[Rd] StatLib mirror now OK

2006-01-18 Thread Friedrich . Leisch
Pantelis Vlachos (the StatLib admin) and I figured out what the problems with the CRAN mirror on StatLib were and he seems to have fixed all problems in the mirroring process. Please let us know if you still observe problems with the StatLib mirror. Best, -- --

[Rd] function 'eigen' (PR#8503)

2006-01-18 Thread Pierre . Legendre
Full_Name: Pierre Legendre Version: 2.1.1 OS: Mac OSX 10.4.3 Submission from: (NULL) (132.204.120.81) I am reporting the mis-behaviour of the function 'eigen' in 'base', for the following input matrix: A <- matrix(c(2,3,4,-1,3,1,1,-2,0),3,3) eigen(A) I obtain the following results, which are in

[Rd] Display an Image on a Plane

2006-01-18 Thread Labbe, Vincent (AEREX)
Hi, I am new to R and I would like to display an image on a plane in a 3D plot, i.e. I would like to be able to specify a theta and a phi parameters like in the function persp to display a 2D image on an inclined plane. Regards, vincent [[alternative HTML version deleted]] __

Re: [Rd] data.matrix returns mode logical for zero rows (PR#8496)

2006-01-18 Thread ripley
On Tue, 17 Jan 2006 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Full_Name: Jonathan Swinton > Version: 2.2.1 > OS: Windows > Submission from: (NULL) (193.132.159.169) > > > #The first line of description for data.matrix says that it will > # 'Return the matrix obtained by converting all the variables in a > #

Re: [Rd] (PR#8500) standard install on OS 10.3.9 crashes on start without useful diagnostics (PR#8500)

2006-01-18 Thread stefano iacus
Let me add that you should probably have a crash report on your system. See Console.app inside "Utilities" and search for R.app or R crash report. Check if date/time of the log is the right one and send it to us. Did you have a previous version of R.app installed? An old one? Because the prob

[Rd] (PR#8502) comment

2006-01-18 Thread Mike . Prager
In my example, I should have included the defaults to the wrapper function in its definition, rather than in the call to postscript(). That of course does NOT affect the validity of my bug report nor the ability of my example to demonstrate it. MHP

[Rd] Suboptimal EPS output (PR#8502)

2006-01-18 Thread mike . prager
Full_Name: Mike Prager Version: 2.2.1 OS: Windows XP with SP2 Submission from: (NULL) (205.156.36.17) When several EPS files are made with one invocation of postscript(), only the first displays correctly in gsview. Examination of the generated eps files with a diff utility reveals that subsequen

Re: [Rd] natural sorting

2006-01-18 Thread Warnes, Gregory R
Good idea. Done. -G > -Original Message- > From: Martin Maechler [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: Wednesday, January 18, 2006 4:02 AM > To: Warnes, Gregory R > Cc: Andrew Piskorski; R Development Mailing List > Subject: Re: [Rd] natural sorting > > > > "Greg" == Warnes, Gregory R <

Re: [Rd] (PR#8500) standard install on OS 10.3.9 crashes on start without useful diagnostics (PR#8500)

2006-01-18 Thread Thomas Lumley
This won't actually help you at all, but I used the standard install on OS 10.3.9 (Powerbook G4) just last week without any problems. On the other hand, my install was on a machine that had previously had other versions of R. -thomas On Wed, 18 Jan 2006, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Fu

Re: [Rd] symbols function -- possible enhancements

2006-01-18 Thread Prof Brian Ripley
On Wed, 18 Jan 2006, Martin Maechler wrote: > Hi Jean, > > now that you've been told `the truth' .. : > > If you'd like to carefully look at symbols() and its help page and see > which arguments ('axes' but maybe more) would be useful to pass > to plot.default and if you provide enhanced version

Re: [Rd] Loading of namespace on load of .Rdata (was strange behaviourof load)

2006-01-18 Thread Heather Turner
Apologies - I was not trying to correct you Brian, but to explore how the situation could arise. I'm sure you had a good idea why the namespace (or a reference to it) had been saved, but this was not clear to me and I thought, possibly not to others either. Thanks for putting me right over pare

[Rd] standard install on OS 10.3.9 crashes on start without useful diagnostics (PR#8500)

