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# r-bugs@r-project.org `predict' complains about new factor levels, even if the "new" levels are merely levels in the original that didn't occur in the original fit and were sensibly dropped, and that don't occur in the prediction data either. (At least if `drop.unused.levels' was set to TRUE, which the default.) test> scrunge.data.2_ data.frame( y=runif( 3),

Dear r-users! I wonder if there is a way of designing a directory like structure for holding my data using environments? It would be nice if I could implement a kind of 'cd' command to change to a differend environment etc. Can anybody give me a hint? -cl -- Christoph Lange MPI fuer biologische Kybernetik |Phone: +49-7071-601-607| Postfach 2169, D-72012 Tuebingen |FAX:

Hi! I have renamed some functions and deleted others. I have noticed that R CMD check complains only about newly added functions, but documented non-anymore-existing functions seem not to matter. I knew about prompt and promptMethods promptClass. They are extremely useful if you are starting to write a package. But what with existing packages that have to be rewritten? Having code and

Dear list Can anyone suggest a simple way to abort execution like stop(...) does, but without issuing an "Error: ..." message? I don't want to set 'options( show.error.messages=TRUE)' because I want normal behaviour to resume after this particular stop. (Please reply personally as well as to the list, as I'm not subscribed to R-help) Thanks Mark -- Mark Bravington

There is a bug in `predict' whereby the order of variables sometimes gets re-arranged compared to the original fit, and then disaster results. Specifically, the 'variables' and 'predvars' attributes of a 'terms' object get out of synch. This only happens when the terms in the original formula get re-ordered during fitting: test> scrunge.data_ data.frame(

R can run external code in C, C++, Fortran, Delphi, etc., but the R extensions manual only gives limited documentation for anything but C and C++. It would be useful to have a collection of sample code showing how to dyn.load functions written in other languages, if necessary for a variety of different compilers, in case that makes a difference. Does such a collection already exist? If not,

Dear R-devel On my Windows 2000 machine, I can build R-patched but not R-devel (since at least 1/9/2004). An error message pops up during the execution of some R code during "make", as below. In terms of "make" etc., I am totally clueless (not being a user of either Linux or C) and just mechanically follow the instructions in the R documentation; hence I've got no idea

Several times my packages have fallen foul of the latex check at the uploading-to-CRAN stage, creating extra work for Kurt Hornik. I've never bothered trying to get latex working on my own packages (happy with vanilla help) but am told that "latex is the closest thing to a syntax checker for Rd files" and that I should set it up. Now, there is already a latex on my (Windows XP)

# # r-bugs@r-project.org # ###################################################### Because I work in different directories, but always want to save my .Rhistory in the same place, I have changed the system function savehistory to this: function (file = "D:/R50/.Rhistory") invisible(.Internal(savehistory(file))) When I use q() to quit R, and it asks me whether I want to

I've just had the error below while trying to install a package from source under R2.2.1 and Windows XP. I recall encountering this sporadically in the past. It is a pretty confusing message and took me quite some time to figure out; I've seen queries about it on the R site search, but couldn't find a reply. There's an attempted diagnosis and suggested cure below.

'getAnywhere' is not reporting methods when there are periods in the class name or the generic name (in R-devel). > getAnywhere( 'predict.loess') A single object matching 'predict.loess' was found It was found in the following places registered S3 method for predict from namespace modreg namespace:modreg with value <<...>> > getAnywhere(

Problem below with PCRE grep in R-devel; works fine in R-patched. (Unless there's been an absolutely massive change in rules for updated PCRE version 8.13; jeez I hope not) > grep( '[.][.]', '', perl=TRUE) Error in grep("[.][.]", "", perl = TRUE) : invalid regular expression '[.][.]' In addition: Warning message: In grep("[.][.]",

Hi, I'd like to know which functions in a package call one specific function. I think I've seen a tool for identifying such dependencies, but now I can't find it :-( Searches of help and R site search for keywords like function, call, tree, depend haven't helped :-( Can anyone point me in the right direction? Thanks in advance, Keith Jewell

A bit late for Santa, but on my wish-list nevertheless: is there any chance that "scan" and "readLines" could be extended to take a parameter "until" or "EOF.marker", which would be a character string that (if encountered while reading) would cause the reading to stop, just as if an end-of-file had been found? [But leaving a connection open, so that

Dear list members, I've been puzzling over how best to clean up the code for my Rcmdr package. In particular, there's a lot of repetitive tcltk code in the package, and as Martin M?chler has pointed out to me, this makes the package difficult to maintain. If R were Lisp, I'd use macros for much of the clean up. My efforts to do similar things with R functions has run into problems

When something gets printed by the "print.default" function, any extra attributes are printed without regard to their class attribute (if any). For example: > x <- 1:3 > attr( x, 'other') <- factor( c( 'cat', 'dog')) > attr( x, 'other') [1] cat dog Levels: cat dog > x [1] 1 2 3 attr(,"other") [1] 1 2 which is perhaps

Dear group I use "restart" in part of my code, in a way that's not easily changed to "try". As I convert code from R1.5.0 to R1.6.1, I'm getting ugly messages; the help system says to contact r-devel, so here I am. This one's a bit complicated-- sorry! The context is inside a debugger (I have an R and S debugger that offers stand-alone code windows, line numbered

Full_Name: Mark Bravington Version: 2.0.1 OS: Windows XP Submission from: (NULL) (140.79.22.104) 'getAnywhere' crashes when its argument starts with a period: > getAnywhere( '.onLoad') Error in exists(x, envir, mode, inherits) : invalid first argument One fix might be to replace the line if ( !is.null(f <- getS3method(gen, cl, TRUE))) { with if ( nchar( gen)

Thanks-- as Duncan Murdoch also noted, R_HISTFILE can be used to solve my problem, as below. BTW it's not easy to find out about R_HISTFILE in the help system or manuals, though, unless you already know it exists-- it only seems to be described under startup options, not things to do with history. However, Duncan's reply did hint at an inconsistency, in that savehistory() defaults to

I'm encountering excruciatingly slow load times for character vectors in R 2.6.0-- up to 30sec for a 15K file that contains a no-attributes character vector of length ~1e4 and object size ~0.5MB. In R 2.5.1, repeated loads of the same set of files are near-instantaneous. The problem is proving tricky to reproduce consistently from scratch, so I have attached the 3 files used in the examples