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  • Full_Name: Dan B Version: R 2.0.0 (2004-10-04). OS: Fedora 2 Submission from: (NULL) (80.6.127.185) The man page for barplot (?barplot) is confusing... <quote cex.axis: expansion factor for numeric ...
    DanDan
    Nov 2, 2004 at 1:12 am
    Nov 3, 2004 at 8:52 pm
  • (Moved from r-help to r-devel) Terry Mu pointed out that in Windows par(ask=T) works when a script is sourced, but not when it is run from the script editor. I think the reason for this is that the ...
    Duncan MurdochDuncan Murdoch
    Nov 28, 2004 at 4:24 pm
    Dec 9, 2004 at 7:55 pm
  • Okay, now I understand. I think I'd call the last of those a bug, and it would seem to me that the install and check scripts should also respect this directive. I've now copied this to the r-bugs ...
    MurdochMurdoch
    Nov 18, 2004 at 4:36 pm
    Nov 22, 2004 at 5:11 am
  • We plan to a patch release on Nov.15 to fix up various problems that cropped up after the release of R 2.0.0. Daily beta snapshots will be made available until the day of release. Please check if ...
    Peter DalgaardPeter Dalgaard
    Nov 4, 2004 at 12:24 am
    Nov 5, 2004 at 2:31 pm
  • I have Windows XP build scripts that look for R in a variety of folders and if multiple ones are found, takes the last one. For example, I currently have the following in \Program Files\R : rw1060 ...
    Gabor GrothendieckGabor Grothendieck
    Nov 28, 2004 at 7:09 pm
    Nov 29, 2004 at 3:19 pm
  • I noticed the following today --- str() seems to remove any extra class information added to an environment. [1] "environment" I'm not sure if this is related to the external pointer issue mentioned ...
    Roger D. PengRoger D. Peng
    Nov 23, 2004 at 3:14 pm
    Nov 26, 2004 at 9:28 am
  • Full_Name: Dan B Version: 2 OS: Fedora 2 Submission from: (NULL) (80.6.127.185) It would be great if something like currentPlot <- edit(par) allowed dynamic changes to the 'currentPlot', which I am ...
    DanDan
    Nov 5, 2004 at 1:18 pm
    Nov 7, 2004 at 8:48 pm
  • I was running R CMD check on Windows XP 2.0.1beta and got this: Error in parse(file, n, text, prompt) : syntax error on 602 After a lot of aggravation I finally discovered that if I did this: copy ...
    Gabor GrothendieckGabor Grothendieck
    Nov 6, 2004 at 8:52 am
    Nov 7, 2004 at 1:39 pm
  • Hello, In my Debian 3.0 systems, packages are installed in two different places, namely /usr/lib/R/library and /usr/local/lib/R/site-library, depending on whether they come from debian packages or ...
    Iago MosqueiraIago Mosqueira
    Nov 29, 2004 at 8:38 am
    Dec 1, 2004 at 9:47 am
  • Hi, I've had no luck with the combination of R-2.0.1 and Rggobi/gobi (1.1-1 and 1.0-1 beta). I've tried a default configuration of ggobi, as well as one with all the plugins enabled. I'm using RedHat ...
    Richard BeareRichard Beare
    Nov 24, 2004 at 3:54 am
    Nov 26, 2004 at 6:26 am
  • [moved to R-devel] Hmmm. Recent versions of R require correctly installed versions (using R CMD INSTALL) of the packages. It is hard work to get a file called *.ZIP (rather than *.zip) that contains ...
    Uwe LiggesUwe Ligges
    Nov 2, 2004 at 9:14 am
    Nov 2, 2004 at 4:28 pm
  • I have some questions about 1. nomenclature, 2. recommended file locations and 3. overall procedure related to creating packages. To the extent that it matters, examples here relate to Windows XP R ...
    Gabor GrothendieckGabor Grothendieck
    Nov 11, 2004 at 6:45 am
    Nov 11, 2004 at 7:31 pm
  • install/update.packages() in R-devel has been enhanced in a few ways, notably to handle multiple repositories, and to allow packages to be reinstalled under the current version of R. 1) Currently ...
