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I have justed upgraded R v1.7.0 on Windows NT 4 and have installed the latest RMySQL (version 0.5-1)and DBI (version 0.1-5) packages. When I issue the following commands (tactfully adjusted) R just crashes and disappears, any ideas? require(RMySQL) m <- dbDriver("MySQL") con <- dbConnect(m, dbname="xxx", user="xxx", password="xxx",

Hi all, I just upgraded to R-1.8.0. Everything worked fine but command line editing does not work. This clearly indicates that readline has not been found in the compilation process. How could I explicitely indicate where to find it ? I use a Red Hat 8.0 system. I checked the FAQ which says readline-devel is also needed, but I have it already installed. Perhaps should I add the configure

I am having problems getting the unz() function to work as a connection to start reading a file... z <- unz("c:/temp/stoxx.zip", "close_tmi_components.txt", "r") readLines(z,2) yields the following problems: > z <- unz("c:/temp/stoxx.zip", "close_tmi_components.txt", "r") Error in unz("c:/temp/stoxx.zip",

Hi helpers, I've been programming in R for a few months now but I still have doubts about my code - I would like it to be completely S4-compatible. The current code works fine but is probably 'unclean'. I read the interesting article in the last R News and it helped me understand the difference on the whole between S3 and S4 classes, but I need a practical example. Could anyone

>> Can some kind soul please give me a fool proof recipe for building R >> and RSPython so that it actually works? > I don't have a recipe, but one thought to help debug the process: Try > installing RPy [1]. RPy also provides access to R via Python and uses > the libR.so library. If you can install and "import rpy" without > problem then it must be

It concerns trival diagonal matrices: > diag(1) [,1] [1,] 1 > diag(rnorm(1)) <0 x 0 matrix> > diag(rnorm(1),nrow=1) [,1] [1,] 0.4843697 There's an obvious work around... but I thought it was worth notifying the list. Regards, John Marsland ********************************************************************** This is a commercial communication from

Hi, I'm developing an R/TclTk application which uses the BWidget and Tktable Tk extensions and I'm trying to make it easy to install. For now, I'm focusing on Windows users who start with nothing. I have built Tcl/Tk and Tktable for windows using Msys/MinGW. (BWidget contains only Tcl scripts so does not need building.) I have then copied Tktable and BWidget into the lib subdirectory

I am having problems porting a package to R-1.8.0 where I have complex S4 classes with slots inheriting from POSIXct. For example: > setClass("test1", representation(date="POSIXct")) [1] "test1" > new("test1", date=as.POSIXct("2003-10-09")) Error in ext@test(object) : couldn't find function "%in %" Under R-1.7.1 this worked

Hi, I've got a problem which seemed simple to me at first view, but which I haven't managed to solve yet. I have a dataframe, or a matrix, and I would like to order it along with one of the variables/columns. I tried to use order() but it remained quite unclear to me. How should I proceed ? Thanks in advance (I guess that's not very difficult a question for most of you) Laurent

I have been building a package around a sequence of S4 classes which I have coded in separate *.R files in the "./R" subdirectory of the package. The package builds without error, but when I load it in R I get: Error in reconcilePropertiesAndPrototype(name, slots, prototype, superClasses) : Class "xxxx" extends an undefined class ("yyyyyy" I guess R is trying to

Does anybody have a tuned Rblas.dll compiled against ALTLAS for a dual Xeon system? Unfortunately, we have very strict security that does not allow compilers of any sort on production desktops - we only have Pentium III development PCs. Regards, John Marsland ********************************************************************** This is a commercial communication from Commerzbank AG.\ \

I have been having problems making the recommended packages under windows NT when WINHELP is set to NO. It seems to go ahead and create the chm files and then fall over with an error. The base packages work fine. Clearly I can fix this myself messily, but I thought it might be useful feedback. Regards, John Marsland _ platform i386-pc-mingw32 arch i386 os mingw32 system

Hi, I'm trying to compile R-1.7.1 from source (on a RedHat 8.0) instead of using the binary version, as it has often been advised. However I don't manage to find a solution to the following error which occurs during the make procedure : /!\-------------------------------------------/!\ building package 'ctest' mkdir -p -- ../../../library/ctest/R mkdir -p --

Hi all, Trying to install R-1.7.1 on a RedHat 8.0 platform, I have a few problems. R gets installed without default packages (but base and ctest) : make script fails at the end of the procedure (configure is made successfully). This is the (translated) log I have : /gcc -I../../../../include /usr/include/mysql -D__NO_MATH_INLINES -mieee-fp -fPIC -g -O2 -c ansari.c -o ansari.o gcc: cannot

I'm sure that many people are in the same position as me in that they are trying to write packages and code that is vaguely "future proof". Would it be possible to get some guidance on how the R-core team see the evolution of the "base" package with regard to s4 methods. There seem to be quite a lot of inconsistencies between s3 and s4 methods and classes currently and

I have been writing some S4 classes and have a problem about how I might pass a signature to "c()". Take the following example: setClass("collection", representation("list", date="POSIXt")) x <- new("collection", list(1,2,3), date=Sys.time()) y <- new("collection", list(4,5,6), date=Sys.time()) obviously, I can do c(x,y), but

Might it be an idea to make "?" a special operator akin to "+" or "[", R users could then write their own help functions - may be even making "?" generic? With the proposed xml help system one could imagine quite sophisticated context sensitive help systems. Regards, John Marsland PS this has been a very useful debate for those of us enthusiastically

I have both the CRAN binary and my own compiled version of R v1.7.1 on the same machine (Dell Pentium III 800 MHz running NT 4) Using the example provided earlier: > phi <- 1.6180339887498949 > a <- floor(runif(750000)*1000) > system.time(b <- (phi^a - (-phi)^(-a))/sqrt(5))[3] I get 10.99 secs on the CRAN binary and 2.09 secs on my own compiled version. I hope this helps

I am still experiencing problems with seq.POSIXt() missing off the last day of the series: > seq(as.POSIXct("2004-03-25"),as.POSIXct("2004-03-31"),by="DSTdays") [1] "2004-03-25 GMT Standard Time" "2004-03-26 GMT Standard Time" "2004-03-27 GMT Standard Time" [4] "2004-03-28 GMT Standard Time" "2004-03-29 GMT Daylight

Hi I can't get R to connect to the internet. I am running R 1.7.1 on Windows XP and whenever I try to download packages etc from within R using the internet, it fails. OK so I am behind a firewall and use a proxy server.... SO, if I go to my MS-DOS prompt and type: RGui.exe --internet2 everything works.... BUT i can't set up a shortcut for this as Windows (I hate Windows) complains