Re: [Rd] GAMs and survival data

2010-04-08 Thread Ben Bolker
: For this type of model (GAM), is there a simple way * of constructing an equation for the model * (e.g., to come up with predicted values). You probably want to use the predict() functions provided with mgcv/GAM. It wouldn't hurt to read Simon Wood's book, either. Ben Bolker

[Rd] possible bug in tools:::getRemotePkgDepends ?

2010-04-09 Thread Ben Bolker
) a bug? Should I report it as such? -- Ben Bolker Associate professor, Biology Dep't, Univ. of Florida bol...@ufl.edu / people.biology.ufl.edu/bolker GPG key: people.biology.ufl.edu/bolker/benbolker-publickey.asc signature.asc Description: OpenPGP digital signature

[Rd] tiny typo in ?prop.test: if for is

2010-04-18 Thread Ben Bolker
{alternative}. A confidence interval for the underlying proportion with confidence level as specified by -- Ben Bolker Associate professor, Biology Dep't, Univ. of Florida bol...@ufl.edu / people.biology.ufl.edu/bolker GPG key: people.biology.ufl.edu/bolker/benbolker-publickey.asc signature.asc

Re: [Rd] bug in cut.POSIXt(..., breaks = lt; numericgt; ) and cut.Date

2010-04-29 Thread Ben Bolker
Felix Andrews felix at nfrac.org writes: x - seq(as.POSIXct(2000-01-01), by = days, length = 20) cut(x, breaks = 3) # Error in `levels-.factor`(`*tmp*`, value = character(0)) : # number of levels differs cut(as.Date(x), breaks = 3) # Error in `levels-.factor`(`*tmp*`, value =

[Rd] warning from install.packages()

2010-05-25 Thread Ben Bolker
to the first element of ‘.libPaths()’.) It's one of the most common questions I have to answer for students during introductory R sessions ... If there's not, would anyone get annoyed if I submitted a wishlist item to have it suppressed by default? Ben Bolker

Re: [Rd] warning from install.packages()

2010-06-01 Thread Ben Bolker
On 25/05/10 23:25 PM, Ben Bolker bolker at ufl.edu wrote: Just curious: is there a particular reason why install.packages() gives a warning in normal use when 'lib' is not specified (e.g. argument 'lib' is missing: using '/usr/local/lib/R/site-library' )? Bump. From

Re: [Rd] warning from install.packages()

2010-06-02 Thread Ben Bolker
Michael Dewey wrote: At 13:40 01/06/2010, Ben Bolker wrote: On 25/05/10 23:25 PM, Ben Bolker bolker at ufl.edu wrote: Just curious: is there a particular reason why install.packages() gives a warning in normal use when 'lib' is not specified (e.g. argument 'lib' is missing: using '/usr

Re: [Rd] warning from install.packages()

2010-06-03 Thread Ben Bolker
Martin Maechler wrote: BB == Ben Bolker bol...@ufl.edu on Wed, 02 Jun 2010 13:45:18 -0400 writes: BB Michael Dewey wrote: At 13:40 01/06/2010, Ben Bolker wrote: On 25/05/10 23:25 PM, Ben Bolker bolker at ufl.edu wrote: Just curious: is there a particular

Re: [Rd] [R] Wrong symbol rendering in plots (Ubuntu)

2010-06-07 Thread Ben Bolker
LC_MESSAGES=fr_FR.utf8 [7] LC_PAPER=fr_FR.utf8 LC_NAME=C [9] LC_ADDRESS=C LC_TELEPHONE=C [11] LC_MEASUREMENT=fr_FR.utf8 LC_IDENTIFICATION=C attached base packages: [1] stats graphics grDevices utils datasets methods base -- Ben Bolker Associate

Re: [Rd] Disappearance of the file quot;NEWSquot;

2010-08-01 Thread Ben Bolker
Laurent lgautier at gmail.com writes: Dear R-developpers, The file NEWS disappeared in r5243, and the authoritative source of information for what has changed in R is in ./doc/NEWS.Rd. A quick glance at NEWS was extremely helpful for knowing what has changed, and whether building a

[Rd] adding a built-in drop.levels option for subset() in 2.12 ?

2010-08-15 Thread Ben Bolker
of the time ... cheers Ben Bolker -- Ben Bolker bbol...@gmail.com , bol...@mcmaster.ca http://www.math.mcmaster.ca/~bolker GPG key: http://www.math.mcmaster.ca/~bolker/benbolker-publickey.asc __ R-devel@r-project.org mailing list https://stat.ethz.ch

Re: [Rd] No RTFM?

