Re: [Rd] alpha, portable use

2006-09-25 Thread Paul Gilbert
I am still confused about this (and it is still happening with R-beta).
Writing R Extensions suggests I need a Makefile or Makevars in my
package,  but that has not been the case previously.  Is there now a
requirement that all packages need Makefiles or Makevars if there is 
fortran to be compiled?  This is only happening on one of my systems. 
Building R and make check work fine on that system, but it seems that 
not all the information gets passed along to package compiles.

(BTW, this is just a warning, but Kurt suggested we try to eliminate 
warnings.)

Paul Gilbert

Prof Brian Ripley wrote:
 On Wed, 20 Sep 2006, Paul Gilbert wrote:
 
 When I build one of my packages with alpha from yesterday I am getting

 * checking for portable use of $BLAS_LIBS ... WARNING
 apparently missing $(FLIBS) in 'PKG_LIBS=$(LAPACK_LIBS) $(BLAS_LIBS)'

 Is this something I should worry about?  (Possibly I got this before and
 didn't notice.)
 
 Yes, please do check Writing R Extensions 
 


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Re: [Rd] alpha, portable use

2006-09-25 Thread Paul Gilbert
Doug
I do indeed have a Makevars file after all. Thanks for spelling out the 
interpretation of the warning message.

Paul

Douglas Bates wrote:
 On 9/25/06, Paul Gilbert [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
 I am still confused about this (and it is still happening with R-beta).
 Writing R Extensions suggests I need a Makefile or Makevars in my
 package,  but that has not been the case previously.  Is there now a
 requirement that all packages need Makefiles or Makevars if there is
 fortran to be compiled?  This is only happening on one of my systems.
 Building R and make check work fine on that system, but it seems that
 not all the information gets passed along to package compiles.

 (BTW, this is just a warning, but Kurt suggested we try to eliminate
 warnings.)
 
  From the warning it seems that you have a Makevars file in the src
 directory for your package.  The change in R-2.4.0 is that packages
 that did have a Makevars file of the form
 
 PKG_LIBS=$(LAPACK_LIBS) $(BLAS_LIBS)
 
 should change that to
 
 PKG_LIBS=$(LAPACK_LIBS) $(BLAS_LIBS) $(FLIBS)
 

 Paul Gilbert

 Prof Brian Ripley wrote:
  On Wed, 20 Sep 2006, Paul Gilbert wrote:
 
  When I build one of my packages with alpha from yesterday I am getting
 
  * checking for portable use of $BLAS_LIBS ... WARNING
  apparently missing $(FLIBS) in 'PKG_LIBS=$(LAPACK_LIBS) $(BLAS_LIBS)'
 
  Is this something I should worry about?  (Possibly I got this 
 before and
  didn't notice.)
 
  Yes, please do check Writing R Extensions 
 
 
  


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[Rd] alpha, portable use

2006-09-20 Thread Paul Gilbert
When I build one of my packages with alpha from yesterday I am getting

* checking for portable use of $BLAS_LIBS ... WARNING
apparently missing $(FLIBS) in 'PKG_LIBS=$(LAPACK_LIBS) $(BLAS_LIBS)'

Is this something I should worry about?  (Possibly I got this before and 
didn't notice.)

Paul Gilbert


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Re: [Rd] 'CanMakeUseOf' field

2006-08-30 Thread Paul Gilbert
 check
   c) conveys extra information about the package's context, to humans, and
   d) will potentially be used in automated or semi-manual 
  ``R package database management''
 
 I think d) is important, but I think there are too many variations on a) 
 and c) to hope that this would be used consistently.  As Fritz said, the 
 thing he can remember (and what I would remember) is whether a package 
 is mandatory or optional.  Fine variations within optional are just 
 too hard to define clearly in a two-level classification.
 
 On the other hand, they are relatively easy to convey in clearly written 
 documentation.  So I'd still recommend that we stay with just Depends 
 and Suggests, but encourage authors to document what they mean by 
 Suggests.

The problem I see here is that this is a change from the status quo, 
which is likely to make a real mess for some time.  The status quo is 
that packages in Depends and Suggests are needed to check examples and 
vignettes. I would not change this without a very good reason.  It would 
be best to put other suggestions of extensions, that some users may want 
to use, somewhere else.  The current situation is that these suggestions 
are sprinkled in Rd files, vignettes, web pages, etc. This situation is 
not too bad, but it might be nice to have some place users would expect 
to find this information.  However, changing the meaning of Suggests to 
be developer defined does not strike me as an improvement.

