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This is an inquiry for all those who have been working on external data base applications. I sent an inquiry (below) to snews about this sort of thing a couple of years ago and eventually decided that I would wait to see what external database developments occurred and then revisit the problem. I hope that foundations are now better. Suppose for the sake of concreteness you have a large

In the time honored spirit of wishing to do nothing well, could I suggest that the Splus (versions 5 and 6) response to: > rbind(NULL,NULL) NULL is preferable to the R response: > rbind(NULL,NULL) Error in rbind(NULL, NULL) : attempt to set an attribute on NULL This is on: platform sparc-sun-solaris2.8 arch sparc os solaris2.8 system sparc, solaris2.8 status major 1

We have a solaris/sparc machine that has been running an old version of R-devel: Version 2.2.0 Under development (unstable) (2005-06-04 r34577) which was built as m64 from sources. Attempting to upgrade to 2.4.0 the configure step goes ok, but I'm getting early on from make: > gcc -m64 -L/opt/sfw/lib/sparcv9 -L/usr/lib/sparcv9 > -L/usr/openwin/lib/sparcv9 -L/usr/local/lib -o

Hi everyone, I am having installation problems, but this is how it all started: I had some errors running the bioconductor package affyPLM that uses LAPACK/Blas > Pset <- fitPLM(Data) Background correcting PM Normalizing PM Fitting models /usr/local/lib/R/bin/exec/R: relocation error: /usr/local/lib/R/lib/libRlapack.so: undefined symbol: s_copy # thrown out of R .... I was using R

In ancient times, circa 1980, S data directories were called swork and sdata not .Data, and "New-S" as described in the already medieval "Blue Book" discusses a function DBCONVERT that converted swork data into .Data data. It is embarrassing to admit it, but I still have data archives from a BTL machine called alice in the swork format and would like to convert a dataset to

I recently upgraded to Rtools28 to build a package under Windows. I see that g77 is no longer in Rtools, but it does have gfortran, and it uses version: GNU Fortran (GCC) 4.2.1-sjlj (mingw32-2) I am compiling some old fortran code as part of a larger project. When I do that, I get undefined references: gcc.exe: s_cmp.o: No such file or directory gcc.exe: s_copy.o: No such file or directory

Dear people, A somewhat clueless question follows: I just discovered that the lme function in contrib package nlme for R, while similar to the lme function in Splus, does not use the cluster function option. This difference does not appear to be documented in the V&R `R Complements' file. I have data which is divided into 6 groups The lme model is of the form (simplified from the actual

I've had a play with this and, due to my own short-comings, remain none the wiser. In particular, I'm not sure what value of 'spar' is consistent with the magic lambda=1/1600 for quarterly data. I initially interpreted spar as lambda and tried setting spar=1/1600. This results in almost no smoothing while spar=1600 causes an error. The smooth.spline function seems to want

We've recently "upgraded" a server to solaris 8, and in reinstalling R I've encountered a problem in getting it to recognize the readline library. I have installed readline in what I believe to be the "usual" place: /usr/local/lib with include files in /usr/local/include/readline. But ./configure produces: ragnar.econ.uiuc.edu# grep readline hout checking for

I've been playing with a quincunx animation in R 1.2.2 and would like to have finer control over the speed of the animation. I know that I can use system("sleep 1") on unix systems at least, but it would be nice to have something like pause(.01). Any suggestions? url: http://www.econ.uiuc.edu Roger Koenker email roger at ysidro.econ.uiuc.edu Department of Economics vox:

About 2 percent of the time I use fix() to edit a function that is sitting in .RData I get the response: > fix(qss) Error in edit(name, file, editor) : problem with running editor vi when I try to close the editing session. I used to think that these were always cases where there was some syntactical error with the edited file, but this is not the case. I realize that one surefire way to

I am trying to make R-1.5.0 from source on a new G4 system with the apple developer tools and X11 installed and with ATLAS. Running ./configure appears to end normally, but running make yields: gcc -no-cpp-precomp -I. -I../../src/include -I../../src/include -I/usr/local/include -DHAVE_CONFIG_H -g -O2 -c Rdynload.c -o Rdynload.o Rdynload.c: In function `R_FindSymbol': Rdynload.c:942:

I'm plotting matrices with image() and would like the axes to reflect the conventional view that the upper left corner of the plot is (1,1). But image seems to think that the lower left corner is (1,1). Can someone suggest a way of persuading it to think otherwise. In effect, I just want the y axis to run from from 1 to n downwards, not upwards. I thought that something like axes=FALSE in

Was there ever a convenient method provided to add boxplots to the current plot at specified x values? There was a question by Martin Maechler some time ago here, but I could seem to find any satisfactory resolution of it. I see that there is an add=T option to boxplot and bxp, but I don't see how to set the x-values. url: http://www.econ.uiuc.edu Roger Koenker email roger at

Versions of the V&R libraries, VR_5.3pl025-1.tar.gz, and of tree_0.2-2.tar.gz (giving most of the functionality of S's tree system including all that I have ever used) are now available on CRAN's Vienna node, and will propagate. There is an early draft of an R user's complements on Venables & Ripley available from http://www.stats.ox.ac.uk/pub/MASS2/Compl.shtml This is

Versions of the V&R libraries, VR_5.3pl025-1.tar.gz, and of tree_0.2-2.tar.gz (giving most of the functionality of S's tree system including all that I have ever used) are now available on CRAN's Vienna node, and will propagate. There is an early draft of an R user's complements on Venables & Ripley available from http://www.stats.ox.ac.uk/pub/MASS2/Compl.shtml This is

I've been writing some matrix-type methods for a new class of sparse matrices and for most methods this has been straightforward. However, there are examples, like %*% and chol, that (apparently) R doesn't automatically recognize as generic. What to do in these cases? At this point, I've been writing new generic methods with slightly perturbed names %m% and cholesky for example in

I'm trying to install the current R-devel on a G4 powerbook. I'm using ./configure --enable-R-shlib --with-blas='-framework vecLib' --with-lapack with rudjer: gcc -v Reading specs from /usr/libexec/gcc/darwin/ppc/3.1/specs Thread model: posix Apple Computer, Inc. GCC version 1175, based on gcc version 3.1 20020420 (prerelease) rudjer: g77 -v Reading specs from

A new version of the quantile regression package (quantreg 3.09) is now available on CRAN. The new features include: 1. a new fitting method "fnc" for rq() which allow the call to specify linear inequality constraints on the coefficients. 2. an anova() function for rq objects that implements several F-like tests for quantile regression models at a given quantile, and other F-like

Hi, I have been trying to dyn.load a library (rq.obj), which will allow me to run a quantile regression function, but so far unsuccessfully. I have tried under windows 98 and R 6.24: 1) dyn.load("d:\\...\\rq.obj") 2) dyn.load("d:\...\rq.obj") 3) 1 and 2 accounting for case sensitivity. 4) dyn.load("d:/.../rq.obj") 5) Place the files in the directory where from I