Re: [Rd] rep fails on pairlist
On 26 July 2012 at 15:55, Gabor Grothendieck wrote:
| This code which has worked for years in R but fails under R-devel:
|
| R.version.string
| [1] R Under development (unstable) (2012-07-25 r59963)
|
| n - 3
| f - function(x) {}
| formals(f) - rep(formals(f), n) ##
| Error in rep(formals(f), n) : replication of pairlists is defunct
|
| The message suggests that the change was intentional.
| Why was this functionality removed?
| What code should be used in its place?
FWIW there are changes happening right now to rep() so that may be spillage
from code under development. To keep abreast of these changes, I follow the
RSS feed Duncan set up a few years ago -- it is also as html at
http://developer.r-project.org/blosxom.cgi/R-devel
and summarizes changes committed to the NEWS file, ie high-level changes
worth knowing about.
Dirk
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Re: [Rd] rep fails on pairlist
On Thu, Jul 26, 2012 at 4:24 PM, Dirk Eddelbuettel e...@debian.org wrote:
On 26 July 2012 at 15:55, Gabor Grothendieck wrote:
| This code which has worked for years in R but fails under R-devel:
|
| R.version.string
| [1] R Under development (unstable) (2012-07-25 r59963)
|
| n - 3
| f - function(x) {}
| formals(f) - rep(formals(f), n) ##
| Error in rep(formals(f), n) : replication of pairlists is defunct
|
| The message suggests that the change was intentional.
| Why was this functionality removed?
| What code should be used in its place?
FWIW there are changes happening right now to rep() so that may be spillage
from code under development. To keep abreast of these changes, I follow the
RSS feed Duncan set up a few years ago -- it is also as html at
http://developer.r-project.org/blosxom.cgi/R-devel
and summarizes changes committed to the NEWS file, ie high-level changes
worth knowing about.
That page says:
Calling ‘rep()’ or ‘rep.int()’ on a pairlist or other non-vector
object is now an error.
so it again seems to be intentional.
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Re: [Rd] rep fails on pairlist
On 12-07-26 3:55 PM, Gabor Grothendieck wrote:
This code which has worked for years in R but fails under R-devel:
R.version.string
[1] R Under development (unstable) (2012-07-25 r59963)
n - 3
f - function(x) {}
formals(f) - rep(formals(f), n) ##
Error in rep(formals(f), n) : replication of pairlists is defunct
The message suggests that the change was intentional.
Why was this functionality removed?
What code should be used in its place?
rep() on a pairlist didn't return a pairlist, it coerced to a list and
then rep'd that. So you could do the same explicitly if that's what you
really want:
formals(f) - rep(as.list(formals(f)), n)
This works because the formals- code is forgiving; other uses of
pairlists would not accept the result of rep on a pairlist.
Duncan Murdoch
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Re: [Rd] rep fails on pairlist
On Thu, Jul 26, 2012 at 7:29 PM, Duncan Murdoch
murdoch.dun...@gmail.com wrote:
On 12-07-26 3:55 PM, Gabor Grothendieck wrote:
This code which has worked for years in R but fails under R-devel:
R.version.string
[1] R Under development (unstable) (2012-07-25 r59963)
n - 3
f - function(x) {}
formals(f) - rep(formals(f), n) ##
Error in rep(formals(f), n) : replication of pairlists is defunct
The message suggests that the change was intentional.
Why was this functionality removed?
What code should be used in its place?
rep() on a pairlist didn't return a pairlist, it coerced to a list and then
rep'd that. So you could do the same explicitly if that's what you really
want:
formals(f) - rep(as.list(formals(f)), n)
This works because the formals- code is forgiving; other uses of pairlists
would not accept the result of rep on a pairlist.
Thanks. I will use that instead.
