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  • a=c(1,1,2); is.matrix(a) gives FALSE is.matrix(t(a)) gives TRUE is.matrix(t(t(a))) gives TRUE Is this correct? Shouldn't all give FALSE? I think is.matrix should give FALSE when dimension is 1*n or ...
    Daniel Høyer IversenDaniel Høyer Iversen
    Nov 11, 2008 at 6:20 pm
    Nov 11, 2008 at 9:12 pm
  • Thanks Brian and Martyn, I've tried it again with two sets of configure options: ./configure --with-blas='-L/opt/intel/mkl/10.0.2.018/lib/em64t -lmkl -lguide -lpthread' ...
    Anand PatilAnand Patil
    Nov 5, 2008 at 4:29 pm
    Nov 6, 2008 at 3:35 pm
  • It was recently pointed out by Wacek Kusnierczyk that although one is prevented from doing FALSE <- TRUE one *can* do assign("FALSE",TRUE) and have an object named ``FALSE'' with value TRUE in one's ...
    Rolf TurnerRolf Turner
    Nov 17, 2008 at 7:49 pm
    Nov 19, 2008 at 12:24 pm
  • Dear Developers, I would like to contribute to the R Project. I implemented a C function the can be used to calculate minimal detectable differences for general ANOVA models (sample size ...
    Ali BaharevAli Baharev
    Nov 16, 2008 at 4:06 pm
    Nov 22, 2008 at 10:41 pm
  • Hi all, I love the option to not automatically convert strings into factors, but there are three places that the current option doesn't work where I think it should: options(stringsAsFactors = FALSE) ...
    Hadley wickhamHadley wickham
    Nov 17, 2008 at 1:10 pm
    Nov 17, 2008 at 8:47 pm
  • Dear List, I am having a problem triggered by having R-2.8 (R version 2.8.0 Patched (2008-11-15 r46953)) installed on Mac OS X 10.5. The steps needed to generate the error are: - install a binary ...
    Laurent GautierLaurent Gautier
    Nov 29, 2008 at 2:35 pm
    Dec 2, 2008 at 6:31 am
  • I have a package that takes about 20 minutes to compile which tends to prolong the compile/test/compile cycle. Does anyone know how to get R CMD check or R CMD INSTALL to use parallel make? I looked ...
    Whit ArmstrongWhit Armstrong
    Nov 30, 2008 at 3:25 pm
    Dec 1, 2008 at 11:33 pm
  • Full_Name: Lars Hansen Version: 2.8.0 OS: Windows XP Pro x64 SP2 Submission from: (NULL) (71.39.177.36) Hi, I have run into a problem using "R CMD INSTALL" with the "--with-package-versions" option ...
    LhansenLhansen
    Nov 13, 2008 at 3:35 am
    Nov 15, 2008 at 1:01 am
  • Full_Name: Oren Cheyette Version: 2.7.2 OS: Win XP Submission from: (NULL) (64.161.123.194) Enter the following at the R command prompt: Note the erroneous capitalized %S instead of %s and the ...
    OcheyettOcheyett
    Nov 13, 2008 at 1:30 am
    Nov 14, 2008 at 6:25 pm
  • Hello: What do you recommend I do to get past cryptic error messages from "R CMD check", complaining "No such file or directory"? The package is under SVN control, and I reverted to a version that ...
    Spencer GravesSpencer Graves
    Nov 1, 2008 at 3:40 pm
    Nov 2, 2008 at 3:29 pm
  • Hi: (Tried to find a bug report about this issue, but was unable to find it, let me know if this is a known issue) I have been working on an interface to highlight xyplot panels on mouse overs in ...
    Daniel KornhauserDaniel Kornhauser
    Nov 19, 2008 at 4:55 pm
    Nov 20, 2008 at 5:30 am
  • Hi, all I didn't get any response from swig for my question. see if I can get some help here Thanks ---------- Forwarded message ---------- From: charlie <<span class="m_body_email_addr" ...
    CharlieCharlie
    Nov 6, 2008 at 6:16 pm
    Nov 18, 2008 at 8:02 pm
  • I came across this program to locate MiKTeX file: http://docs.miktex.org/2.7/sdk/findfile_8cpp-example.html If the exe of this were included with R then it seems it might provide a reliable way to ...
