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  • Hi all (especially R-core) I suppose, With the introduction of the new functional programming functions into base I thought I'd ask for a Curry() function. I use a simple one that looks this: Curry = ...
    Byron EllisByron Ellis
    Nov 1, 2007 at 7:00 pm
    May 30, 2012 at 6:43 pm
  • Full_Name: Jane L. Harvill Version: 2.6.0 OS: Microsoft Windows XP Professional, Version 2002, Service Pack 2 Submission from: (NULL) (129.62.21.93) PROBLEM: The ability to save the contents of an R ...
    Jane_HarvillJane_Harvill
    Nov 6, 2007 at 3:05 pm
    Nov 7, 2007 at 6:51 pm
  • Full_Name: Saleem Bhatti Version: 2.6.1 OS: MacOSX 10.5.1 Submission from: (NULL) (81.187.216.162) Using R-2.6.1.dmg to do an automated install on MacOS 10.5.1. Installation fails with following ...
    SaleemSaleem
    Nov 28, 2007 at 9:55 pm
    Dec 19, 2007 at 7:16 pm
  • Dear all, When creating new functions in a package, there is a "See also" component in the Rd file. Usually one uses \link{otherfun}, if the other function is from the same package, or ...
    Adrian DusaAdrian Dusa
    Nov 14, 2007 at 1:49 pm
    Nov 15, 2007 at 10:51 am
  • An extremely modest proposal: It would be nice if packages could have a FAQ and if faq(package.name) would produce this faq. And if, by default faq() FAQ() would produce the admirable R faq.. ...
    Roger koenkerRoger koenker
    Nov 15, 2007 at 1:22 am
    Nov 21, 2007 at 5:39 am
  • Please don't use 'assert' in R packages. If called, this means that an error in your code aborts the whole R process, including your user's work. I see several R packages doing this, and one of them ...
    Prof Brian RipleyProf Brian Ripley
    Nov 10, 2007 at 8:50 am
    Nov 16, 2007 at 11:58 pm
  • Hello I am trying to install R 2.6.0 on a SGI Origin 350 running IRIX 6.5 6.5.28f R was configured with the following options: gmake complied successfully, however gmake check failed on d-p-q-r- ...
    kamil Marcinkowskikamil Marcinkowski
    Nov 6, 2007 at 11:30 pm
    Nov 14, 2007 at 7:09 am
  • Dear all, what is the proper way to make the assignment operator generic and define methods depending on the class of the assigned value? Best regards Jens Oehlschl?gel P.S. I vaguely remember that ...
    Jens OehlschlägelJens Oehlschlägel
    Nov 13, 2007 at 1:35 pm
    Nov 13, 2007 at 8:05 pm
  • I have roughly 80 or so packages sources. These were obtained by taking a snapshot of certain CRAN packages a few months ago using install.packages( pkgs = pckNames, destdir = "/home/max", repos = ...
    Kuhn, MaxKuhn, Max
    Nov 14, 2007 at 2:34 pm
    Nov 19, 2007 at 3:54 pm
  • Hi, Any idea why S4 doesn't allow slots of type "double"? Error in makePrototypeFromClassDef(properties, ClassDef, immediate, where) : in making the prototype for class "A" elements of the prototype ...
    HpagesHpages
    Nov 13, 2007 at 8:36 am
    Nov 15, 2007 at 1:27 pm
  • Full_Name: Carlos Gershenson Version: 2.6.1 OS: MacOSX Submission from: (NULL) (24.128.48.138) Hi, Try this out: x<-1:10 y<-x/2 plot(table(x)) points(table(y)) #or lines(table(y)) No matter what's ...
    CarlosCarlos
    Nov 27, 2007 at 4:25 pm
    Nov 30, 2007 at 9:24 am
  • As far as I can tell, 'isOpen' cannot return FALSE in the case when 'rw = ""'. If the connection has already been closed by 'close' or some other function, then isOpen will produce an error. The ...
    Roger D. PengRoger D. Peng
    Nov 14, 2007 at 2:33 pm
    Nov 15, 2007 at 9:52 pm
  • Dear developeRs, I've searched the documentation, FAQ, and mailing lists, but haven't found the answer(*) to the following: When should one specify LazyLoad, LazyData, and ZipData? And what is the ...