    Prof Brian RipleyProf Brian Ripley
    Nov 7, 2004 at 7:22 pm
    Nov 8, 2004 at 8:08 am
  • Hi R-users and developers, This month may have seen one of the biggest thread never seen on R-related mailing lists, the one about "GPL software" and "hidden costs" (at this day, thread is still open ...
    Eric LecoutreEric Lecoutre
    Nov 24, 2004 at 1:40 pm
    Nov 29, 2004 at 9:50 am
  • Hi, the following code produces no graphic output: ##################### library(lattice) library(car) data(Robey) for (i in 1:1) xyplot(tfr~contraceptors, data=Robey) ##################### However ...
    Valery KhamenyaValery Khamenya
    Nov 22, 2004 at 9:57 am
    Nov 22, 2004 at 5:01 pm
  • From: Patrick Connolly &lt;[email protected] To: &quot;RenE J.V. Bertin&quot; &lt;[email protected] Subject: Re: [R] changing (core) function argument defaults? Date: Thu, 18 Nov 2004 ...
    RenE J.V. BertinRenE J.V. Bertin
    Nov 18, 2004 at 1:04 am
    Nov 18, 2004 at 2:01 am
  • I encountered something strange with read.spss (package foreign, version 0.7 with R2.0.0 and version 0.8 with R2.0.1 beta, windows XP) I made a test file test.sav with SPSS version 11.5.1 containing ...
    Kjetil Brinchmann HalvorsenKjetil Brinchmann Halvorsen
    Nov 6, 2004 at 3:44 pm
    Nov 6, 2004 at 8:14 pm
  • Hi, the install script should make sure user has set R_HOME variable. I don't have it as root, and get stupid messages. Anyway, should it be set to $blah/R-2.0.0/lib/R/ or $blah/R-2.0.0 ? Thanks for ...
    MmokrejsMmokrejs
    Nov 1, 2004 at 6:17 pm
    Nov 1, 2004 at 8:19 pm
  • Hi, If I define the following list: $"text-align" [1] "right" I know that I can't use l$text-align, as the parser will find a '-' operation. If I want (need) to use special names, as "text-align", I ...
    Eric LecoutreEric Lecoutre
    Nov 29, 2004 at 3:47 pm
    Nov 29, 2004 at 4:48 pm
  • I'm trying to resolve a small problem that has arisen from introducing a NAMESPACE for the package SparseM. Prior to the namespace I had a class "matrix.diag.csr" that consisted of diagonal sparse ...
    Roger koenkerRoger koenker
    Nov 26, 2004 at 6:50 pm
    Nov 27, 2004 at 5:12 pm
  • I have encountered an issue with TeXmacs and R 2.0.0, and I've found a somewhat unsatisfying workaround. My apologies if this is old news to the R-Devel list. TeXmacs has the ability to start up an R ...
    M. Edward BoraskyM. Edward Borasky
    Nov 21, 2004 at 8:54 pm
    Nov 22, 2004 at 12:32 am
  • I have been running into difficulties with dispatching on an S4 class defined in the SparseM package, when the method calls are inside a function passed as the f= argument to optimize() in functions ...
    Roger BivandRoger Bivand
    Nov 18, 2004 at 10:34 pm
    Nov 20, 2004 at 10:11 pm
  • I have some questions about building packages in Windows when using .Rbuildignore . The part of the process that is of interest here is the part that creates the source tree from the tree that ...
    Gabor GrothendieckGabor Grothendieck
    Nov 17, 2004 at 7:10 pm
    Nov 18, 2004 at 1:38 am
  • Dear list member, by running Rcmd check on a package where a customised 'CITATION' file should be included instead of the automatically produced one, the following error occurs: adding build stamp to ...
    Pfaff, BernhardPfaff, Bernhard
    Nov 11, 2004 at 5:11 pm
    Nov 12, 2004 at 10:06 am
  • [Moved to R-devel.] That's not what the subject line says, and is it really true? The RPM for FC2 (I built one on x86_64, but I think it will be the same on your unstated architecture) has gcc 3.3.3 ...