Paul Gilbert
 
 Duncan Murdoch
 
 Martin

 FrL Ad the wording in the manual: obviously that is not
 FrL optimal (otherwise no need for parts of this email
 FrL thread), perhaps somebody else than the original author
 FrL (=me) could try to improve it for 2.4 after this
 FrL clarifications?  Otherwise I will give it a shot next
 FrL week after I return from Rome.

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Re: [Rd] 'CanMakeUseOf' field

2006-08-30 Thread Paul Gilbert


Duncan Murdoch wrote:
 On 8/30/2006 12:28 PM, Paul Gilbert wrote:
 Duncan Murdoch wrote:
 On 8/30/2006 4:44 AM, Martin Maechler wrote:
 FrL == friedrich leisch [EMAIL PROTECTED]
 on Wed, 30 Aug 2006 09:34:13 +0200 (MEST) writes:
  Duncan Murdoch [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
  I think we need an option to R CMD check rather than a new 
 field in the
  DESCRIPTION.  Currently a package could be mentioned for any 
 of these
  reasons:
   1.  To make functions, examples or vignettes work
  2.  To allow optional functionality in functions, examples 
 or vignettes.
  3.  Because it contains complementary functions.
   I don't think we really need to worry about 3:  it 
 should be contained
  in 1 or 2, if reasonably complete examples are given.
   Case 1 is handled by Depends.
   I think there is an important distinction between a 
 dependency needed
  for the package to function and a dependency needed to 
 demonstrate
  said functionality via an example or vignette.  The former is 
 what
  Depends is about, the latter is something else (Suggests).

 FrL Sorry to join in late, I am at the Compstat conference and 
 have limited
 FrL email access. What Seth describes in the above paragraph is 
 exactly what I
 FrL had in mind when splitting the single Depends field we had 
 into Depends
 FrL and Suggests: Depends are a necessity to run the package, 
 Suggests is nice
 FrL to have but not necessary. If you know how to use a package 
 you may the
 FrL decide not to install a package that is only suggested, but

 FrL * may not be interested to execute the examples,
 FrL * know that you never need the extra functionality
 FrL * ...

 FrL so it should not be auto-installed unless you ask for
 FrL it (the default could also be the other way round, the
 FrL point is that it should be possible to have package foo
 FrL but not the packages it only suggests). On CRAN we
 FrL check with all suggestions to test all bits and pieces,
 FrL having an option in R CMD check to test only with
 FrL suggests may be nice, if there is use for it.

 Yes.
 However, I see two (related) problems with the current 'Suggests'
 and that's why I opened this thread proposing to have a (what I now 
 would want to simply call)  'canUse' :

 1) For 'R CMD check' (and hence CRAN checking),
Packages in 'Suggests' must be require()able, and
hence all testing only happens *with* the suggested packages
being there, and not without.

 2) Suggests  suggests to the human reader of DESCRIPTION that
the package authors suggest to also install the packages listed
there.
Now there are cases, I (as package author) want to show some
stuff, or even provide compatibility functionality for some
packages that are related to mine, but which I really do not 
 ``suggest''
to also be installed, e.g., because the other packages do
similar stuff as mine, but I believe my package to be
superior.  In such a case, I may, e.g., want to provide
 functions for porting the other package classes to my package's.

 Duncan Murdoch has proposed to take care of 1) by
 still only use 'Suggests' but adding another option to 'R CMD
 check', let's say   --no-suggests  which would run all the
 checks without having the suggested packages available  --- 
 something not quite easy to implement, BTW:
 Imagine the typical windows users who (AFAICS) always only use
 one library into which they install all packages.
 How do you want the if( require(my_suggested_package) ) {
...
 }
 clause *not* to be triggered in such a case ?

 I would expect require to return FALSE.  This could be done by check 
 installing a new version of require() (as it installs new T and F), 
 or by the standard require() being modified to check a stop list 
 before acting (I'd prefer this, because it would make it easier for 
 developers to experiment with functions in different environments), 
 or by playing around with the names of things in the library 
 (probably not workable on Windows), etc.

 I think the default check behaviour on CRAN should be my middle case: 
 test based on what is currently installed, don't require packages 
 listed in Suggests to be installed.  I'm not sure if that should be 
 the default behaviour for R CMD check at the command line:  as Kurt 
 said, usually a developer wants to check all of the code.

 I do agree quite a bit that such a '--no-suggests' option would
 be very useful for 'R CMD check' -- in addition to my proposal.

 I think the other extreme (which I think is there now as 
 _R_CHECK_FORCE_SUGGESTS_) is also important.

