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  • Would anyone like to explain if callCC in R 2.7.0 gives anything that on.exit does not already provide? It seems that the exit condition once defined cannot be added to overridden whereas with ...
    Gabor GrothendieckGabor Grothendieck
    Mar 30, 2008 at 2:10 pm
    Apr 9, 2008 at 11:39 am
  • Is this the appropriate place for GSoC conversations? If I understand the proposal correctly, there should be a lexer (written in R) that exposes an API; that API would be used by segregated ...
    Peter DanenbergPeter Danenberg
    Mar 17, 2008 at 11:56 pm
    Mar 24, 2008 at 4:23 pm
  • Hi all, As long as I've used R, add=TRUE hasn't worked in contexts like this: f <- function(x) x^2 X <- seq(0, 1, by=1/4) plot(f, col="blue") plot(X, f(X), col="red", type="l", add=TRUE) I attached a ...
    Andrew ClausenAndrew Clausen
    Mar 9, 2008 at 3:11 am
    Mar 16, 2008 at 4:40 am
  • Do you have the name of a package that use it ? I try the 10 first package, and 10 other at random, but none of them use tests... Sorry, this is very unclear to me. What do you call "tests" that I ...
    Christophe GenoliniChristophe Genolini
    Mar 30, 2008 at 10:31 pm
    Apr 5, 2008 at 12:38 pm
  • Hi the devel list. I am adapting the package.skeleton to S4 classes and methods I would have been very proud to post a new working function on this list. Unfortunately, I do not manage to solve all ...
    Christophe GenoliniChristophe Genolini
    Mar 30, 2008 at 1:49 pm
    Apr 5, 2008 at 7:39 pm
  • Good afternoon, This is possibly a windows only bug, definitely of comparatively low importance - but for the sake of completeness here we go. I've searched http://bugs.R-project.org/ etc., but can ...
    SeanporSeanpor
    Mar 28, 2008 at 4:05 pm
    Mar 29, 2008 at 5:42 pm
  • Dear all, I have been following the instructions on http://cran.stat.sfu.ca/with the intention to install R with 64 bits support on an 8 core Intel Mac with 6 GB of memory. I am doing this so I can ...
    Georgios MarentakisGeorgios Marentakis
    Mar 25, 2008 at 9:03 pm
    Mar 27, 2008 at 4:24 pm
  • cut.Date and cut.POSIXt indicate that the breaks argument can be an integer followed by a space followed by "year", etc. but it seems the integer is ignored. For example, I assume that breaks = "3 ...
    Gabor GrothendieckGabor Grothendieck
    Mar 18, 2008 at 5:04 pm
    Mar 26, 2008 at 3:03 pm
  • Hi How do I specify an S4 class with a slot that is potentially numeric, but NA by default? I want the slot to be NA until I calculate its value (an expensive operation, not needed for all ...
    Robin HankinRobin Hankin
    Mar 26, 2008 at 4:04 pm
    Mar 26, 2008 at 4:58 pm
  • Dear R developers, these days I'm working on some R code for fitting completely generic Bayesian Hierarchical Models in R, a la OpenBUGS and JAGS. A key feature of OpenBUGS and JAGS is that they ...
    Antonio, Fabio Di NarzoAntonio, Fabio Di Narzo
    Mar 21, 2008 at 4:56 pm
    Mar 24, 2008 at 1:16 pm
  • Dear all, When porting my package to WinXP I have the following problem: I need to create an environment variable "MYVAR=c:\mypath" which I have saved in the control panel "System- My Computer" ...
    CstratoCstrato
    Mar 21, 2008 at 1:47 pm
    Mar 21, 2008 at 6:14 pm
  • Hi, just curious, but does anyone know the source/reason of observing the following error on OSX but not on WinXP and Linux? I've tried with a few different versions of R (v2.5.1, v2.6.1, v2.6.2, ...
    Henrik BengtssonHenrik Bengtsson
    Mar 6, 2008 at 1:56 am
    Mar 6, 2008 at 8:52 am
  • Hi, I recently ran into a problem with 'merge' that stems from the way how missing values in the key column (i.e., the column specified in the "by" argument) are handled. I wonder whether the current ...
