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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

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 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, 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

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, 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

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

Hello, when testing packages under R version 2.6.0 Under development (unstable), in order to discover future compatibility issues, I recently get numerous "possible problem notes" for different (own and other contributed) packages containing Tcl/Tk code, e.g.: * checking R code for possible problems ... NOTE sEdit : editVec : build: no visible global function definition

Dear list The deSolve package allows you to specify the model code in C or Fortran. Thanks to the excellent vignette this works fine. However I have not yet managed to use forcing functions in C code. In pure R code this works very well with approxfun() specified outside the model: ############################################### #Model lvml <- function(t, x, parms) {

We've added a column at http://cran.r-project.org/web/checks/check_summary.html of test results using the Sun Studio compiler: it is intended that these will be updated weekly. The Sun Studio compiler is that used on Solaris: these runs were on the Linux version. All the other platforms are using gcc 4, so this provides an opportunity for checking for use of gcc-specific features and

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

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().

Hello all, I discovered that the pdf device uses fonts to represent "points" symbols (as in plot(...,type="p",...) ). Namely it uses ZapfDingbats with symbol U+25cf. This can lead to problems when the font is not available, or available in another version (such as points being replaced by other symbols, or worst: slightly displaced). Furthermore, it also causes

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Dear list - Does anyone have any ideas / comments about why I am receiving the following warning when I run lsoda: 1: lsoda-- at t (=r1), too much accuracy requested in: lsoda(start, times, model, parms) 2: for precision of machine.. see tolsf (=r2) in: lsoda(start, times, model, parms) I have tried changing both rtol and atol but without success. I saw the thread in the

Dear all, The default plotting method for hclust trees looks just fine for few objects like in the example dataset. But when it comes to many features (eg some 1000 and more - I'm trying to visualize clustered microarray data) it renders a tree, that one cannot inspect, because of overlapping text and lines. My question is, is there a way or a plotting parameter for plotting a tree which is

Hello R Developers, This is my first foray into using c-code with R, so please forgive my foolishness. I had a look at the archives and did not find anything on this, so hopefully I am not doubling up. I have tried to use R cmd to create an object file from the odesolve dynload example. I am using windows and have just installed rtools, and have the latest version of stable R (2..7.2). This is

Hi all, Prefix: I am a frustrated Java coder in R. I am coding a medium sized ecosystem modelling program in R. I have changed to using S4 objects and it has cost me an order of magnitude in execution speed over the functional model. I cannot afford this penalty and have found that it is the result of all the passing-by-value of objects. I see that you can now safely inherit from

Hello One of my packages, untb_1.3-2, passes R CMD check under MacOSX (and apparently the systems used in the package check summary page on CRAN) but fails with the following message on R-2.6.0.tgz compiled last night on my (home) linux box. I hasten to add that I have never seen this error before on home-compiled pre-releases of R-2.6.0. Can anyone help me understand what is going on?