2010-08-21 Thread Ben Bolker
Paul Johnson pauljohn32 at gmail.com writes: [snip: lots more snippage to try get gmane to let me post] What do you think of this: The priority is to put the most important thing at the top. The second priority is brevity. I really like this. Some suggestions:

[Rd] doc bug in ?residuals.gls

2010-09-14 Thread Ben Bolker
in the results ... This is in nlme 3.1-96, from a fresh tools/rsync-recommended. Sending it to r-devel for comment because r-core is listed as the maintainer. sincerely Ben Bolker __ R-devel@r-project.org mailing list https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r

Re: [Rd] How to set up an own package repository

2010-09-17 Thread Ben Bolker
Janko Thyson janko.thyson at ku-eichstaett.de writes: Dear List, I'd like to set up a package repository so I can use install.packages() on it for home-grown packages. I set up an AMPP infrastructure on a windows box already, but I'm pretty lost with respect to what to do next as I didn't

[Rd] r-forge down?

2010-10-17 Thread Ben Bolker
anyone have a status report on r-forge ... ? From here (Hamilton, ON) I can't ping ... PING r-forge.wu-wien.ac.at (137.208.57.38) 56(84) bytes of data. cheers Ben Bolker __ R-devel@r-project.org mailing list https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman

Re: [Rd] Bug in read.table?

2010-11-07 Thread Ben Bolker
in the documentation would explain this, or one might have to dig through source code in R or C.) Problems with unescaped/unrecognized quote characters are very common. Otherwise, this will likely be dismissed as a (doctor, it hurts when I do this; well then, don't do that!) sort of situation. Ben

Re: [Rd] Bug in read.table?

2010-11-07 Thread Ben Bolker
Ben Bolker bbolker at gmail.com writes: jgarcia at ija.csic.es writes: Thanks. Yes, quote= solves the problem. I would never say, however, from the documentations, that this was causing the duplicate records. Rather, I would have expected some kind of warning/error message

Re: [Rd] Bug in read.table?

2010-11-08 Thread Ben Bolker
Ben Bolker bbolker at gmail.com writes: Can simplify this still farther: a b'c d e'f g h'i One of the first things that happens in read.table is that the first few lines are read with readTableHead: lines - .Internal(readTableHead(file, nlines, comment.char

Re: [Rd] Bug in read.table?

2010-11-15 Thread Ben Bolker
Ben Bolker bbolker at gmail.com writes: Ben Bolker bbolker at gmail.com writes: Can simplify this still farther: a b'c d e'f g h'i This example file leads to duplicate lines. Arguably it should have behavior analogous to: scan(what=) 1: a b'c 3: d e'f 5: g h'i 7: Read 6

[Rd] trivial typo in system.Rd

2010-11-16 Thread Ben Bolker
Index: system.Rd === --- system.Rd (revision 53611) +++ system.Rd (working copy) @@ -181,7 +181,7 @@ \item The most important difference is that on a Unix-alike \code{system} launches a shell which then runs

Re: [Rd] nonparametric analysis of covariance

2010-11-24 Thread Ben Bolker
.) If that doesn't work, please try your question again on R-help. Ben Bolker __ R-devel@r-project.org mailing list https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-devel

Re: [Rd] Competing with one's own work

2010-12-03 Thread Ben Bolker
Ravi Varadhan rvaradhan at jhmi.edu writes: The decision about whether it belongs in a package or in base R is about who should maintain the code. Ok. I understand it now. Thanks, Ravi. A point that may not have been made (sorry if it was and I missed it): A better question

Re: [Rd] postscript failure manifests in plot.TukeyHSD

2010-12-14 Thread Ben Bolker
Jari Oksanen jari.oksanen at oulu.fi writes: Hello R Developers, Dear R-developers, I ran some standard tests with currently (today morning) compiled R release candidate in Linux R 2.12.1 RC (2010-12-13 r53843). Some of these tests used plot.TukeyHSD function. This worked OK on the

Re: [Rd] postscript failure manifests in plot.TukeyHSD

2010-12-14 Thread Ben Bolker
On 10-12-14 01:16 PM, Peter Ehlers wrote: On 2010-12-14 09:27, Ben Bolker wrote: Jari Oksanenjari.oksanenat oulu.fi writes: Hello R Developers, Dear R-developers, I ran some standard tests with currently (today morning) compiled R release candidate in Linux R 2.12.1 RC (2010-12-13