    Simon AndersSimon Anders
    Mar 14, 2008 at 5:16 pm
    Mar 19, 2008 at 5:01 pm
  • I can successfully "check" a package with source under 2.5.1, including compiling source files and running examples with no errors or warnings. when I try with R2.6.2, I get make errors: making ...
    Rossi, Peter E.Rossi, Peter E.
    Mar 10, 2008 at 5:29 pm
    Mar 10, 2008 at 6:40 pm
  • Despite the spirited arguments of various R-core folks who feel that mle() doesn't need a "data" argument, and that users would be better off learning to deal with function closures, I am *still* ...
    Ben BolkerBen Bolker
    Mar 7, 2008 at 7:02 pm
    Mar 7, 2008 at 8:47 pm
  • Hello, I wonder why the control parameter REPORT is not supported by method SANN. Looking into optim.c I found an internal constant: #define STEPS 100 ... and decreasing this to 10 helped me ...
    Thomas PetzoldtThomas Petzoldt
    Mar 16, 2008 at 12:50 pm
    Apr 7, 2008 at 7:55 pm
  • But it is not taken 'verbatim from src/main/print.c' (at least not in that version of R), and the code is not run with USE_RINTERNALS defined when write-barrier checking is enabled. The example has ...
    RipleyRipley
    Mar 31, 2008 at 8:10 am
    Mar 31, 2008 at 8:55 pm
  • Full_Name: Richard Reed Version: 2.6.2 OS: MS Windows XP Pro Submission from: (NULL) (76.121.170.35) Pressing Alt-M+s doesn't search path. It just generates another " ". It does this in "vanilla" ...
    RichardwreedRichardwreed
    Mar 26, 2008 at 4:15 am
    Mar 27, 2008 at 3:00 pm
  • Full_Name: Lodewijk Bonebakker Version: v2.6.2 OS: Solaris, x86, snv_80 Submission from: (NULL) (192.18.43.225) when I build R in 32-bit mode on my 64-bit OS, R works as expected: R version 2.6.2 ...
    Lodewijk BonebakkerLodewijk Bonebakker
    Mar 25, 2008 at 9:15 pm
    Mar 25, 2008 at 11:21 pm
  • Hi, make check fails in the way shown below when I try to build R-2.6.2 on OpenSuSE Factory x86_64. It builds fine on i586. (and on all older Versions of Opensuse) Is there something I can do? Are ...
    Detlef SteuerDetlef Steuer
    Mar 17, 2008 at 10:13 am
    Mar 20, 2008 at 9:33 am
  • Unfortunately, RNGkind is buggy. It will not generate warnings except the full name "Buggy Kinderman-Ramage" is supplied for normal.kind. match.arg is supposed to be called before "==" comparison ...
    Shengqiao LiShengqiao Li
    Mar 14, 2008 at 2:18 pm
    Mar 14, 2008 at 10:33 pm
  • Full_Name: Alexander Yephremov Version: R 2.6.2 GUI 1.23 (4932) (4932) OS: Mac OS X 10.4 Submission from: (NULL) (193.174.239.91) Hi! [1] 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 ...
    EfremovEfremov
    Mar 14, 2008 at 10:45 am
    Mar 14, 2008 at 2:54 pm
  • Can someone point me to a justification for the design decisions, which seem to be similar in lattice and ggplot2, of (1) gray backgrounds and (2) filled points? [I seem to remember seeing somewhere ...
    Ben BolkerBen Bolker
    Mar 13, 2008 at 10:04 pm
    Mar 14, 2008 at 7:44 am
  • write.table with large data frames takes quite a long time + write.table(df, '/tmp/dftest.txt', row.namesúLSE) + }, gcFirst=TRUE) user system elapsed 97.302 1.532 98.837 A reason is because dimnames ...
    Martin MorganMartin Morgan
    Mar 10, 2008 at 6:01 pm
    Mar 11, 2008 at 4:21 pm
  • Dear list, I am having a question regarding the extract function "[". The man page says that one usage with k-dimensional arrays is to specify k indices to "[", with an empty index indicating that ...