    Bjørn-Helge MevikBjørn-Helge Mevik
    Nov 14, 2007 at 12:01 pm
    Nov 15, 2007 at 9:36 am
  • Dear R-developers, when tapply() is invoked on factors that have empty levels, it returns NA. This behaviour is in accord with the tapply documentation, and is reasonable in many cases. However, when ...
    Andrew RobinsonAndrew Robinson
    Nov 6, 2007 at 5:10 am
    Nov 7, 2007 at 11:45 pm
  • Dear R-developers, I'm experiencing a problem with having an example run under R 2.6.1 RC (downloaded and installed today, r43513), which does not occur on R 2.6.0: The new version of package ...
    Ulrike GrömpingUlrike Grömping
    Nov 22, 2007 at 10:28 am
    Nov 22, 2007 at 5:41 pm
  • Hello, Quick question. I have written a C function - I would like to make it return two vectors to the R environment - one STRSXP vector, and one INTSXP vector. Is this possible/ easy to do using the ...
    Charles DankoCharles Danko
    Nov 16, 2007 at 8:49 pm
    Nov 17, 2007 at 12:53 am
  • Full_Name: Jerome Lemaitre Version: 2.6.0 OS: Windows XP Submission from: (NULL) (132.203.202.117) Hello, I have recently downloaded the 2.6.0 version of R and I experience troubles that never ...
    Jerome Lemaitre 1Jerome Lemaitre 1
    Nov 6, 2007 at 2:05 pm
    Nov 9, 2007 at 8:08 pm
  • The readme file on the cran website for linux EL5 contains the following RPMS for Red Hat Enterprise Linux created by Bob Kinney <rhel_cran at hmdc.harvard.edu . The RPMS are signed with the ...
    Joe W. ByersJoe W. Byers
    Nov 1, 2007 at 3:04 am
    Nov 1, 2007 at 3:51 am
  • Dear R developers, When building/checking my package (in R 2.6.1 under windows) I run into some messages that I do not completely understand and that do not give me precise enough leads to pinpoint ...
    J J GoemanJ J Goeman
    Nov 30, 2007 at 6:39 pm
    Dec 1, 2007 at 5:18 pm
  • Full_Name: Steven McKinney Version: 2.6.0 OS: OS X Submission from: (NULL) (142.103.207.10) Function ar() in package "stats" is showing a quirky bug. Some calls to ar() run to completion, others ...
    SmckinneySmckinney
    Nov 24, 2007 at 1:05 am
    Nov 24, 2007 at 9:41 pm
  • This just information of my experience installing R on SunOS 5.9 today, not a request for help. (in case anyone cares, and if not, I apologize for the distraction) I am building R 2.6.0 (patched; svn ...
    Don MacQueenDon MacQueen
    Nov 6, 2007 at 1:28 am
    Nov 7, 2007 at 4:20 pm
  • I'm not sure if this is the right target to which to direct this post, but I couldn't think of anything more appropriate. I just downloaded the Hmisc package to the Imac that I use. When I attempted ...
    Rolf TurnerRolf Turner
    Nov 5, 2007 at 9:59 pm
    Nov 6, 2007 at 7:09 pm
  • from ?eigen symmetric: if 'TRUE', the matrix is assumed to be symmetric (or Hermitian if complex) and only its lower triangle is used. If 'symmetric' is not specified, the matrix is inspected for ...
    Dan DavisonDan Davison
    Nov 29, 2007 at 11:34 am
    Feb 20, 2008 at 7:04 pm
  • Doing help("R_LIBS") brings up a help file (the same one as help(library)), but the help file doesn't mention R_LIBS. It does have a link to .libPaths, which does document R_LIBS. The quickest fix ...
    TimhTimh
    Nov 28, 2007 at 6:30 pm
    Nov 29, 2007 at 3:45 am
  • Full_Name: Tomas Larsson Version: 2.6.0 OS: Windows XP Submission from: (NULL) (198.208.251.24) This is not a bug, it is a performance issue but I think it should have an easy fix. I have a large ...
    Tomas LarssonTomas Larsson
    Nov 26, 2007 at 5:25 pm
    Nov 28, 2007 at 2:55 pm
  • Full_Name: Philip Kensche Version: R version 2.5.0 (2007-04-23) OS: Linux Submission from: (NULL) (131.174.146.31) I want to access a row of a data.frame() by using the row names as hash keys. This ...
