower_tail==TRUE && log_p=�LSE case can be improved as if (lower_tail && !log_p) return ...

Terra
Mar 23, 2004 at 7:10 pm
Mar 24, 2004 at 9:06 am

2	[Rd] Re: CRAN packages maintained by you (subscripting problem under 1.9.0.alpha?)

Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" X-Virus-Scanned: by amavisd-new Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-MIME-Autoconverted: from quoted-printable to 8bit by hypatia.math.ethz.ch id ...

Jens Oehlschlägel
Mar 22, 2004 at 6:03 pm
Mar 22, 2004 at 7:21 pm

2	[Rd] http://cran.r-project.org/bin/macosx/RAqua-FAQ.html not found (PR#6684)

Hello! <http://cran.r-project.org/bin/macosx/RAqua-FAQ.html delivers an error 404. Is there any webmaster who could fix it? Thanks! Best wishes Markus Gail

Gail
Mar 22, 2004 at 1:14 pm
Mar 22, 2004 at 1:40 pm

2	[Rd] lattice/grid: problem with viewports for strips with zero height

PROBLEM # Allocating strip labels by the function strip.fun(): strip.test() # Result: No strips: ok. No strings: NOT OK. # The distance ``y.text=unit(6,"points")'' is ignored; # the strings are not ...

Wolfram Fischer
Mar 3, 2004 at 11:08 am
Mar 19, 2004 at 12:34 am

2	[Rd] Misspelled summary of "mle" class object (PR#6674)

Full_Name: Vincent Goulet Version: 1.8.1 OS: Linux Submission from: (NULL) (24.203.194.201) In the summary of an object of class "mle", the word "Coefficients" misses an "f": Call: mle(minuslogl = f, ...

Vincent Goulet
Mar 17, 2004 at 5:26 pm
Mar 17, 2004 at 5:47 pm

2	[Rd] make check failed for R-1.9.0alpha (2004-03-16) when link against Goto's BLAS

Dear all, Has anyone seen the same problem? I tried compiling R-1.9.0 alpha (2004-03-16) on our Opteron box running SUSE Linux ES8. I ran: ./configure --enable-R-shlib --with-blas=goto and got ...

Liaw, Andy
Mar 16, 2004 at 7:36 pm
Mar 16, 2004 at 11:35 pm

2	[Rd] Changing ComputerModern in postscript(...): A first attempt at contributing....

Hi First off, thanks to all the various R developers, your package is very impressive. I'm not sure what the protocols are for contributing, and I've not done this before, so please excuse nay ...

Mark Van De Vyver
Mar 16, 2004 at 6:41 am
Mar 16, 2004 at 11:18 am

2	[Rd] Bug in tapply with factors containing NAs (PR#6672)

Full_Name: George Leigh Version: 1.8.1 OS: Windows 2000 Submission from: (NULL) (203.25.1.208) The following example gives the correct answer when the first argument of tapply is a numeric vector, ...

George Leigh
Mar 15, 2004 at 9:29 am
Mar 15, 2004 at 12:20 pm

2	[Rd] Re: [R] No traceback available when using try(...) (PR#6669)

Oops, I get the same behaviour as you now. I think I must have edited the transcript before and changed the order of the lines: now I get the "no traceback" message only if the try(f("A")) comes ...

Dmurdoch
Mar 12, 2004 at 9:39 pm
Mar 14, 2004 at 11:49 pm

2	[Rd] Re: make.search.html() without write permission in R.home() (PR#6663)

Set the lib argument to install.packages to a directory in which you do have write permissions. From ?install.packages ... install.packages(pkgs, lib, CRAN = getOption("CRAN"), contriburl = ...

Bates
Mar 11, 2004 at 6:37 pm
Mar 14, 2004 at 11:41 am

2	[Rd] 1.9.0-devel: _ in read.delim and make.names

In R 1.9.0, make.names will accept "_" as a valid character for a syntactically valid name. I would appreciate to have an option in ``read.delim'' (etc.) that would change "_" in headers of input ...

Wolfram Fischer
Mar 4, 2004 at 4:35 pm
Mar 5, 2004 at 9:45 am

2	[Rd] Immediate crash on Mac OS X 10.2.8

Hello, I don't know very much about Macs, so may have missed some obvious steps, but I downloaded version 1.8.1 of RAqua.dmg and installed from the R package file. The Start R icon appeared in the ...

