similar to: cairo anyone?

Hi all (especially R-core) I suppose, With the introduction of the new functional programming functions into base I thought I'd ask for a Curry() function. I use a simple one that looks this: Curry = function(FUN,...) { .orig = list(...);function(...) do.call(FUN,c(.orig,list(...))) } This comes in really handy when using say, heatmap():

Is the anonymous CVS repository for R presently broken? There haven't been many updates coming through and the repository files seem to differ significantly from the rsync version of R-devel... Byron Ellis (bellis@hsph.harvard.edu) "Oook" - The Librarian Please finger bellis@hsph.harvard.edu for PGP keys

Some quick questions about S4 methods. Does the typing of S4 methods mean that lazy evaluation is no longer possible? It seems that you would need to evaluate the arguments to determine their type at dispatch. Second, what role, if any, do default arguments play in S4 methods? I notice that you can put default arguments into generics but that the dispatch is still done on the type of the

For the last, I dunno, week or so I've been unable to build R... I finally took the time to investigate and the crash is in building 'methods': all.R is unchanged ../../../library/methods/man/methods.Rd is unchanged make[2]: `Makedeps' is up to date. ../../../../library/methods/libs/methods.so is unchanged make[1]: Nothing to be done for `Rfiles'. Any clues to where this

Hi all, I'm having a problem with some sort of interaction with try() and methods, I think. The setup is as follows, I have an S4 class that holds an environment and I would like to evaluate the right hand side of a function inside that environment. No problem there. However, if the formula involves a symbol that doesn't exist, which may or may not happen, it fails as it should and

So PCRE dropped into R-devel recently, I tried just dropping 3.9 (latest version) into src/extra/pcre and compiling on Win32 but its dying during the final link (undefined reference to 'pcre_free') is there some special magic I'm missing or do I get to hunt this one down on my own? Byron Ellis (bellis@hsph.harvard.edu) "Oook" - The Librarian Please finger

So, consider the following: > example(glm) > g = function(model) { w = runif(9);glm(model,weights=w); } > g(counts ~ outcome + treatment) Error in eval(expr, envir, enclos) : object "w" not found Huh?! I suspect that somebody is lazily evaluating arguments in the wrong environment (probably GlobalEnv in this case). I'm willing to accept the fact that there's

I encountered some wierdness when building R-devel (latest rsync) on OSX using commandline tools (as opposed to the Carbon GUI and whatnot...probably just laziness on my part but it generally works :-)). At any rate, sometime between 2002-07-05 and the present the configure scripts started setting INSTALL_DATA to ${R_HOME}/bin/install -c in Makeconf...which causes wierdness for the Mac OSX

> ---------- Forwarded message ---------- > From: Byron Ellis <ellis at stat.harvard.edu> > If we wanted to be truly radical we'd just accept that graphics > devices and event loops are just special cases of the connection and > merge the whole thing, thus more-or-less reinventing CLIM. :-) Eventually, all programming languages grow up and become Lisp. (progress,

Byron, I just read your blog (statcomp.blogspot.com, linked from your other post) and rand across your idea of an R/Flash graphics device. I've also been giving this some thought because of this amazing interactive flash app: http://tools.google.com/gapminder and others from http://www.gapminder.org/. I would love more than anything to work on this. The only hitch is that I'm so

Hi, I'm trying to understand (mostly from the R-exts manual) how to use the callbacks declared in Rinterface.h. As a first attempt, I'm trying to redefine ptr_R_WriteConsole in a very trivial manner. Here's my code: --------------- $ cat altr.c int Rf_initialize_R(int ac, char **av); #define R_INTERFACE_PTRS 1 #include <Rinterface.h> extern int R_running_as_main_program;

Hi, 1. I started work on a metapost graphics driver a week or so ago and it is gradually taking shape. I'm building up my own test cases into a script as I go, but figured you may have a "canonical testing script" of cases a driver must handle? 2. The clipping function looks like being a tricky problem. It seems to me that the callers of the driver assume that clipping affects all

Hello, I like much addTaskCallback() and friends. However, there are situations were we would like to have a function run BEFORE, not after every top-level tasks. I think specifically to reset options(width = ) to accommodate to the current width of the console, using something like: options(width = system("tput cols")) I am sure there are many other situations where this could be

Greetings R developers, R will run a little faster when executing "pure R" code if the function R_CheckStack() is modified. With the modification, the following code for example runs 15% faster (compared to a virgin R-2.5.1 on my Windows XP machine): N = 1e7 foo <- function(x) { for (i in 1:N) x <- x + 1 x }

Hi For all developers of add-on graphics devices: please note the existence of deviceIsInteractive() for adding your device to the list of devices for which dev.interactive() returns TRUE. (Available since R 2.6.0; thanks to Brian Ripley I think) Paul -- Dr Paul Murrell Department of Statistics The University of Auckland Private Bag 92019 Auckland New Zealand 64 9 3737599 x85392 paul at

I have some C data I want to pass back to R opaquely, and then back to C. I understand external pointers are the way to do so. I'm trying to find how they interact with garbage collection and object lifetime, and what I need to do so that the memory lives until the calling R process ends. Could anyone give me some pointers? I haven't found much documentation. An earlier message

I'm probably not the first with this idea so I guess that there's a complex issue behind it but since I couldn't find an answer I just though to ask: Wouldn't it be nice to have color coded objects as output of ls() statement? Functions of one color and rest with other (at least). So when I issue an ls() I could visually discern different types of objects. I often find myself

Hi All, My problem is about parallel execution of R-scripts. My platform is linux. A program that is written in C needs to execute multiple R-scripts simultaneously. The C program makes use of multi-threading. Each thread must initiate the execution of one script. Performance is very important. Appearantly the R C-API does not provide a mechanism for parallel execution.. It is preferred

I have a C function, which performs a transformation of a large integer matrix. The matrix may be of size 1.6GB, so I can have only one copy in RAM and have to modify it in place. This is possible using .Call and works fine. For debugging, I need two copies of a smaller matrix and modify only one of them. This may also be done, for example, by A <- some integer matrix B <- A +

Hello folks, I'm embarking on a project to embed R into the Apache web server, and I'd like your help. Currently, I'm looking for a way for R code to call back into a shared library from which the R shared library was loaded. Essentially, apache starts and loads mod_R.so which runs an initialization routine which calls Rf_initEmbeddedR() and the following code: /* override to