    PkenschePkensche
    Nov 28, 2007 at 8:25 am
    Nov 28, 2007 at 9:50 am
  • Full_Name: Zhihua Liu Version: 2.6.0 OS: Submission from: (NULL) (66.176.38.107) When I produced a .ps graph in the screen, I had problem to save them. The following warnings show up: Error: Invalid ...
    ZliuZliu
    Nov 27, 2007 at 6:10 pm
    Nov 27, 2007 at 7:41 pm
  • Hi all. I have unexpected reshape results on datasets with certain variable names. Here a reproducible example: d <- matrix(seq_len(7*7), 1, 7*7) vnames <- ...
    Antonio, Fabio Di NarzoAntonio, Fabio Di Narzo
    Nov 24, 2007 at 10:15 am
    Nov 24, 2007 at 5:57 pm
  • I'm probably not the first with this idea so I guess that there's a complex issue behind it but since I couldn't find an answer I just though to ask: Wouldn't it be nice to have color coded objects ...
    Gasper CankarGasper Cankar
    Nov 21, 2007 at 12:11 pm
    Nov 21, 2007 at 6:20 pm
  • I am not sure why you would want to do that, but the C code does assume source attributes were put there by R, and changing tests from !isNull to isString in a few places will fix that. If there is a ...
    RipleyRipley
    Nov 19, 2007 at 3:50 pm
    Nov 21, 2007 at 3:18 pm
  • Hi everybody, It would be nice to have Cairo device included in dev.copy2eps() in order to avoid RGtk2 developers to use a hacked version of the function. I was arealdy done in dev.print(). Best ...
    WjungerWjunger
    Nov 19, 2007 at 4:19 pm
    Nov 20, 2007 at 8:28 pm
  • Hi all, R CMD check does not work for me under Windows. This is the error R CMD check mypackage.tar.gz * checking for working latex ... OK tar: and: Not found in archive tar: Settings/miguez/ .. ...
    Fernando MiguezFernando Miguez
    Nov 19, 2007 at 3:37 pm
    Nov 19, 2007 at 4:02 pm
  • Hey All, I was wondering if I could solicit a little advice. I have been experiencing some quirkiness in my C code through .Call. Unfortunately, my program is rather large, so I'm trying to create a ...
    StatmobileStatmobile
    Nov 15, 2007 at 10:10 pm
    Nov 16, 2007 at 2:16 am
  • Dear R developers, concerning the stats package, is there a way to access more of the 'internal' parameters of the optim() methods (e.g. BFGS), without me rewriting optim code and using it as an ...
    Mike PreussMike Preuss
    Nov 14, 2007 at 9:47 pm
    Nov 14, 2007 at 10:19 pm
  • Using Visual C++ ================ You may if you prefer use Visual C++ to make the DLLs (unless they use Fortran source!). The notes here were tested with VC++6. First build the import library ...
    William FultonWilliam Fulton
    Nov 9, 2007 at 11:18 am
    Nov 12, 2007 at 11:00 am
  • Hi all, Clean install of F8 yesterday. This was not an upgrade, as I did some re-partitioning of my HD to remove Windows (finally...) and no-longer have a dual-boot laptop. Using R 2.6.0 patched from ...
    Marc SchwartzMarc Schwartz
    Nov 9, 2007 at 5:41 pm
    Nov 9, 2007 at 10:29 pm
  • Full_Name: Kingsley Oteng-Amoako Version: 2.5.1 OS: Windows 5.1.2600 (Windows XP) Submission from: (NULL) (203.185.215.144) The col.names=false in the write.csv command does not work as documented ...
    Kingsley Oteng-AmoakoKingsley Oteng-Amoako
    Nov 8, 2007 at 10:55 pm
    Nov 9, 2007 at 11:05 am
  • Hi all, I compiled 64-bit R on an Apple Mac G5 running OS X, but it failed make check. Simon Urbanek suggested I post results to R-devel. Many thanks to Simon Urbanek for providing a 64-bit libiconv ...
    Steven McKinneySteven McKinney
    Nov 8, 2007 at 1:00 am
    Nov 8, 2007 at 1:27 pm
  • Dear all, I have defined a generic as.ff(x, ...) and a method as.ff.function(x, ...) which converts a standard R function x into a chunked version operating on large ff objects. Everything works ...