 Further, I think 2) above is not taken care of anyway.
 After all the interesting statements and alternative proposals,
 I'm still proposing to introduce a  'canUse'  field for DESCRIPTION
 which
   a) has a human-readable intent of being weaker than

Re: [Rd] PATCH: Add fields argument to installed.packages and available.packages

2006-08-29 Thread Paul Gilbert
Martin Maechler wrote:

 ...

The idea was a field related to but weaker than 'Suggests' :
Something like
 'canMakeUseOf: pkg1 [, pkg2, ... ]
which is *not* used in any QA/QC checking, but is purely
informative: If pkg1 is require()able, then some examples may
look nicer, a function may provide another feature, etc, etc.
Alternatives to 'canMakeUseOf' would have been
'isHappilyCoworkingWith' 

What do you (R-devel listeners) think about the idea?
  

I still like this idea.  I prefer 'canMakeUseOf' to 
'isHappilyCoworkingWith'  mainly because it seems less ambiguous.

Paul Gilbert

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Re: [Rd] 'CanMakeUseOf' field [was .. Add 'fields' argument ..]

2006-08-29 Thread Paul Gilbert


Duncan Murdoch wrote:

 On 8/29/2006 10:12 AM, Martin Maechler wrote:

 PaulG == Paul Gilbert [EMAIL PROTECTED]
 on Tue, 29 Aug 2006 09:55:09 -0400 writes:


 PaulG Martin Maechler wrote:
  ...
   The idea was a field related to but weaker than 
 'Suggests' :
  Something like
  'canMakeUseOf: pkg1 [, pkg2, ... ]
  which is *not* used in any QA/QC checking, but is purely
  informative: If pkg1 is require()able, then some examples may
  look nicer, a function may provide another feature, etc, etc.
  Alternatives to 'canMakeUseOf' would have been
  'isHappilyCoworkingWith' 
   What do you (R-devel listeners) think about the idea?

 PaulG I still like this idea.  I prefer 'canMakeUseOf' to 
 PaulG 'isHappilyCoworkingWith'  mainly because it seems less ambiguous.

 Thanks, Paul.
 As you may have guessed I should have put a   :-)   beside the
 'isHappily...' .

 Of course, even 'CanMakeUseOf' {we should capitalize the first letter}
 is rather too long, but before finding the proper term, we should
 agree on usefulness of such a new field.
 Apart from the use of package authors {some could note that
 other packages make use of theirs, without already depending on
 or suggesting them}, it's one of those fields that should help
 in the future to explore (e.g. cluster or neighborhood-graph)
 the growing high-dimensional space of R packages.


 I think we need an option to R CMD check rather than a new field in 
 the DESCRIPTION.  Currently a package could be mentioned for any of 
 these reasons:

 1.  To make functions, examples or vignettes work
 2.  To allow optional functionality in functions, examples or vignettes.
 3.  Because it contains complementary functions.

 I don't think we really need to worry about 3:  it should be contained 
 in 1 or 2, if reasonably complete examples are given.

 Case 1 is handled by Depends.

Well, from Writing R Extensions
   The optional  Suggests  field uses the same syntax as  Depends  and 
lists packages that are not
   necessarily needed. This includes packages used only in examples or 
vignettes

So case 1 is handled by the combination of Depends and Suggests, and we 
need something to handle case 2.

The related question is whether the CRAN checks should  try to check 2, 
or perhaps there needs to be 2a and 2b.  There are cababilities (and 
data) that CRAN may not have, so it would be nice distinguish things 
that should be checked on CRAN from things that should not be.

Paul


 An author should check case 2 both with and without the suggested 
 package.  A user  might be satisfied with a simple check as things 
 currently stand, or might want a stringent check like the author 
 wants.  The author can't know that, because it will depend on the user.

 So I don't think this is something that should be changed in 
 DESCRIPTION.  There should be an option to R CMD check to include or 
 exclude packages mentioned in the Suggests entry.  (I'd suggest a 3 
 level option:  check as though they are not available, check as 
 currently installed, require that they be available.)

 Duncan Murdoch


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Re: [Rd] 'CanMakeUseOf' field

2006-08-29 Thread Paul Gilbert
Seth Falcon wrote:

Duncan Murdoch [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
  

On 8/29/2006 11:58 AM, Seth Falcon wrote:


I think there is an important distinction between a dependency needed
for the package to function and a dependency needed to demonstrate
said functionality via an example or vignette.  The former is what
Depends is about, the latter is something else (Suggests).
  

Yes, that's a good point, especially with vignettes.  Only the package
author needs to be able to run them.



Yes, but just to keep things clear: the value of vignettes is that
users can follow along.  So the ability to programatically identify
the extra required packages is valuable.