Re: [Rd] postscript failure manifests in plot.TukeyHSD

2010-12-15 Thread Ben Bolker
. \code{pch=.} with \code{cex = 1} corresponds to a square of side 1/72 inch, which is also the \sQuote{pixel} size assumed for graphics parameters such as \code{cra}. Paul On 15/12/2010 7:20 a.m., Ben Bolker wrote: On 10-12-14 01:16 PM, Peter Ehlers wrote: On 2010-12-14 09:27, Ben Bolker

[Rd] trivial typo in R language definition manual

2011-01-06 Thread Ben Bolker
on line 1714 of R-lang.texi (current SVN of R-devel, 53919) @code{x$aa} will match @code{x$aabb} if @code{x} does not a component should probably have contain or have inserted after not __ R-devel@r-project.org mailing list

Re: [Rd] normality and equal variance testing

2011-01-24 Thread Ben Bolker
Karthi Subramanian karthi_subramanian at yahoo.ca writes: I currently have a program that automates 2-way ANOVA on a series of endpoints, but before the ANOVA is carried out I want the code to test the assumptions of normality and equal variance and report along with each anova result in

Re: [Rd] trojan at current development version?

2011-01-28 Thread Ben Bolker
Uwe Ligges ligges at statistik.tu-dortmund.de writes: On 28.01.2011 13:49, peter dalgaard wrote: On Jan 28, 2011, at 09:47 , Andreas Mayr wrote: Hi, is it possible, that the current development version for Windows (

[Rd] axTicks.Rd documentation bug

2011-02-04 Thread Ben Bolker
in the logarithmic axis case: it took me quite a bit of digging in documentation and source code to figure out how to do this for myself, so I think it would be useful to others ... Ben Bolker Index: axTicks.Rd === --- axTicks.Rd (revision

[Rd] read.csv trap

2011-02-04 Thread Ben Bolker
'maxcols' parameter, although those would only help in the case where the user already knows there is a problem. cheers Ben Bolker === writeLines(c(A,B,C,D, 1,a,b,c, 2,f,g,c, 3,a,i,j, 4,a,b,c, 5,d,e,f

[Rd] print(...,digits=2) behavior

2011-02-05 Thread Ben Bolker
(and the original bug reporter) must be misunderstanding something. Thoughts/references? cheers Ben Bolker __ R-devel@r-project.org mailing list https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-devel

Re: [Rd] using rasterImage within image

2011-02-09 Thread Ben Bolker
:49 PM, Ben Bolker wrote: Has anyone yet tried incorporating rasterImage into the base image() function? It seems to make a *huge* difference, with a very small number of added/changed lines of code. (Of course I have barely tested it at all.) Is there any reason this *shouldn't* go

Re: [Rd] using rasterImage within image

2011-02-09 Thread Ben Bolker
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 11-02-09 03:09 PM, Henrik Bengtsson wrote: On Wed, Feb 9, 2011 at 11:53 AM, Simon Urbanek simon.urba...@r-project.org wrote: On Feb 9, 2011, at 2:36 PM, Henrik Bengtsson wrote: On Wed, Feb 9, 2011 at 11:25 AM, Simon Urbanek

Re: [Rd] read.csv trap

2011-02-11 Thread Ben Bolker
Bump. It's been a week since I posted this to r-devel. Any thoughts/discussion? Would R-core be irritated if I submitted a bug report? cheers Ben Original Message Subject: read.csv trap Date: Fri, 04 Feb 2011 11:16:36 -0500 From: Ben Bolker bbol...@gmail.com

Re: [Rd] read.csv trap

2011-02-11 Thread Ben Bolker
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 02/11/2011 03:37 PM, Laurent Gatto wrote: On 11 February 2011 19:39, Ben Bolker bbol...@gmail.com wrote: [snip] What is dangerous/confusing is that R silently **wraps** longer lines if fill=TRUE (which is the default for read.csv). I

Re: [Rd] using rasterImage within image

2011-02-14 Thread Ben Bolker
On 02/14/2011 02:59 PM, Simon Urbanek wrote: On Feb 14, 2011, at 2:28 PM, Paul Murrell wrote: Hi On 15/02/2011 8:11 a.m., Simon Urbanek wrote: On Feb 14, 2011, at 12:26 PM, Ben Bolker wrote: Paul Murrellp.murrellat auckland.ac.nz writes: Hi On 12/02/2011 7:22 p.m., Michael

Re: [Rd] readPNG gives warnings and doesn't execute sample code from help files

2011-02-15 Thread Ben Bolker
then? See http://developer.r-project.org/Raster/raster-RFC.html (near the bottom of the page, where it explains that the Windows device supports alpha but not per-pixel alpha ...) cheers Ben Bolker __ R-devel@r-project.org mailing list https

