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Dear R-help, This one is probably a piece of cake for regexp masters. I'd like to split a character vector (for simplicity, say of length one for now) that contains fields that are delimited by arbitrary number of white spaces (e.g., " a b c "). How do I get the character vector that contain the fields? In the example I gave, I've tried: > strsplit(" a b c

Dear R-help, Has anyone notice the problem that, on Windows (NT and XP), when printing a graph using the "File -> Print..." menu in the graphics window to print the graph, that line width seemed to be ignored in the printed output? For example, if I make a plot with plot(1:10, type="l", lwd=5), it looks right on screen, but when printed out using the menu, it looks like

Dear R-help, Has anyone tried running R on a Beowulf-type cluster? I can get R to run in batch (using R CMD BATCH) on a cluster, but am wondering if it is possible to get an interactive R session on a compute node. Right now, if I run: beorun --nolocal R I just get the R start-up message and back to the shell prompt. If I try bpsh 0 R I can get R started (but the R prompt does not

Dear R-help: Has anyone tried using R on the the AMD Opteron in either 64- or 32-bit mode? If so, any good/bad experiences, comments, etc? We are considering getting this hardware, and would like to know if R can run smoothly on such a beast. Any comment much appreciated. Best, Andy Andy Liaw, PhD Biometrics Research PO Box 2000, RY33-300 Merck Research Labs Rahway, NJ

Dear R-devel, Has anyone played with this? http://www.amd.com/us-en/Processors/DevelopWithAMD/0,,30_2252_2282,00.html <http://www.amd.com/us-en/Processors/DevelopWithAMD/0,,30_2252_2282,00.html> . I'll probably give it a shot... Best, Andy Andy Liaw, PhD Biometrics Research PO Box 2000, RY33-300 Merck Research Labs Rahway, NJ 07065 mailto:andy_liaw@merck.com

Dear R-devel, I recall that there used to be a mechanism to get around the requirement that all objects in a package have associated documentation; i.e., a way to specify a list of objects (mostly functions) that are not considered as part of the package API. Is this still available? I cannot find any mention in R-exts. I realize that the way to go is to have a name space, and eventually

[I believe few users manipulate formulae and model frames like this, so I'm posting here instead of R-help.] I just found out that model.frame() includes all terms, including those preceded by "-" in the formula, in its output (as mentioned on its help page). Is there a recommended way of excluding "negative" terms? My guess is that I can use info in the terms attribute

Dear R-devel, Kurt had alerted me to the problem that the randomForest package that I maintain has been failing checks in R-devel. However, I just can't see why or where it's failing. I'd very much appreciate any pointer. The failure occur when running the example code in varImpPlot.Rd: > varImpPlot(mtcars.rf) Error in par(opar) : invalid value specified for graphical parameter

Dear R-devel, Can anyone give me some hints on how to go about debugging a strange segfault in my randomForest package? Here's the scoop: A user reported segfault when running predict() in the randomForest package. I asked for the data and code. The combination runs fine under WinXPPro, but does give segfault on one of our Linux boxes running R (1.7.0 through R-devel_2004-01-08) on

Dear R-help, I was bitten by the behavior of all() when given logical(0): It is TRUE! (And any(logical(0)) is FALSE.) Wouldn't it be better to return logical(0) in both cases? The problem surfaced because some un-named individual called randomForest(x, y, xtest, ytest,...), and gave y as a two-level factor, but ytest as just numeric vector. I thought I check for that in my code by testing

Before I do that, I would need to remove the gcj stuff that are in /usr/bin. If I know how to remove gcj, I'd gladly do that. However, for the particular version of the OS, the entire GCC seems to be bundled into one rpm, and I could not remove just the gcj component. Neither do I wish to mess with files that are part of some RPMs--- in my experience that's invitation for trouble later.

Dear DevelopeRs, I'd like to ask those who develop R packages with compiled code to please try avoiding dependency on GCC (gcc/g77/gfortran/g++) specific features in the code, for the simple reason that there are non-GCC compilers out there that might choke on such features. I found this out back when I was trying to build R-2.3.0-to-be on our dual Opteron based Scyld cluster. Because the

Dear R-help, I'm trying to build R-2.4.0 on our Opteron-based Scyld cluster. The system has gcj (the GNU Java compiler, part of GCC) stuff in /usr/bin. When I installed jdk 1.5.08, the install script placed it in /usr/java (I didn't have a choice, as the script didn't offer that option). Now when I run configure in R-2.4.0, it finds gcj, which is not what I want to use. Is there a

I'm trying to build R on RedHat EL4. The compile went fine, but a make check ran into a problem and produced a file "internet.Rout.fail". Judging by the last part of that file, it was trying to run an R routine called "httpget" to retrieve the URL http://www.stats.ox.ac.uk/pub/datasets/csb/ch11b.dat. The precise error it encountered was: Error in

Please accept my apologies for cross-posting to those subscribed to both R-help and S-news. Also, please direct *all* inquiries to Vladimir Svetnik, the hiring manager. His contact information is below. Thanks, Bill ################################################################ Job description: Computational statistician/biometrician The Biometrics Research Department at Merck Research

Dear R-devel, I've noticed that when I place a `NEWS' file in the top-level directory for a package, then do R CMD build mypkg, the file gets included in the .tar.gz file. However, if I do R CMD build --binary mypkg, the `NEWS' file does not get included in the .zip file. Is this intentional? Is there a way I can get such a file included in the pre-compiled package automatically?

Dear all, Has anyone seen the same problem? I tried compiling R-1.9.0 alpha (2004-03-16) on our Opteron box running SUSE Linux ES8. I ran: ./configure --enable-R-shlib --with-blas=goto and got: Source directory: . Installation directory: /usr/local C compiler: gcc -m64 -O2 -g -msse2 -march=k8 -Wall --pedantic C++ compiler: g++ -m64 -O2 -g

Hi All, While attempting to build R-patched using the Portland Group compiler suite on our dual Opteron 250 box running Scyld 29cz5 (based on RH, kernel 2.4.29), I get: make[5]: Leaving directory `/home/andy/Rbuild/R221-pgi/src/library/tools/src' make[5]: Entering directory `/home/andy/Rbuild/R221-pgi/src/library/tools/src' pgcc -I../../../../include -I/include -I/include/CC -fpic

Hi all, I've only now noticed that on our Opteron boxes running Suse Enterprise Server 8 that R-2.0.1 did not pass make chek-all. It bombed in tests/lapack.R at: > eigenok <- function(A, E, Eps = 1000 * .Machine$double.eps) { V <- E$vect lam <- E$values stopifnot(abs(A %*% V - V %*% diag(lam)) < Eps, .... [TRUNCATED] > Ceigenok <- function(A, E, Eps =

Hi all, I develop and print from both Windows and Linux, and am seeing some printing inconsistencies first described about a year and a half ago by Andy Liaw (see below). Specifically, the line widths on my windows plots are about 5 times smaller than that on Linux, and my windows printouts do not match what my screen looks like. However, if I print to a pdf file first, then I can get accurate