similar to: several package building questions

Hi R Gurus: I have used the following in the past: g77 -O2 -c test.f g77 -shared -o test.dll test.f with success. Now I'm getting ld: dllcrt2.o no such file I have the latest version of Rtools28.exe Any suggestions would be much appreciated. Sincerely, Edna Bell

Hi R Gurus! I have a package that I am putting together. I waited until the end to do the documentation and would like to generate a set of "empty" .Rd files. Is there a quick way to do this, please? Thanks, Edna Bell PS I can't seem to access the "Writing R Extensions" manual from 2.6.1 on Windows.

Hi R Gurus! This is definitely off topic, but I thought I'd try: what is the way to put in url's into a Latex file, please? I know that you start with a \newcommand statement, with some kind of argument that will change, but I'm not sure how to set it up, please. thanks, Edna Bell

Hi R Gurus: Here is some code that I was experimenting with, please: > f1 <- function(x) { + e1 <- new.env(parent=.GlobalEnv) + environment(e1) + print(environment()) + return(mean(x)) + } > f1(1:15) <environment: 0x02525444> [1] 8 > My question: why isn't the environment within the function set to e1, please? Thanks, Edna Bell

Dear, I am having problem importing data from other packages or spreadsheet to R. The data file contains characters and numerics variables. r-help-request@r-project.org wrote: Send R-help mailing list submissions to r-help@r-project.org To subscribe or unsubscribe via the World Wide Web, visit https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-help or, via email, send a message with subject or

Dear R Gurus: I read somewhere that functions are considered vectors. Is this true, please? thanks Edna Bell

Dear R gurus I would like to take a monthly time series and convert it to a data frame without losing the tsp items, pleae I've tried as.data.frame and data.frame but I get the series without the time element. Any suggestions, please? tia Edna Bell

Hello R Gurus: I would like to take a character string and split at the $ sign. I thought that strsplit would do it, but here are the results: > vv [1] "whine$ts1" > vv [1] "whine$ts1" > strsplit(vv,"$") [[1]] [1] "whine$ts1" Does anyone have any suggestions, please? Thanks, Edna Bell

Dear R Gurus: Is there a test for a single variance available in R, please? Thanks, Edna Bell

Hi R Gurus. I'm trying to install the Rmpi package. Here are the errors: checking for stdint.h... yes checking for unistd.h... yes checking mpi.h usability... no checking mpi.h presence... no checking for mpi.h... no Try to find libmpi or libmpich ... checking for main in -lmpi... no libmpi not found. exiting... ERROR: configuration failed for package 'Rmpi' ** Removing

Hi R Gurus! I have 2 questions, please: a. I'm putting together a little baby package on SUSE Linux 10.1. I want to create a zip of the package for windows. How should I create that please? b. I don't know if the following is possible but here it is: I have R and a bunch of libraries set up very nicely. I would like to hand off this setup to someone else. Should I just copy

Dear R Gurus: I'm working slowly through "R Programming for Bioinformatics", which is really interesting! Anyway, my question now is: what determines if a function is a builtin vs. a closure, please? For instance: > typeof(sqrt) [1] "builtin" > typeof(mean) [1] "closure" > Thanks, Edna Bell

Dear R Gurus: Is there a problem with Rmpi on x86 with SUSE 10.1, please? I've tried everything and it still won't load. Has anyone else dealt with this please? Thanks, Edna Bell

Hi R Gurus! I'm trying to create a test package using the package.skeleton function. I wanted to add some compiled code too. In the src library, I put together a baby subroutine, compiled it and created a test.dll When I use the R cmd build, it works fine. But I get into trouble with the R CMD check section. /home/Desktop/R-2.5.1/bin # ./R CMD check mypkg * checking for working latex ...

Dear R Gurus: How do I find the functions which are primitives, please? Thanks, Edna Bell

Hi R Gurus: I have a tiny data set: > xs [1] 0.7 2.8 0.1 1.9 0.0 1.4 0.2 2.3 0.3 0.2 > and generate the density function for it. I would like to replicate this. Is there a straightforward way to do this, please? According to the help file, the FFT is used. How does this compare to Silverman's version from his page 15 Equation 2.2a, please? Thanks, Edna Bell

Dear R Gurus: I'm trying to find R on another Linux system. I'm using the find command, (surprise), but I only want to see the output where it exists, not all of the other stuff. Is there an option that I could select, please? Right now I have find / -name R TIA, Sincerely, Edna

Hello again. I'm trying to use package.skeleton to build my package. However, my package will contain a Fortran subroutine. Can you use package.skeleton with that subroutine, please or do you need to add it manually? Thanks again, Sincerely, Edna Bell

Dear R Gurus: I'm building a package and am wondering whether to use S3 or S4 methods. Any advice, please? Thanks, Edna Bell

Problem solved: sapply(data(package="car")$results[,3], function(x)class(get(x))) sorry for the silliness Hi R Gurus: I'm using the data() function to get the list of data sets for a package. I would like to find the class for each data set; i.e.,data.frame, etc. Using str(), I can find the name of the data set. However, when I try the class function on the str output, I get