r-devel@r-project.org discussions for April 2015

15	[Rd] R CMD check and missing imports from base packages

When a symbol in a package is resolved, R looks into the package's environment, and then into the package's imports environment. Then, if the symbol is still not resolved, it looks into the base ...

Gábor Csárdi
Apr 28, 2015 at 8:04 pm
May 1, 2015 at 11:24 pm

10	[Rd] Fix for bug in arima function

There is currently a bug in the arima function. Namely, for arima models with differencing or seasonal differencing, the innovation variance estimator uses the wrong denominator whenever xreg is ...

Patrick Perry
Apr 20, 2015 at 4:34 pm
May 28, 2015 at 8:55 am

7	[Rd] Development version of R: Improved nchar(), nzchar() but changed API

Those of you who track R development closely, will have noticed yesterday's commit of enhanced versions of nchar() and nzchar() ...

Martin Maechler
Apr 24, 2015 at 10:06 am
Apr 27, 2015 at 3:08 pm

7	[Rd] Title case in DESCRIPTION for package where a word is a function name

I was preparing a fix for a minor glitch in my optimx package and R CMD check gave an error that the title was not in title case. It is A Replacement and Extension of the optim() Function R CMD check ...

Prof J C Nash (U30A)
Apr 24, 2015 at 3:35 pm
Apr 25, 2015 at 3:08 pm

7	[Rd] behavior of as.integer("5000000000")

Hi, [1] 2147483647 Warning message: inaccurate integer conversion in coercion [1] NA Warning message: inaccurate integer conversion in coercion Is this a bug or a feature? The man page suggests it's ...

Hervé Pagès
Apr 14, 2015 at 5:19 am
Apr 17, 2015 at 5:12 pm

7	[Rd] evaluation in transform versus within

Dear list members, I'm a bit confused about the evaluation of expressions using with() or within() versus subset() and transform(). I always teach my students to use with() and within() because of ...

Joris Meys
Apr 1, 2015 at 5:21 pm
Apr 1, 2015 at 8:38 pm

6	[Rd] alternate licensing for package data?

Does anyone have speculations about the implications of the GPL for data included in a package, or more generally for restricting use of data? The specific use case is that I have a package which is ...

Ben Bolker
Apr 21, 2015 at 11:23 pm
Apr 22, 2015 at 9:15 pm

5	[Rd] RObjectTables freezes in R 3.2.0 RC on 32bit systems

We recently started noticing freezes that appear only on 32bit systems (both linux and windows) with a relatively recent versions of R 3.2.0, including the RC. It looks like the problem can be traced ...

Jeroen Ooms
Apr 15, 2015 at 1:29 am
Apr 21, 2015 at 7:35 pm

4	[Rd] Inconsistency when naming a vector

Sometimes the absence of a name is maked by an NA: x <- 1:2 names(x)[[1]] <- "a" names(x) # [1] "a" NA Whereas other times its y <- c(a = 1, 2) names(y) # [1] "a" "" Is this deliberate? The help for ...

Hadley Wickham
Apr 27, 2015 at 11:48 am
Apr 28, 2015 at 4:24 pm

3	[Rd] CRAN submit page down

Andrie noticed that first, and I can confirm: from our end, it looks as if the backend to http://cran.r-project.org/submit.html is currently down. Dirk -- http://dirk.eddelbuettel.com | @eddelbuettel ...

Dirk Eddelbuettel
Apr 23, 2015 at 7:52 pm
Apr 27, 2015 at 2:46 pm

3	[Rd] model frames and update()

This issue has arisen within my anova.coxph routine, but is as easily illustrated with glm. testdata <- data.frame(y= 1:5, n= c(8,10,6,20,14), sex = c(0,1,0,1,1), age = c(30,20,35,25,40)) fit <- ...

Therneau, Terry M., Ph.D.
Apr 23, 2015 at 4:58 pm
Apr 23, 2015 at 8:28 pm

3	[Rd] shlib problems with Intel compiler

Hi, I'm encountering trouble compiling caTools_1.17.1.tar.gz and e1071_1.6-4.tar.gz on a Linux system using the Intel compiler suite. 14 other packages I generally use installed without any trouble ...