Re: [Rd] readPNG gives warnings and doesn't execute sample code from help files

2011-02-15 Thread Ben Bolker
pixel as well, but on Windows that's still no avail. So basically, on Windows I can forget about alpha? Cheers Jors On Tue, Feb 15, 2011 at 2:20 PM, Ben Bolker bbol...@gmail.com wrote: Joris Meys jorismeys at gmail.com writes: I believed the standard plotting device on R in 2.12.1 would

[Rd] request for patch in drop1 (add.R)

2011-02-23 Thread Ben Bolker
? Should I submit to the bug database as enhancement request? Are there any hidden downsides to this? Ben Bolker Index: add.R === --- add.R (revision 54562) +++ add.R (working copy) @@ -330,7 +330,7 @@ drop1.default

Re: [Rd] request for patch in drop1 (add.R)

2011-02-23 Thread Ben Bolker
On 11-02-23 03:20 PM, Martin Maechler wrote: Ben Bolker bbol...@gmail.com on Wed, 23 Feb 2011 09:14:37 -0500 writes: By changing three lines in drop1 from access based on $ to access based on standard accessor methods (terms() and residuals()), it becomes *much* easier

Re: [Rd] request for patch in drop1 (add.R)

2011-02-23 Thread Ben Bolker
will probably occur elsewhere already. Thanks Prof. Ripley. (I will say that, while I understand why residuals(x) and x$residuals could be different, I am happy that a more transparent form of coding is being introduced ...) On Wed, 23 Feb 2011, Martin Maechler wrote: Ben Bolker bbol

Re: [Rd] read.csv trap

2011-03-03 Thread Ben Bolker
Ben Bolker bbolker at gmail.com writes: On 02/11/2011 03:37 PM, Laurent Gatto wrote: On 11 February 2011 19:39, Ben Bolker bbolker at gmail.com wrote: [snip] Bump. Is there any opinion about this from R-core?? Will I be scolded if I submit this as a bug ... ?? What is dangerous

[Rd] R-alpha typo in ?replicate ?

2011-03-21 Thread Ben Bolker
simplify: logical or character string; should the result be simplified to a vector, matrix or higher dimensional array if possible? The default, ‘TRUE’, returns a vector or matrix if appropriate, whereas ‘signify = array’, rather recommended typically,

[Rd] import question

2011-03-23 Thread Ben Bolker
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Re: [Rd] import question

2011-03-23 Thread Ben Bolker
Ben Bolker bbolker at gmail.com writes: I have been struggling all day to import a particular function/method combination (ranef(), which extracts the random effects from a mixed model fit) from the nlme package into another package ... so far without success. Answered my own

Re: [Rd] import question

2011-03-24 Thread Ben Bolker
Prof Brian Ripley ripley at stats.ox.ac.uk writes: On Thu, 24 Mar 2011, Ben Bolker wrote: Ben Bolker bbolker at gmail.com writes: I have been struggling all day to import a particular function/method combination (ranef(), which extracts the random effects from a mixed model

Re: [Rd] import question

2011-03-24 Thread Ben Bolker
On 03/24/2011 03:03 PM, Hadley Wickham wrote: On Wed, Mar 23, 2011 at 7:20 PM, Ben Bolker bbol...@gmail.com wrote: Ben Bolker bbolker at gmail.com writes: I have been struggling all day to import a particular function/method combination (ranef(), which extracts the random effects from

[Rd] another import puzzle

2011-03-26 Thread Ben Bolker
of lme4, changing the order of the directive, ...). Help ... ? sincerely Ben Bolker = test.R = library(coefsumtest) library(lme4) gm1 - glmer(cbind(incidence, size - incidence) ~ period + (1 | herd), family = binomial, data = cbpp) coef(summary(gm1)) ## works f

Re: [Rd] another import puzzle

2011-03-26 Thread Ben Bolker
On 11-03-26 02:52 PM, Martin Morgan wrote: On 03/26/2011 11:14 AM, Ben Bolker wrote: Dear list, I have another (again possibly boneheaded) puzzle about importing, again encapsulated in a nearly trivial package. (The package is posted athttp://www.math.mcmaster.ca/bolker/misc

Re: [Rd] pd

2011-04-11 Thread Ben Bolker
probably not looking for http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/PD good luck -- if you give more context you might get a more useful answer. Ben Bolker __ R-devel@r-project.org mailing list https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-devel

Re: [Rd] bug in hist.POSIXt , hist.Date

2011-04-13 Thread Ben Bolker
Joris Meys jorismeys at gmail.com writes: The behaviour of hist.POSIXt when using the col argument is different from the default hist, in the respect that it colors the axes as well. I think this is due to the ... argument, which is passed to the axis.POSIXct() function. In the default

[Rd] request for R-exts addition

2011-04-28 Thread Ben Bolker
would it be possible / make sense to copy some of the information in ?news into the R-exts manual, where package writers are most likely (?) to look for it? The information therein seems more appropriate for the extensions manual ... cheers Ben Bolker

Re: [Rd] what's R save terminal flag?

