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On Tue, Jan 3, 2017 at 3:53 PM, Whit Armstrong <armstrong.whit at gmail.com> wrote: > > I maintian the rzmq project. > > love to get it running on windows, but zmq doesn't play nicely with R's > mingw. It's fairly easy to link against the libraries from rwinlib: https://github.com/rwinlib/zeromq. I'll send you a pull request later this week to fix the binary

Have you noticed any problems with big dates (>=1/1/2040) in R? Here is the bit of code that I'm having trouble with: > test.date <- strptime("1/1/2040",format="%m/%d/%Y") > > unlist(test.date) sec min hour mday mon year wday yday isdst 0 0 0 1 0 140 0 0 0 > > date.plus.one <- as.POSIXct(test.date) +

I make quite a lot of use of irregular time-series, and had already spent a bit of time writing an 'its' class when the 'irts' class was released via the package 'tseries'. I have experimented with the 'irts' class, and have some practical issues with its use. In some applications of irregular time-series (in my case these are financial and econometric) there are

I have uploaded to CRAN a new package named 'its' (Irregular Time-Series). It implements irregular time-series as an S4 class, extending the matrix class, and records the time-stamp of each row in the matrix using POSIX. Print, plot, extraction, append, and related functionality are available. Feedback and suggestions are welcome. Giles Heywood

I have uploaded to CRAN a new package named 'its' (Irregular Time-Series). It implements irregular time-series as an S4 class, extending the matrix class, and records the time-stamp of each row in the matrix using POSIX. Print, plot, extraction, append, and related functionality are available. Feedback and suggestions are welcome. Giles Heywood

My question has two parts. The first is with regard to the frame or environment in which generic functions are defined in packages. It seems as though they are defined (i.e. exist as objects) in frame 1, even when defined in a package. The following is a short example: setClass("track",representation(x="numeric",y="numeric")) plotTrack <- function(x,y,...)

[whit at linuxsvr R.packages]$ sudo R CMD INSTALL portfolio.construction * Installing to library '/usr/local/lib64/R/library' * Installing *source* package 'portfolio.construction' ... ** R ** preparing package for lazy loading Loading required package: fts Loading required package: quadprog Loading required package: Rexcelpoi terminate called after throwing an instance of

for the moment, I'm using: .onAttach <- function(libname, pkgname) { .bbg.db.conn <<- dbConnect(dbDriver("PostgreSQL"), user="blah","blah") } .onUnload <- function(libpath) { dbDisconnect(.bbg.db.conn) } which results in a hidden global variable in the global environment. I would prefer to make the assignment only in the package namespace.

R developers, The "tzone" attribute is stripped from a POSIXct object when the subscript command is called ("[.POISXct"). This results in dates being printed in the locale specific format after a subscript operation is applied to a POSIXct object which has cause several problems for me in the past. Here is an example of this problem under R 1.9.1: > x <-

Since, gcc was using upwards of 2gb of ram to compile my package, I just split all the functions into individual files. I guess I'm too clever for myself, because now I get hit with the "Argument list too long" error. Is there a way to deal with this aside from writing my own configure script (which could possibly feed the gcc commands one by one). -Whit RHEL 5 [whit at

Does anyone have an example of calling primitive or internal functions from C code that they would share with me? I am having trouble trying to figure out how to construct the proper arguments to pass to "do_subset_dflt" Here is the prototype: SEXP do_subset_dflt(SEXP call, SEXP op, SEXP args, SEXP rho); The R_FunTab from "names.c" gives some additional information on the

Does anyone have an example of calling primitive or internal functions from C code that they would share with me? I am having trouble trying to figure out how to construct the proper arguments to pass to "do_subset_dflt" Here is the prototype: SEXP do_subset_dflt(SEXP call, SEXP op, SEXP args, SEXP rho); The R_FunTab from "names.c" gives some additional information on the

Can someone help me with this simple example? sq <- function() { y <- x^2 y } myfunc <- function() { x <- 10 sq() } myfunc() executing the above in R yields: > myfunc() Error in sq() : Object "x" not found I understand that R's scoping rules cause it to look for "x" in the environment in which "sq" was defined (the global environment in

Can anyone share some opinions on test suites for R packages? I'm looking at testthat and RUnit. Does anyone have strong opinions on either of those. Any additional packages I should consider? Thanks, Whit

I see that plot.default uses deparse(substitute(x)) to extract the character name of an argument and put it on the vertical axis. Hence: foo <- 1:10 plot( foo ) will put the label "foo" on the vertical axis. However, for a function that takes a "..." list as an input, I can only extract the first argument name: x <- 1:10 y <- 10:20 foo <- function(...) {

for a simple example: x <- list() x[["a"]] <- list(a=c(1,2,3),b=c(3,4,5)) x[["b"]] <- list(a=c(6,7,8),b=c(9,10,11)) lapply(x,sum) this fails w/ Error in FUN(X[[1L]], ...) : invalid 'type' (list) of argument Just wondering if I have overlooked something obvious. one can also do: lapply(x,lapply,sum) but that assumes that you already know how many levels

Anyone know a quick way to color one bar of a histogram? I want to mark the bar in which the most recent observation falls. So, for instance: x <- rnorm(100) latest.ob <- x[100] hist(x) ## how do I mark the bucket that latest.ob falls into? Thanks, Whit

Anyone out there using Linux RODBC and unixODBC to connect to a Microsoft SQL server? If possible can someone post a sample .odbc.ini file? I saw a few discussions on the archives a few years ago, but no config file details were available. Thanks, Whit This e-mail message is intended only for the named recipient(s) above. It may contain confidential information. If you are not the intended

I am having difficulty using in 1.8.0 an object created under 1.7.1. The following is a 'minimal example' of the issue. First the part in 1.7.1: > require("methods") [1] TRUE > setClass("foo",representation("vector",label="character")) [1] "foo" > x <- new("foo",1:2,label=LETTERS[1:2]) >

Hello, I'm trying to write a function that returns the number of weekdays between a vector of start dates and a vector of end dates. Subtracting the 2 times the number of whole weeks is the easy part and works if the number of days is a multiple of 7. However, the number of weekend days in the tail is a little harder. It depends on both the start date of the tail and the number of days in