Dear R-Developers and -Community,
after compiling and installing R 1.2.2., I started 'demo(graphics)' for
a test, and got:
'Error in rnorm(0): .Random.seed(0) is not a Normal type'
Obviously .Random.seed was not initialized appropriately. Following the
the documentation for '.Random.seed' [see below 'Examples'],
this can be
fixed
rm(.Random.seed); runif(1); .Random.seed
and all seems to work nicely.
But two questions remain:
- was this my fault, is it intended, or are corrections inside R necessary ?
- are there any other objects in R, which unintentionally are not initialized
at start? (This may lead to unobserved errors.)
Thank you for a great System !! Best wishes - Hartmut Oldenbürger
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Hartmut Oldenbuerger <holdenb1 at wwpu00.Wipaed.Wiso.Uni-Goettingen.de> writes:> after compiling and installing R 1.2.2., I started 'demo(graphics)' for > a test, and got: > > 'Error in rnorm(0): .Random.seed(0) is not a Normal type'...> But two questions remain: > - was this my fault, is it intended, or are corrections inside R necessary ? > - are there any other objects in R, which unintentionally are not initialized > at start? (This may lead to unobserved errors.)This doesn't normally happen. Did you by any chance load an old workspace (.RData) on startup? If it is reproduceable, then we'd like to have the instructions to reproduce it as well as some information about which system you're running it on. -- O__ ---- Peter Dalgaard Blegdamsvej 3 c/ /'_ --- Dept. of Biostatistics 2200 Cph. N (*) \(*) -- University of Copenhagen Denmark Ph: (+45) 35327918 ~~~~~~~~~~ - (p.dalgaard at biostat.ku.dk) FAX: (+45) 35327907 -.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.- r-help mailing list -- Read http://www.ci.tuwien.ac.at/~hornik/R/R-FAQ.html Send "info", "help", or "[un]subscribe" (in the "body", not the subject !) To: r-help-request at stat.math.ethz.ch _._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._
FYI
The ggobi interface for both Linux and Windows have been available at
http://www.ggobi.org/
for several weeks now. Both versions come with an R interface library
(Rggobi, apparently to be RSggobi when the Splus version is finalised).
"GGobi is a data visualization system for viewing high-dimensional data and
is the next
edition of xgobi. It provides a new interface to many of the
features of xgobi, built
using Gtk, the GIMP toolkit and provides several new features:
A new, simpler and more modern interface.
Better portability to PCs.
Direct access from R Perl and Python
New input format using XML.
Database (MySQL) support. "
More expert users may wish to comment and advise the rest of us,
Richard Rowe
Senior Lecturer
Department of Zoology and Tropical Ecology, James Cook University
Townsville, Queensland 4811, Australia
fax (61)7 47 25 1570
phone (61)7 47 81 4851
e-mail: Richard.Rowe at jcu.edu.au
http://www.jcu.edu.au/school/tbiol/zoology/homepage.html
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