2011-05-05 Thread Ben Bolker
*either* r-help *or* Stack Overflow to post your question: don't cross-post. (http://stackoverflow.com/questions/5895356/whats-r-save-terminal-flag) As always, reproducible examples are helpful: please see the R-help posting guide. cheers Ben Bolker

[Rd] obscure error message from splines::ns

2011-05-16 Thread Ben Bolker
an informative warning message. If there were any enthusiasm for it, I would try to come up with a test and warning to incorporate into the current version of bs() ... Ben Bolker __ R-devel@r-project.org mailing list https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman

Re: [Rd] IDWT - Inverse Discrete Wavelet Transform

2011-05-19 Thread Ben Bolker
those packages). It would be best if you could provide a reproducible question -- although I recognize that could be difficult in this case. You might also try stackoverflow.com or stackexchange.com good luck Ben Bolker __ R-devel@r-project.org

Re: [Rd] [R-SIG-Mac] check leads to .o files and to packagename-Ex.R

2011-06-02 Thread Ben Bolker
skimmed through the relevant section (1.3.1) in the R Extensions manual, and it doesn't say anything about running on tarballs being preferred. Add my vote to the wishlist that the src directory should get cleaned after R CMD check. Ben Bolker So, it'd be something like: R CMD build pkg

Re: [Rd] [R-SIG-Mac] check leads to .o files and to packagename-Ex.R

2011-06-02 Thread Ben Bolker
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 06/02/2011 09:12 AM, Duncan Murdoch wrote: On 11-06-02 9:06 AM, Ben Bolker wrote: On 06/02/2011 06:47 AM, Benilton Carvalho wrote: 'R CMD check' should be applied on the .tar.gz, not on the source directory. Why? Because that is what

Re: [Rd] requesting a mentor for R development

2011-06-21 Thread Ben Bolker
Paul Johnson pauljohn32 at gmail.com writes: I'd like to learn the process of revising R functions packages and then submitting proposed patches to the R Core team. Would someone be willing to mentor me through one example? I don't know about mentoring, but I'll give my two cents (some

Re: [Rd] Is there an implementation of loess with more than 3 parametric ...

2011-06-27 Thread Ben Bolker
Dr. D. P. Kreil (Boku David.Kreil at boku.ac.at writes: Dear John, I suggest that you look at the abilities of the mgcv package. There are notes of mine at http://www.maths.anu.edu.au/%7Ejohnm/r-book/xtras/autosmooth.pdf that may help you get started. Thank you very much for

[Rd] apparent typo in heatmap docs: bump?

2011-07-06 Thread Ben Bolker
lost? cheers Ben Bolker -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.4.10 (GNU/Linux) Comment: Using GnuPG with Mozilla - http://enigmail.mozdev.org/ iEYEARECAAYFAk4UbqAACgkQc5UpGjwzenOv7QCgkd8e9C0ANgO7/8kM9nCdWYAG w/MAn2tF12ACCj+6cI6M3qJ7mu7r59g3 =NM3G -END PGP SIGNATURE- Index

Re: [Rd] Creating package Vignette

2011-07-14 Thread Ben Bolker
Prof Brian Ripley ripley at stats.ox.ac.uk writes: It depends what you mean by 'vignette': the R docs have been unclear (but R = 2.13.0 are more consistent). In most cases a 'vignette' is an Sweave document, the vignette source being the .Rnw file, and the vignette PDF the processed

[Rd] plot.function documentation/export?

2011-07-25 Thread Ben Bolker
: methods(class=function) [1] as.list.function head.function* print.function tail.function* I find the same S3method syntax, so I guess the quotation marks aren't the problem ... Any ideas? Ben Bolker sessionInfo() R version 2.13.1 (2011-07-08) Platform: i486-pc-linux-gnu (32-bit

Re: [Rd] plot.function documentation/export?