    Gabor GrothendieckGabor Grothendieck
    Nov 9, 2008 at 4:11 pm
    Nov 11, 2008 at 3:39 am
  • Hi r-devels, I am a bit puzzled by the behaviour of cat() --- any help is appreciated... At least AFAICS, cat() for vector-valued '...' argument behaves in contradiction to what I understand from the ...
    Peter RuckdeschelPeter Ruckdeschel
    Nov 5, 2008 at 10:47 pm
    Nov 6, 2008 at 9:44 am
  • I have a client who wants to install R and a custom package on a machine with no internet connection, so he wants to put everything needed on a CDROM and install from there. I've told him how to work ...
    Duncan MurdochDuncan Murdoch
    Nov 19, 2008 at 8:52 pm
    Nov 19, 2008 at 9:33 pm
  • In R 2.8. I get the following warning when checking my package: * checking for executable files ... WARNING Found the following executable file(s) ...
    Hadley wickhamHadley wickham
    Nov 18, 2008 at 1:24 am
    Nov 18, 2008 at 1:05 pm
  • Dear list, A problem with creating pdf or postscript plots from an embedded R, and in an environment where a locale is defined, was recently reported on the rpy (Python- R interface) mailing list ...
    LaurentLaurent
    Nov 14, 2008 at 7:23 pm
    Nov 16, 2008 at 4:25 pm
  • Hello: The help page for 'pie' includes "judgements"; the standard spelling does not include "e", as spell checkers have informed me many times. ... in case someone wants to correct that typo. Best ...
    Spencer GravesSpencer Graves
    Nov 10, 2008 at 7:21 pm
    Nov 11, 2008 at 4:50 pm
  • Hello, I'm trying to create my own C code for use within R. While optimizing the code I've noticed that even while only using pointers to get my data to C the time needed still depends on data ...
    MarcelKMarcelK
    Nov 6, 2008 at 8:05 pm
    Nov 7, 2008 at 8:18 am
  • There seems to be a bug arising when using multiple S4 generics with "..." as the signature. The following code works as expected: ############################################################## ...
    Michael LawrenceMichael Lawrence
    Nov 25, 2008 at 10:38 pm
    Nov 26, 2008 at 10:52 pm
  • Currently, if you were to print out the R frequently asked questions (http://cran.r-project.org/doc/FAQ/R-FAQ.html), it would be 132 pages long. Is it any wonder that so many question could be ...
    Hadley wickhamHadley wickham
    Nov 25, 2008 at 6:41 pm
    Nov 25, 2008 at 10:08 pm
  • Hi. I am writing some code in C that I would like to link into R. My Makevars file is: PKG_CPPFLAGS=-I/usr/local/include PKG_LIBS=-L/usr/local/lib -lgsl PKG_CFLAGS = -Wall -O0 -g -p -pg The source ...
    Michael BraunMichael Braun
    Nov 20, 2008 at 8:25 pm
    Nov 20, 2008 at 9:34 pm
  • Full_Name: Reginaldo Constantino Version: 2.8.0 OS: Ubuntu Hardy (32 bit, kernel 2.6.24) Submission from: (NULL) (189.61.88.2) For many tables, chisq.test with simulate.p.value=TRUE gives a p value ...
    ConstantConstant
    Nov 16, 2008 at 12:00 am
    Nov 19, 2008 at 1:22 pm
  • [whit at linuxsvr R.packages]$ sudo R CMD INSTALL portfolio.construction * Installing to library '/usr/local/lib64/R/library' * Installing *source* package 'portfolio.construction' ... ** R ** ...
    Whit ArmstrongWhit Armstrong
    Nov 18, 2008 at 10:07 pm
    Nov 19, 2008 at 6:31 am
  • I've just committed the parse_Rd() function to R-devel. This is a parser for Rd files, described in http://developer.r-project.org/parseRd.pdf It is not identical to the current parser, and about a ...
