similar to: package check note: no visible global function definition (in functions using Tcl/Tk)

Dear R developers, I recently observed a NOTE on several MaxOS X package checks: sh: line 1: gs: command not found !!! Error: Closing Ghostscript (exit status: 127)! /usr/bin/texi2dvi: thumbpdf exited with bad status, quitting. See for details: http://www.r-project.org/nosvn/R.check/r-release-macosx-ix86/simecol-00check.html or

Hello, I wonder why the control parameter REPORT is not supported by method SANN. Looking into optim.c I found an internal constant: #define STEPS 100 ... and decreasing this to 10 helped me fine-tuning the annealing parameters in an actual problem. Is there any reason why not passing nREPORT to samin and setting something like: STEPS = nREPORT / tmax Thomas P. -- Thomas Petzoldt

Dear R developers, I observed that the html help page index entry "Read overview or browse directory" for package vignettes is missing in recent R-devel. This happened on two independent computers (WinXP Prof. SP3, German) with R-devel compiled from sources svn rev. 48125 resp. 48128 It's the same for my own and also for more prominent packages as well (e.g. grid). The

Dear R developers, I tried to use nlminb instead of optim for a current problem (fitting parameters of a differential equation model). The PORT algorithm converged much better than any of optim's methods and the identified parameters are plausible. However, it took me a while before spotting the reason of a technical problem that nlminb, in contrast to optim, does not pass names of the

Dear R developers, we have currently a 'mysterious' test problem with one package that successfully passed the tests on all platforms, with the only exception of Solaris x86 where obviously one of our help examples breaks the CRAN test. As we don't own such a machine I want to ask about a possibility to run a few tests on such a system: r-patched-solaris-x86 An even more recent

Dear useRs, a new and completely re-worked version of the "simecol" package SIMulatiion of ECOLogical (and other) dynamic systems is now available on CRAN. Compared to the S3 based 0.2-x versions an improved object model using S4 classes was employed. Please ask me for assistance in case of incompatibility. Comments are welcome, Thomas Petzoldt

Dear useRs, a new and completely re-worked version of the "simecol" package SIMulatiion of ECOLogical (and other) dynamic systems is now available on CRAN. Compared to the S3 based 0.2-x versions an improved object model using S4 classes was employed. Please ask me for assistance in case of incompatibility. Comments are welcome, Thomas Petzoldt

Dear R developers, some of our packages come with additional programming examples in a directory called "/examples" which is created from "/inst/examples". This directory is linked from the docs (e.g. in inst/doc/index.html): <dl> <dt><a href="../examples/">examples</a>: <dd>Source code of examples </dl> Given, that we have a

Hello, first of all, thanks to LT for \pkg{codeutils}. I agree that it is indeed very useful to identify errors and also to encourage re-thinking past solutions. My problem: I want to compare different sets of related sub-functions which should be used alternatively by the same top-level function. Sets of related functions should be bound together (as lists) and the workspace should be as clean

I am looping through various models with different combinations of independent variables which are stored as columns in x glm(y ~ ??, data=x) How can I pass the colnames of the selected columns of x into ?? seperating them with a + ie I want to generate glm(y ~ x1 + x2, data=x) glm(y ~ x2 + x3, data=x) glm(y ~ x1 + x2 + x4, data=x) ... I have tried the sedit function

Hello, is it *really intentional* that the "silent" option of try() does only apply to the outer call in nested try constructs? I would assume that a silent try() should suppress all error messages regardless where they occur, even if they are already handled with other try()'s. The error message itself should be (and is in both cases) reported by the return value of try().

Dear R developers, if one uses package.skeleton() to create a new package, then a file anRpackage.Rd with the following entries is prepared: \name{anRpackage-package} \alias{anRpackage-package} \alias{anRpackage} \docType{package} Packages created this way have a definite entry or overview page, so: ?anRpackage gives new users of a certain package a pointer where to start reading. This is

I everyone, i have a little problem with tklistbox,the " " character and Rcmdr. Please look at this code require(tcltk) tt<-tktoplevel() levels.list2 <-tklistbox(tt,selectmode="multiple",exportselection="FALSE", height=4, yscrollcommand=function(...)tkset(levels.list2.scroll,...))

Within a loop I tried to draw some things in dependency on the position of the mouse. This works fine with R-1.5.1 but R-1.6.1 requires to include some delay by Sys.sleep(delay) with delay>=0.015. For smaller values (e.g. 0.0001) the top level tcltk-window does not appear and so I am not able to control the elements to be plotted using the tcltk-widget. Question1: How can I force

Greetings: I wish to use a tcl/tk widget to ask for user-selected parameter values. My widget works ? it asks for and returns to my workspace the stuff I need. Here is a snippet of my code: ############################### OnOK <- function() { LOG.X <<- as.logical(as.character(tclvalue(log.X.buttonValue))) LOG.Y <<- as.logical(as.character(tclvalue(log.Y.buttonValue)))

Dear list, Could somebody who is more experienced with the Tcl/Tk interface from R please help me clarify the issues I've put below with ### --> tags? Several things go wrong, and it's probably because of messy code, but I have a difficult time finding out what is the cause. Thanks very much, JeeBee. require(tcltk) || stop("Package tcltk is not available.") # Add path to

hello, i would like program userfriendly tcl/tk widgets like the t-test example in a more complex way ! (1) Is it not possible to combine tk_getOpenFile with the R function read.table to select in userfriendly way data sets ? (I'm newbie and take code-parts from t-test example and scripting example.) (2) Is it possible to use a variableSelection widget to select a special variable which i

Hello, I'm very new in working with tcl/tk in R and have a problem which will probably sound silly to most of you. Here is the code I have problems with: readcelfiles <- function() { require(tcltk) tt <- tktoplevel() tkgrid(tklabel(tt,text="Choose a directory!")) OnOK <- function() { fileDir<-tclvalue(tkchooseDirectory()) data.raw <-

Hello, I have the TCl/Tk command "tkmessageBox(titel="",message="x",icon="question",type="okcancel")" in my R script. Now I want to perform some operation in relation to the user's choice, something like "if (okpressed) xxx else yyy" What values does this command give and how are they used? Thank you, Richard -- Richard M?ller -

Hello, I am sorry if this is an answered question, but I did my homework for a long while and couldn't figure out a way to retrieve data entry from a model dialog. In one of the examples compiled by James Wettenhall: odalDialog <- function(title, question, entryInit, entryWidth = 20, returnValOnCancel = "ID_CANCEL") { dlg <- tktoplevel() tkwm.deiconify(dlg)