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This is an operating system question, but it is with the intent of using R on that operating system. I have an ibook G4 Power PC that I am going to install linux on. Is there a better, worse, or perhaps easier (I am a linux newby migrating from mac) distribution that I should look at. I appreciate your help. I didn't post this in the sig-mac because I don't know if it fits there better

On page 22 of the R-introduction guide it's written: the quadratic form x^{'} A^{-1} x which is used in multivariate computations, should be computed by something like x%*%solve(A,x), rather than computing the inverse of A. Why isn't it good to compute t(x) %*% solve(A) %*% x? Thanks a lot for help!

I have an ibook G4 (powerpc) running OS X panther. I am using gcc 4.0.3 installed from Darwin Ports to compile llvm. When I try to compile llvm, I get the following error: llvm[1]: Compiling Program.cpp for Debug build Unix/Program.inc: In function 'void llvm::SetMemoryLimits(unsigned int)': Unix/Program.inc:127: error: 'RLIMIT_AS' was not declared in this scope Does anyone

Hey guys I got a ibook g4, I installed darwine, I tried running MSN Messenger 7.0 "it says it works" and it doesn't work I just get an error saying it didn't worry and has closed. I tried utorrent, same deal, then I went to the darwine folder and went into applications and tried clocks.exe and that didn't work either. Help me out? Thanks

On Thu, 12 Apr 2007, Ryan M. Lefever wrote: > I have an ibook G4 (powerpc) running OS X panther. I am using gcc 4.0.3 > installed from Darwin Ports to compile llvm. When I try to compile > llvm, I get the following error: > > llvm[1]: Compiling Program.cpp for Debug build > Unix/Program.inc: In function 'void llvm::SetMemoryLimits(unsigned int)': >

Dear R gurus, I'm trying to visualize a matrix 256 x 920 using image(), but i find the display too slow (~ 1 minute ?? admittedly, my iBook G4 isn't very fast). The aim is not to get a good resolution image, but rather have a quick look at the matrix. I couldn't find a way to plot a smaller set of points from my data in a sensible manner (basically, i want to decrease the

Hello all, R just ''stopped working'' on my machine (ibook g4, os 10.3.9). between last time I used it and now, I did not do anything but check emails and browse the internet. when I try to start the GUI, it appears and disappears as rapidly. when I tried to run a session from the terminal, I got the following: mkdir: /tmp/Rtmp590-29493: Permission denied mkdir:

Hi, I'm new to R. I was wondering if anyone has an OS X native installation (not Carbon) of R on a G3 Macintosh that is able to run linear regression? I installed Jan de Leeuw's R binary for OS 10.2 Jaguar on my laptop, which is still a G3 model. When I try to run a simple regression, using lm, I get an "Illegal Instruction" message and R quits. Jan thinks it may be the case

Im trying to enable the swat utility so that I can manipulate the smb.conf file. I have done this on my PowerMac G4 computer, and now Im trying to set it up on my iBook - but it gives me the following error, xinetd[pid]: bind failed (address already in use (errno = 48). service = swat xinetd[pid]: {init_services} no services. Exiting... I have no idea what is going on, Im doing

Hi, I'm trying to get Wine to work on friends computer,and am having much trouble. I would appreciate it if someone could post a tutorial in LAMEST terms for me. The operating system is OSX, and it's an iBook G4.

How many people out there are doing Rails development on a Mac Mini? I''ve been eyeing up the MacBook as well as the new MacMini trying to decide if I want to splurge. I''ve been doing very little Rails development thus far which makes the investment a little hard to justify. The Free Mini Mac ( http://minimacs.freepay.com/?r=16778073) offer seems like the best route but

I suppose this has already been asked and someone is going to tell me what chapter of the HOWTO to read but has anyone configured a Linux server to link up Windows whatever(say ME) and Mac OS X. Is this the best(highest speed and cheapest we are talking small non-profit.org here) way to do it? That is have a Linux machine doing everything a server does-this way dont have to waste G4 on server

Is there a simple function in R to get a moving standard deviation (i.e. for the last x samples)? My goal is to plot bollinger bands around a moving average for price data. I use kernel smoothing for the moving average. cheers and thanks! over and out -- doktora

Hi! I have iBook G4, I was installed on this openSuSe 11.1 ppc, and I whant to install wine 1.0.1. In the whine repositories no wine for ppc architecture. I downloaded source tar.bz2 file, configuring finished succesed, but compiling, when process with file dlls/mshtml.tbl, exiting with error: error: get_type_vt: unknown type: 0x2b. Hou fix it :(

Dear R Gang: I have a Macintosh G4 powerbook, running OS 9.2. Last week I ran a statistical analysis program that I wrote in R for two days continuously. The program does repeated intensive computations on a large data set. The program completed its task successfully, but during the process I noted that the computer seemed to be running unusually hot. Shortly after the program stopped,

The reason I didn't use Xcode 2.4 is because I'm running OS X 10.3.9 (Panther). I have not upgraded the OS to 10.4. Xcode 2.4 requires OS X 10.4, according to Apple's website. Do you know otherwise? I think the highest Xcode I can get is 1.5. By the way what does FSF mean? I also tried compiling llvm with the gcc 3.3 that comes with OS X 10.3, and it gave the exact same error

The following benchmarks have been obtained using the TextMate manual as the input source: <http://macromates.com/textmate/manual/source.tbz> Using PHP Markdown, parsing the 24 files separately (with the reference file appended to each of them), I get this (on an iBook G4 1.2 Ghz): Total Avg. Min. Q1. Med. Q3. Max. Parse Time (ms):

Hey everyone, I have been looking for a while for ways to integrate R's wonderful functions into my C++ software, but I have not found anything concrete. So finally, i post to this list to see if anyouse else knows about this, or has done it!? Is it possible? Are there C++ or C R libraries? Or is it sufficiently easy to build them? your help is much appreciated! thanks doktora

I am trying to run R from an apache C++ module in a shell script to plot some data to display it in apache later. I get the error (reported in apache's logs): Xlib: connection to ":0.0" refused by server Xlib: No protocol specified Error in X11(paste("png::", filename, sep = ""), width, height, pointsize, : unable to start device PNG In addition: Warning

Dear R community, I am using R version 2.4.1 GUI 1.18 on an iBook G4 with OS 10.4.10. When I try to load package 'gplots' I get the following message: > library(gplots) Loading required package: gdata Attaching package: 'gdata' The following object(s) are masked _by_ .GlobalEnv : reorder.factor Loading required package: gtools Attaching package: 'gtools'