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Is there an easy way to compile a packages's fortran so that it has the information for ddd or gdb to follow the lines of the code? I seem to remember seeing something about this, but I cannot find it in Writing R Extensions. (I see about Valgrind, debugging a segfault, and some other tricks, but what I really want is to follow the fortran logic.) Thanks for any pointers, Paul

I am trying to extend an S3 method to work with an S4 object as well as the S3 objects it works with, but UseMethod does not seem to recognize the S4 class and dispatches to the default method. Is this to be expected or should I be looking for an error in my code? If it is not an error in my code, is there an easy way to do this, or do I have to convert the generic to S4 and then make those

I am trying to check my packages with R-rc and latex is failing to find utf8.def. I presume my latex installation is defective or too old, or is this file distributed with R and I just don't have a path set correctly? Paul ______________ * checking PDF version of manual ... WARNING LaTeX errors when creating PDF version. This typically indicates Rd problems. LaTeX errors found: !

I was trying to subscribe to an RSS feed from <http://developer.r-project.org/RSSfeeds.html> but IE chokes on DTDs and Firefox also has trouble with this feed. (I'm not sure if it has trouble with DTDs in general.) I went to one of our web developers to see what I should use to read the feed, and he pointed out that the mix of RSS 2.00 and rss-0.91 looks like a mistake: <!--

I am having the following problem building R-beta_2009-10-12_r50045.tar.gz on Ubuntu 9.04 - the Jaunty Jackalope Paul ________ ... make[2]: Entering directory `/home/paul/toolchain/R/R-beta/src/library/Recommended' begin installing recommended package boot gzip: invalid option -- 'x' Try `gzip --help' for more information. tar: This does not look like a tar archive

Is it possible in R to call a fortran routine that sets variables in a common block and expect the values to persist when a call is made from R to a second routine that uses the common block? If not (as I suspect), is it possible to use a common block in a group of routines that are used together, for as long the routines do not return to R? Paul

I am trying to understand the missing vs default value for an argument to an S4 method. (I'm not sure if this is a bug or my confusion.) In S3 I can specify a default value for an argument and then both check if the argument was missing in the call, and use it because it takes on the default value. I do not seem to be able to do that in S4 as shown by this simplified example:

Are the messages below to be expected from make check-all ? using the rc today, Aug 21, on Red Hat Enterprise Linux AS release 4 (Nahant Update 4) Kernel 2.6.9-42.0.8.ELsmp on an x86_64 Paul ________ .... checking package 'utils' .... * checking R code for possible problems ... NOTE install.packages: no visible global function definition for ?.install.winbinary? install.packages: no

Unfortunately, RNGkind is buggy. It will not generate warnings except the full name "Buggy Kinderman-Ramage" is supplied for normal.kind. match.arg is supposed to be called before "==" comparison. ======================================== Shengqiao Li Research Associate The Department of Statistics PO Box 6330 West Virginia University Morgantown, WV 26506-6330

I am trying to reformat my NEWS file so it works with news() (in R-beta as of a few days ago). I have tried several variations around Changes in version 2009.10-1 o Standardized NEWS format for function news(). o Fixed a few documentation problems found by R-2.10.0 (beta) quality checks. But news() only picks up the second entry. Suggestions? Paul

I upgraded one of my computers to Ubuntu 9.10 (Karmic) and when I do make check with R-2.10.0 reg-tests-1 is failing. The file reg-tests-1.Rout.fail is attached. I am having difficulty distinguishing what causes the error. Any suggestions would be appreciated. Paul ==================================================================================== La version fran?aise suit le texte

With R-rc_2010-10-11_r53297.tar.gz I am getting ... ** building package indices ... ** testing if installed package can be loaded Error in dyn.load(file, DLLpath = DLLpath, ...) : unable to load shared object '/home/mfa/gilp/toolchain/R/src/R-rc/library/cluster/libs/cluster.so': /home/mfa/gilp/toolchain/R/src/R-rc/library/cluster/libs/cluster.so: undefined symbol: cl_daisy_

Is anyone else having trouble connecting to R-forge svn? (Perhaps I missed an outage announcement, or is it bad weather?) Paul ==================================================================================== La version française suit le texte anglais. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ This email may contain privileged and/or confidential

In one package (pk1) I define some S3 generics and methods. In pk2 I extend the methods to some S4 objects following the description in ?Methods, with setMethod() and setGeneric() either explicit or implicit (tried both). I export the S3 generic and methods from pk1 NAMESPACE and the S4 from pk2. This works, except when I try to use a function defined in pk1, Within the function the S4 method

I am experimenting with putting vignettes in a vignettes/ directory as suggested in the new R release news. If I understand correctly, it is now suggested that the vignette source (.Stex in my case) should be in the vignettes/ directory and the pdf should be put in the inst/doc/ directory, for the case when it is not being built by R CMD build. I am getting an error (R-2.14.0): (cd inst/doc ;

(Slightly off topic and outside my area - but this may be of interest to the R community) WASHINGTON (January 16, 2009) -- Today, a new international competition called the "Digging into Data Challenge" was announced by four leading research agencies: the Joint Information Systems Committee (JISC) from the United Kingdom, the National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH) and the

Running R on a remote system I can almost never get help.start() to work, because it passes the request to my local browser, which cannot see the "links in per-session dir" created in /tmp on the remote machine. Is there a way to put the "per-session dir" in my home dir (which is NFS mounted), or some other fix for this "feature"? Paul Gilbert

I recently put several packages for time series databases on CRAN. The main package, TSdbi, provides a common interface to time series databases. The objective is to define a standard interface so users can retrieve time series data from various sources with a simple, common, set of commands, and so programs can be written to be portable with respect to the data source. The SQL

I recently put several packages for time series databases on CRAN. The main package, TSdbi, provides a common interface to time series databases. The objective is to define a standard interface so users can retrieve time series data from various sources with a simple, common, set of commands, and so programs can be written to be portable with respect to the data source. The SQL

I'm working on the next release of coxme (ready to start some testing), and have written major chunks of it using noweb -- very similar to Sweave except I'm generating code and documentation for the code rather than vingetes. The question: I have directory with .Rnw objects and a Makefile therein that generates most of the .R files. I don't see any guidance in the documentation