[Rd] graphics device event handling

2011-12-19 Thread sgerber
Hi All I run across the following situation quite frequently and was wondering if there exists a simple solution that I missed. Situation: I develop some graphical display using the nice basic R graphical functions (plots, lines, images, histogramm ...). Now I would like to add a few simple user

[Rd] Why is the 64bit Windows version of package RSVGTipsDevice not available on CRAN?

2011-12-19 Thread Tony Plate
On CRAN, the package RSVGTipsDevice is only installed for 32bit Windows, and is not available as a 64bit package for Windows. The file linked to in the package check summary on CRAN says "NB: this package is only installed for sub-architecture 'i386' ". What do I need to do to make it available

Re: [Rd] error starting R-devel with --arch ppc -- "an unusual circumstance has arisen"

2011-12-19 Thread Simon Urbanek
On Dec 19, 2011, at 2:22 PM, Dan Tenenbaum wrote: > On Thu, Dec 15, 2011 at 4:46 PM, Simon Urbanek > wrote: >> Dan, >> >> I don't know why, but something is off in the recent R-devel build for ppc. >> The result is that the installed binary ppc is older than the other ones, so >> it doesn't h

Re: [Rd] error starting R-devel with --arch ppc -- "an unusual circumstance has arisen"

2011-12-19 Thread Dan Tenenbaum
On Thu, Dec 15, 2011 at 4:46 PM, Simon Urbanek wrote: > Dan, > > I don't know why, but something is off in the recent R-devel build for ppc. > The result is that the installed binary ppc is older than the other ones, so > it doesn't have paste0 while the others do. > > The really strange thing i

Re: [Rd] Issues with building package with C src on windows [R CMD INSTALL ignoring makefile]

2011-12-19 Thread Prof Brian Ripley
If all else fails, read the manual: it is explicitly documented that you need a file src/Makefile.win . And very likely you should rather study the manual to resolve what issue you think 'requires' a Makefile: those who want to use R on other platforms (e.g. Solaris and AIX) are unlikely to th

Re: [Rd] Issues with building package with C src on windows [R CMD INSTALL ignoring makefile]

2011-12-19 Thread Simon Urbanek
On Dec 19, 2011, at 10:30 AM, Jonathan Shore wrote: > I've written a rather complex package that requires overriding the default > compilation behavior for the C code component. In the src dir I have a > Makefile that is used correctly on OSX and Linux builds of the package, but > completely

Re: [Rd] Issues with building package with C src on windows [R CMD INSTALL ignoring makefile]

2011-12-19 Thread Uwe Ligges
On 19.12.2011 16:30, Jonathan Shore wrote: I've written a rather complex package that requires overriding the default compilation behavior for the C code component. In the src dir I have a Makefile that is used correctly on OSX and Linux builds of the package, but completely ignored on win

Re: [Rd] Saving nothing with save()

2011-12-19 Thread Simon Urbanek
Martin, On Dec 19, 2011, at 6:39 AM, Martin Maechler wrote: >> Barry Rowlingson >>on Sun, 18 Dec 2011 01:32:52 + writes: > >> Scenario: Here I am working away in R. I've got results >> that prove global warming is anthropogenic and also the >> solution for producing limitless ca

[Rd] Issues with building package with C src on windows [R CMD INSTALL ignoring makefile]

2011-12-19 Thread Jonathan Shore
I've written a rather complex package that requires overriding the default compilation behavior for the C code component. In the src dir I have a Makefile that is used correctly on OSX and Linux builds of the package, but completely ignored on windows. R CMD INSTALL on windows runs Makecon

Re: [Rd] R package BibTex entries: looking for a more general solution

2011-12-19 Thread Renaud Gaujoux
Indeed I broke the function when adding support for bibentry objects... By the way, let's give credits back to Ceasars: I am not the author of the bibtex package, Romain Francois is. I just contributed the write.bib function, mainly inspired by Achim's function. Romain, I will send a fix for t

Re: [Rd] R package BibTex entries: looking for a more general solution

2011-12-19 Thread Michael Friendly
On 12/19/2011 2:02 AM, Renaud Gaujoux wrote: Hi, I actually adapted and integrated this feature into Achim's -- nice -- function (posted on r-help). Romain included it a couple of weeks ago into the bibtex package as function write.bib, and submitted the update to CRAN, but some NOTEs in the

[Rd] Speed issue when writing to RGui console from tcl/tk GUI

2011-12-19 Thread Richard Cotton
It seems that there are speed issues when printing to the R console from a tcl/tk GUI. Here are functions to write a lot of output, and to display how long it takes. printsalot <- function(n) { for(i in 1:n) cat(i, fill = TRUE) } timings <- function(n = 1e3) { print(system.time(printsalot(n)

Re: [Rd] Possible bug in edit(x) for editing matrices [tested on a Mac]

2011-12-19 Thread Hans-Jörg Bibiko
On 19 Dec 2011, at 12:22, Prof Brian Ripley wrote: >> it seems there's a possible bug in edit(x) if x is a matrix filled with NA >> only. > > It's as documented. Hint: look at mode(a) or str(a), and check what values > are accepted for a logical matrix. Thank you very much! I wasn't aware of

Re: [Rd] Saving nothing with save()

2011-12-19 Thread Martin Maechler
> Barry Rowlingson > on Sun, 18 Dec 2011 01:32:52 + writes: > Scenario: Here I am working away in R. I've got results > that prove global warming is anthropogenic and also the > solution for producing limitless carbon-neutral energy > from nuclear fusion. Its been

Re: [Rd] Possible bug in edit(x) for editing matrices [tested on a Mac]

2011-12-19 Thread Prof Brian Ripley
On 19/12/2011 09:48, Hans-Jörg Bibiko wrote: Hi, it seems there's a possible bug in edit(x) if x is a matrix filled with NA only. It's as documented. Hint: look at mode(a) or str(a), and check what values are accepted for a logical matrix. To reproduce please do the following: a<- matrix

[Rd] Possible bug in edit(x) for editing matrices [tested on a Mac]

2011-12-19 Thread Hans-Jörg Bibiko
Hi, it seems there's a possible bug in edit(x) if x is a matrix filled with NA only. To reproduce please do the following: a <- matrix() edit(a) change e.g. the cell value to 1 and close the GUI-based editor. edit(a) returns NA. This also happens for any dimension of the matrix as long as all