  

But maybe examples should be considered broken if they don't
work. Users should be able to expect example(foo) not to generate an
error.  Package authors should wrap optional examples in code like if
(require(...)).


This is a work around that is ok for the developer's testing and to 
prevent failure on CRAN, and I use it. But, other than actually reading 
the examples, it provides no hints to other testers or users about 
things that might be installed, or installed first, to give more 
complete testing and more functionality.

Looking toward the future, I think it would be useful to have a standard 
mechanism to indicate extensions that are available in a package, and 
might be tested and used, but are not necessarily available on CRAN. For 
instance, an example might access to a purchased database or take 
advantage of  a computer cluster. It seems limiting to think that all 
testing that cannot be done on CRAN must be done almost exclusively by 
the developer.

Paul


I agree.  As with vignettes, there is value in users being able to
follow along and it would be nice to have a programatic way to
identify extra package needed for fancy/involved/optional examples.

Best,

+ seth

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Re: [Rd] 'CanMakeUseOf' field

2006-08-29 Thread Paul Gilbert


Duncan Murdoch wrote:

 On 8/29/2006 2:24 PM, Paul Gilbert wrote:

 Seth Falcon wrote:

 Duncan Murdoch [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
  

 On 8/29/2006 11:58 AM, Seth Falcon wrote:
   

 I think there is an important distinction between a dependency needed
 for the package to function and a dependency needed to demonstrate
 said functionality via an example or vignette.  The former is what
 Depends is about, the latter is something else (Suggests).
 

 Yes, that's a good point, especially with vignettes.  Only the package
 author needs to be able to run them.
   


 Yes, but just to keep things clear: the value of vignettes is that
 users can follow along.  So the ability to programatically identify
 the extra required packages is valuable.

  

 But maybe examples should be considered broken if they don't
 work. Users should be able to expect example(foo) not to generate an
 error.  Package authors should wrap optional examples in code like if
 (require(...)).
   

 This is a work around that is ok for the developer's testing and to 
 prevent failure on CRAN, and I use it. But, other than actually 
 reading the examples, it provides no hints to other testers or users 
 about things that might be installed, or installed first, to give 
 more complete testing and more functionality.


 I'm not saying to use this instead of Suggests, I'm saying to do both. 
 This way the Suggests entries really are suggestions:  the examples 
 will run with or without the presence of the suggested packages.

 I think there are so many variations on when a Suggested package 
 should be installed, that it's not reasonable to expect to be able to 
 encode them all in a machine readable way.  They should be documented 
 in human readable format.

 Looking toward the future, I think it would be useful to have a 
 standard mechanism to indicate extensions that are available in a 
 package, and might be tested and used, but are not necessarily 
 available on CRAN. For instance, an example might access to a 
 purchased database or take advantage of  a computer cluster. It seems 
 limiting to think that all testing that cannot be done on CRAN must 
 be done almost exclusively by the developer.


 If by mechanism you mean human-readable documentation, I agree with 
 this.

Yes,  I was think of human-readable and in a standard location, like a 
field in the DESCRIPTION file.  (You are thinking of fields in the 
DESCRIPTION file as human-readable, are you not?)

Paul


 Duncan Murdoch


 Paul


 I agree.  As with vignettes, there is value in users being able to
 follow along and it would be nice to have a programatic way to
 identify extra package needed for fancy/involved/optional examples.

 Best,

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[Rd] foo2Args()

2006-06-30 Thread Paul Gilbert
I was just considering trying to clean up the arguments to a function 
that calls other functions,
and was playin with a suggestion Achim made during a conversation at 
useR.  The idea is, instead of using list(), use a small function to 
construct and check arguments. My hope was to be able to do this without 
making it globally visible:

foo - function(x, args=foo2Args()) {
  foo2Args - function(a=1, b=2){list(a,b)}
  # above would actual do more testing of args
  #now I would call foo2 with args, but to test just
  args
  }
 
Now,

  foo(1)   # should I be surprized that this works
[[1]]
[1] 1

[[2]]
[1] 2

  foo(1, args=foo2Args(a=2, b=10)) # or that this does not
Error in foo(1, args = foo2Args(a = 2, b = 10)) :
could not find function foo2Args

Paul


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Re: [Rd] foo2Args()

2006-06-30 Thread Paul Gilbert


Duncan Murdoch wrote:
 On 6/30/2006 5:12 PM, Paul Gilbert wrote:

 Duncan Murdoch wrote:

 On 6/30/2006 4:19 PM, Paul Gilbert wrote:

 I was just considering trying to clean up the arguments to a 
 function that calls other functions,
 and was playin with a suggestion Achim made during a conversation at 
 useR.  The idea is, instead of using list(), use a small function to 
 construct and check arguments. My hope was to be able to do this 
 without making it globally visible:

 foo - function(x, args=foo2Args()) {
   foo2Args - function(a=1, b=2){list(a,b)}
   # above would actual do more testing of args
   #now I would call foo2 with args, but to test just
   args
   }
  
 Now,

   foo(1)   # should I be surprized that this works
 [[1]]
 [1] 1

 [[2]]
 [1] 2

 I don't think it really works, it's just a coincidence that the 
 answer matches your expectations:

 foo(3)
 [[1]]
 [1] 1

 [[2]]
 [1] 2

 Or maybe I am completely misunderstanding your expectations...

   foo(1, args=foo2Args(a=2, b=10)) # or that this does not
 Error in foo(1, args = foo2Args(a = 2, b = 10)) :
 could not find function foo2Args

 This is a somewhat subtle thing about the way args are evaluated.  
 What is done makes lots of sense once you understand it:

  - When you specify an argument in the call, the expression you give 
 is evaluated in the current context.  In the context where you made 
 this call, foo2Args is not defined, hence the error.

  - When you specify a default for an argument, it is evaluated in the 
 local context of the function evaluation.  So as a default, foo2Args 
 is recognized, because it's a local variable within foo.

 You also need to remember lazy evaluation:  neither of the above 
 actually take place until args is used.

 R is pretty flexible, so it's probably possible to do whatever you 
 intended here; can you describe exactly what you want to happen?

 I guess what I want to happen is that when args is used it it gets 
 evaluated in the local context of the function, whether or not I am 
 specifying the argument or using the default. Is there a way to do that?
 
 I think this would work:
 
  foo - function(x, args=foo2Args()) {
foo2Args - function(a=1, b=2){list(a,b)}
# above would actual do more testing of args
#now I would call foo2 with args, but to test just
args - eval(substitute(args))
args
}
 
 The explanation is this:
 
 substitute(args) gets the expression attached to args without evaluating 
 it. eval( substitute(args) ) then evaluates it; since I didn't say which 
 environment to work in, it defaults to the current evaluation environment.
 
 HOWEVER, this function is a bad idea.  Users don't expect evaluation 
 like this.  For example, this would mess it up:
 
 args - 2
 foo(1, args=foo2Args(a=args, b=10))
 
 because it would try to evaluate args in the local environment, rather 
 than where the user put it.  You'd get weird behaviour if any of the 
 values in foo2Args used variables rather than constants, because they'd 
 be evaluated in the function, not in the user's workspace.

Yes, I realized on the way home that what I want is not what I said, 
because I need the function to be found (thus in the local context) but 
I need the arguments to foo2Args from the calling context, if they are 
supplied.

The general idea is to provide a nice clean way to pass arguments along 
to other functions. If foo is calling a few functions this becomes 
really messy, and even moreso if those functions call other functions 
that need arguments passed along. The way I have always done this is 
with a list, but there may be some advantage to using a function that 
constructs the argument. However, there are likely to be namespace 
conflicts if everyone does this and this constructing function name has 
to be exported, or even visible outside of the call to the function. For 
example, one of the function I want to call is optim. If everyone that 
calls optim wants to do this (supposing it is a good idea), they would 
all probably decide a good name for the function is optimArgs.

Perhaps sticking with a list is the best idea.

Thanks,
Paul
 
 Duncan Murdoch
 

 What I expected to happen was that it would always get evaluated 
 either in the local context or in the calling context, i.e., it would 
 fail or not fail, but that would not depend on whether I am specifying 
 the argument or using the default, so your first points explain this.

 Thanks,
 Paul

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Re: [Rd] UTF-8 and .Rd files

2006-06-28 Thread Paul Gilbert
I've been following this thread hoping for the definitive answer...

Peter Dalgaard wrote:

 Well, I do tend to think that we should just use utf, assuming that
 people have the relevant glyphs. If they don't, then they might get
 little hollow rectangles but so what? 

My problem is that I put an ö in a reference in an Rd file, and now my 
builds fail on some of my systems. I can switch which systems work and 
which are broken, but I can not get it to work on all systems. I have 
spent way too much time trying to figure out what is wrong. So, wrt so 
what, I need to choose between checking my packages on all the 
different systems I use, or having an ö in the Rd file. I think my 
problem is more complicated than having the relevant glyphs. I suspect 
it has to do with having the same locale on all systems doing NFS 
mounts, or on my cvs server, or something strange like that.

