similar to: argument PACKAGE in .C/.Fortran

> To: "Heberto Ghezzo" <heberto at MEAKINS.Lan.McGill.CA> > Subject: Re: [R] R-0.63.1 is released > From: Peter Dalgaard BSA <p.dalgaard at biostat.ku.dk> > > "Heberto Ghezzo" <heberto at MEAKINS.Lan.McGill.CA> writes: > > > Sorry for a silly question but. . . > > why the new version is 'bdr0631' ? what is the

I have in my inbox a note saying books are expected in early August. However, for R users there is relatively little advantage in the third edition, except that almost everything works unchanged. The real advantages of the third edition are for users of S-PLUS 5.x and 4.5/2000. > From: Marc R. Feldesman > To: guido at hal.stat.unipd.it; 'Guido Masarotto '; 'Maria Wolters '

There are two separate problems with loess under Guido's rw0632 on Windows, neither of which appear unless you try to do something that it is trying to tell you is inadvisable. It bombs trying to tell you. I have put up a replacement modreg.zip in the CRAN contrib collection that will be mirrored tonight. Both of these could potentially affect other platforms. (1) A problem relating to the

At http://www.stats.ox.ac.uk/pub/R/win32/ I have made available ports to Guido Masarotto's rw0630 version of a large number of packages, basically all those on CRAN except purely data collections. Please read the instructions in the README file. Also there is a set of dlls in new/iodlls.zip that enable most (but not yet all) of these to work with the rw63-io version, and new/bdr0631.zip, a

(1) Thanks to Murray Jorgensen, we have discovered that there may be some problems if you install R for Windows in a path containing spaces. You should not experience problems if the shortcut used to run R has the short (8+3) file names, and it often will (which is why we had not thought this a problem). However, the best solution is to avoid paths with spaces in until the next release.

Recent changes to R-devel has altered the way arguments are matched in most primitives to be identical to the argument matching in interpreted functions. So if argument names are supplied they are checked, surplus arguments are errors, and it is possible to use (perverse) constructions like substitute(e=list(x=1), y ~ x). There are a few deliberate exceptions: functions like call switch .C

Has anyone ever successfully used Fortran character strings with R? ?Foreign says R C Fortran integer int * integer .... character char ** [compiler dependent] Character strings are passed as C arrays of character strings to Fortran: the first string may be usable if its length is passed

A while ago there was some request for supporting the ATLAS BLAS libraries on Windows. I have finally succeeded in building the ATLAS libraries, and made the necessary changes to the Makefiles. This will be available in R-patched as from tomorrow's snapshot: see src/gnuwin32/INSTALL for how to use it. You will need to build an ATLAS library for your precise chip. This can be a frustrating

To: Windows Users ----------------- We would appreciate your comments on future possibilities for help on Windows systems. I have put up a pre-test version based on the current R-release snapshot at http://www.stats.ox.ac.uk/pub/bdr/RWin/rwtest999.zip (ca 4.5Mb) ftp://ftp.stats.ox.ac.uk/.... (999 means Sept 1999, BTW). This has (i) text help (ii) HTML help to be viewed in Netscape/IE*

Guido has fixed Rterm hanging on Windows 2000 in interactive and --ess modes. The problem was that 'PulseEvent' doesn't work under 2000 as documented (and I can find nothing about this in MicroSoft's Knowledge Base except that it is known to happen under a debugger). The cross-compiled pre-release at http://www.stats.ox.ac.uk/pub/bdr/RWin/Rpre now incoporates the fix, and we

I almost didn't believe in it anymore, but Rcmd INSTALL finally is working for me! Thanks to all who helped on this, especially to Guido Masarotto, Brian Ripley, John Fox, Peter Dalgaard, Uwe Ligges. Anyway, I do think the documentation is a bit confusing here (at least for me, I don't know if others have felt the same). It might be a good idea to add the essence of Brians and Guidos

> Date: Mon, 12 Apr 1999 11:30:20 +0200 (MET DST) > From: Albrecht Gebhardt <albrecht.gebhardt@uni-klu.ac.at> > > I think in R we can do better than at present, if only I knew > > exactly how. One idea is to have (effectively) a `hints' file that > > configure uses to add a base set of libraries to FLIBS, but on Solaris > > at least, using the Fortran

This does seem to fix my problem: > Sys.getenv("http_proxy") http_proxy "http://gproxy1.pfizer.com/" > url("http://cran.r-project.org/src/contrib/PACKAGES",'r') description "http://cran.r-project.org/src/contrib/PACKAGES" class

On Thu, 18 Apr 2002, Martin Maechler wrote: > >>>>> "Jason" == Jason Turner <jasont@indigoindustrial.co.nz> writes: > > Jason> strptime() mysteriously adds a day to a date, unless the year > Jason> is specified. Tested on: > Jason> Linux (RedHat 6.0) - R version 1.4.1 and R-devel. > Jason> Windows - R version 1.4.1 >

On Mon, 28 Aug 2000, Rashid Nassar wrote: > Dear Professor Ripley, > > Thank you very much for your kind explanation. If I may lamely say > something in my defence, even as I apologize for my error: I mistook the > sentence "the (quoted) name of a function" to mean "optionally quoted" > because of the parentheses surrounding "quoted", and was

Thanks very much, Professor Ripley. Reid Huntsinger -----Original Message----- From: ripley at stats.ox.ac.uk [mailto:ripley at stats.ox.ac.uk] Sent: Tuesday, August 06, 2002 3:00 AM To: Huntsinger, Reid Cc: r-help at stat.math.ethz.ch Subject: Re: [R] pipe and binary i/o (on Linux) On Mon, 5 Aug 2002 ripley at stats.ox.ac.uk wrote: > pipe predates readBin, and no one has seen a

I have just put on ftp://sirio.stat.unipd.it/pub/R a new version of R for Win95/NT. The main difference concerns dynamic linking (see below). In addition, the binary distribution contains many of the available packages (all the ones that I have installed on my Unix machine). In the afternoon, I will upload the files on CRAN. g.m. This is the README file: rw0613b.zip is a new binary

I have just put on ftp://sirio.stat.unipd.it/pub/R a new version of R for Win95/NT. The main difference concerns dynamic linking (see below). In addition, the binary distribution contains many of the available packages (all the ones that I have installed on my Unix machine). In the afternoon, I will upload the files on CRAN. g.m. This is the README file: rw0613b.zip is a new binary

This example is caused by R's messing with formula environments. That's explained in ?formula, but should it not be explained in ?model.frame ? Simple test: data <- data.frame(y=rnorm(100), x=1:100) testit <- function(formula) { weights <- runif(100) glm(formula, weights=weights, data=data) } testit(y ~ x) weights is looked for in the environment of the formula, not of

The original subject line is false. It *does* reposition, but `origin' was being ignored, so your request was to reposition to the beginning of the file, and that is what happened. This was already fixed in R-patched: from NEWS there: o seek() on file connections was ignoring the `origin' argument. It's always worth looking at the current patched version. On Tue, 29 Jan 2002