similar to: R data inspection under gdb?

Hi, Again, sorry for the length of this post. Once I get my new office I will get a website set up on my work machine and will simply post a link to the log since I doubt many people are truly interested in these logs. To further analyze what is happening, I added my own routine in main.c called DEBUG_SET_NAMED and then redefined the SET_NAMED macro to use it and then rebuilt R. I

Hi All, Well I finally have found the time to get svn working and I have successfully built my own tuned atlas (multi-threaded version) libs and have both the r-devel and r-patched trees building daily on my box. The problem is I still do not have a good idea of the layout and design of R, and typically I "learn by doing" by trying to fix a bug that hits me. Unfortunately ;-)

Dear all, It seems that textConnection() can trigger a segmentation fault. The following script (using two large loops) makes this bug reproducible: for (i in 1:10000) { z=textConnection(NULL,open='w') for (j in 1:100) { write(runif(1)*1e6,file=z) write('\n',file=z) } close(z) } The bug could be reproduced on R-2.6.1, R-2.7.0 and on the latest R-devel

I'm trying to track down a bug in some experimental code, where an object's attribute is getting messed up. This means I'd like to examine R objects while within gdb. One of the things I'd like to do is to examine the names of all the attributes. This is exactly what an example in the R Extensions manual section 4.11.2 "Inspecting R objects when debugging" does,

Dear all, When using gdb to debug my C code, I use R_PV to show the content of SEXP variables: SEXP sexp; // it is a data.frame SEXP colNames = getAttrib(sexp, R_NameSymbol); A strange thing is that after halting the program: (gdb) p R_PV(colNames) does not show the content of colNames. I am positive my code is right because if I insert "PrintValue(colNames);" in the c code,

I am grateful for the advice of Douglas Bates on my earlier problem in making R-0.62.1, but I'm afraid I'm still having problems.... I have been installing the various updates to R for quite some time on my alpha, and it is only now that I have been having really severe problems. The three or 4 versions before 0.61.1 installed without error. For 0.61.1 I needed to install GNU make. For

Hi Frederick, I described what I meant in the post I sent to R-help (https://stat.ethz.ch/pipermail/r-help/2016-September/442174.html), but in brief, by "zero overhead" I mean that the only thing needed for library code to be accessible to client code is for it to be located in designed directory. No additional meta-files, packaging/compiling, etc. are required. Best, G. On Sun, Oct

On Mon, Oct 3, 2016 at 10:18 AM, <frederik at ofb.net> wrote: > Hi Kynn, > > Thanks for expanding. > > I wrote a function like yours when I first started using R. It's > basically the same up to your "new.env()" line, I don't do anything > with environmentns. I just called my function "mysource" and it's > essentially a "source

I'm an experienced programmer, but learning R is making me lose the little hair I have left... > list(NULL) [[1]] NULL > length(list(NULL)) [1] 1 > x <- list() > x[[1]] <- NULL > x list() > length(x) [1] 0 >From the above experiment, it is clear that, although one can create a one-element list consisting of a NULL element, one can't get the same result by

I'm looking for a way to approximate the "zero-overhead" model of code reuse available in languages like Python, Perl, etc. I've described this idea in more detail, and the motivation for this question in an earlier post to R-help (https://stat.ethz.ch/pipermail/r-help/2016-September/442174.html). (One of the responses I got advised that I post my question here instead.) The

Dear Rdevelers, ? ? ?The following struct is in the Rinternals.h. I want to know ?the meanings of labels or names like "gp,mark,obj,named,trace....." . TKS! struct sxpinfo_struct { ? ? SEXPTYPE type ? ? ?: ?5;/* ==> (FUNSXP == 99) %% 2^5 == 3 == CLOSXP ? ? * -> warning: `type' is narrower than values ? ? * ? ? ? ? ? ? ?of its type ? ? * when SEXPTYPE was an enum

Let me preface my question by stressing that I am much less interested in the answer than in learning a way I could have *found the answer myself*. (As helpful as the participants in this list are, I have far too many R-related questions to resolve by posting here, and as I've written before, in my experience the R documentation has not been very helpful, but I remain hopeful that I may have

Hi! I'm new to R programming, though I've been programming in other languages for years. One thing I find most frustrating about R is how difficult it is to use Google (or any other search tool) to look for answers to my R-related questions. With languages with even slightly more distinctive names like Perl, Java, Python, Matlab, OCaml, etc., usually including the name of the language

Hi! I'm working on a package that must convert data to and from JSON. For this, it can use either the rjson package, or preferably, the faster RJSONIO package. I have two related questions about this. First, how can I specify that the package depends on *either* RJSONIO *or* rjson? (I.e. both are not required.) Second, what's the best-practice R idiom for such conditional loading?

Is there a *fast* converter between JSON and R? I'm aware of the rjson package, but it is implemented in R, and it is too slow for my purposes. TIA! kynn [[alternative HTML version deleted]]

I'm in the process of coding a parser (in C) to generate R entities (vectors, lists, etc.) from a text description (different from R). The basic parser works, and now I need to tell it how to create R entities. I need to be able to create character vectors (for unicode strings), integers, floats, unnamed lists, named lists, boolean values, and NA. With the exception of the two types of lists

When converting from JSON to R it seems logical that a JSON array would correspond to an "unnamed" R list, while a JSON object would correspond to a "named" R list. E.g. JSON: [1, 3.1415927, "foo", false, null] => R: list(1, 3.1415927, "foo", FALSE, NA); and JSON { "int": 1, "float": 3.1415927, "string": "foo",

I'm very green with R, so maybe this is not a bug, but it looks like one to me. The following program segfaults at the second call to Rf_PrintValue(). To failure depends on the value of the y-string. E.g., if I change it from "coverage" to, say, "COVERAGE", the segfault does not occur. /* bug.c */ #include <stdio.h> #include <Rinternals.h> #include

Suppose function foo calls function bar. Is there any way in which bar can find out the name of the function that called it, "foo"? There are two generalization to this question that interest me. First, can this query go farther up the call stack? I.e. if bar now calls baz, can baz find out the name of the function that called the function that called it, i.e. "foo"?

Hi. I'm pretty new to R, but I've been programming in other languages for some time. I have a couple of questions regarding programming with function objects. 1. Is there a way for a function to refer generically to all its actual arguments as a list? I'm thinking of something like the @_ array in Perl or the arguments variable in JavaScript. (By "actual" I mean the ones