Andy Jacobson (NOAA Affiliate)
Apr 21, 2015 at 5:46 pm
Apr 22, 2015 at 5:01 pm

3	[Rd] Redefining {

I am curious if anyone knows of R code where the "{" function is redefined in a useful way. Or "(" for that matter. Thanks Mick

Mick Jordan
Apr 17, 2015 at 4:19 am
Apr 17, 2015 at 2:55 pm

3	[Rd] typo in R-exts.html section 6.9

In 'Writing R Extensions' section 6.9 there is the paragraph There are interfaces (defined in header R_ext/Applic.h) for definite and for indefinite integrals. ?Indefinite? means that at least one of ...

William Dunlap
Apr 9, 2015 at 11:13 pm
Apr 13, 2015 at 8:19 pm

2	[Rd] dimnames returned by function apply

Dear all, I noticed that the dimnames returned by apply are different in the new release. In the following example. The returned row-names are c(?S?,?T?), but shouldn?t they be c(?X?,?Y?) as in the ...

Fischer, Bernd
Apr 29, 2015 at 6:22 pm
Apr 30, 2015 at 9:39 pm

2	[Rd] --interactive and -f/-e

I was surprised by this: R --interactive -e 'interactive()' bash-3.2$ R -q -e 'interactive()' --interactive [1] FALSE as the command options document says that --interactive should force ...

Mick Jordan
Apr 29, 2015 at 1:11 am
Apr 30, 2015 at 6:25 pm

2	[Rd] Formula evaluation, environments and attached packages

Hi! Some time ago, I replaced calls to library() with calls to requireNamespace() in my package logmult, in order to follow the new CRAN policies. But I just noticed it broke jackknife/bootstrap ...

Milan Bouchet-Valat
Apr 29, 2015 at 4:57 pm
Apr 29, 2015 at 5:37 pm

2	[Rd] install.packages no longer respects quiet = TRUE ?

trying URL 'http://cran.rstudio.com/bin/macosx/mavericks/contrib/3.2/plyr_1.8.2.tgz' Content type 'application/x-gzip' length 855795 bytes (835 KB) ================================================== ...

Hadley Wickham
Apr 28, 2015 at 4:21 pm
Apr 28, 2015 at 5:20 pm

2	[Rd] truncated warning messages

Hi, I was installing hundreds of packages on a machine with a single call to install.packages() and after a long time the call to install.packages() finally returned with the following warnings and ...

Hervé Pagès
Apr 18, 2015 at 1:05 am
Apr 20, 2015 at 5:00 am

2	[Rd] Does (will) CRAN provide consistent integrity verification

Intended Audience: CRAN administrators, maintainers and R Package Developers. Does anyone know of consistent methods (or plans for near future) to verify integrity of downloaded R package binaries ...

Younce, Matt
Apr 16, 2015 at 4:32 pm
Apr 17, 2015 at 12:13 am

1	[Rd] Add first() and last() to utils?

Hi all, I've been using first() and last() for some time instead of x[1] and x[length(x)] for vectors, and I gradually added methods for lists, matrices, and data.frames. In preparing the next ...

Gregory Warnes
Apr 28, 2015 at 7:11 pm
May 1, 2015 at 9:30 pm

1	[Rd] Bug 15899 - Omitted 'extern' on 'R_running_as_main_program' after refactor can cause linker errors for applications embedding R

Is there any plans for addressing the regression... https://bugs.r-project.org/bugzilla3/show_bug.cgi?id899 in the 3.2.1 release? In the fink project, I had to resort to creating a fixincludes ...

Jack Howarth
Apr 21, 2015 at 2:52 pm
Apr 22, 2015 at 12:56 pm

1	[Rd] Typo in src/scripts/config

Was writing a short R script to modify compile flags and saw this typo: Index: config =================================================================== --- config (revision 68217) +++ config ...

Tim Keitt
Apr 21, 2015 at 5:53 pm
Apr 21, 2015 at 6:13 pm

1	[Rd] R-3.2.0 Fedora 21 heads up

FYI, with R-3.2.0 the configure options --with-system-zib=yes --with-system-bzlib=yes --with-system-pcre=yes become the default (according to Peter Dalgaard), so the devel versions of these libraries ...

Dominick Samperi
Apr 17, 2015 at 7:09 pm
Apr 17, 2015 at 7:43 pm

1	[Rd] RFC: sigma() in package:stats ?

I'm proposing to add something like this to the stats package : ---------------------------------------------------------- ### "The" sigma in lm/nls - "like" models: sigma <- function(object, ...) ...