2011-07-25 Thread Ben Bolker
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 07/25/2011 12:55 PM, Uwe Ligges wrote: On 25.07.2011 17:45, Ben Bolker wrote: I recently suggested to someone ( http://stackoverflow.com/questions/6789055/r-inconsistency-why-add-t-sometimes-works-and-sometimes-not-in-the-plot-functi

Re: [Rd] plot.function documentation/export?

2011-07-26 Thread Ben Bolker
was using R-devel and that worked as you expected. Best, Uwe Ligges On 25.07.2011 19:01, Ben Bolker wrote: On 07/25/2011 12:55 PM, Uwe Ligges wrote: On 25.07.2011 17:45, Ben Bolker wrote: I recently suggested to someone ( http://stackoverflow.com/questions/6789055/r-inconsistency-why

[Rd] trivial typo in R administration manual

2011-08-16 Thread Ben Bolker
the attached should probably read regarded by some OSes as separate ... Patch attached from latest SVN. Ben Bolker Index: R-admin.texi === --- R-admin.texi(revision 56743) +++ R-admin.texi(working copy

Re: [Rd] read.table segfaults

2011-08-26 Thread Ben Bolker
Scott ncbi2r at googlemail.com writes: It does look like you've got a memory issue. perhaps using as.is=TRUE, and/or stringsAsFactors=FALSE will help as optional arguments to read.table if you don't specify these sorts of things, R can have to look through the file and figure out

[Rd] difficulty with 'parallel' in building r57032 -- missing Makefile?

2011-09-20 Thread Ben Bolker
what is done with the splines package, and no glaring differences leap out at me -- so I'm stumped. If I do ./configure --without-parallel; make , it works. If I'm being an idiot please be gentle ... Ben Bolker __ R-devel@r-project.org mailing

Re: [Rd] difficulty with 'parallel' in building r57032 -- missing Makefile?

2011-09-20 Thread Ben Bolker
On 11-09-20 09:29 PM, peter dalgaard wrote: On Sep 20, 2011, at 20:57 , Ben Bolker wrote: From SVN revision 57032, with configuration R is now configured for i686-pc-linux-gnu Source directory: . Installation directory:/usr/local C compiler:gcc -std

[Rd] load.R patch suggestion

2011-09-20 Thread Ben Bolker
is of length zero I would guess that error messages with the word magic in them would be disturbing to new users, who are probably worried already that R is magic ... Ben Bolker Index: load.R === --- load.R (revision 56743

[Rd] inconsolata font for building vignettes with R-devel

2011-09-23 Thread Ben Bolker
Just to save someone else a few seconds of googling: when you try to R CMD check with recent versions of R-devel and you get * checking PDF version of manual ... WARNING LaTeX errors when creating PDF version. This typically indicates Rd problems. LaTeX errors found: ! LaTeX Error: File

Re: [Rd] inconsolata font for building vignettes with R-devel

2011-09-23 Thread Ben Bolker
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 09/23/2011 06:25 PM, Dirk Eddelbuettel wrote: On 23 September 2011 at 18:03, Ben Bolker wrote: | Just to save someone else a few seconds of googling: when you try to R | CMD check with recent versions of R-devel and you get | | * checking

Re: [Rd] read.csv behaviour

2011-09-28 Thread Ben Bolker
Mehmet Suzen msuzen at mango-solutions.com writes: This might be obvious but I was wondering if anyone knows quick and easy way of writing out a CSV file with varying row lengths, ideally an initial data read from a CSV file which has the same format. See example below.

Re: [Rd] Gamma funtion(s) bug

2009-03-31 Thread Ben Bolker
refers to gammaCody(), which is now defunct. Perhaps remove the sentence? Ben Bolker __ R-devel@r-project.org mailing list https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-devel

[Rd] View() crashy on Ubuntu 9.04

2009-05-12 Thread Ben Bolker
installed version (2.9.0) doesn't have debugging symbols, and I'm having trouble building the latest SVN version (./configure gives checking for recommended packages... ls: cannot access ./src/library/Recommended/boot_*.tar.gz: No such file or directory) Can anyone confirm? cheers Ben Bolker R

Re: [Rd] View() crashy on Ubuntu 9.04

2009-05-12 Thread Ben Bolker
: generic error Cannot find new threads: generic error ?? cheers Ben Bolker Kjetil Halvorsen wrote: I can reproduce this too. Run from within emacs: v - data.frame(1:3,2:4) sessionInfo() R version 2.9.0 (2009-04-17) i686-pc-linux-gnu locale: LC_CTYPE=en_US.UTF-8;LC_NUMERIC=C

