On Mon, Apr 9, 2012 at 4:02 PM, Gabor Grothendieck <ggrothendi...@gmail.com> wrote: > On Mon, Apr 9, 2012 at 2:47 PM, Martin Maechler > <maech...@stat.math.ethz.ch> wrote: >> Apropos: >> >> I don't have the problems, the OP had, but on my ubuntu >> notebook, Ryacas does not return expressions (just the strings), >> and hence >> >> as.expression( <yacas-result> ) >> >> always gives NULL and e.g. the demo(Ryacas-Function) >> also fails: >> >> > yacas(expression(deriv(BurrCDF(x,c,k)))) >> k*c*x^(c-1)*(x^c+1)^(-(k+1)); >> > yy <- yacas(expression(deriv(BurrCDF(x,c,k)))) >> > yy >> k*c*x^(c-1)*(x^c+1)^(-(k+1)); >> > str(yy) >> List of 2 >> $ : NULL >> $ YacasForm: chr "k*c*x^(c-1)*(x^c+1)^(-(k+1));" >> - attr(*, "class")= chr "yacas" >> > >> >> I have >> >> - yacas 1.2.2 (standard ubuntu package) > > The latest version of Ryacas on CRAN is 0.2-11 > http://cran.r-project.org/package=Ryacas
and the version of yacas supported by Ryacas is: > yacas("Version()") expression("1.0.63") The troubleshooting section on the home page that I referred to does mention this. -- Statistics & Software Consulting GKX Group, GKX Associates Inc. tel: 1-877-GKX-GROUP email: ggrothendieck at gmail.com ______________________________________________ R-help@r-project.org mailing list https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-help PLEASE do read the posting guide http://www.R-project.org/posting-guide.html and provide commented, minimal, self-contained, reproducible code.