    Prof Brian RipleyProf Brian Ripley
    Nov 10, 2004 at 9:05 am
    Nov 10, 2004 at 8:36 pm
  • I've been attempting to perform some analysis on a model that was interfaced with R (R calls a library that takes SEXPs and converts the data frames into the internal structures of data), and I ...
    Jeff D. HamannJeff D. Hamann
    Nov 29, 2004 at 6:27 pm
    Nov 30, 2004 at 5:50 pm
  • Hi, As far as I can tell data.frame class adds two features to those of lists: * matrix structure via [,] and [,]<- operators (well, I know these are actually "["(i, j, ...), not "[,]"). * row names ...
    Vadim OgranovichVadim Ogranovich
    Nov 26, 2004 at 12:31 am
    Nov 27, 2004 at 12:41 am
  • Hi, The following code generates a invalid (?) pdf file. pdf("test.pdf") x <- pixmapIndexed(rep(1:8, 9), nrow=6, col=terrain.colors(8)) plot(x) dev.off() This pdf can be viewed but not printed Trying ...
    WolskiWolski
    Nov 24, 2004 at 5:45 pm
    Nov 25, 2004 at 11:47 am
  • strptime return wrong data?, look the R session. # datetxt: vector of date in text format [1] "1939-10-06 00:00:00" "1939-10-07 00:00:00" "1939-10-08 01:00:00" [4] "1939-10-09 00:00:00" # look value ...
    Juan Santiago RamseyerJuan Santiago Ramseyer
    Nov 22, 2004 at 3:34 am
    Nov 22, 2004 at 1:01 pm
  • Dear R developers, I will ask a very straightforward question concerning UseMethod's future, because people depending on my code wonder what will happen to it next. In R v2.0.1 NEWS it says o The ...
    Henrik BengtssonHenrik Bengtsson
    Nov 15, 2004 at 7:53 pm
    Nov 19, 2004 at 8:40 pm
  • Hi R-Users and Developers, Several months ago I made a request on Sourceforge to add the R/S - programming language to the _Trove_ categorization. ("The Trove is a means to convey basic ...
    Witold Eryk WolskiWitold Eryk Wolski
    Nov 17, 2004 at 10:09 am
    Nov 18, 2004 at 10:04 am
  • Hi, It seems that a formal function argument can not default to an "outer" variable of the same name: Error in ff() : recursive default argument reference Is this intentional? Why? I use R-1.9.1 ...
    Vadim OgranovichVadim Ogranovich
    Nov 10, 2004 at 2:36 am
    Nov 10, 2004 at 3:07 am
  • Builds of the R-2.0.0 release have been considerably more successful at my site than previous releases. I now have it installed on these platforms: Apple PowerPC G3 267MHz GNU/Linux 2.4.19-4a (Yellow ...
    BeebeBeebe
    Nov 8, 2004 at 7:41 pm
    Nov 9, 2004 at 1:10 pm
  • I have question regarding package installation. What is the difference between check, INSTALL, build and build --binary, which imply which and what order does one normally perform them? I have been ...
    Gabor GrothendieckGabor Grothendieck
    Nov 6, 2004 at 5:20 pm
    Nov 6, 2004 at 8:22 pm
  • Full_Name: Dan B Version: na OS: na Submission from: (NULL) (80.6.127.185) I can't log into the bug tracker (I can't find where to register / login). In this way I can't add the following context ...
    DanDan
    Nov 4, 2004 at 7:08 pm
    Nov 5, 2004 at 3:58 pm
  • Dear all, I'd like to use Rcmdr for teaching purposes but still have problems trying to use it under Windows XP. Everything works fine up to several minutes but then Rcmdr and R completely crash the ...
    Thomas RufThomas Ruf
    Nov 4, 2004 at 2:37 pm
    Nov 5, 2004 at 12:33 am
  • Times series of rain and discharge in hydrologic - stations has above 95 years of daily records. In the temporal series over "serie" dataframe, using chron's object: is: 27181 which are the solution? ...
    Juan_srJuan_sr
    Nov 3, 2004 at 11:11 pm
    Nov 4, 2004 at 1:20 pm
  • # Your mailer is set to "none" (default on Windows), # hence we cannot send the bug report directly from R. # Please copy the bug report (after finishing it) to # your favorite email program and send ...
