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I've been trying to build a bundle with the R-devel snapshot from yesterday. (Yes I know it is unstable and just tell me if I shouldn't be trying to do this yet.) It is failing with the message tar : /dev/rmt/0 : Permission denied It happens after "removing junk files" and just after the message "building dse_2000.9-1.tar.gz" It looks to be coming from the line in

The "data index" is mentioned in the R Extensions Writer guide as >> The subdirectory should contain a `00Index' file >> that describes the datasets available. I'm not sure what the official format is suppose to be, but given that it displays like an index, this has to be a very short description which I find somewhat inadequate. Some of my data sets are multivariate

There was at one time some discussion about supporting documentation of multiple functions in one Rd file. Is that supported or still in the plans? Paul Gilbert -.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.- r-devel mailing list -- Read http://www.ci.tuwien.ac.at/~hornik/R/R-FAQ.html Send "info", "help", or "[un]subscribe" (in the

"[<-" in R 0.63 does not appear to strip attributes, whereas Splus and previous versions of R did. Paul _____ R 0.63: > data <- matrix(rnorm(300),100,3) > attr(data, "tframe") <- c(1981.50, 2006.25 , 4.00) > attributes(data) $dim [1] 100 3 $tframe [1] 1981.50 2006.25 4.00 > z <- data[10:90,] > attributes(z) $dim [1] 81 3 $tframe [1]

I use R CMD Rdindex man/*.Rd >INDEX in my makefile to generate an INDEX. When I then use R CMD build whatever the newindex seems to be in a slightly different order, resulting in a * checking whether index is up-to-date ... NO (because the result of diff is not empty) and a suggestion to use --force. However, --force results in the INDEX in my source directory being re-written, which

I've noticed that the arguments and result list of prcomp in the mva package (with 61.1) are not quite the same as in the Blue Book and in Splus. Is this intentional or can I change it? If I change it who should I send the code to? Paul Gilbert -.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.- r-devel mailing list -- Read

It would be nice to be able to initialize the random-number generator with a single long argument; I can see that in principle this could be done by writing an access method, do_RNGinit (or whatever) for RNG_Init. I had trouble with the technical details, possibly because of long/int incompatibilities. Any chance of this happening? -- Ben Bolker

I believe there is a coding error in the first part of predict.mlm in the splines package, but perhaps someone could explain the logic to me if I'm wrong. I don't see how the second if (missing(newdata)) could ever be true. (I would show the code but I'm using email on a different machine than R today.) Paul Gilbert

In an effort to encapsulate my dependence on class in order to deal with oldclass/class in Splus I defined the functions tfclass <- class "tfclass<-" <- function(x, value){ class(x) <- value ; x } and also the function classed <- function(x, cls) {class(x) <- cls; x} This last allows me to end a function definition with ... classed(somecalc,

It would be nice in the building of help for packages if there were some mechanism to provide a few paragraphs of general description for the package. (If this is already there I've missed it.) In the html help it would be possible to do this by looking for some special file (e.g. "General_Description") in the man directory and putting a link to that at the top of 00Index.html, but

It would be nice for checking documentation to be able to generate the "see also" cross references (e.g. the list of functions where dev2bitmap is linked as a "see also" reference.) Perhaps this already exists? (BTW, it would be useful to have a "see also" reference to dev2bitmap in the help for postscript and for Devices.) Paul Gilbert

I better report this before I forget again (I think it may also be a problem with \item) : >Paul Gilbert wrote: >> > \section{Model Parameters}{ >> >> I seem to recall having a bit of trouble with this quietly omitting things when the >> last "{" had a space before it or was on a new line. I'm not sure if that >>is still a problem (or if indeed

I don't seem to be able to initialize a vector of NAs. I hope this is a bug and not a new feature (I realize I have not paid much attention to a lot of recent discussion about NA): platform sparc-sun-solaris2.6 arch sparc os solaris2.6 system sparc, solaris2.6 status major 1 minor 5.0 year

In R 0.63 RINSTALL of a package with documentation still appears to clobber R/doc/html/function.html and R/doc/html/packages.html so the main help is no longer available to a user once a package is installed. I know how to work around this for my own purposes, but I hesitate to release a package that would do this to some unsuspecting user. Paul Gilbert

The postscript driver in R-devel seems to choke on box(col=0). This is not a problem in R-1.3.1. R : Copyright 2001, The R Development Core Team Version 1.4.0 Under development (unstable) (2001-09-22) ... Type `q()' to quit R. > plot(1:10, 1:10) > box(col=0) > postscript(file="zot.ps") > plot(1:10, 1:10) > box(col=0) Error in box(col = 0) : invalid value specified

I sometimes wonder how difficult it would be to set up an email system, like the netlib@netlib.bell-labs.com facility for f2c, but for producing binary versions of packages. Has anyone every thought about this? I guess the main use would be for Windows, about which I know almost nothing, so I won't volunteer myself. Paul Gilbert

> R code works but the shared objects built from fortran code do not find > the appropriate libs with functions like __pow_ii or __epx at runtime. I used to have endless trouble with __pow_ii which as I recall could be be fixed by the correct incantation of the mix of compiler libraries and LD_LIBRARY_PATH. It seemed to be extremely sensitive and never easy to get right. The problem is

What is the Rd file alias and usage syntax for an S4 assignment method? I have been trying variations on \alias{TSdoc<-,default-method} \usage{ \S4method{TSdoc}{default}(x) <- value but so far I have not got it right according to various codoc, etc, checks. Paul Gilbert ==================================================================================== La version fran?aise

And a last post from Paul Gilbert. Thanks to all! This disscusion was really beneficial for me! -----Original Message----- From: Paul Gilbert [mailto:pgilbert at bank-banque-canada.ca] Sent: sre 2005-06-08 21:01 To: Gorjanc Gregor Subject: Re: [R] Random seed problem in MCMC coupling of chains Gorjanc Gregor wrote: > Thanks to Paul and Gabor for additional tips/examples. Actually, I find

I have a problem with my dynamically loaded code in R not finding pow_ii, which for some time I thought was because library f2c is not on my Sparcstation. However, I have now been experiencing the same problem in Linux, with all the proper libraries in place. My incomplete understanding of elf and shared libraries does not help, but when compiling a complete program I usually muddle through.