Robert King
Mar 2, 2004 at 11:26 pm
Mar 4, 2004 at 8:43 pm

1	[Rd] XP not mentioned on about.html

On http://www.r-project.org/about.html it says, referring to R, "It also compiles and runs on Windows 9x/NT/2000" XP should be added.

Gabor Grothendieck
Mar 31, 2004 at 2:52 am
Mar 31, 2004 at 9:17 am

1	[Rd] seq.POSIXt() bug not fixed in R 1.8.1 (PR#4558)

I am still experiencing problems with seq.POSIXt() missing off the last day of the series: [1] "2004-03-25 GMT Standard Time" "2004-03-26 GMT Standard Time" "2004-03-27 GMT Standard Time" [4] ...

John Marsland
Mar 30, 2004 at 1:39 pm
Mar 30, 2004 at 2:36 pm

1	[Rd] SAV a détecté une violation dans un document dont vous êtes l'auteur.

Veuillez contacter votre administrateur syst?me. Le document analys? a ?t? MIS EN QUARANTAINE. Informations de violation : La pi?ce jointe message.scr contenait le virus [email protected] et N'a PAS pu ...

N-BIZET%NOTESESIEAADM
Mar 29, 2004 at 7:14 pm
Mar 29, 2004 at 7:14 pm

1	[Rd] add "select" to subset docs (PR#6710)

Full_Name: ivo welch Version: current OS: linux Submission from: (NULL) (130.132.33.212) * In the ?subset page, please add subset( dataframe, select= c(-column1,-column2) ) returns a dara frame that ...

Ivo Welch
Mar 28, 2004 at 7:26 pm
Mar 28, 2004 at 7:59 pm

1	[Rd] Greek symbols not generated on quartz device (PR#6708)

Full_Name: Mark St. John Version: 1.8.1 OS: Macintosh 10.3.3 Submission from: (NULL) (63.135.5.86) After upgrading from Mac OS 10.2.8 to 10.3.3 a program I wrote to generate plots will no longer ...

Marksj
Mar 28, 2004 at 9:55 am
Mar 28, 2004 at 12:49 pm

1	[Rd] Documentation typos/requests, R1.9.0 beta

I am working with the precompiled rw1090beta as of 2004-03-23. ?ts has in section "See also" "Standard package 'ts' for many additional time-series functions." td does not longer exist. ?plot.ts ...

Kjetil
Mar 27, 2004 at 3:43 pm
Mar 27, 2004 at 4:57 pm

1	[Rd] lookup.xport in foreign ignoring some datasets (PR#6701)

The Details. In the following version. 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 lookup.xport ignores some ...

Svetlana Eden
Mar 26, 2004 at 10:44 pm
Mar 26, 2004 at 11:40 pm

1	[Rd] linker errors on ia64: open.o: @gprel relocation against dynamic symbol f__buflen

hello, I just failed to compile R 1.8.1 and also the latest beta R-1.9.0beta_2004-03-22.tar.gz on an ia64 architecture. When it comes to linking the Lapack library, the following error occurs six ...

Horbelt
Mar 26, 2004 at 4:10 pm
Mar 26, 2004 at 10:39 pm

1	[Rd] Alerta: Virus encontrado

Virus encontrado, Thu Mar 11 16:47:29 BRT 2004 Encontrado W32/Mydoom.a.eml!exe virus Original message header: -------------------------------------------- 8=== cut here ...

Administrador do Servidor - BSI
Mar 11, 2004 at 8:42 pm
Mar 26, 2004 at 12:47 pm

1	[Rd] yet another fast BLAS (from AMD this time)

Dear R-devel, Has anyone played with this? http://www.amd.com/us-en/Processors/DevelopWithAMD/0,,30_2252_2282,00.html <http://www.amd.com/us-en/Processors/DevelopWithAMD/0,,30_2252_2282,00.html ...

Liaw, Andy
Mar 25, 2004 at 3:53 pm
Mar 25, 2004 at 9:36 pm

1	[Rd] R_DT_val accuracy (PR#6692)

Full_Name: M. Welinder Version: 1.8.1 OS: Solaris Submission from: (NULL) (65.213.85.227) Currently R has... #define R_D_Lval(p) (lower_tail ? (p) : (1 - (p))) /* p */ #define R_D_val(x) (log_p ? ...

Terra
Mar 24, 2004 at 3:53 pm
Mar 24, 2004 at 5:03 pm

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