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From: Wade Maxfield <maxfield@ctelcom.net> > Many thanks to the moderator who pointed out errors and suggested the > correct information on this post. Over half the ideas are due to him. ;) > 1. Programs put data in local variables in functions. These variables > are on the computer stack. Feeding data to those variables (usually > string variables) causes the

hi have problems to get an samba server up that offers shares for all without a password heres my smb.conf file located under /usr/local/samba/lib/smb.conf [global] netbios name = DEATHB server string = Samba %v on (%L) workgroup = LANSTRIKE encrypt passwords = yes security = share [homes] browseable = no [mp3] comment = lmh path = /var/glftpd/site/mp3/lame.r3mix/ browseable = yes read only =

Hi, Is the ordering of the values returned something on what I can rely on, a form of a standard, that a function called unique in R (in futher versions) will return the uniq elements in order of they first occurcence. > x<-c(2,2,1,2) > unique(x) [1] 2 1 Its seems not to be the standard. E.g. matlab >> x=[2,2,1,2] x = 2 2 1 2 >> unique(x) ans =

If read.table() is defaulting to "character" instead of "factor" data type, shouldn't type.convert() also default to "character" in R 4.0.0? This would seem like a good time to change the default to type.convert(as.is=TRUE), to align it with the new default in read.table and data.frame. I think many R >=4.0.0 users would be happy with as.is=TRUE as the default

Dear Martin, Thank you for the well-reasoned response. I realized I was rather late to make this suggestion for 4.0.0, changing a somewhat low-level function that can indeed affect packages. I was just reviewing some R user scripts that were using type.convert(), mainly on data frames. In all cases, people were passing as.is=TRUE, so I was reminded that I would not be the only user who would

Hi Simon, thank you for the concise reply. Do you mean the reported behavior of drop() is not a bug? It looks like a borderline bug to me (see below), but I'm not the judge of that. If this is the intended behavior and serves an actual purpose, then that could be explicitly documented in a \note{} on the help page. Such a note would slightly reduce the surprise of users running into this

Dear r-devel, I have implemented a function to create color palettes with improved contrast and logical order, compared with the built-in ones: source("arni.colors.R") # code is given below barplot(rep(1,100), col=arni.colors(100), space=0, border=0, axes=F) par(mfrow=c(2,1)) # rainbow() has too much green... barplot(rep(1,50), col=rev(rainbow(50,end=0.7)), space=0, border=0,

Hi list! I'm trying to setup Digium TE205P E1 card to work with my provider (and Ericsson BP 250 - this comes later). When I execute "pri show span 1" this is what I get. pbxzg1*CLI> zap show status Description Alarms IRQ bpviol CRC4 T2XXP (PCI) Card 0 Span 1 OK 0 0 0 T2XXP (PCI) Card 0 Span 2 UNCONFIGUR 0 0 0 pbxzg1*CLI> pri show span 1 Primary D-channel: 16 Status:

Hi! I encountered some things trying to build own packages under Windows 2000 for which i found no answer in the documentation. First. 1. I do not found the rcmd.exe in the bin directory of R_HOME. I installed R using the setup.exe 2. I updated the R intatllation with one of the zip files. (rw1041sp.zip) now i had the rcmd.exe in the bin. 3. I do not found any hint in the docu that perl is

One descriptive statistic that is conspicuously missing from core R is the statistical mode - the most frequent value in a discrete distribution. I would like to propose adding the attached 'statmode' (or a similar function) to the 'stats' package. Currently, it can be quite cumbersome to calculate the mode of a distribution in R, both for experts and beginners. The lack of a

Creating a plot with reverse Y axis is easy enough with traditional graphics: > x <- 1:3 > y <- 1:3 > plot(y~x, ylim=c(3,1)) +-----------+ 1 | o | | | 2 | o | | | 3 | o | +-----------+ 1 2 3 But xyplot doesn't grasp my idea: > xyplot(y~x, ylim=c(3,1)) +-----------+ 3 | o | | | 2 | o |

Kyle Ferrio: > Unfortunately, his last act was to rm -rf /var/log so I don't know > exactly how he got root. Definitely a remote exploit, though. > Does anyone have advice on mirorring syslog to "secret" locations, > preferably encrypted? Losing logs makes it hard to do a risk assessment. > For all I know, I'm still vulnerable after updating bind. As for safe

I needed to be able to update stub pointers for hot functions that get recompiled in a lazy JIT that uses CompileOnDemandLayer. In order to do this I added a method that allows pointers to be updated but does not expose any of the other internals of the COD layer. Does anyone have a cleaner way to do this? Has something to facilitate this already been added? Would it be possible to merge this

I present you with a function that solves a problem that has bugged me for many years. I think the problem may be general enough to at least consider adding this function, or a revamped version of it, to the 'stats' package, with the other multinomial functions reside. I'm using R to export data to text files, which are input data for an external model written in C++. Parts of the

Hi all, I would like to propose the attached function ASCIIfy() to be added to the 'tools' package. Non-ASCII characters in character vectors can be problematic for R packages, but sometimes they cannot be avoided. To make packages portable and build without 'R CMD check' warnings, my solution has been to convert problematic characters in functions and datasets to escaped

Hoping that this is not OT.. Hi I want to write a simple perl script to see if my system supports des or md5 as the password encryption scheme..what is the easiest way.. one of course is to look at the /etc/shadow file and then parsing the passwd field, any better way..?? Thx, Arni

Dear r-devel, Among the R functions I have written and later shared with colleagues, there are five that I hope will become a part of the R base package. The tasks are neither specific nor marginal, so rather than creating one more 'misc' package, I would be happy if the R Development Core Team would adopt these functions and hammer them into shape. The functions are available from

Full_Name: Arni Magnusson Version: 1.6.2 OS: Windows XP Submission from: (NULL) (210.48.49.68) Hi there. I'm experiencing unexpected behaviour from as.POSIXct: > as.POSIXct("1969-12-24") [1] "1969-12-23 23:00:00 New Zealand Standard Time" > as.POSIXlt("1969-12-24") [1] "1969-12-24" > as.POSIXlt("1969-12-24")+1 [1] "1969-12-23

Hi Sean, This is great, but it couples LogicalDylib too tightly to CompileOnDemandLayer. Does this alternative implementation of getLogicalModuleResourcesForSymbol work for you (unfortunately I don't have a local test case for this yet): LogicalModuleResources* getLogicalModuleResourcesForSymbol(const std::string &Name, bool

Dear r-bugs, The 'see also' link in help(area,html=T) is broken, see line 91 in library/MASS/html/area.html: "../../integrate/html/integrate.html" should be "../../base/html/integrate.html" Regards, Arni OS: Windows XP R: 1.7.1 MASS: 7.1-8