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Re: [Rd] Problem in vignette packaging of Sweave in utils package
New help request below On Sat, Jul 7, 2012 at 7:25 AM, Duncan Murdoch murdoch.dun...@gmail.com wrote: On 12-07-03 1:21 PM, Paul Johnson wrote: In ?Sweave, it refers to Sweave User Manual. In the doc folder of utils package, I see Sweave.pdf. However, I can't find it from within R vignette(Sweave User Manual) Warning message: vignette ‘Sweave User Manual’ not found Turns out there was a bug in the code to install from tarballs, so base package vignettes weren't fully installed. I've fixed it; installs from R-patched or R-devel revisions after 59750 should be okay. Duncan Murdoch Thanks, Duncan Can I ask you to check this one again? I just built RPMS for R-2.15.1-patched 2012-07-25 on a Rocks Cluster (Centos 5.3). I still see the trouble that the vignette for Sweave is missing from the vignette index. Below I'm showing everything I can think of that is related to this, hoping it will give you an idea if the problem is on my end. sessionInfo() R version 2.15.1 Patched (2012-07-25 r59963) Platform: x86_64-redhat-linux-gnu (64-bit) locale: [1] LC_CTYPE=en_US.UTF-8 LC_NUMERIC=C [3] LC_TIME=en_US.UTF-8LC_COLLATE=en_US.UTF-8 [5] LC_MONETARY=en_US.UTF-8LC_MESSAGES=en_US.UTF-8 [7] LC_PAPER=C LC_NAME=C [9] LC_ADDRESS=C LC_TELEPHONE=C [11] LC_MEASUREMENT=en_US.UTF-8 LC_IDENTIFICATION=C attached base packages: [1] stats graphics grDevices utils datasets methods base loaded via a namespace (and not attached): [1] tools_2.15.1 browseVignettes(utils) No vignettes found by browseVignettes(utils) vignette(Sweave) Warning message: vignette ‘Sweave’ not found As far as I can tell, the vignette WAS built and installed, as evidenced: $ pwd /usr/lib64/R/library/utils/doc [pauljohn@devel doc]$ ls Sweave.pdf But it is not found by the vignette indexing system, it's not in the output from help(package=utils) Maybe I did something to break the install when making the RPM. But I don't know what:) I also built R the old fashioned way in the shell and the result is the same. For the RPM, I used a spec file I've slightly adapted from Tom Spot Calloway's spec file that is used to build R for EPEL and Fedora. Here's a copy: http://pj.freefaculty.org/misc/R-2.15.1-patch.spec And the output (stdout and stderr) from the build process, obtained from $ rpmbuild -ba R-2.15.1-patch.spec --define dist kurocks53 R-2.15.1-patch.txt 21 http://pj.freefaculty.org/misc/R-2.15.1-patch.txt In order to make this work, I did one unsavory thing. I took the contents of this R-patched_2012-07-25.tar.gz and re-named the directory R-2.15.1 and then repackaged that as R-2.15.1.tar.gz. I know this is unsavory to rename somebody else's packaging, but it was the only way I could get the RPM build system to accept the version number and file name. I put the date in the release version to reduce confusion. The RPMs have names like: R-core-2.15.1-20120725kurocks53.x86_64.rpm Oh, heck. I'm just uploading them all to the same folder as the spec file, on the off chance you can see what's wrong. libRmath-2.15.1-20120725kurocks53.x86_64.rpm libRmath-devel-2.15.1-20120725kurocks53.x86_64.rpm libRmath-static-2.15.1-20120725kurocks53.x86_64.rpm R-2.15.1-20120725kurocks53.x86_64.rpm R-core-2.15.1-20120725kurocks53.x86_64.rpm R-debuginfo-2.15.1-20120725kurocks53.x86_64.rpm R-devel-2.15.1-20120725kurocks53.x86_64.rpm And the SRPM: R-2.15.1-20120725kurocks53.src.rpm pj -- Paul E. Johnson Professor, Political ScienceAssoc. Director 1541 Lilac Lane, Room 504 Center for Research Methods University of Kansas University of Kansas http://pj.freefaculty.orghttp://quant.ku.edu __ R-devel@r-project.org mailing list https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-devel