Re: [Rd] View() crashy on Ubuntu 9.04

2009-05-13 Thread Ben Bolker
This patch fixes the problem for me with latest R-devel. Thanks! (This kind of X-hacking would take me hours if not days to figure out ...) cheers Ben Bolker Ei-ji Nakama wrote: Hi 2009/5/13 Dirk Eddelbuettel e...@debian.org: snip #0 0xb70e685e in XmbLookupString () from /usr

Re: [Rd] simple add error (PR#13699)

2009-05-13 Thread Ben Bolker
not sure if yacas runs on Windows or not). Ben Bolker -- View this message in context: http://www.nabble.com/simple-add-error-%28PR-13699%29-tp23530242p23531057.html Sent from the R devel mailing list archive at Nabble.com. __ R-devel@r-project.org

Re: [Rd] View() crashy on Ubuntu 9.04

2009-05-15 Thread Ben Bolker
Prof Brian Ripley wrote: Thank you, included in R-patched and R-devel now. [snip] thanks! I do wonder sometimes if people who only work with data in ASCII or in a Western European language covered by Latin-1 realize the extent of the overhead that using a UTF-8 locale implies,

Re: [Rd] The default position of plot title

2009-06-02 Thread Ben Bolker
expect the title to be at the top ... Ben Bolker -- View this message in context: http://www.nabble.com/The-default-position-of-plot-title-tp23828342p23831792.html Sent from the R devel mailing list archive at Nabble.com. __ R-devel@r-project.org

[Rd] Reduce: extra args wishlist?

2009-06-06 Thread Ben Bolker
... to every call to the function in Reduce() -- patch is included below my signature ... It's not a big deal -- I could also do Reduce(function(x,y) { merge(x,y,by=state,all=TRUE) }, z) but there doesn't seem to be a good reason not to allow it ... cheers Ben Bolker -- Ben Bolker

Re: [Rd] Reduce: extra args wishlist?

2009-06-10 Thread Ben Bolker
that conservatism would rule, or the opinion of the original author of the functions (I don't know who contributed Reduce et al.), but perhaps Kurt doesn't have strong feelings about this ... cheers Ben -- Ben Bolker Associate professor, Biology Dep't, Univ. of Florida bol...@ufl.edu

Re: [Rd] box and whisker (PR#13821)

2009-07-12 Thread Ben Bolker
as you've shown the point is pretty general. Ben Bolker -- View this message in context: http://www.nabble.com/box-and-whisker-%28PR-13821%29-tp24446795p24453549.html Sent from the R devel mailing list archive at Nabble.com. __ R-devel@r-project.org

[Rd] model.matrix evaluation challenges

2009-08-09 Thread Ben Bolker
the variables in the formula in the environment of z (i.e., ignoring the first argument of with ...) Any advice on how to solve this without making a bigger mess? sincerely Ben Bolker ## set up a data frame for prediction set.seed(1001) f = factor(rep(letters[1:4],each=20)) x = runif(80

Re: [Rd] Bug in nlm, found using sem; failure in several flavors (PR#13883)

2009-08-10 Thread Ben Bolker
someone else can comment ...) Ben Bolker Adam D. I. Kramer-2 wrote: This message is in MIME format. The first part should be readable text, while the remaining parts are likely unreadable without MIME-aware tools. --1660387551-150661043-1249684349=:2997 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN

Re: [Rd] model.matrix evaluation challenges

2009-08-11 Thread Ben Bolker
that seems to work, thank you. would anyone care to explain *why* it works ... ? or where I could go to read more about why it works ... ? cheers Ben Bolker Felix Andrews wrote: how about... nrow(with(cc, model.matrix(params, data=environment( cheers -Felix 2009/8/10

[Rd] unnecessary braces?

2009-08-18 Thread Ben Bolker
probability distribution. } -- Ben Bolker Associate professor, Biology Dep't, Univ. of Florida bol...@ufl.edu / www.zoology.ufl.edu/bolker GPG key: www.zoology.ufl.edu/bolker/benbolker-publickey.asc signature.asc Description: OpenPGP digital signature __ R

[Rd] trouble building 2.10?