    Duncan MurdochDuncan Murdoch
    Nov 13, 2008 at 4:02 pm
    Nov 13, 2008 at 9:14 pm
  • Hi, All: How might one test Matlab and perl code during "R CMD check"? I ask for two reasons: First, the "fda" package exists in both R and Matlab, and it would help if we could run test examples in ...
    Spencer GravesSpencer Graves
    Nov 2, 2008 at 5:40 pm
    Nov 3, 2008 at 5:03 pm
  • I recently upgraded to Rtools28 to build a package under Windows. I see that g77 is no longer in Rtools, but it does have gfortran, and it uses version: GNU Fortran (GCC) 4.2.1-sjlj (mingw32-2) I am ...
    John NolanJohn Nolan
    Nov 26, 2008 at 5:17 pm
    May 30, 2009 at 11:56 am
  • Full_Name: Fabian Scheipl Version: 2.8.0 OS: Windows, Linux Submission from: (NULL) (138.246.7.150) It seems to me that the documentation for body<- is wrong. The help file for body(fun, envir = ...
    Fabian ScheiplFabian Scheipl
    Nov 21, 2008 at 4:00 pm
    Dec 13, 2008 at 11:14 am
  • It would be nice to have a more convenient means of exporting multiple classes from a package namespace. Why not have something like exportClassPattern() that worked like exportPattern() except for ...
    Michael LawrenceMichael Lawrence
    Nov 22, 2008 at 3:45 am
    Dec 5, 2008 at 5:55 am
  • Hi, I have a writable and readable file on a small network file system (Cisco NSLU2 Unslung; non-NTFS) that I access via a mounted drive on Windows Vista. My problem could be due to a "funny" file ...
    Henrik BengtssonHenrik Bengtsson
    Nov 26, 2008 at 7:22 pm
    Dec 1, 2008 at 8:03 pm
  • Hello: I've found structures like "normal-bracket50bracket-normal" in help files for R packages including the following: * "mergeprepare" and "mergematrices" in a document dated March 3, 2004 by ...
    Spencer GravesSpencer Graves
    Nov 30, 2008 at 9:36 pm
    Dec 1, 2008 at 3:31 pm
  • Hello R-devel, I want to write extensions for R in C (maybe C++ and Fortran later) and it works fine, but there is one problem, which I cannot solve (in my view). I want to handle a matrix from R in ...
    Wilm SchumacherWilm Schumacher
    Nov 24, 2008 at 6:58 pm
    Dec 1, 2008 at 12:49 pm
  • I am currently attempting to hack the recently featured profileModels package so that it can handle models generated by the lme4 (mixed models) package. I'm getting really confused by different ...
    Ben BolkerBen Bolker
    Nov 30, 2008 at 10:11 pm
    Dec 1, 2008 at 11:30 am
  • Full_Name: Martin Karl-Friedrich Bader Version: 2.8.0 OS: 10.5.3 Submission from: (NULL) (131.152.1.1) Hi there, when using las=1 on the y-axis the labels keep their centered justification, e.g. if ...
    Martin BaderMartin Bader
    Nov 20, 2008 at 1:45 pm
    Nov 21, 2008 at 10:11 am
  • I have isolated an error that can be reproduced by the following code. The same thing happens in 2.8.0pat and 2.9.0dev. It looks like the try() code is ending up in the display list, or something? ...
    Felix AndrewsFelix Andrews
    Nov 14, 2008 at 7:27 am
    Nov 19, 2008 at 9:54 pm
  • For a project I am porting some of R's source code, and I want to get the license for my project correct, but the top level COPYING file for R's source states GPL v2, but when using: which states GPL ...
    Gabriel GellnerGabriel Gellner
    Nov 18, 2008 at 10:24 pm
    Nov 19, 2008 at 12:15 pm
  • I'm having problems with an access violation error on some compiled code that I'm writing and I was hoping that some one had insights as to what might be causing the access violation and possibly how ...
    Andrew ReddAndrew Redd
    Nov 17, 2008 at 12:39 am
    Nov 17, 2008 at 5:53 am
  • I am using a 64 bit machine with CentOS5. I am getting the following errors when I try to install the rimage package g++ -shared -L/usr/local/lib64 -o rimage.so equalize.o fftw_access_func.o ...
