similar to: Trailing "/" makes file.exists() return FALSE (PR#1098)

Where should the setClass() ('methods' package) calls be placed in a package? I try to follow a one-class-one-file principe, but since setClass("ClassA", "ClassB") has to come a after setClass("ClassB", [snip]) it is not possible to fully follow this rule. So the best I can do now is to put all setClass() calls in a file named "000.R" (I know this

Full_Name: Henrik Bengtsson Version: 1.3.1 OS: WinMe Submission from: (NULL) (130.235.2.229) I suggest the following \seealso to be added for savehistory: \seealso{ To execute \code{savehistory} automatically when \R quits see \link{.Last} and \link{.Rprofile}. } -.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.- r-devel mailing list -- Read

Dear all/anyone, after generating a HTML file "result.html" from within [R], I would like to open the default HTML browser (like help.start() does) to show the file. Is it possible to do this (without trying to do a system dependent search for possible browsers)? I browsed the source of package 'base' (R v1.4.1 WinMe) and I found the following in help():

Hi, I am not sure if this is a bug or a non-implement feature of text-drawing functions with TeX-style expression, but hat() and some of its equals does not get the right "bounding boxes" if they are put in sub- or superscripts. For instance, for the expression 'b[hat(a)]' the hat() seems to shift 'hat(a)' too much to the right of 'b'. Try the below example and

I am investigating how well R/tcltk is supported on different system and I ran into the same problem as Christian Schulz reported on February 7, 2002. I am using [R] v1.4.1 on WinMe and ActiveTcl 8.3.2. Loading tcltk within Rgui works just fine and both demo(tkdensity) and demo(tkttest) works as expected. However, when I start R from my Cygwin terminal dyn.load() fails to load the library: % R

Before reinventing the wheel, is there a package for working on (nice) sets and intervals, where one can for instance check if a set of intervals contains a scalar, taking the union and intersection of some intervals etc? Example: # Defining the set i = [1,2) + [3.5, 10] i <- c(1,2, 3.5, 10) attr(i, "include") <- c(TRUE, FALSE, TRUE, TRUE) x <- 0:12 # Get

Full_Name: Henrik Bengtsson Version: R v1.7.1 OS: WinXP Pro, Solaris 9 Submission from: (NULL) (130.235.2.229) A colleague of mine who is new to R had problems setting up his .Rprofile and we tracked it down to the following. On both WinXP and Solaris with Rv1.7.1 we noticed that the *last* line in .Rprofile has to have a *newline* to be evaluated. For instance, starting R with the following

Dear [R] people, I am looking for a method to test if there are any changes (jump points) in a time series data set or not. If there are, I would like to identify the jump points. All the data is available from the beginning so an offline method could be used. The current data set that I have could be seen as a time series with five almost equally sized segments that stands out to have different

I use smooth.spline(x, y) in package modreg and I would like to get value of penalized log likelihood and preferable also its two parts. To make clear what I am asking for (and make sure that I am asking for the right thing) I clarify my problem trying to use the same notation as in help(smooth.spline): I want to find the natural cubic spline f(x) such that L(f) = \sum_{k=1}{n} w[k](y[k] -

A binary distribution of R-1.4.0 to run on Windows 95, 98, NT4.0, 2000 and XP on Intel/clone chips is available at http://sirio.stat.unipd.it/RWin It will be mirrored at a CRAN site near you in a couple of days. See http://sirio.stat.unipd.it/RWin/CHANGES for a list of Windows-specific changes. guido masarotto

A binary distribution of R-1.4.0 to run on Windows 95, 98, NT4.0, 2000 and XP on Intel/clone chips is available at http://sirio.stat.unipd.it/RWin It will be mirrored at a CRAN site near you in a couple of days. See http://sirio.stat.unipd.it/RWin/CHANGES for a list of Windows-specific changes. guido masarotto

Is there a weighted median function out there similar to weighted.mean() but for medians? If not, I'll try implement or port it myself. The need for a weighted median came from the following optimization problem: x* = arg_x min (a|x| + sum_{k=1}^n |x - b_k|) where a : is a *positive* real scalar x : is a real scalar n : is an integer b_k: are negative and positive scalars

Full_Name: Henrik Bengtsson Version: R v1.4.1 OS: WinMe Submission from: (NULL) (217.208.14.137) Doing the following library(methods) setGeneric("foo", function(x) standardGeneric("foo")) setMethod("foo", "ANY", function(x) cat(x)) fails with Error in while (value[n] == "ANY") n <- n - 1 : missing value where logical needed It

Hi, just in the process of updating my packages for R v2.0.0 and I have not had time to followed the R v2.0.0 discussions so maybe my questions have already been answered. A concern I have is that when creating packages they should be backward compatible with R v1.9.x for a while until all users and computers has migrated to R v2.0.x. It is pretty straightforward to setup my packages so that

With tryCatch() it is possible to catch interrupts with tryCatch(). Then you can use a 'finally' statement to clean up, release resources etc. However, how can I "protect" against additional interrupts? This is a concern when the hold down Ctrl+C and generates a sequence of interrupts. Example: tryCatch({ cat("Press Ctrl+C...\n"); Sys.sleep(5); }, interrupt =

Dear R developers, I will ask a very straightforward question concerning UseMethod's future, because people depending on my code wonder what will happen to it next. In R v2.0.1 NEWS it says o The undocumented use of UseMethod() with no argument is now formally deprecated. and in the R v2.0.1 help(UseMethod) it says 'UseMethod' accepts a call with no arguments and tries to

Dear all, I can't see how setGeneric() works. I know perfectly well how to define library(methods); setClass("Square", representation(side="numeric")); # Will become the default method. getArea <- function(object) { stop(paste("Method getArea() is not defined for this class:", data.class(object))); } setMethod("getArea",

Full_Name: Henrik Bengtsson Version: R v1.4.0 OS: Solaris 8 Submission from: (NULL) (130.235.3.49) When I am trying the following on Rv1.4.0 on Solaris 8, I get that the "cannot close output sink connection": % R --vanilla tmpfile <- tempfile() # Create a filename that does not exist for(k in 1:100) { cat(k, ": "); try(fh <- file(tmpfile, "r"))

Hi, I'm creating a lot of tables in a file for inclusion in a Latex document. When I try to compile that document there is an error "too many unprocessed floats." Is there a way to correct this? Also, in a Latex table I want R to put in a $\beta$ in the caption, but it puts a weird system character instead of the \b Brian

When loading a package with library(APkg) or require(APkg) I would like to make sure that (1) the correct version of [R] is installed. If not an informative error message should be given. I would also like to make sure that (2) another required package which is loaded from within the APkg package (by require(OtherPkg)) is of a certain version or later. First of all, I believe that the check