similar to: Packages and their Management

I am trying to create a repository for my own packages as an easy way to auto install packages on a number of servers. Obviously, I am able to connect using install.packages() to CRAN without problems but when I specify my own repos I get an error: > install.packages(pkgs, repos="http://some.site.com") Warnings message: cannot open: HTTP status was '401 Authorisation

Hi, Following on from suggestions made last week, I decided to install R 2.1.0 on my Linux machine. I'm running into a problem there however, as shown: make[1]: Entering directory `/d0/home/fgibbons/tmp/R2.1.0/R-2.1.0/src/library/Recommended' make[2]: Entering directory `/d0/home/fgibbons/tmp/R2.1.0/R-2.1.0/src/library/Recommended' begin installing recommended package VR WARNING:

Yes, lots of packages do use C/Fortran code ... it would be great if there were more packages that are "pure R" especially since the advent of S4 classes and namespaces. Is it worth suggesting that we create a designation "pure R" for packages that have no external source code and encourage more of these? Indeed, now the number of packages is so big could they be classified to

R2.0.1 (MS Windows) > list.files(myloc,"*.zip",full=T) [1] "P:/SARsoftware/Rlibraries/gnlm_0.1.zip" [2] "P:/SARsoftware/Rlibraries/lms2_0.2.zip" R2.1.0: > list.files(myloc,"*.zip",full=T) Error in list.files(path, pattern, all.files, full.names, recursive) : invalid 'pattern' regular expression Bug? or have I missed something

I have been building a package around a sequence of S4 classes which I have coded in separate *.R files in the "./R" subdirectory of the package. The package builds without error, but when I load it in R I get: Error in reconcilePropertiesAndPrototype(name, slots, prototype, superClasses) : Class "xxxx" extends an undefined class ("yyyyyy" I guess R is trying to

Hi, I have just noticed the following problem with R2.1.0 running on SuSE 9.1, [However, version 2.0.1 (2004-11-15) on the same machine works Okay]: ------------------------------------------------------------------------- > hist(rnorm(100)) Error in title(main = main, sub = sub, xlab = xlab, ylab = ylab, ...) : X11 font at size 14 could not be loaded > version _

I am having problems getting the unz() function to work as a connection to start reading a file... z <- unz("c:/temp/stoxx.zip", "close_tmi_components.txt", "r") readLines(z,2) yields the following problems: > z <- unz("c:/temp/stoxx.zip", "close_tmi_components.txt", "r") Error in unz("c:/temp/stoxx.zip",

I have justed upgraded R v1.7.0 on Windows NT 4 and have installed the latest RMySQL (version 0.5-1)and DBI (version 0.1-5) packages. When I issue the following commands (tactfully adjusted) R just crashes and disappears, any ideas? require(RMySQL) m <- dbDriver("MySQL") con <- dbConnect(m, dbname="xxx", user="xxx", password="xxx",

It concerns trival diagonal matrices: > diag(1) [,1] [1,] 1 > diag(rnorm(1)) <0 x 0 matrix> > diag(rnorm(1),nrow=1) [,1] [1,] 0.4843697 There's an obvious work around... but I thought it was worth notifying the list. Regards, John Marsland ********************************************************************** This is a commercial communication from

Is this an interface bug? Using RGUI for windows I run into a "Not Responding" process (I "smartly" coded an infinite loop, yaiks!), I hit esc and the interpreter was stopped and I recovered the console functionality but the caption on the R icon in my windows taskbar (the individual icon shown for every software currently running in the session) was not updated so the

Does anybody have a tuned Rblas.dll compiled against ALTLAS for a dual Xeon system? Unfortunately, we have very strict security that does not allow compilers of any sort on production desktops - we only have Pentium III development PCs. Regards, John Marsland ********************************************************************** This is a commercial communication from Commerzbank AG.\ \

I have been having problems making the recommended packages under windows NT when WINHELP is set to NO. It seems to go ahead and create the chm files and then fall over with an error. The base packages work fine. Clearly I can fix this myself messily, but I thought it might be useful feedback. Regards, John Marsland _ platform i386-pc-mingw32 arch i386 os mingw32 system

Hi, I'm developing an R/TclTk application which uses the BWidget and Tktable Tk extensions and I'm trying to make it easy to install. For now, I'm focusing on Windows users who start with nothing. I have built Tcl/Tk and Tktable for windows using Msys/MinGW. (BWidget contains only Tcl scripts so does not need building.) I have then copied Tktable and BWidget into the lib subdirectory

I have been using R for some time now and decided to have a go a compiling R from source. I have carefully followed the guidelines set out by Prof Ripley and others, but I get the following message when I try to make: MkRules:92: *** missing separator. Stop. If I comment the line out, I get the same message for the next line. I have searched on Google and many people have mentioned an issue

Hi, I have a matrix with 700.000 x 10.000 cells with floating point data. I would like to work with the entire table but I have a lot of memory problems. I have read the ?memory I work with Win 2000 with R2.1.0 The only solution that I have applied is: > memory.limit(size=2048) But now my problems are: - I need to work with more than 2 Gb. How I can exceed this limit? - When apply some

R2.1.0 JGR 1.2 W2k Hello all! I??ve just installed JGR on my both R-equipped computers and am very pleased with the look and functionality. Except in one, very important, way. I can??t figure out how to get the ~ sign from the keyboard to the console. Copying it from old code works fine. Using the traditional GUI works as usual. I have a Swedish keyboard layout, where ~ shares key with ??

I have been writing some S4 classes and have a problem about how I might pass a signature to "c()". Take the following example: setClass("collection", representation("list", date="POSIXt")) x <- new("collection", list(1,2,3), date=Sys.time()) y <- new("collection", list(4,5,6), date=Sys.time()) obviously, I can do c(x,y), but

Dear All, I haven't seen any further comments about the problem that John Marsland first noted and that I also have: > library(DBI) > library(RMySQL) Warning message: DLL attempted to change FPU control word from 8001f to 9001f > mgr <- dbDriver("MySQL") > con <- dbConnect(mgr, host="localhost", dbname="marketing") upon which R dies...

Might it be an idea to make "?" a special operator akin to "+" or "[", R users could then write their own help functions - may be even making "?" generic? With the proposed xml help system one could imagine quite sophisticated context sensitive help systems. Regards, John Marsland PS this has been a very useful debate for those of us enthusiastically

Bob O'hara wrote: > I'm a bit reluctant to call anything a bug: I know it's usually my > incompetence instead. In this case, I can't see what else it is, > although it may be a bug in Windows. > > The problem comes from trying to create a .png of a figure in Windows > XP, with R2.1.0. On the screen it looks OK, but in the .png the text > for the x label