Re: [Rd] Problem installing MCMCpack on SPARC Solaris 10

2011-02-10 Thread Prof Brian Ripley
On Thu, 10 Feb 2011, Prof Brian Ripley wrote: There are lots of problems with MCMCpack's C++: the only way (short of a major rewrite) that you will get it to compile on Solaris is to use g++ (and even that needs corrections). The maintainers seem deaf to reports of the issues. And please

[Rd] BLAS optimization by CUBLAS

2011-02-10 Thread Юрий Посохов
Dear colleagues! In early 2009 there was a discussion about fast BLAS library initiated by Sachin. He reported a faster BLAS library made by Nvidia CUBLAS library. Uwe Ligges showed an interest for placing the optimized rblas.dll into windows/contrib section managed by him. Unfortunately there is

[Rd] R 2.12.1 Windows 32bit and 64bit - are numerical differences expected?

2011-02-10 Thread Graham Williams
Should one expect minor numerical differences between 64bit and 32bit R on Windows? Hunting around the lists I've not been able to find a definitive answer yet. Seems plausible using different precision arithmetic, but waned to confirm from those who might know for sure. BACKGROUND A colleague

Re: [Rd] R 2.12.1 Windows 32bit and 64bit - are numerical differences expected?

2011-02-10 Thread Duncan Murdoch
On 11-02-10 6:37 AM, Graham Williams wrote: Should one expect minor numerical differences between 64bit and 32bit R on Windows? Hunting around the lists I've not been able to find a definitive answer yet. Seems plausible using different precision arithmetic, but waned to confirm from those who

Re: [Rd] R 2.12.1 Windows 32bit and 64bit - are numerical differences expected?

2011-02-10 Thread Petr Savicky
On Thu, Feb 10, 2011 at 10:37:09PM +1100, Graham Williams wrote: Should one expect minor numerical differences between 64bit and 32bit R on Windows? Hunting around the lists I've not been able to find a definitive answer yet. Seems plausible using different precision arithmetic, but waned to

Re: [Rd] BLAS optimization by CUBLAS

2011-02-10 Thread Prof Brian Ripley
On Thu, 10 Feb 2011, Юрий Посохов wrote: Dear colleagues! In early 2009 there was a discussion about fast BLAS library initiated by Sachin. He reported a faster BLAS library made by Nvidia CUBLAS library. Uwe Ligges showed an interest for placing the optimized rblas.dll into windows/contrib

Re: [Rd] R 2.12.1 Windows 32bit and 64bit - are numerical differences expected?

2011-02-10 Thread Prof Brian Ripley
A more important difference is the number of registers available on the CPU, which differs between i386 and x86_64. Hence computations get done in different orders by optimizing compilers. And yes, all x86_64 CPUs have SSE, so the optimizer uses them at the compiler settings we use. As

Re: [Rd] embed Sweave driver in .Rnw file

2011-02-10 Thread Sharpie
Friedrich Leisch wrote: On Tue, 14 Dec 2010 12:40:04 +0100, Romain Francois (RF) wrote: Hello, Sweave lets you use alternative drivers through the driver argument, and several packages take advantage of that and define custom Sweave driver for various purposes. Most of

Re: [Rd] using rasterImage within image

2011-02-10 Thread Paul Murrell
Hi On 10/02/2011 7:54 p.m., Michael Sumner wrote: Hello, I'm afraid the SDI graphics issue is still a problem in 2.13.0 2011-02-09 r54308. Bother. Thanks very much for testing. I'll keep looking. Paul To reproduce, in a fresh R session (Windows in SDI mode): ## create a dummy dataset m-

Re: [Rd] using rasterImage within image

2011-02-10 Thread Paul Murrell
Hi Just committed another fix that solves this problem for me at least. If you want to test for yourself, the magic revision number that you are looking for is r54330. Thanks again for your help. Paul On 10/02/2011 7:54 p.m., Michael Sumner wrote: Hello, I'm afraid the SDI graphics issue

[Rd] R project testers - how to help out

2011-02-10 Thread James Goss
I just want to find out how I could help out with testing on the R project. I have many years of software development as well as QA and test of everything from chips to supercomputers and really enjoy testing. Increasingly, I am working in data mining and large-scale statistical kinds of