    Shantanu DShantanu D
    Nov 14, 2008 at 10:53 pm
    Nov 15, 2008 at 2:18 am
  • Hi, This is a problem about writing R documentation (R-exts 2.6). The command "\deqn" defined in "Rd.sty" is: \newcommand{\deqn}[2]{\[#1\]} which will put mathematical formulae in the "displaymath" ...
    XieyihuiXieyihui
    Nov 14, 2008 at 1:15 pm
    Nov 15, 2008 at 1:44 am
  • Stefano, Thanks for the bug report. Confirmed. The code in looks a little off inasmuch as in if (!is.na(taa)) extra <- paste(" -dTextAlphaBits=", taa, sep = "") if (!is.na(gaa)) extra <- paste(extra, ...
    EddEdd
    Nov 14, 2008 at 2:15 pm
    Nov 14, 2008 at 2:54 pm
  • Hi r-devels, I have two minor problems with special characters in Rd files when used within a \preformatted{} markup command: ------------------------------------------------------ 1. issue ...
    Peter RuckdeschelPeter Ruckdeschel
    Nov 6, 2008 at 6:26 pm
    Nov 7, 2008 at 1:32 am
  • Hi When I have a plot under Windows and want to save it as a ps or jpg using right click, the window for choosing the directory opens. But if I want to choose a directory R freezes. This happens on ...
    RengerRenger
    Nov 3, 2008 at 9:00 am
    Nov 3, 2008 at 11:24 pm
  • Dear list members, Rich Heiberger reported to me last week that the Messages window in the Rcmdr GUI was freezing -- that is, messages posted to this window didn't appear -- under Windows and R ...
    John FoxJohn Fox
    Nov 3, 2008 at 9:33 pm
    Nov 3, 2008 at 10:39 pm
  • Currently demo calls source with a hard coded max.deparse.length = 250 so you can't really see the demo properly in some cases. Note the [TRUNCATED] below. (1) It would be nice if demo passed ...
    Gabor GrothendieckGabor Grothendieck
    Nov 2, 2008 at 2:33 pm
    Nov 3, 2008 at 8:19 am
  • Full_Name: Arkady Sherman Version: 2.8.0 OS: Windows XP Submission from: (NULL) (158.195.16.114) Please consider initialization of the "seg.len" variable. It's done only if (do.lines) { seg.len <- ...
    AshermanAsherman
    Nov 27, 2008 at 1:30 pm
    Nov 29, 2008 at 5:10 pm
  • Dear R-devel, When a character vector is used to subscript a list and when some of the subscripts are not present in the list names R returns NULL for those subscripts and generate NA names for each ...
    Vadim OgranovichVadim Ogranovich
    Nov 28, 2008 at 7:03 pm
    Nov 29, 2008 at 11:31 am
  • Hi, A couple of missing parenthesis in R-devel's FAQ: ---<---------------cut here---------------start-------------- --- Index: doc/manual/R-FAQ.texi ...
    SpluqueSpluque
    Nov 27, 2008 at 3:35 pm
    Nov 29, 2008 at 10:10 am
  • Full_Name: Emily Green Version: 2.8.0 GUI 1.26 OS: MacBrook Pro with 2.5 GHz processor, using Mac OS X 10.5.5 Submission from: (NULL) (144.32.69.137) I am wanting to correct for phylogeny using a ...
    Ecg503Ecg503
    Nov 28, 2008 at 2:55 pm
    Nov 28, 2008 at 9:32 pm
  • Hi, When trying to build R-devel.tar.bz2 (SVN-REVISION: 47015) I am getting the error: tkpager text html latex gmake[2]: Leaving directory `/usr/local/share/R-devel/src/library' gmake[2]: Entering ...
    Hiroyuki KawakatsuHiroyuki Kawakatsu
    Nov 24, 2008 at 3:01 pm
    Nov 27, 2008 at 12:12 pm
  • Full_Name: Lars Hansen Version: 2.8.0 OS: Linux Submission from: (NULL) (70.90.201.133) Hi, Calling installed.packages() on a directory with only one package causes an error if the priority argument ...
    LhansenLhansen
    Nov 25, 2008 at 10:30 pm
    Nov 27, 2008 at 11:20 am
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