similar to: URL change for Statistik ETH and web interface to mailing lists.

The big Swiss University network provider has been having severe problems for about 8 hours now --- particularly the cross-atlantic connection seems broken --- Many of you will get R-help or ESS-help E-mails very much delayed. Hope things start working soon by themselves. [for those that are disrupted: When you get this message, things should be back to normal; otherwise you wouldn't have

This is (hopefully) a "once in ten years" event, happening today, from 17--19 CET (= 16--18 UTC = 11--13 US Eastern == 8--10 US Pacific Time) The main `vault' (security, air condition,..) where our mail server hypatia is located will undergo a major `network re-connection' event that will affect a considerable part of ETH -- including all the mailing lists

{BCC'ed to three Core groups} Following the recommendation of the mailman developers, I have activated occasional "VERP"ing for our mailing lists. (and will turn it off again, after about a day or so). Here is the mailman "comment-docu" on this : # These variables control the format and frequency of VERP-like delivery for # better bounce detection. VERP is Variable

We have locally collected good experience the last few weeks using procmail-spam filtering, inclduing spamassassin to the procmail filters. The last two spams that went past the majordomo filters (the "traditional ones I've been using) through to R-devel both were not delivered to me, be but caught by the filters. I have now collected a bit more of a week experience using the new scheme

Due to recabling of our main servers, there will be network interruptions coming Sunday, Sept 24. >From 10.00 CEST (Central European Summer Time) = UTC+2 a few hours intermittent up to at most 18 o'clock {the hope being that everything will be finished much earlier}. 10 - 18 CEST aka MET = 8 - 16 UTC (formerely "Greenwich Mean Time") = 4 - 10 Eastern (US)

In order to prevent viruses being posted on the R (or ESS) mailing lists, I've disallowed binary attachments (of the "octet-stream" kind) as of 15 minutes ago. BTW, the case of Jan.10 was a typcial "MS Outlook address book" one. I've received automated e-mails from about 20 sites where the mail delivery server auto-detected the virus and didn't deliver it to

Because of a lapsus on my side and then a problematic server re-boot at just the wrong time, the daily digest versions of the R mailing lists (see the lower part of http://www.r-project.org/mail.html) haven't been delivered in time, unfortunately. I'm sending this message just *before* starting the digest manually for today. I hope this won't happen anymore. Apropos, I'd like to

I'm forwarding this to R-help since it might be of wider interest. I'm glad for your mail, Duncan! >>>>> "Duncan" == Duncan Murdoch <dmurdoch at pair.com> >>>>> on Wed, 04 Dec 2002 06:55:09 -0500 writes: Duncan> Hi Martin. I don't think my mailman password was Duncan> mailed to me. Indeed, it wasn't. I was wrong

Upon proposal by Robert Gentleman, and given the ``immediate'' release of R 0.50 beta (instead of alpha), I have created three mailing lists concerned with R where the 2nd one, "R-help", is the replacement for the current "R-testers". For a while, "r-testers" will be kept as synonymous to "r-help". The 3 mailing lists are 1) R-announce : Only

Upon proposal by Robert Gentleman, and given the ``immediate'' release of R 0.50 beta (instead of alpha), I have created three mailing lists concerned with R where the 2nd one, "R-help", is the replacement for the current "R-testers". For a while, "r-testers" will be kept as synonymous to "r-help". The 3 mailing lists are 1) R-announce : Only

A few of you have expressed the desire for a "digest" subscription to the R-help and/or R-devel mailing lists. {This may be especially useful if you leave for vacation etc}. These ``digest lists'' have now been put into place, i.e., if you don't want to get as much e-mail from R-help or R-devel as currently, but still would want to be in touch, you could now consider

[CC'ed to R-devel, since it should be of interest to more ..] >>>>> "Guy" == Guy Nason <G.P.Nason@Bristol.ac.uk> writes: Guy> Dear Martin, Hope you are well. I am trying to start to get my Guy> [new] WaveThresh package working for R. Great, thank you! Can you make sure that your Examples (.EX in S syntax; \examples{..} in *.Rd) are directly

We have (spatial statistics) group here that are (about to) interface Fortran 90 and/or 95 software to R and/or S-plus. My recommendation has been against this because of non-availability of GNU or other free (not only moneywise, in the GNU sense) compilers for Fortran 9x. Does anybody have good guesses about the future here? The user group here say they like F 9[05] because of its ``object

We (mainly the R core team) have been discussing the creation of another R mailing list, with the goal to fill the gap between R-help very high volume, with its great merits, but.... and R-announce only for R important announcements (mostly R-core) hence __MODERATED__ and *very* low volume, and hence highly recommended for almost all users of R. *** all messages are forwarded

We (mainly the R core team) have been discussing the creation of another R mailing list, with the goal to fill the gap between R-help very high volume, with its great merits, but.... and R-announce only for R important announcements (mostly R-core) hence __MODERATED__ and *very* low volume, and hence highly recommended for almost all users of R. *** all messages are forwarded

Dear R users, unfortunately, tomorrow Sunday will be a longish timeout of our mail services, notably affecting the R-<foo> and R-SIG-<bar> mailing lists @r-project.org , i.e., hosted by the Stats / Math Department of ETH, stat.math.ethz.ch. Note that also the svn.r-project.org will suffer from the timeout. This should be a "once in 8 years" event, hopefully, and we are

Dear R users, unfortunately, tomorrow Sunday will be a longish timeout of our mail services, notably affecting the R-<foo> and R-SIG-<bar> mailing lists @r-project.org , i.e., hosted by the Stats / Math Department of ETH, stat.math.ethz.ch. Note that also the svn.r-project.org will suffer from the timeout. This should be a "once in 8 years" event, hopefully, and we are

>>>>> "MM" == Martin Maechler <maechler@stat.math.ethz.ch> writes: >>>>> "david" == david <david@orion-10.cs.byu.edu> writes: david> When I issue the command: if ( c(2.8,3)[1] < pretty david> (c(2.8,3))[1]) print ("problem") david> the result is "problem" prints. I have traced it to bits

[Same question for max(.), cummin(.) and cummax(.)] In S, S-plus and R, this currently gives NA. I wonder if it wouldn't make more sense to follow common mathematical/logical reasoning here: min { empty set } = +Inf max { empty set } = -Inf (For integers, these would be INT_MAX and INT_MIN, respectively). Maybe this is a real ``first time'': I am proposing a change which

During the last 24 hours or so, quite a few e-mails have been delayed for the R-help (and in one case the R-announce) mailing lists. The double posting of "New version of ipred package" to R-announce is my fault, not the posters. I apologize for all inconveniences. The reason is a mail server upgrade and reconfiguration. This should all be past now and the delayed mail hopefully soon