    Laurent GautierLaurent Gautier
    Mar 9, 2008 at 9:05 am
    Mar 10, 2008 at 12:08 pm
  • Hi, Trying to decrease the size of a SEXP variable without reassigning values individually in a loop. So far, I've tried using Realloc, as the follow source demonstrates: SEXP dothis() { SEXP Rblah ...
    Charles DankoCharles Danko
    Mar 5, 2008 at 3:56 pm
    Mar 5, 2008 at 4:40 pm
  • I would like to call functions/objects of R from C#.NET environment. I was wondering whether or not it is possible. If yes, could you please give me some suggestions on how to approach it (any ...
    GuoxGuox
    Mar 31, 2008 at 10:07 pm
    Apr 8, 2008 at 10:43 am
  • This is my first attempt to call a C function from R. I have installed Rtools,MinGW and Perl and I have included them in my system path. I am trying to compile a toy function that can be called in R ...
    Pavlidis, PolykarposPavlidis, Polykarpos
    Mar 31, 2008 at 8:59 pm
    Mar 31, 2008 at 10:30 pm
  • Dear all, I'm confused by the time serie parameters in data(lh) : sueoka:~ lobry$ R --vanilla --quiet [1] 1 48 1 because documentation says: QUOTE A regular time series giving the luteinizing hormone ...
    Jean lobryJean lobry
    Mar 30, 2008 at 9:52 am
    Mar 31, 2008 at 4:18 pm
  • In Windows, 'download.file' pops up a separate window indicating the progress of the download (even when 'quiet = TRUE'). This is useful and informative when downloading a single (large) file ...
    Roger D. PengRoger D. Peng
    Mar 26, 2008 at 7:19 pm
    Mar 26, 2008 at 9:31 pm
  • Full_Name: Jerry W. Lewis Version: 2.7.0 (2008-03-23 r44847) OS: Windows XP Professional Submission from: (NULL) (71.184.230.48) choose(n,k) = choose(n,n-k) is not satisfied if either 1. n is a ...
    Jerry LewisJerry Lewis
    Mar 26, 2008 at 4:10 am
    Mar 26, 2008 at 11:10 am
  • Hi, All: Is there a way to identify whether any users are using a particular package in a shared network R installation? I ask, because we have such a multiple-user installation and when I tried to ...
    Spencer GravesSpencer Graves
    Mar 23, 2008 at 6:32 pm
    Mar 25, 2008 at 9:08 pm
  • Full_Name: Mark Bravington Version: 2.6.2 patched OS: Windows XP Pro Submission from: (NULL) (140.79.22.104) [1] "e" "p" "r" "u" The converse ( '[:lower:]' and LETTERS) seems to work OK. --please do ...
    Mark BravingtonMark Bravington
    Mar 25, 2008 at 4:50 am
    Mar 25, 2008 at 5:47 am
  • Hi all, While the package with which I am working is apart of the Bioconductor project, I think that this might be a better forum to ask my question. I have recently updated one of my packages, and ...
    Tony ChiangTony Chiang
    Mar 19, 2008 at 2:05 pm
    Mar 19, 2008 at 3:17 pm
  • As you may have noticed from a previous email the R Foundation has been accepted as a mentoring organization for the Google Summer of Code 2008, see http://code.google.com/soc/2008/ for general ...
    Friedrich LeischFriedrich Leisch
    Mar 18, 2008 at 10:39 am
    Mar 18, 2008 at 11:47 am
  • Dear list, The utility "R_has_slot" mentioned in the file NEWS ("Experimental R_has_slot() utility supplementing R_do_slot()") appears to be missing from a fresh checkout of the development branch. $ ...
    Laurent GautierLaurent Gautier
    Mar 15, 2008 at 8:24 am
    Mar 15, 2008 at 9:46 pm
  • Hello, Is there a way to define a custom unary operator in R (other than making a class and 'overloading' the normal unary operators in R)? The documentation seems to suggest that only custom binary ...
    Trevor L DavisTrevor L Davis
    Mar 13, 2008 at 9:50 pm
    Mar 14, 2008 at 3:46 pm
  • Dear list, Subsetting vectors/arrays using factors can be seen as misleading, and I was thinking that it could be discouraged (at least by issuing a warning). I could not find whether this was ...