Paul


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Re: [Rd] NAMESPACE and bundle

2006-06-22 Thread Paul Gilbert
Iago

There is a problem that bundle checking works slightly differently than 
individual package checking in this regard.  I think it has to do with 
when the namespace gets registered, or something like that. As I recall, 
the work around is to explicitely require  the package in the test files 
for it. I.e. put
  require(pac)
in all the files in pac/tests.   If that does not work, let me know and 
I will look more carefully to find what I had to do.

Paul

Iago Mosqueira wrote:

Dear all,

I have a package that passes R CMD check, and shows no problems when using all 
its methods as declared in NAMESPACE. When this package is added to a bundle, 
which already consists of 5 packages, the examples in the Rd pages thta call a 
number of methods fail during the bundle check. These all passed when check is 
run on this package alone. Other packages in the bundle are very similar, in 
that all import all S4 classes and methods from the first package (using 
import(FLCore) in NAMESPACE) in the bundle, and export their own overloaded 
methods.

If I run check on a mini-bundle consisting only of the main package (FLCore) 
and this problematic package, it shows no problem. So I assume a problem of 
NAMESPACE conflict is the culprit, but experimnting with various package 
combinations, to try and isolate the conflict, has not worked. This package 
seems to conflict with every other secondary package.

I am dealing with internal dependencies by adding a require(FLCore) line to 
the .onLoad() call in zzz.R

Can anybody point me at what to look for? What could be the reason for this 
problem?

I hope the explanation was clear enough. Many thanks,


Iago


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Txatxarramendi Ugartea, z/g
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Re: [Rd] NAMESPACE and bundle

2006-06-22 Thread Paul Gilbert
Iago

I think your R code file  needs an .onLoad function.  Here is the 
..onLoad from my dse1 package which is in the dse bundle, as is tframe,  
along with comments which I had forgotten.

..onLoad  - function(library, section) {
   .DSEflags(list(COMPILED=TRUE, DUP=TRUE))
   # next require is necessary for bundle check to run examples, 
   # but does not seem to be necessary when packages are not bundled
   require(tframe)
   invisible(TRUE)
   }


Hope this works,
Paul

Iago Mosqueira wrote:

  -Mensaje original-
  De: Paul Gilbert [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
  Enviado el: jue 22/06/2006 15:47
  Para: Iago Mosqueira
  CC: r-devel@r-project.org
  Asunto: Re: [Rd] NAMESPACE and bundle

  Iago

  There is a problem that bundle checking works slightly differently than
  individual package checking in this regard.  I think it has to do with
  when the namespace gets registered, or something like that. As I recall,
  the work around is to explicitely require  the package in the test files
  for it. I.e. put
require(pac)
  in all the files in pac/tests.   If that does not work, let me know and
  I will look more carefully to find what I had to do.

  Paul


 Paul,

 Many thanks. The problem is in the examples contained in the Rd files, 
 where we do not explictely load the package, as we do in test files. 
 But it is only a problem for the examples in this package, not in the 
 others that share the same package dependencies. Can you see any 
 solution or something I else I should check for?

 Thanks


 Iago


 Iago Mosqueira wrote:

 Dear all,
 
 I have a package that passes R CMD check, and shows no problems when 
 using all its methods as declared in NAMESPACE. When this package is 
 added to a bundle, which already consists of 5 packages, the examples 
 in the Rd pages thta call a number of methods fail during the bundle 
 check. These all passed when check is run on this package alone. Other 
 packages in the bundle are very similar, in that all import all S4 
 classes and methods from the first package (using import(FLCore) in 
 NAMESPACE) in the bundle, and export their own overloaded methods.
 
 If I run check on a mini-bundle consisting only of the main package 
 (FLCore) and this problematic package, it shows no problem. So I 
 assume a problem of NAMESPACE conflict is the culprit, but 
 experimnting with various package combinations, to try and isolate the 
 conflict, has not worked. This package seems to conflict with every 
 other secondary package.
 
 I am dealing with internal dependencies by adding a require(FLCore) 
 line to the .onLoad() call in zzz.R
 
 Can anybody point me at what to look for? What could be the reason 
 for this problem?
 
 I hope the explanation was clear enough. Many thanks,
 
 
 Iago
 
 
 Dr. Iago Mosqueira
 
 Marine Research Division
 AZTI Tecnalia
 Txatxarramendi Ugartea, z/g
 48395 Sukarrieta - Bizkaia
 Spain
 
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[Rd] task view errors

2006-06-02 Thread Paul Gilbert
I am getting several errors about Windows only packages when I use task 
views.  Is this suppose to be a Windows-centric utility?

Also, I am sure there must be a simple way to tell which packages are in 
a view, but I haven't found it. If there isn't, it would be nice to have.