2009-08-18 Thread Ben Bolker
: [docs] Error 2 (ignored) any ideas? Ben Bolker signature.asc Description: OpenPGP digital signature __ R-devel@r-project.org mailing list https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-devel

Re: [Rd] Accuracy (PR#13999)

2009-10-11 Thread Ben Bolker
witkovsky wrote: Full_Name: Viktor Witkovsky Version: 2.9.2 OS: Windows XP Submission from: (NULL) (78.98.89.227) Hello, I have found strange behavior of the function qchisq (the non-central qchisq is based on inversion of pchisq, which is further based on pgamma). The

[Rd] forwarded: bug (?) in cut.POSIXt with breaks=integer

2009-10-15 Thread Ben Bolker
. ! ## levels(res) = [1970-01-01 00:00:00,1970-01-01 12:00:00) ! ## instead of [18000,61200) ! } ! } res } -- Ben Bolker Associate professor, Biology Dep't, Univ. of Florida bol...@ufl.edu / www.zoology.ufl.edu/bolker GPG key: www.zoology.ufl.edu/bolker/benbolker-publickey.asc

Re: [Rd] forwarded: bug (?) in cut.POSIXt with breaks=integer

2009-10-16 Thread Ben Bolker
to speak) if length(breaks)!=length(levels(res))-1 I could keep working on a patch if requested, but probably won't otherwise. Ben Bolker -- View this message in context: http://www.nabble.com/forwarded%3A-bug-%28-%29-in-cut.POSIXt-with-%22breaks%22%3Dinteger-tp25914604p25926126.html Sent from

Re: [Rd] odd evaluation within correlation argument of glmmPQL

2009-10-27 Thread Ben Bolker
Ben Bolker wrote: [snip] It appears that glmmPQL looks in the global workspace, not within the data frame specified by the data argument, for the variables specified in the form argument of spatial correlation structures provided to the correlation argument. [snip example

Re: [Rd] odd evaluation within correlation argument of glmmPQL

2009-11-02 Thread Ben Bolker
Ben Bolker bolker at ufl.edu writes: [snip example and patches] The basic issue is that glmmPQL throws out data that are not involved in the fixed or random model terms, or in the offset term. It doesn't save variables that are only found in the correlation formula argument. It's hard

[Rd] Typos in ?pdf (was Re: Problem with pdf graphics device)

2009-11-05 Thread Ben Bolker
Marc Schwartz marc_schwartz at me.com writes: [snip] See ?pdf and read through the Note section. While I was reading this I noticed two minor typos in pdf.Rd. These patches are against the latest SVN devel version. *** pdf.Rd.orig 2009-11-05 14:37:44.0 -0500 --- pdf.Rd

Re: [Rd] p-generalized normal distribution

2009-11-27 Thread Ben Bolker
Steve Kalke steve.kalke at uni-rostock.de writes: I would like to know if there is an R-package available for computing the density, distribution function, quantiles and random numbers of the p-generalized normal distribution or if somebody is already working on it. I haven't been able

[Rd] tiny typos in R-exts

2009-11-29 Thread Ben Bolker
1. footnote 5, p. 52: there is only a fine distinction between \dots and \dots I should hope so :-) (from context, I think one of these should be \ldots instead) 2. under \keyword{key}, p. 45: are not part of the packages' API. Should that be package's ? signature.asc Description:

[Rd] silly SVN question

2009-12-15 Thread Ben Bolker
somewhere on the same SVN server, which might not be true ...) Any ideas (including pointing out the obvious, or the obvious-in-hindsight)? thanks Ben Bolker signature.asc Description: OpenPGP digital signature __ R-devel@r-project.org mailing list

Re: [Rd] silly SVN question

2009-12-15 Thread Ben Bolker
are inside src/library Kasper On Dec 15, 2009, at 10:57 AM, Ben Bolker wrote: I followed the suggestions at http://developer.r-project.org/SVNtips.html to check out an anonymous copy of the development branch of R, but so far I have been unable to figure out an analogous way to track

Re: [Rd] silly SVN question

2009-12-15 Thread Ben Bolker
thanks! Prof Brian Ripley wrote: On Tue, 15 Dec 2009, Ben Bolker wrote: I followed the suggestions at http://developer.r-project.org/SVNtips.html to check out an anonymous copy of the development branch of R, but so far I have been unable to figure out an analogous way to track

[Rd] snark of the day: new features (??) in Mathematica 7

2010-01-11 Thread Ben Bolker
who wants to write rgl code to do these? http://tinyurl.com/yzojfn2 http://tinyurl.com/ylrz2p8 :-) Ben Bolker signature.asc Description: OpenPGP digital signature __ R-devel@r-project.org mailing list https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r

[Rd] adapt package missing because of licensing issue: fix?

2010-01-14 Thread Ben Bolker
it be helpful if I did this, or is this the sort of thing the package maintainer should do? Mike Meyer: mi...@andrew.cmu.edu Alan Genz: g...@gauss.math.wsu.edu cheers Ben Bolker -- Ben Bolker Associate professor, Biology Dep't, Univ. of Florida bol...@ufl.edu / people.biology.ufl.edu

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