    Jens OehlschlägelJens Oehlschlägel
    Nov 5, 2007 at 12:41 pm
    Nov 5, 2007 at 1:42 pm
  • Dear all, I got stuck with a weird behavior of pretty: pretty(c(-1,1),n=1) yields -2, 0, 2 instead of the desired result -1 1. Likewise, pretty(c(-2,2),n=1) yields -5, 0, 5 instead of the desired ...
    Ulrike GrömpingUlrike Grömping
    Nov 3, 2007 at 8:34 pm
    Nov 4, 2007 at 8:02 am
  • Running under Windows XP 64 bit, as.POSIXlt()/as.POSIXct() seem to think that US time zones (EST5EDT, MST7MDT) switched from daylight savings back to standard time on Oct 28, 2007, whereas the switch ...
    TplateTplate
    Nov 1, 2007 at 4:00 pm
    Nov 2, 2007 at 4:58 am
  • Dear all, following the thread http://tolstoy.newcastle.edu.au/R/e2/devel/07/09/4338.html regarding the bug in the partial autocorrelation function for multivariate time series. I have prepared a web ...
    SgianneriniSgiannerini
    Nov 23, 2007 at 5:35 pm
    Jan 18, 2008 at 7:22 pm
  • Full_Name: Vincent Remacle Version: 2.5.1 OS: Windows XP Submission from: (NULL) (81.246.37.50) Error: cannot allocate vector of size 30.5 Mb In addition: Warning messages: 1: NaNs produced in ...
    Vincent RemacleVincent Remacle
    Nov 26, 2007 at 4:05 pm
    Nov 26, 2007 at 9:20 pm
  • Full_Name: Mike Pacey Version: 2.6.0 OS: SuSe Linux 9.3 x86_64 Submission from: (NULL) (194.80.32.10) A "vanilla" version of R configures and compiles without a problem on my system. Switching to ...
    M PaceyM Pacey
    Nov 26, 2007 at 2:45 pm
    Nov 26, 2007 at 3:55 pm
  • Hi all. Currently, if you try: you get superposed labels '1' and '10'. Things go worse in more extreme cases: x <- ts(1:10) x1 <- lag(x, 4) plot(x1, x) This is due to a mistake in plot.ts. My ...
    Antonio, Fabio Di NarzoAntonio, Fabio Di Narzo
    Nov 24, 2007 at 11:35 am
    Nov 24, 2007 at 1:45 pm
  • Hello, It seems the recent Mac OS X 10.4.11 update installed a new libBLAS.dylib in the Accelerate framework which either contains a bug itself or exposes a bug somewhere in R's lapack code on the ...
    RjvbertinRjvbertin
    Nov 23, 2007 at 11:00 am
    Nov 23, 2007 at 7:07 pm
  • Full_Name: Levi Waldron Version: 2.5.1 OS: Ubuntu Gutsy Submission from: (NULL) (206.248.157.88) I installed libgsl0-dev then tried to install the gsl cran package, unsuccessfully (see output ...
    LeviwaldronLeviwaldron
    Nov 22, 2007 at 7:00 pm
    Nov 23, 2007 at 6:28 pm
  • Full_Name: Claudio Lupi Version: 2.6.0 OS: Windows XP Submission from: (NULL) (85.18.14.35) Try the following: xy <- matrix(rnorm(20),10,2) plot(xy) savePlot("c:/xy", type="pdf") savePlot("c:/xy", ...
    LupiLupi
    Nov 11, 2007 at 5:50 pm
    Nov 12, 2007 at 8:41 am
  • I loaded package chron in a newly installed version of R 2.6.0 and the years() function would not work. (This worked in 2.5). NULL R version 2.6.0 (2007-10-03) i386-pc-mingw32 locale ...
    JputzJputz
    Nov 9, 2007 at 8:55 pm
    Nov 10, 2007 at 1:11 pm
  • Dear All, I tried to write a C++ program that uses R internals and I encounter "undefined reference" error when linking to libR.so. Here is an small example of the program test.cpp: extern "C" { ...
    Jiangtian LiJiangtian Li
    Nov 7, 2007 at 5:46 am
    Nov 7, 2007 at 7:04 am
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