Paul Gilbert
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install.views(c(
 Multivariate, Econometrics, Finance, gR, Bayesian,
 SocialSciences),
  repos = http://cran.at.r-project.org;)

* Installing *source* package 'rcom' ...
Package 'rcom' can only be installed/used under Windows.
ERROR: configuration failed for package 'rcom'
** Removing 
'/home/paul/toolchain/R/Linux-2.6.7-mm6/R-2.3.0/site-library/rcom'
* Installing *source* package 'BRugs' ...
Package 'BRugs' currently only works under Windows.\nIt is supposed to 
work under Linux in future releases.
ERROR: configuration failed for package 'BRugs'
** Removing 
'/home/paul/toolchain/R/Linux-2.6.7-mm6/R-2.3.0/site-library/BRugs'
* Installing *source* package 'mimR' ...
Package 'mimR' can only be installed/used under Windows.
ERROR: configuration failed for package 'mimR'
** Removing 
'/home/paul/toolchain/R/Linux-2.6.7-mm6/R-2.3.0/site-library/mimR'




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[Rd] package installation errors

2006-06-01 Thread Paul Gilbert
I installed R-2.3.1 and ran make check without problem, but I am having 
trouble installing several packages  using gcc (GCC) 3.2.3 20030502 (Red 
Hat Linux 3.2.3-53)
on Red Hat Enterprise Linux AS release 3 (Taroon Update 7) Kernel 
2.4.21-40.ELsmp on an x86_64

Below are the messages from MCMCpack. Perhaps my systems are messed up?

Paul Gilbert

  install.packages(MCMCpack)
Warning in install.packages(MCMCpack) : argument 'lib' is missing: 
using /home/mfa/gilp/toolchain/R/asd05546/R-2.3.1/site-library
--- Please select a CRAN mirror for use in this session ---


Selection: 3
trying URL 'http://cran.at.r-project.org/src/contrib/MCMCpack_0.7-2.tar.gz'
Content type 'application/x-tar' length 303618 bytes
opened URL
==
downloaded 296Kb

* Installing *source* package 'MCMCpack' ...
checking for C++ compiler default output file name... a.out
checking whether the C++ compiler works... yes
checking whether we are cross compiling... no
checking for suffix of executables...
checking for suffix of object files... o
checking whether we are using the GNU C++ compiler... yes
checking whether g++ accepts -g... yes
checking for gcc... gcc
checking whether we are using the GNU C compiler... yes
checking whether gcc accepts -g... yes
checking for gcc option to accept ANSI C... none needed
checking how to run the C preprocessor... gcc -E
checking for egrep... grep -E
checking for ANSI C header files... yes
checking for sys/types.h... yes
checking for sys/stat.h... yes
checking for stdlib.h... yes
checking for string.h... yes
checking for memory.h... yes
checking for strings.h... yes
checking for inttypes.h... yes
checking for stdint.h... yes
checking for unistd.h... yes
checking ieeefp.h usability... no
checking ieeefp.h presence... no
checking for ieeefp.h... no
checking for trunc... no
configure: creating ./config.status
config.status: creating src/Makevars
** libs
g++ -I/home/mfa/gilp/toolchain/R/asd05546/R-2.3.1/include 
-I/home/mfa/gilp/toolchain/R/asd05546/R-2.3.1/include  
-I/usr/local/include  -DSCYTHE_COMPILE_DIRECT -DSCYTHE_NO_RANGE   -fpic  
-g -O2 -c distributions.cc -o distributions.o
distributions.cc: In function `double SCYTHE::INTERNAL::dbinom_raw(const
   double, const double, const double, const double)':
distributions.cc:2048: could not split insn
(insn:TI 454 450 91 (set (reg:DF 23 rxmm2 [58])
(if_then_else:DF (eq (mem:DF (reg/v/u/f:DI 3 rbx [59]) [5 S8 A64])
(reg:DF 23 rxmm2 [58]))
(reg:DF 21 rxmm0 [160])
(const_double:DF 0 [0x0] 0 [0x0] 0 [0x0]))) 660 
{*sse_movdfcc_const0_3} (insn_list 76 (insn_list 450 (nil)))
(expr_list:REG_DEAD (reg/v/u/f:DI 3 rbx [59])
(expr_list:REG_DEAD (reg:DF 21 rxmm0 [160])
(nil
distributions.cc:2048: Internal compiler error in final_scan_insn, at 
final.c:
   2624
Please submit a full bug report,
with preprocessed source if appropriate.
See URL:http://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla/ for instructions.
make: *** [distributions.o] Error 1
chmod: failed to get attributes of 
`/home/mfa/gilp/toolchain/R/asd05546/R-2.3.1/site-library/MCMCpack/libs/*': 
No such file or directory
ERROR: compilation failed for package 'MCMCpack'
** Removing 
'/home/mfa/gilp/toolchain/R/asd05546/R-2.3.1/site-library/MCMCpack'