    Laurent GautierLaurent Gautier
    Mar 12, 2008 at 9:06 pm
    Mar 14, 2008 at 10:24 am
  • Hello, I'm working with R, I try to call C from R. When I try to compile my file.c to make file.so, with the command : R CMD SHLIB foo.c return the message : gcc -arch i386 -isysroot ...
    Anais KhuongAnais Khuong
    Mar 12, 2008 at 5:00 pm
    Mar 13, 2008 at 1:42 pm
  • Dear Everyone, I am using R 2.6.2 on my Redhat AS4. I installed the RPM offered on the cran website. I would like to use R from my bash console with the following command: /path/to/R --vanilla ...
    Lienert ChristopheLienert Christophe
    Mar 11, 2008 at 8:04 pm
    Mar 11, 2008 at 8:57 pm
  • {Diverted from an R-help thread} Robin Hello Baptiste Bessel functions with complex Robin arguments are not supported in R. Robin Neither matlab nor the Gnu Scientific Library support Robin them ...
    Martin MaechlerMartin Maechler
    Mar 10, 2008 at 10:27 am
    Mar 10, 2008 at 12:17 pm
  • I received the following as a Debain bug report (cf http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bugF9560) To reproduce: 1) Run the following commands: filename <- 'test.pdf' pdf(filename) plot(1:10) ...
    Dirk EddelbuettelDirk Eddelbuettel
    Mar 5, 2008 at 11:26 pm
    Mar 7, 2008 at 5:54 pm
  • Full_Name: Christophe Genolini Version: 2.6.2 OS: Windows XP Submission from: (NULL) (82.225.59.146) *This is a mail that I post on r-help: * setClass("A",representation(a="numeric")) ...
    CgenolinCgenolin
    Mar 29, 2008 at 6:15 pm
    Mar 31, 2008 at 7:00 am
  • I need to generate good quality of random numbers from univariate normal distribution for further transformation. I tried rnorm in R but it was not good sometimes. Someone said C++ standard library ...
    Kyeongmi CheonKyeongmi Cheon
    Mar 30, 2008 at 4:09 am
    Mar 30, 2008 at 6:48 am
  • Dear all, I am sending a patch for extending pdf device to embed popup text and web links. I implemented this feature by using annotation object, a interactive feature of pdf. You can see a sample ...
    Tadashi KadowakiTadashi Kadowaki
    Mar 29, 2008 at 6:08 pm
    Mar 29, 2008 at 6:36 pm
  • I am using R version 2.6.2 (2008-02-08) on an XP Pro (version 2002 SP2). When I try to load the R library 'gtools', I get the following error: Error in .Call("R_lazyLoadDBfetch", key, file, ...
    Carson, JohnCarson, John
    Mar 25, 2008 at 2:43 pm
    Mar 26, 2008 at 10:20 am
  • Hi, It seems that promptMethods() was changed in revision 44805 to include a call to "isGenericFunction" that at least as of revision 44861 does not exist as far as I can tell. This results in: could ...
    Michael LawrenceMichael Lawrence
    Mar 24, 2008 at 9:44 pm
    Mar 24, 2008 at 11:58 pm
  • I haven't looked inside to see what is causing this, but there's a big discontinuity in qgamma: curve(qgamma(x, shape), from-10, to.-10) This appears in both R-patched and R-devel. Duncan Murdoch
    MurdochMurdoch
    Mar 24, 2008 at 5:35 pm
    Mar 24, 2008 at 10:52 pm
  • Hi, I need to resample from a long string, which is written in many lines with carriage-return marks at the end of each line. Perhaps because the data looks like a matrix, using the code ...
    Suraaga KulkarniSuraaga Kulkarni
    Mar 24, 2008 at 5:40 pm
    Mar 24, 2008 at 6:10 pm
  • Hi, After having used S+ in commercial setting and then R in non-commerical (but still supporting my commercial interests), I would like to give back, if possible. Where I can contribute: 1. SCAN / ...
    M jacobsonM jacobson
    Mar 20, 2008 at 11:03 am
    Mar 21, 2008 at 12:22 am
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