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...es, other than something ugly like: > strsplit(sub("^ +", "", " a b c "), " +") [[1]] [1] "a" "b" "c" Can some kind soul point me to a simpler way? TIA!! Best, Andy Andy Liaw, PhD Biometrics Research PO Box 2000, RY33-300 Merck Research Labs Rahway, NJ 07065 andy_liaw <at> merck.com 732-594-0820

...get the R start-up message and back to the shell prompt. If I try bpsh 0 R I can get R started (but the R prompt does not appear) and do computations, but no access to an x11() device. I'd very much appreciate any pointer. Best, Andy Andy Liaw, PhD Biometrics Research PO Box 2000, RY33-300 Merck Research Labs Rahway, NJ 07065 andy_liaw <at> merck.com 732-594-0820

...right on screen, but when printed out using the menu, it looks like the plot was made with lwd=1. I've had this problem for quite a while (at least since 1.3.x) and still present in 1.7.1. Has anyone else seen this, or just me? Best, Andy Andy Liaw, PhD Biometrics Research PO Box 2000, RY33-300 Merck Research Labs Rahway, NJ 07065 mailto:andy_liaw at merck.com <mailto:andy_liaw at merck.com> 732-594-0820 ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Notice: This e-mail message, together with any attachments, cont... {{dr...

...he the AMD Opteron in either 64- or 32-bit mode? If so, any good/bad experiences, comments, etc? We are considering getting this hardware, and would like to know if R can run smoothly on such a beast. Any comment much appreciated. Best, Andy Andy Liaw, PhD Biometrics Research PO Box 2000, RY33-300 Merck Research Labs Rahway, NJ 07065 mailto:andy_liaw at merck.com <mailto:andy_liaw at merck.com> 732-594-0820 ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Notice: This e-mail message, together with any attachments,...{{dropped...

...to be ignored in file.copy(): > file.exists(c("file1.txt", "file2.txt")) [1] TRUE TRUE > file.copy(from="file2.txt", to="file1.txt", overwrite=FALSE) [1] TRUE > and sure enough, file1.txt has been overwritten. Rich Raubertas Biometrics Research, RY33-300 Merck & Co. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Notice: This e-mail message, together with any attachments, ...{{dropped}}

...find any mention in R-exts. I realize that the way to go is to have a name space, and eventually that's what I will do, but for now I rather spend the time doing other necessary clean-ups first. Any pointer much appreciated! Best, Andy Andy Liaw, PhD Biometrics Research PO Box 2000, RY33-300 Merck Research Labs Rahway, NJ 07065 mailto:andy_liaw at merck.com 732-594-0820

...e). Is there a recommended way of excluding "negative" terms? My guess is that I can use info in the terms attribute to figure this out, but that doesn't seem very straightforward. Any pointer would be much appreciated. Best, Andy Andy Liaw, PhD Biometrics Research PO Box 2000 RY33-300 Merck Research Labs Rahway, NJ 07065 andy_liaw(a)merck.com 732-594-0820 ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Notice: This e-mail message, together with any attachme...{{dropped:15}}

...takes more than 10 minutes before I see the error. I do have both HTTP and FTP proxy set (to the same URL), and ftp (e.g., to CRAN) works outside of R. Can anyone provide some hints as to what the problem might be, or where to look? Best, Andy Andy Liaw, PhD Biometrics Research PO Box 2000, RY33-300 Merck Research Labs Rahway, NJ 07065 andy_liaw <at> merck.com 732-594-0820

...devel, Has anyone played with this? http://www.amd.com/us-en/Processors/DevelopWithAMD/0,,30_2252_2282,00.html <http://www.amd.com/us-en/Processors/DevelopWithAMD/0,,30_2252_2282,00.html> . I'll probably give it a shot... Best, Andy Andy Liaw, PhD Biometrics Research PO Box 2000, RY33-300 Merck Research Labs Rahway, NJ 07065 mailto:andy_liaw@merck.com <mailto:andy_liaw@merck.com> 732-594-0820

...gram received signal SIGSEGV, Segmentation fault. 0x080b412b in Rf_duplicate (s=0x1) at duplicate.c:75 75 switch (TYPEOF(s)) { ] At this point I'm clueless as to what to do next, and would very much appreciate any help! Best, Andy Andy Liaw, PhD Biometrics Research PO Box 2000, RY33-300 Merck Research Labs Rahway, NJ 07065 mailto:andy_liaw@merck.com 732-594-0820 ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Notice: This e-mail message, together with any attachments,...{{dropped}}

