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Hi, I'm getting some strange behaviour when trying to use the power operator (a^b) when a is large and b is less than one: big <- .Machine$double.xmax big big^0.5 sqrt(big) > big <- 1.797693134862315708384e+308 > big^0.5 [1] Inf > sqrt(big) [1] 1.340781e+154 I'm guessing that this behaviour is not expected, or am I missing something about ^? Cheers Martyn >

Hi, Apologies if this is the wrong list to be sending this question to. I am trying to install a copy of the R tools required to create / compile packages on windows. After downloading Rtools from http://www.murdoch-sutherland.com/Rtools/ windows keeps complaining that "The setup files are corrupted". This has happened with both the Rtools213.exe and the Rtools212.exe downloads, and

Hi, I am trying to package some code to use with R and wanted to call Rscript from within the Makevars file (I am trying to automate the setting of the location of a third party library depending on what is available / the system the package is being installed on). If I just have a simple Makevars containing PKG_LIBS= -lnag_nag -L/fserver/nagprod/FL22/fll6a22df/lib the package is built

Hi, I am trying to install the latest version of the BRugs package on a 32 bit windows machine which, due to the set up, won't allow me to install it via the usual R GUI. Can anyone point me to a link from which I can download the relevant files that allow me to install it manually (most pages flagged by Google point back to a message saying it was removed from CRAN and to look in the

Hi, I've read ?is.unsorted and searched. Have found a few items but nothing close, yet. Is the following expected? > is.unsorted(data.frame(1:2)) [1] FALSE > is.unsorted(data.frame(2:1)) [1] FALSE > is.unsorted(data.frame(1:2,3:4)) [1] TRUE > is.unsorted(data.frame(2:1,4:3)) [1] TRUE IIUC, is.unsorted is intended for atomic vectors only (description of x in ?is.unsorted). Indeed

In MS Windows I a) invoke Rterm from a batch file (test.bat) b) to execute commands from a script (m:\test.rsc) c) capturing output in a log file (m:\test.log) BUT if the script results in an error the error message is NOT written to the log file, leaving me problems when the error is from a complicated function. Simplified example:. test.bat ------------------------ REM ensure

I have stumbled across some behaviour in R that I really can't place, and that makes coding a bit tricky. I know that I can work around it when explicitly checking for missing arguments, but still... I have two functions. I have a first function based on paste ? ? fun1 <- function(x,y){ ? ? ? print(missing(y)) ? ? ? paste(x,'X',sep=y) ? ? } If I try this function without

Cran task views seems to be a "once-per-session" process -- the first attempt to access views in a (RGui for Windows) session works, but subsequent attempts fail. There is a noticeably long pause before the failing call returns. Example session with two calls to "available.views" follows, but similar effects have been observed with two calls to "install.views" and

Is it on purpose that `[[` strips the names when used on an atomic vector? > c(a=1, b=2)[1] a 1 > c(a=1, b=2)[[1]] [1] 1 > sessionInfo() R Under development (unstable) (2013-02-11 r61902) Platform: x86_64-w64-mingw32/x64 (64-bit) locale: [1] LC_COLLATE=English_United Kingdom.1252 [2] LC_CTYPE=English_United Kingdom.1252 [3] LC_MONETARY=English_United Kingdom.1252 [4] LC_NUMERIC=C

Dear all, I'm having a problem understanding why a split does not occur with in the 2nd use of the function strsplit below: # text strings > txt <- c("sales to 23 August 2008 published 29 August", + "sales to 6 September 2008 published?11 September") # first use > strsplit(txt, 'published', fixed=TRUE) [[1]] [1] "sales to 23 August 2008 "

Dear R developers, ?help.search ...opens a tab in my browser (Firefox 3.5.6, Win XP): http://127.0.0.1:31642/library/utils/html/help.search.html When I click on the link for "?", (http://127.0.0.1:31642/library/utils/help/?) in the last line of "Details", I get an error message: "Server error: invalid response from R". Similarly, The link to "??"

Related to the following question on Stackoverflow: https://stackoverflow.com/questions/44723690/unexpected-behavior-of-sys-setlocale#44723690 It appears as if Sys.setlocale() does not update LC_TIME correctly for use in date formatting. Although R reports that LC_TIME is changed to the new setting after use of Sys.setlocale(), as.Date() still uses the old settings. The only way to update this is

Dear R-developers, A student asked me today of how to specify the limits of the x-axis. I knew that he should use xlim, but I tried to encourage him to have a try himself with the various help functions. I do not judge if he used the correct search strategy or right key words, but anyway here is what he tried: he looked at ?plot. There xlim is not mentioned. He checked ?par. There you find

Hello All, i was trying to simply run the readHTMLTable on the example published in the package. And on a page I was working on. So running: u = "http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_by_population" tables = readHTMLTable(u) returns the following error: Error in tb[["thead"]] : subscript out of bounds looking up this error on the web, didnt give me any hint. Is

Hi, I have the following function that I want to apply to a list of 14 matrices (1536 x 170) of binary data: DRes <- function(x, nr = 10000, metric = "mixed", ...) { require(analogue) require(ade4) m <- c() for (i in 1:nr) { set.seed(i) x1 <- x[, sample(dimnames(x)[[2]], length(x[1,])/2)] x2 <- x[, !dimnames(x)[[2]] %in% dimnames(x1)[[2]]] d1 <-

Hello, I came across a strange behavior of expand.grid (or at least strange to me). For certain values of one of my input variables - created by seq() - I have to use strings (e.g ==".6") to select a row of the object created by expand.grid(), for other values numerical (e.g. ==.8) and for some both work. Please find an example below. #Example x<- seq(0,1,1/10) y <-

A newbie here - please forgive me if this is a basic question. We have an in house package built in R 2.2.1 (yes we're a little behind the times at our firm)and would like to rebuild it using R 2.5.1. However, when I try and build the package from source, I keep getting this error: Error in as(slotVal, slotClass, strict = FALSE) : no method or default for coercing "POSIXt"

Dear all, I'm calling Winbugs (1.4.3) through R2WinBugs (2.1-18 coda_0.14-7) to fit a switching random walk model, but come up with an instant trap with the log only displaying 'check('. I will paste the trap with session info below; I'd be very grateful for any ideas. Couple of leads: 1. I presume the problem relates to the r package itself or the way I call bugs(), because I

Dear R-help, I want to download the text from a web page, however what i end up with is the html code. Is there some option that i am missing in the RCurl package? Or is there another way to achieve this? This is the code i am using: > library(RCurl) > my.url <- 'https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-help' > html.file <- getURI(my.url, ssl.verifyhost = FALSE,

Dear R-help, The following code downloads an html document into variable 'doc' and then stores an internal representation into variable 'html.tree'. Even if the html code is malformed, this still works which is fantastic. However, as in the example below, i do get some ouput from R in the console which i would like to suppress somehow, so i can keep my window a bit cleaner. I