similar to: building from source after installing Debian packages

Dear All, I've got into the habit of installing R from the precompiled Debian binaries, including many of the packages from the r-cran-* Debian packages, and later building from source (e.g., to link against Goto's BLAS, or to build patched versions, etc). I install the newly built R to the very same place (/usr/lib/R). This allows me to build and update R when I wish, AND provides the

Dear All, I found Andy Liaw's suggestion about using a NUMA (instead of SMP) kernel when running R on amd64 with > 1 CPU http://finzi.psych.upenn.edu/R/Rhelp02a/archive/35109.html A couple of questions: 1. Is this still the case with the newer dual-core opterons (e.g., the 275 et al., families) running Linux (kernel 2.6)? 2. How does this affect using Rmpi (and snow, papply, et al.)

Hi, You should also check my msc.features.select from caMassClass package. It has feature selection algorithm that I found useful in case of mass-spectra data. It performs individual feature selection and/or removes highly correlated neighbor features. Jarek -----Original Message----- From: r-help-bounces at stat.math.ethz.ch [mailto:r-help-bounces at stat.math.ethz.ch] Sent: Friday, January

Dear All, I've read Thomas Lumley's fortune "If the answer is parse() you should usually rethink the question.". But I am not sure it that also applies (and why) to other situations (Lumley's comment http://tolstoy.newcastle.edu.au/R/help/05/02/12204.html was in reply to accessing a list). Suppose I have similarly called functions, except for a postfix. E.g. f.1 <-

Hi all, In Tibshirani's PNAS paper about nearest shrunken centroid analysis of microarrays (PNAS vol 99:6567), they used cross validation to choose the amount of shrinkage used in the model, and then test the performance of the model with the cross-validated shrinkage in separate independent testing set. If I don't have the luxury of having independent testing set, can I just use the

Dear All, I think I am confused about how I'd be able to use zlib starting with R 2.7.0. I just downloaded the latest development version, built it, etc, but I am not able to find the zlib.h that, I believe, R should place somewhere under "where/you/want/R/to/go" (from --prefix=/where/you/want/R/to/go). There seem to be entry points for zlib in the binary (e.g., grep -r gzopen ./

If an array has missing values in different rows, plotting using the formul= a=20 interface can produce errors. Example: fake.data <- matrix(rep(-100:100, 4), ncol =3D 4) par(mfrow =3D c(1,2)) boxplot(fake.data ~ col(fake.data)) abline(h =3D 0, lty =3D 2) boxplot(as.data.frame(fake.data)) abline(h =3D 0, lty =3D 2) ##### Add the missing data fake.data[190:200, 1] <-

Dear All, I was writing a small wrapper to bootstrap a classification algorithm, but if we generate the indices in the "usual way" as: bootindex <- sample(index, N, replace = TRUE) there is a non-zero probability that all the samples belong to only one class, thus leading to problems in the fitting (or that some classes will end up with only one sample, which will be a problem

Dear All, I just apt-get source r-base-core and noticed that file "rules" under ./r-base-3.2.4-revised/debian contains (lines 277 to 279) --with-system-bzlib \ --with-system-pcre \ --with-system-zlib \ I wonder if these are still necessary and, in fact, when building R alpha (specifically, R-alpha_2016-03-21_r70361.tar.gz) I get a warning saying that those options are not

Dear All, How can the height of a leaf be extracted from a dendrogram? Sure, I can print it, but I am not able to, say, store it in an object. I think I understand that the height is a property of the split, not the leaf itself, but the printing functions display a "height" or "h" (which changes with "hang") and that is what I want. Obviously, the info is there

Dear All, I'd like to be able to have R store (in a list component) a compressed data set, and then write it out uncompressed. gzcon and gzfile work in exactly the opposite direction. What would be a good way to handle this? Details: ---------- We have a package that uses C; part of the C output is a large sparse matrix. This is never manipulated directly by R, but always by the C code.

On Wed, 30-12-2015, at 12:44, Dirk Eddelbuettel <edd at debian.org> wrote: > On 30 December 2015 at 05:00, Dario Strbenac wrote: > | Good day, > | > | In section A.2, the manual advises "Linux users will want the urw-fonts package". However, this package only seems to be available for RedHat Linux and Fedora Linux. What about for Debian or Ubuntu ? There is no

Dear All, I am having trouble getting an R package to build and install correctly under Windows. In this package, which builds and checks OK under Linux, I use zlib (among other functions, gzprintf). As mentioned by Prof. Ripley a while back, the file "CHANGES" under src/gnuwin32 says explains that to, to use zlib, one has to set $(ZLIB_LIBS) in PKG_LIBS. I have a Makefile.win with

Dear All, The "clients.txt" file of the latest Rserve package, by Simon Urbanek, says, regarding its R client, "(...) a simple R client, i.e. it allows you to connect to Rserve from R itself. It is very simple and limited, because Rserve was not primarily meant for R-to-R communication (there are better ways to do that), but it is useful for quick interactive connection to an

Dear All, In a package, I am using ".C" to call some C functions. In one case, the number of elements of the return vectors are not known in R before the C call. (Two of the vectors are integers, the third is vector of character strings). Passing from R a vector of the maximum possible size would be a huge waste. I understand one alternative is to use ".Call", but I'd

On Wed, 30-12-2015, at 21:08, Dirk Eddelbuettel <edd at debian.org> wrote: > On 30 December 2015 at 20:07, Ramon Diaz-Uriarte wrote: > | > | > | > | On Wed, 30-12-2015, at 12:44, Dirk Eddelbuettel <edd at debian.org> wrote: > | > On 30 December 2015 at 05:00, Dario Strbenac wrote: > | > | Good day, > | > | > | > | In section A.2, the manual

Dear All, Summary: ======== To test some packages, I want to build R-3.1.0 (current R devel). However, when I use the default libblas, make check fails with running code in 'reg-BLAS.R' ...make[3]: *** [reg-BLAS.Rout] Error 1 It does not fail, however, if I use libatlas3 or libopenblas. The same thing happens with the current R patched. I've google around and cannot find

On Mon, 03-07-2017, at 12:18:36, Dirk Eddelbuettel <edd at debian.org> wrote: > On 3 July 2017 at 13:05, Ramon Diaz-Uriarte wrote: > | If I might chime in, I'd like to add my vote to the "users should be able > | to use install.packages and should be able to install bioconductor > | packages with biocLite". > | > | Longer story > | ============ > | >

Dear All, In a package, I want to use some C code where I am using a structure (as the basic element of a linked list) with flexible array members. Basically, this is a structure where the last component is an incomplete array type (e.g., Harbison & Steel, "C, a reference manual, 5th ed.", p. 159) such as: struct Sequence { struct Sequence *next; int len; unsigned int

On Mon, 03-07-2017, at 07:58:41, Dirk Eddelbuettel <edd at debian.org> wrote: > On 2 July 2017 at 23:24, Kirill M?ller wrote: > | On 02.07.2017 22:01, Dirk Eddelbuettel wrote: > | > On 2 July 2017 at 21:39, Kirill M?ller wrote: > | > | Hi > | > | > | > | An upgrade to R 3.4.1 on Ubuntu removed the default setting of > | > | R_LIBS_USER in /etc/R/Renviron.