...ed out the entire section above, I still get the same error at the same place! Running the original code in an interactive session produced no error or warning. I'm quite at my wit's end. Would very much appreciate any help! Best, Andy Andy Liaw, PhD Biometrics Research PO Box 2000 RY33-300 Merck Research Labs Rahway, NJ 07065 andy_liaw(a)merck.com 732-594-0820 ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Notice: This e-mail message, together with any attachments,...{{dropped}}

...k for that in my code by testing for if (!all(levels(y) == levels(ytest))) stop(...) but levels() on a non-factor returns NULL, and the comparison ended up being logical(0). Since all(logical(0)) is TRUE, the error is not flagged. Best, Andy Andy Liaw, PhD Biometrics Research PO Box 2000, RY33-300 Merck Research Labs Rahway, NJ 07065 mailto:andy_liaw at merck.com 732-594-0820 ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Notice: This e-mail message, together with any attachments,...{{dropped}}

...salary, an outstanding benefits package, and a professional work environment with a company known for scientific excellence. To apply, please forward your CV or resume and cover letter to ATTENTION: Open Position Vladimir Svetnik, Ph.D. Biometrics Research Dept. Merck Research Laboratories RY33-300 126 E. Lincoln Avenue Rahway, NJ 07065-0900 vladimir_svetnik at merck.com

...in R-2.4.0, it finds gcj, which is not what I > want to use. Is there a way to tell configure where to look > for Java? I tried configure --help but didn't see anything > related to Java. > > Best, > Andy > > Andy Liaw, PhD > Biometrics Research PO Box 2000 RY33-300 > Merck Research Labs Rahway, NJ 07065 > andy_liaw(a)merck.com 732-594-0820 > > > > -------------------------------------------------------------- > -------------- > -- > Notice: This e-mail message, together with any > attachments,...{{dropped...

...ch cases stem from the fact that the code were originally from the output of g2c. I can try to post a more concrete example if needed. I think resolving this will facilitate wider use of these packages. Thanks for your consideration. Best, Andy Andy Liaw, PhD Biometrics Research PO Box 2000 RY33-300 Merck Research Labs Rahway, NJ 07065 andy_liaw(a)merck.com 732-594-0820

R v. 1.7.1, Windows 2000. A particular journal wants me to provide scatter plots with no box, but with axes that meet in the lower left corner. It seems as though there must be an easy way of doing this, but my reading the help on plot.default, axis, and box have not provided any clues. I would be most appreciative of any feedback. Thank you, Hank Stevens Dr. Martin Henry H. Stevens,

...;t offer that option). Now when I run configure in R-2.4.0, it finds gcj, which is not what I want to use. Is there a way to tell configure where to look for Java? I tried configure --help but didn't see anything related to Java. Best, Andy Andy Liaw, PhD Biometrics Research PO Box 2000 RY33-300 Merck Research Labs Rahway, NJ 07065 andy_liaw(a)merck.com 732-594-0820 ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Notice: This e-mail message, together with any attachments,...{{dropped}}

...e .tar.gz file. However, if I do R CMD build --binary mypkg, the `NEWS' file does not get included in the .zip file. Is this intentional? Is there a way I can get such a file included in the pre-compiled package automatically? Best, Andy Andy Liaw, PhD Biometrics Research PO Box 2000, RY33-300 Merck Research Labs Rahway, NJ 07065 mailto:andy_liaw@merck.com 732-594-0820

...-checking --with-system-zlib --enable-__cxa_atexit --enable-languages=c,c++,objc,java,f77 --host=x86_64-redhat-linux Thread model: posix gcc version 3.2.3 20030502 (Red Hat Linux 3.2.3-24) I'd very much appreciate any pointers! Best, Andy Andy Liaw, PhD Biometrics Research PO Box 2000, RY33-300 Merck Research Labs Rahway, NJ 07065 andy_liaw <at> merck.com 732-594-0820

...d) : error code 3 from Lapack routine dgesdd Execution halted If I do "make clean" and re-configure without the Goto BLAS, then it passes make check. Does anyone know what I'm doing wrong? Any help much appreciated! Best, Andy Andy Liaw, PhD Biometrics Research PO Box 2000, RY33-300 Merck Research Labs Rahway, NJ 07065 mailto:andy_liaw@merck.com 732-594-0820 ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Notice: This e-mail message, together with any attachments,...{{dropped}}