similar to: some problems with r 1.5.0 on win2k

i installed the recent security patch for the ms java vm (dated early march 2002) on win2k and since then internet explorer regularly hangs when i try searching in r standard htlp help. can anybody either confirm this problem or tell me that it might be specific to my machine? -- Erich Neuwirth, Computer Supported Didactics Working Group Visit our SunSITE at http://sunsite.univie.ac.at Phone:

RColorBrewer 0.1-1 is available on CRAN. The packages provides palettes for drawing nice maps shaded according to a variable as an R function. The palettes have been designed by and are copyrighted by the ColorBrewer project. An interactive palette selection tool byt the original designers is available at http://colorbrewer.org -- -- Erich Neuwirth, Computer Supported Didactics Working Group

RColorBrewer 0.1-1 is available on CRAN. The packages provides palettes for drawing nice maps shaded according to a variable as an R function. The palettes have been designed by and are copyrighted by the ColorBrewer project. An interactive palette selection tool byt the original designers is available at http://colorbrewer.org -- -- Erich Neuwirth, Computer Supported Didactics Working Group

with todays r-devel..tar.gz make distribution hangs on my win98 machine. this is the las message i see MAKE[2]: Leaving directory `/cygdrive/c/devel/R-devel/src/gnuwin32/bitmap/jpeg-6 b' cp Rbitmap.dll ../../../bin MAKE[1]: Leaving directory `/cygdrive/c/devel/R-devel/src/gnuwin32/bitmap' after that, the it seems that sed is running and somehow hangs. i do have the tools from brians

1. This query belongs in r-help, not in r-devel 2. Pity about your shift key... 3. The function you need is deparse() rather than as.character(): > fff <- function(x) { + x*x + } > deparse(body(fff)) [1] "{" "x * x" "}" > 4. There is a reason why as.character works this way. It transforms to character from a more fundamental representation of

some of you might be interested. i just uploaded the first release of my r-excel interface package to CRAN. it is in contributed extensions nonstandard extensions erich neuwirth -- Erich Neuwirth, Computer Supported Didactics Working Group Visit our SunSITE at http://sunsite.univie.ac.at Phone: +43-1-4277-38624 Fax: +43-1-4277-9386

some of you might be interested. i just uploaded the first release of my r-excel interface package to CRAN. it is in contributed extensions nonstandard extensions erich neuwirth -- Erich Neuwirth, Computer Supported Didactics Working Group Visit our SunSITE at http://sunsite.univie.ac.at Phone: +43-1-4277-38624 Fax: +43-1-4277-9386

i have created a package which allows R to play sounds the package is available from http://sunsite.univie.ac.at/~neuwirth/Rcsound/ both as zipped binary for windows and as installable tar.gz preequisite: you have to install csound on yout machine. the necessary links are at http://www.csound.org csound is a very portable program for creating sounds, and using it as out sound creation tool we

doing make -f Makewfile.win test-Internet in tests gave make[1]: Leaving directory `/cygdrive/d/Work/R-devel/tests' D:/Work/R-devel/bin/Rterm --vanilla LC_ALL=C --internet2 --vanilla < internet.R > internet.Rout2 diff internet.Rout internet.Rout2 99,100c99,100 < unable to resolve 'foo.bar'. < Error in url("http://foo.bar", "r") : cannot open URL

In the windows version (RGui), is there a way to set the text displayed in the titlebar of the R window? When I have 2 instances of RGui running, it would be helpul if the titlebar could help to understand which is which. -- Erich Neuwirth, Computer Supported Didactics Working Group Visit our SunSITE at http://sunsite.univie.ac.at Phone: +43-1-4277-38624 Fax: +43-1-4277-9386

i installed r for window 1.2.1 and suddenly rcmd build does not work any more. C:\work\checked.out>rcmd build Please set TMPDIR to a valid temporary directory C:\work\checked.out>echo %TMPDIR% C:\Documents and Settings\Erich Neuwirth\Local Settings\Temp and this is a valid directory. things worked smoothly in 1.2.0 what can i do? -- Erich Neuwirth, Computer Supported Didactics

Today we uploaded a new release of the R (D)COM server for Windows to CRAN. It is release 1.35 The software is much more stable, and there are quite a few improvements. Excerpts from the NEWS file: RServerManager has been added. This provides a repository for R COM servers. See the samples and the additional documentation Partial rewrite of the code for SetSymbol() and GetSymbol(). Now

Today we uploaded a new release of the R (D)COM server for Windows to CRAN. It is release 1.35 The software is much more stable, and there are quite a few improvements. Excerpts from the NEWS file: RServerManager has been added. This provides a repository for R COM servers. See the samples and the additional documentation Partial rewrite of the code for SetSymbol() and GetSymbol(). Now

In some languages there is a function gensym() which returns a new unique name (in the current environment). This is quite helpful when one has to do temporary assignments. I could not find such a function in R. Is there one? -- Erich Neuwirth, Computer Supported Didactics Working Group Visit our SunSITE at http://sunsite.univie.ac.at Phone: +43-1-4277-38624 Fax: +43-1-4277-9386

hist(rbinom(1000,10,0.5),col=2,xlim=c(0,10),ylim=c(0,300)) gives a histogram with "touching bars" hist(rbinom(100000,10,0.5),col=2,xlim=c(0,10),ylim=c(0,30000)) gives a histogram with space between the bars. is there a way to control the space betweent he bars easily? -- Erich Neuwirth, Computer Supported Didactics Working Group Visit our SunSITE at http://sunsite.univie.ac.at

Using Thomas Baier's DCOM server I can do the following (in Windows 2000): I create a slider in Excel, and the sliders On_Change event triggers a call to R. This call redraws an R graph, and so I have animated R graphics controlled by Excel's slider. The problem is that Excel needs focus so i can grab the slider, and therefore it partially covers R's graph window. Is there a way to

I would like to be able to double click on an R source file and by that start R and have the file sourced in R. I am using WinXP Pro. So I created an association for file type R and tye following Run action: "C:\Program Files\R\rw1090beta\bin\Rgui.exe" R_PROFILE=%1 I have an R file with the following lines at the beginning. library(vcd) votes<-array(0,10*7*9*2)

i just used read.fwf (which calls perl) and i noticed something. i also have mat;lab installed on this machine, and matlab also installs a version of perl, but a different one. additionally, matlab puts its bin directory in the system path. so, if one does not canerully set the path, r will call the matlab verion of perl, and things won't work. if anybody is collection a list of pitfalls,

when i do print(date()) the output is [1] "Wed Sep 29 09:13:04 1999\n" ios it on purpose the the linfeed is shown as abbreviation and not done? -- Erich Neuwirth, Computer Supported Didactics Working Group Visit our SunSITE at http://sunsite.univie.ac.at Phone: +43-1-4277-38624 Fax: +43-1-4277-9386 -.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-

Prof Brian Ripley wrote: > > Yes, we need one. I am having problems with Erich's latest add-in: > it works about every other time, I think because is has some memory of the > previous one. I don't think Excel 2000 removes add-ins cleanly. > brian, we had a stress test of the addin yesterday election ight forecast, the systen was running about 8 hours without any problems.