2006-01-18 Thread donahue
Full_Name: Bob Donahue Version: 2.2 OS: Mac OS 10.3.9 Submission from: (NULL) (204.152.13.26) That's pretty much it. I did the most basic install possible, tried running the package through the GUI and on the command line, it crashed hard, immediately, with absolutely NO useful information as to

Re: [Rd] R: ecdf - linear

2006-01-18 Thread Martin Maechler
I'm replying to R-devel, the mailing list which should be used to discuss R feature enhancements. > "Norman" == Norman Warthmann <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > on Wed, 18 Jan 2006 11:33:22 +0100 writes: Norman> .. Norman> Is there a specific reason why in the ecdf-function

Re: [Rd] Loading of namespace on load of .Rdata (was strange behaviour of load)

2006-01-18 Thread Prof Brian Ripley
On Wed, 18 Jan 2006, Heather Turner wrote: [Lines wrapped for legibility and R-help removed as it is not an appropriate list.] > Last week Giovanni Parrinello posted a message asking why various > packages were loaded when he loaded an .Rdata file. Brian Ripley replied > saying he thought it w

[Rd] Loading of namespace on load of .Rdata (was strange behaviour of load)

2006-01-18 Thread Heather Turner
Last week Giovanni Parrinello posted a message asking why various packages were loaded when he loaded an .Rdata file. Brian Ripley replied saying he thought it was because the saved workspace contained a reference to the namespace of ipred. (Correspondence copied below). This begs the question:

[Rd] Minumum memory requirements to run R.

2006-01-18 Thread Prof Brian Ripley
Quite a while back we set the goal of running R in 16Mb RAM, as people (I think Kjetil) had teaching labs that small. Since then R has grown, and we has recently started to optimize R for speed rather than size. I recently tested R-devel on my ancient Win98 notebook with 64Mb RAM -- it ran but

Re: [Rd] Section 7.1 HML documentation (PR#8484)

2006-01-18 Thread greg . kochanski
Well, you make two very strong assumptions. First, that your readers start in the beginning and read to the end. Second, that your readers are sufficiently dedicated to learn your terminology. The first is false: I got to that page via Google. The second is only true in varying degrees, and I wo

Re: [Rd] Section 7.1 HML documentation (PR#8484)

2006-01-18 Thread Greg Kochanski
Well, you make two very strong assumptions. First, that your readers start in the beginning and read to the end. Second, that your readers are sufficiently dedicated to learn your terminology. The first is false: I got to that page via Google. The second is only true in varying degrees, and I wo

Re: [Rd] phyper returns 1 if x==k (PR#8499)

2006-01-18 Thread ripley
On Wed, 18 Jan 2006 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Full_Name: Utz J. Pape > Version: 2.2.0 > OS: linux > Submission from: (NULL) (141.14.23.12) > > > If I use phyper and set parameter x equal to k (meaning that all balls I draw > are white) phyper returns 1 which is not (always) correct: I think you

[Rd] phyper returns 1 if x==k (PR#8499)

2006-01-18 Thread utz . pape
Full_Name: Utz J. Pape Version: 2.2.0 OS: linux Submission from: (NULL) (141.14.23.12) If I use phyper and set parameter x equal to k (meaning that all balls I draw are white) phyper returns 1 which is not (always) correct: [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~> R2.2.0 --vanilla R : Copyright 2005, The R Foundat

Re: [Rd] Section 7.1 HML documentation (PR#8484)

2006-01-18 Thread Hin-Tak Leung
Greg Kochanski wrote: > Well, I don't know how it can be precise > and correct when it has dangling antecedents. > Gramatically speaking, that's the equivalent of > an uninitialized pointer. I don't think there is anything "dangling" there. What the paragraph assumes (and quite patently wrongly)

Re: [Rd] natural sorting

2006-01-18 Thread Martin Maechler
> "Greg" == Warnes, Gregory R <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > on Tue, 17 Jan 2006 14:48:46 -0500 writes: Greg> The 'mixedsort' function in the 'gtools' package does Greg> this. It is probably slower than the c version you Greg> point to, but it is already working in R. Thank you, G

Re: [Rd] symbols function -- possible enhancements

2006-01-18 Thread Martin Maechler
Hi Jean, now that you've been told `the truth' .. : If you'd like to carefully look at symbols() and its help page and see which arguments ('axes' but maybe more) would be useful to pass to plot.default and if you provide enhanced versions of the two files https://svn.r-project.org/R/trunk