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Dear List: Sorry for posting maybe a trivial question, but I have a basic understanding problem. If I have say pack1 and pack2, two R packages, and pack2 depends on and imports pack1 fully (as in the code below), is there a way to make all the functionality of pack1 available for the global and other environments (not only for the functions called from withing pack2) by loading pack2 only? I

Dear list: I would like to override the default way R formats plot axes with a custom method(s). Obviously I would prefer to define it as general as possible avoiding writing a custom method for each individual class where possible. The plot.default method (and I assume other methods as well) calls Axis(...) to produce the axis layout depending on data. In this sense it seems reasonable to

Given S4 methods [ and [<-, how do I write the Rd-file usage clause for the latter one? What I have now is: \S4method{[}{TimeSeries,TimeDate,missing}(x, i, j, ..., drop) \S4method{[<-}{TimeSeries,TimeDate,missing,ANY}(x, i, j, ..., value) which results in the following output: ## S4 method for signature 'TimeSeries, TimeDate, missing': x[i, j, ..., drop]

Dear list: working with date/times I have come across a problem that ISOdate and ISOdatetime are too slow on large vectors of data. I was surprised just until I looked at the implementation and the man page: "ISOdatetime and ISOdate are convenience wrappers for strptime". In other terms, they convert data to character representation first in order to create a POSIXlt object that is then

Dear list: I am looking for a good way to create an S4 class that would extend numeric, but would allow NULL instead of data as well. As far as I can see there is no way at the moment to do that, but please correct me if I am wrong. The best solution I came up with so far was the following (it also indicates a problem of using setClassUnion with numeric as one of the classes): I define a class

Hi all: since about a month we encountered a problem with R -e command: spaces in the "command" of R -e "command" are no more tolerated. This same issue affects 2.11 patched (05-05-2010), 2.10.1, and current devel (at least the one of two weeks ago). (I skip the mid of the printouts, replaced with ...) * R -e "message('aaa aaa')" ARGUMENT

Following my previous post on S3 method despatch, I put debug messages in the code of Axis, Axis.default and plot.default in graphics/R/axis.R and graphics/R/plot.R to print the class of x, at and y on plot. After recompiling R, what I see is that x *lost* its class attribute (at least for classes not known to 'graphics') in Axis, called directly from plot.default and this could be the

The behaviour of the plot function when used with xlim/ylim and the matplot function as in the following simple example changed between R2.6.1 and 2.7.0+ producing ugly plots in the new versions. In case of plot it looks like the pretty function is called with wrong arguments (i.e. range of supplied data rather than values of xlim and ylim): m = matrix(c(-0.033, 0.009, 0.064, 0.050, 0.097,

Hi all, assume the following problem: a function call takes a function object and a data variable and calls this function with this data on a remote host. It uses serialization to pass both the function and the data via a socket connection to a remote host. The problem is that depending on the way we call the same construct, the function may be serialized to include the data, which was not

Hi all: following the previous discussion, it looks like plot(x) with y=NULL still does not work correctly. If one tries for example plot(1:5) it works, but already for plot(runif(100)) it does not. I posted the proposed correction for plot.POSIXct and plot.POSIXlt before. Please voice your opinions whether the following fix for plot.default could be reasonable? I include the full function and

Consider the C (or C++) code called from the .Call interface: SEXP foo() { SEXP *p = PROTECT(allocVector(REALSXP, 10)); ... UNPROTECT(1); return p; } Why is there no danger that the allocated memory will be garbage collected after the UNPROTECT, but before the return of p? I have used code like this for some time and have never had a problem, but I'm not sure if/why it is guaranteed

Hello, During a .Call e.g while(TRUE){ value <-rhsqnextKVR(rdr) ## has .Call in this function if(is.null(value)) break; } if I press CTRL-C, R exits straight to the command line. Q: How can I prevent this? I should point out that my library uses JNI, so I'm not sure if that is causing it. I'm using R-2.8 on Linux (RHEL 5) Thank you in advance Regards Saptarshi

Hi Suppose I have an S4 class "foo" and a validity checking function ".checkfoo()": setClass("foo", representation=representation("numeric")) setValidity("foo" , .checkfoo) is fine; in my application, .checkfoo() verifies that a bunch of necessary conditions are met. But .checkfoo() is very time consuming and I want to give users the option

Add the following to example section of a dot-Rd manpage: ## :WHY: The following kills R CMD check but runs fine on console. foos <- c("aaa", "bbb", "ccc") cat(sapply(foos, function(foo) { sprintf("name: %-18s upper: %s\n", foo, toupper(foo)) }), sep="") R CMD

Hello R-devel, I want to write extensions for R in C (maybe C++ and Fortran later) and it works fine, but there is one problem, which I cannot solve (in my view). I want to handle a matrix from R in C. For arrays there is "as.double(...)", but nothing for a matrix. I searched a while, but didn't find something. Last I looked at the source code of e1071 and of the core itself and

Hi Community, I have a question about how to pass command line parameters to R script running in the batch mode. The problem is: there is a banch of data files which are to be processed by R script called from a web-server, i.e. in the batch mode. The web server generates data files and passes their names calling 'R CMD BATCH' one by one for every file. Now the question is how to

Hi, I have two example packages, test1 and test2, where the only code in them is: setGeneric("predict", function(object, ...) standardGeneric("predict")) (get them from http://www.cs.mu.oz.au/~gabraham/test1.tar and http://www.cs.mu.oz.au/~gabraham/test2.tar) The difference between them is that first does not have a namespace, and loads fine. The second has a namespace

I have just installed R under Linux and had a tricky time finding out that I needed to install r-devel as it was not suggested by yum and does not appear in any of the FAQs. Everything was fine until I tried to install tseries then I was told in the compiler output that R.h was missing. Obviously a search on Google proved fruitless and I was forced to ask on r-help. I am now kicking myself, of

Hello everybody, it looks like the presense of some (do know know which) S4 methods for a given S4 class degrades the performance of xtfrm (used in 'order' in new R-devel) by a factor of millions. This is for classes that ARE derived from numeric directly and thus should be quite trivial to convert to numeric. Consider the following example: setClass("TimeDateBase",

Hello, is there any one who uses C++ STL classes when programming shared libs for R and has had any problems with STL? In the very simple example below I am constantly getting segfaults when trying to populate the queue. The segfault occurs at what looks like a random index in the loop when pushing another element to the queue. Reproduced on 4 machines. Object x is an Image as in EBImage,