similar to: RE: [R] ^ operation much slower in R 1.7.1 than in R 1.7 .0 ???

I used the packaged "MinGW-2.0.0-3.exe" exactly as specified on http://www.stats.ox.ac.uk/pub/Rtools/ - in fact I used these recommendations throughout. According to the release notes MinGW version 2.0.0 contains the following list of packages: GCC-3.2-core-20020817-1 binutils-2.13-20020903-1 mingw-runtime-2.2 w32api-2.0 gdb-5.1.1-1 make-3.79.1-20010722 (binary renamed as mingw32-make)

I do not understand what happens here (under Win XP): a <- abs(matrix(rnorm(800*800)/2, ncol=800, nrow=800)) system.time(b <- a^1000)[3] took about 1 sec on my computer with R 1.7.0 and it takes now 4.59 sec with R 1.7.1 Similarly, phi <- 1.6180339887498949 a <- floor(runif(750000)*1000) system.time(b <- (phi^a - (-phi)^(-a))/sqrt(5))[3] took about 0.9 sec with R 1.7.0, and it

I do not understand what happens here (under Win XP): a <- abs(matrix(rnorm(800*800)/2, ncol=800, nrow=800)) system.time(b <- a^1000)[3] took about 1 sec on my computer with R 1.7.0 and it takes now 4.59 sec with R 1.7.1 Similarly, phi <- 1.6180339887498949 a <- floor(runif(750000)*1000) system.time(b <- (phi^a - (-phi)^(-a))/sqrt(5))[3] took about 0.9 sec with R 1.7.0, and it

Hi, We - Venkatesh Mysore and Salvatore Paxia of the New York University's Bioinformatics Group under Prof.Bud Mishra - have been working on enhancements to R for a while now. We're happy to announce that we have some good stuff up and running now: 1. A debuggable Microsoft Visual C version ( _MSC_VER) of R-1.7.0: R-1.7.0-msc (YES !!!!) 2. COM/OLE-support that will allow invoking of

I am having problems getting the unz() function to work as a connection to start reading a file... z <- unz("c:/temp/stoxx.zip", "close_tmi_components.txt", "r") readLines(z,2) yields the following problems: > z <- unz("c:/temp/stoxx.zip", "close_tmi_components.txt", "r") Error in unz("c:/temp/stoxx.zip",

I have been building a package around a sequence of S4 classes which I have coded in separate *.R files in the "./R" subdirectory of the package. The package builds without error, but when I load it in R I get: Error in reconcilePropertiesAndPrototype(name, slots, prototype, superClasses) : Class "xxxx" extends an undefined class ("yyyyyy" I guess R is trying to

I am having problems porting a package to R-1.8.0 where I have complex S4 classes with slots inheriting from POSIXct. For example: > setClass("test1", representation(date="POSIXct")) [1] "test1" > new("test1", date=as.POSIXct("2003-10-09")) Error in ext@test(object) : couldn't find function "%in %" Under R-1.7.1 this worked

OK, I have made a little search about this "problem" that apparently occurs only on Windows platform... (but I am sure most of you are already aware of it): the slow down is due to the adoption of a different algorithm for pow in mingw 3.x. This is motivated by some other changes in mingw. Here is a quote of Danny Smith that did this change: >When mingw changed default FPU settings

Hi all, Using R a as a real-time application called by Php for a website, I would like to run one R process only, which would manage user connections. For the time each user who asks for an analysis causes a new R process to start, which is not suitable in prevision of many users. R needs about 30 seconds to run the script which makes the analysis. The problem is that this waiting time is n

I have justed upgraded R v1.7.0 on Windows NT 4 and have installed the latest RMySQL (version 0.5-1)and DBI (version 0.1-5) packages. When I issue the following commands (tactfully adjusted) R just crashes and disappears, any ideas? require(RMySQL) m <- dbDriver("MySQL") con <- dbConnect(m, dbname="xxx", user="xxx", password="xxx",

It concerns trival diagonal matrices: > diag(1) [,1] [1,] 1 > diag(rnorm(1)) <0 x 0 matrix> > diag(rnorm(1),nrow=1) [,1] [1,] 0.4843697 There's an obvious work around... but I thought it was worth notifying the list. Regards, John Marsland ********************************************************************** This is a commercial communication from

Does anybody have a tuned Rblas.dll compiled against ALTLAS for a dual Xeon system? Unfortunately, we have very strict security that does not allow compilers of any sort on production desktops - we only have Pentium III development PCs. Regards, John Marsland ********************************************************************** This is a commercial communication from Commerzbank AG.\ \

I have been having problems making the recommended packages under windows NT when WINHELP is set to NO. It seems to go ahead and create the chm files and then fall over with an error. The base packages work fine. Clearly I can fix this myself messily, but I thought it might be useful feedback. Regards, John Marsland _ platform i386-pc-mingw32 arch i386 os mingw32 system

Hi, I'm developing an R/TclTk application which uses the BWidget and Tktable Tk extensions and I'm trying to make it easy to install. For now, I'm focusing on Windows users who start with nothing. I have built Tcl/Tk and Tktable for windows using Msys/MinGW. (BWidget contains only Tcl scripts so does not need building.) I have then copied Tktable and BWidget into the lib subdirectory

Does anybody have some simple instructions to get me going using the GNU debugger GDB under windows with R? The R Extensions manual mentions briefly debugging under unix, but I've seen seen GDB mention in the Bloodshed Dev C++ IDE so it should be possible to use it with R? Regards, John [Using R-1.8.0 under Windows NT 4.0]

Yes, lots of packages do use C/Fortran code ... it would be great if there were more packages that are "pure R" especially since the advent of S4 classes and namespaces. Is it worth suggesting that we create a designation "pure R" for packages that have no external source code and encourage more of these? Indeed, now the number of packages is so big could they be classified to

Hi I can't get R to connect to the internet. I am running R 1.7.1 on Windows XP and whenever I try to download packages etc from within R using the internet, it fails. OK so I am behind a firewall and use a proxy server.... SO, if I go to my MS-DOS prompt and type: RGui.exe --internet2 everything works.... BUT i can't set up a shortcut for this as Windows (I hate Windows) complains

I'm sure that many people are in the same position as me in that they are trying to write packages and code that is vaguely "future proof". Would it be possible to get some guidance on how the R-core team see the evolution of the "base" package with regard to s4 methods. There seem to be quite a lot of inconsistencies between s3 and s4 methods and classes currently and

I have been writing some S4 classes and have a problem about how I might pass a signature to "c()". Take the following example: setClass("collection", representation("list", date="POSIXt")) x <- new("collection", list(1,2,3), date=Sys.time()) y <- new("collection", list(4,5,6), date=Sys.time()) obviously, I can do c(x,y), but

Hi, I was able to connect to a MySQL database (called "zooscan" and with a table "serie" under Win XP with R 1.6.2 using: > library(DBI) > library(RMySQL) Warning message: DLL attempted to change FPU control word from 8001f to 9001f > drv <- dbDriver("MySQL") > con <- dbConnect(drv, dbname="zooscan") > dbExistsTable(con,