    RmhRmh
    Nov 28, 2004 at 5:36 am
    Nov 28, 2004 at 6:24 pm
  • This message is in MIME format. The first part should be readable text, while the remaining parts are likely unreadable without MIME-aware tools. ---1936847065-1111238301-1101309010=:193006 ...
    TlumleyTlumley
    Nov 24, 2004 at 4:11 pm
    Nov 25, 2004 at 9:45 am
  • Full_Name: Ruskin Chow Version: R 2.0.1 OS: Windows 2000 Submission from: (NULL) (203.169.154.66) Data imported from SAS using read.xport() in package foreign are converted to <NA when the SAS data ...
    RuskinRuskin
    Nov 23, 2004 at 11:27 am
    Nov 24, 2004 at 4:40 pm
  • Dear Rexperts: (R 2.0.1 on Windows XP Pro) Is the following problem unique to my setup? If it's a known problem, I didn't see it at http://bugs.r-project.org/ nor find discussion in the archives ...
    P EhlersP Ehlers
    Nov 24, 2004 at 10:06 am
    Nov 24, 2004 at 10:22 am
  • Hi, I'm having a problem (of my own creation) with BATCH. The current problem (for me): ---------------------------- I'm sloppy. I work on *nux systems and will type e.g. "R CMD BATCH a*R out" to ...
    Douglas GroveDouglas Grove
    Nov 16, 2004 at 11:32 pm
    Nov 18, 2004 at 7:04 pm
  • Full_Name: Harald Weedon-Fekj?r Version: 2.0 OS: Windows Submission from: (NULL) (80.202.87.143) Dear R core Thanks again for a superb program. This is really one of the rare instances I find a bug ...
    Harald Weedon-FekjarHarald Weedon-Fekjar
    Nov 14, 2004 at 9:01 pm
    Nov 14, 2004 at 10:07 pm
  • I'm using version 2.0.0 of R on a Windows 2000 OS. Packages that I installed in 1.9.1 are not installing properly in 2.0.0. Specifically, I can install packages from local zip files with the ...
    Paul LouisellPaul Louisell
    Nov 12, 2004 at 11:26 pm
    Nov 12, 2004 at 11:54 pm
  • Full_Name: Peter Fischer Hallin Version: Version 1.8.1 OS: Irix64 Submission from: (NULL) (130.225.67.236) I've made a script look like this: exp <- read.table("graph/1933672048.cluster.data") exp <- ...
    PfhPfh
    Nov 11, 2004 at 2:01 pm
    Nov 11, 2004 at 3:57 pm
  • When I do a R CMD build --binary then I get the messages at the end of this post unless I specify LazyLoad: no in the DESCRIPRION file. If I do that then everything proceeds smoothly. R CMD check ...
    Gabor GrothendieckGabor Grothendieck
    Nov 7, 2004 at 5:06 am
    Nov 7, 2004 at 1:50 pm
  • I tried to cross-compile the newest release 2.0.1 on a linux machine, but i always got an error at the following stage DHAVE_CONFIG_H -DR_DLL_BUILD -c dynload.c -o dynload.o dynload.c: In function ...
    Markus HelbigMarkus Helbig
    Nov 26, 2004 at 5:09 pm
    Nov 30, 2004 at 4:47 pm
  • This summer I and a colleague built a package for R v 1.9.1 containing C-code under Windows. That only worked for us when R was installed in c:\program files\R. Now I have R v 2.0.1 and the same ...
    Per BrobergPer Broberg
    Nov 30, 2004 at 3:38 pm
    Nov 30, 2004 at 4:15 pm
  • SciViews is the latest of several packages that need an X server to complete package installation. Please bear in mind that packages may get installed on a server with no display, yet run on client ...
    Prof Brian RipleyProf Brian Ripley
    Nov 30, 2004 at 10:09 am
    Nov 30, 2004 at 2:09 pm
  • I recently installed Mandrake 10.1 on my laptop, downloaded the latest version of R, compiled it and ran it. To my surprise I discovered that the X11() command returned an error to the effect that X ...
    Halldor BjörnssonHalldor Björnsson
    Nov 29, 2004 at 11:46 am
    Nov 29, 2004 at 1:32 pm
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