similar to: RFC: help systems on Windows

I almost didn't believe in it anymore, but Rcmd INSTALL finally is working for me! Thanks to all who helped on this, especially to Guido Masarotto, Brian Ripley, John Fox, Peter Dalgaard, Uwe Ligges. Anyway, I do think the documentation is a bit confusing here (at least for me, I don't know if others have felt the same). It might be a good idea to add the essence of Brians and Guidos

Guido has fixed Rterm hanging on Windows 2000 in interactive and --ess modes. The problem was that 'PulseEvent' doesn't work under 2000 as documented (and I can find nothing about this in MicroSoft's Knowledge Base except that it is known to happen under a debugger). The cross-compiled pre-release at http://www.stats.ox.ac.uk/pub/bdr/RWin/Rpre now incoporates the fix, and we

I've put up a build of the current R-patched (and updated recommended packages) for Windows at http://www.stats.ox.ac.uk/pub/bdr/RWin/Rpre/SetupRpatched.exe This should be able to rename files on Win 9x (unlike the mid-May build) and can build packages accessing Rblas.dll. As ever, this is less tested than an official release, in particular only on Windows XP, but ought to have fewer

Charles Raux raised the problem of having object names with accented chars in. This is supposed to work, but depends on the machine being set to a locale that allows accented chars, and knowing correctly which they are. Windows being what it is, this is a problem. It seems that with the standard runtime crtdll.dll that rw1011 uses, Windows 9x does not know about locales, whereas NT does but

I've put up at http://www.stats.ox.ac.uk/pub/bdr/RWin/SetupR.exe a (15Mb) `release candidate' of rw1030. It's a snapshot of the complete release but not everything (especially the recommended packages) is in final form. I would particularly be interested in feedback on two points: 1) The claim is that utilities like Rcmd check now work on 16-bit versions of Windows. Certainly

R (Windows version) users/developers: While I have checked R-help/-devel mailing lists and R-bug-tracking system, this problem has not been reported so far. I would like to know whether this problem is specific to my machine. Lately I downloaded the version 1.5.0 patched [for windows] from http://www.stats.ox.ac.uk/pub/bdr/RWin/Rpre/ [patched: 2002-06-05] and

Hi! I tried to use compiled html on the following system: NT4.0 SP6 (with _old_ IE3), R-1.0.1. R > help(ls, chmhelp=TRUE) ... but nothing happens ... >From the R Readme: "To make use of this you will need a recent version of Windows or IE4 or later installed, or use the updater hhupd.exe on CRAN at bin/windows/windows-NT/etc." So I used the updater

Indeed, there is no file named "dlltool" anywhere around here! So, at last I am beginning to suspect that my collection of tools is incomplete. What I have got is "rw1020sp.zip" and "http://www.stats.ox.ac.uk/pub/bdr/RWin/tools.zip". These are properly istalled, I think. readme.packages says "If your package has no C nor Fortran nor C++ sources, see `Simple

I have built a version of the current 1.2.2 patched version of R using Inno Setup2 (http://www.jrsoftware.org/isinfo.htm). (That toolkit is open source (in Delphi) and was fairly easy to tame. Full details are in the R-patched sources.) This gives a single ~10Mb file, at http://www.stats.ox.ac.uk/pub/bdr/RWin/SetupR.exe The idea is that it should look very like a Windows 2000-style install, and

>>>>> "BDR" == Prof Brian Ripley <ripley at stats.ox.ac.uk> >>>>> on Fri, 30 May 2008 22:34:28 +0100 (BST) writes: BDR> I think it is ESS that is parsing this as a help BDR> request (so it can divert it to an ESS buffer). BDR> Looks like this is an ESS issue, not an R one. yes, indeed, hence much more belonging the ESS-help

--Colony_of_Beavers_524_000 Content-Type: TEXT/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-MD5: 2xw8BXDeWRkQhskDXsXyCw== I have put up a cross-compiled version of the development version of R for Windows at http://www.stats.ox.ac.uk/pub/bdr/RWin/Rpre It is cross-compiled and will be automatically updated whenever I build a development version. So, no guarantees, not even that it will run[1], but if you

On Tue, 7 Mar 2000, Martin Maechler wrote: > >>>>> "BDR" == Prof Brian D Ripley <ripley@stats.ox.ac.uk> writes: > > BDR> On Tue, 7 Mar 2000, Trenkler, Dietrich wrote: > >> I think I've discovered what went wrong. > >> > >> My workspace included a function wilcox.test formerly copied from > >>

>>>>> "BDR" == Prof Brian Ripley <ripley at stats.ox.ac.uk> >>>>> on Tue, 13 May 2008 07:32:43 +0100 (BST) writes: BDR> This example does not crash in R 2.7.0, R-patched nor BDR> R-devel (r45677) for me (x86_64 F8 Linux.) It also BDR> does not crash with the CRAN build of R 2.7.0 on BDR> Windows XP. Neither does it

Version: platform = sparc-sun-solaris2.6 arch = sparc os = solaris2.6 system = sparc, solaris2.6 status = status.rev = 0 major = 0 minor = 64.2 year = 1999 month = July day = 3 language = R -- It is unclear to me that the handling of NAs is desirable, and it has problems with names: > z <- c(T,T,NA,F,T) > names(z) <- letters[1:5] > which(z) Error: names attribute

[This turned into a bug report which will go to r-devel, so I have taken it off r-help.] Bugs reported here: (1) formatC's help page need some clarification. (2) formatC needs to treat modes "double" and "real" as equivalent. (3) format's help page or (preferably) format needs correction re the meaning of `digits' On Sun, 28 Feb 1999, Martin Maechler wrote:

(CC'ed to R-bugs ``for the record'') >>>>> "BDR" == Prof Brian D Ripley <ripley@stats.ox.ac.uk> writes: BDR> On Thu, 13 Jun 2002, Martin Maechler wrote: >> >>>>> "MM" == Martin Maechler >> <maechler@stat.math.ethz.ch> writes: >> >> >>>>> "BDR" ==

>>>>> "BDR" == Prof Brian D Ripley <ripley@stats.ox.ac.uk> writes: BDR> On Tue, 7 Mar 2000, Martin Maechler wrote: >> >>>>> "BDR" == Prof Brian D Ripley <ripley@stats.ox.ac.uk> writes: >> BDR> On Tue, 7 Mar 2000, Trenkler, Dietrich wrote: >> >> I think I've discovered what went

Several of you have kindly sent me examples of bugs in RODBC, but none of them reproduce on my systems. I am fairly sure I know what is happening, and that it is client-specific. (Do empty strings get returned as "", NULL or skipped?) Also, empty character fields were getting mapped to NA. There's a comment in the code that fields need to set to a null string, and that was only

There have been various messages about packages tree and rpart whilst I have been travelling, and I have now prepared updates. tree ==== Tree is one of the oldest packages on CRAN (Feb 2000 apart from adding the maintainer field), and I had been hoping that it would fade away in favour of rpart. 1) sys.parent needed to be replaced by parent.frame in all but the most recent R (post 1.3.0).

Under which version of R is it supposed to run ? With 1.1.0 under windows NT 4.0 against Access databases it doesn't work, I cannot get the name of the tables, every query I execute returns with "No Data". I'm surely doing something wrong ... Federico Spinazzi spinazzi@databankgroup.it Databank S.P.A Via Spartaco, 19, ITALY Tel. + 39 02 55002251 >Several of you have kindly