Martin Maechler
Apr 10, 2015 at 2:28 pm
Apr 15, 2015 at 7:44 pm

1	[Rd] PCRE, and setting C-, LD- and CPP-FLAGS for a local r-devel installation

Hello, Got some at the time surprising errors some days ago when building a local r-devel installation on a cluster, with apparent outdated or missing dev versions of some files. After reading the ...

Jesper Gådin
Apr 8, 2015 at 4:51 pm
Apr 9, 2015 at 10:36 am

1	[Rd] Package compilation woes on submission.

Hello, I am trying to submit a new package to CRAN. I had checked the packages with R-devel and R-release in windows 7 local and ubuntu 12.04 local. The package has a C file in src folder which ...

Aravind Jayaraman
Apr 7, 2015 at 11:28 am
Apr 7, 2015 at 4:53 pm

0	[Rd] model.matrix and na.action

I've finally been able to piece this together, but I wonder if I've got it right/whether there is anywhere the behaviour of `model.matrix` with respect to `na.action` is more *explicitly* ...

Ben Bolker
Apr 29, 2015 at 7:07 pm
Apr 29, 2015 at 7:07 pm

0	[Rd] R CMD INSTALL and windows paths with ampersands

mkdir "A&" R # install.packages("pkgKitten") pkgKitten::kitten("aPackage", "A&") q() R CMD INSTALL "A&" gives Warning invalid package A (not the absence of the ampersand) I'm reasonably certain this ...

Hadley Wickham
Apr 29, 2015 at 4:35 pm
Apr 29, 2015 at 4:35 pm

0	[Rd] model.frames and update

I've gotton some good responses; thanks for the input. I'll proceed with my repairs down another path. An underlying question then is "if the model frame is near useless, as the responses indicate, ...

Therneau, Terry M., Ph.D.
Apr 24, 2015 at 12:42 pm
Apr 24, 2015 at 12:42 pm

0	[Rd] Adding lock capabilities to parallel?

Hello, Sometime ago I had to solve the problem of writing to common files from parallel R processes. For the synchronization, I created a small package ( ...

Ivan Popivanov
Apr 19, 2015 at 9:09 pm
Apr 19, 2015 at 9:09 pm

0	[Rd] Call R function in C in "optim fashion"

I am trying to extend an R package which is totally written in C. I have the following issue: in the C code I want to make a call to an R defined function as optim routine does. Nevertheless, when I ...

Bstr
Apr 16, 2015 at 7:02 am
Apr 16, 2015 at 7:02 am

0	[Rd] R_Visible for embedded R, version 2.13.2

Hi, I am embedding R in a C++ application, and if I use R.dll of version 3.1.2, I can see R_Visible is exported, so I can access this variable in my C++ code, after call: SEXP pRes = ...

暮如雪
Apr 15, 2015 at 9:15 am
Apr 15, 2015 at 9:15 am

0	[Rd] Embedded R with interactive support

Hi, I am embedding R in my C++ application, when I try to evaluate(""demo(image)"), and run this command, it show a new window to display a multiple frames image, yet it just flash to the last frame, ...

暮如雪
Apr 15, 2015 at 1:40 am
Apr 15, 2015 at 1:40 am

0	[Rd] PCRE, and setting C-, LD- and CPP-FLAGS for a local r-devel installation (Part 2)

Hi! I'm sorry I could not reply on the original message ( https://stat.ethz.ch/pipermail/r-devel/2015-April/070943.html), while I wasn't a subscriber of the r-devel mail-list. But I got the ...

Jesper Gådin
Apr 13, 2015 at 11:26 am
Apr 13, 2015 at 11:26 am

0	[Rd] misspellings

Against my better judgment I'm going to point out that "misspelled" is misspelled in the package-checking messages (at least according to the OED, the American Heritage Dictionary, and Google,which ...

Ben Bolker
Apr 12, 2015 at 3:26 pm
Apr 12, 2015 at 3:26 pm

0	[Rd] request: check version requirements of Suggests package during R CMD build if install required

Hello, Say a package (call it pkgA) has this in its DESCRIPTION file: Suggests: foo ( = 1.2.3) And yet I only have version 1.2.2 of foo installed, which does not include coolFunction(). pkgA's ...

Dan Tenenbaum
Apr 2, 2015 at 11:33 pm
Apr 2, 2015 at 11:33 pm

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