The downloaded packages are in
/tmp/RtmpZMSbbz/downloaded_packages
Warning message:
installation of package 'MCMCpack' had non-zero exit status in: 
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Re: [Rd] R CMD check: checking examples: how to (not) pause execution

2006-05-18 Thread Paul Gilbert
I think the more usual way to solve this is to have the user set 
par(ask=TRUE) is they want to be prompted. This gives the user the 
option of being prompted, or not. It makes the example tests work, and 
simplifies your code because you don't need to worry about the prompt 
mechanism. It also potentially helps with multi-language support, etc, etc.


Paul

Lutz Prechelt wrote:


Hello all,

trying to prepare my first package for submission to CRAN 
I am stumbling over the checking examples step

of R CMD check.

I have some examples that produce more than one plot.
I currently separate those plot calls by
 readline(Press Return for a plot including a density plot)
or some such to have R wait before producing the next plot.

This works OK for end users, but fails miserably 
during R CMD check, which appears to just eat the

next line of the example source file for the input of readline
(which took me quite a while to understand it).

What is the right way to solve this problem?

I can hardly believe that there is none (although the
examples of 'plot' suggest exactly this: They run 
through multiple plots in a hurry.)


I guess the appropriate approach would be if
example() had some kind of single-stepping option?

Any hints?

 Lutz Prechelt

P.S.: 
Documentation remark:

For users struggling with R CMD check it might be
very helpful if R-exts.pdf contained some pointers
to the functions or mechanisms used by R CMD check, 
or the names of source files where to find such information

so they can better understand what is going on.

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[Rd] R-devel and PGI 6.0 compile error

2006-05-18 Thread Paul Gilbert

I am trying to compile R-devel (R-devel_2006-05-17.tar.gz) on Red Hat 
Enterprise Linux AS release 3 (Taroon Update 7) using the Portland Group 
compiler 6.0.  (I have not yet successful compiled R on this 
configuration, so I don't know if this is a new problem.) I get an error

pgcc -L/usr/local/pgi/linux86-64/6.0/libso -L/usr/lib64 -o dftables 
dftables.o
../dftables chartables.h
../dftables: error while loading shared libraries: libpgc.so: cannot open 
shared object file: No such file or directory
make[3]: *** [chartables.h] Error 127

The library containing  libpgc.so is in both my LD_LIBRARY_PATH and in 
LDFLAGS. More details are below. In configure I am also getting

checking whether C99 double complex is supported...
checking complex.h usability... no
checking complex.h presence... yes
configure: WARNING: complex.h: present but cannot be compiled
configure: WARNING: complex.h: check for missing prerequisite headers?
configure: WARNING: complex.h: see the Autoconf documentation
configure: WARNING: complex.h: section Present But Cannot Be Compiled
configure: WARNING: complex.h: proceeding with the preprocessor's result
configure: WARNING: complex.h: in the future, the compiler will take 
precedence
configure: WARNING: ## --- ##
configure: WARNING: ## Report this to [EMAIL PROTECTED] ##
configure: WARNING: ## --- ##
checking for complex.h... yes

Paul Gilbert

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~/toolchain/R/clusterPGI/R-devel:../../src/R-devel/configure  --with-x=no
checking build system type... x86_64-unknown-linux-gnu
checking host system type... x86_64-unknown-linux-gnu
loading site script '../../src/R-devel/config.site'
checking for pwd... /bin/pwd
checking whether builddir is srcdir... no
checking for working aclocal... found
checking for working autoconf... found
checking for working automake... found
checking for working autoheader... found
checking for working makeinfo... found
checking for gawk... gawk
checking for egrep... grep -E
checking whether ln -s works... yes
checking for ranlib... ranlib
checking for bison... bison -y
checking for ar... ar
checking for a BSD-compatible install... /usr/bin/install -c
checking for sed... /bin/sed
checking for less... /usr/bin/less
checking for perl... /usr/bin/perl
checking whether perl version is at least 5.004... yes
checking for dvips... no
checking for tex... no
checking for latex... no
configure: WARNING: you cannot build DVI versions of the R manuals
checking for makeindex... no
checking for pdftex... no
checking for pdflatex... no
configure: WARNING: you cannot build PDF versions of the R manuals
checking for makeinfo... /usr/bin/makeinfo
checking for unzip... /usr/bin/unzip
checking for zip... /usr/bin/zip
checking for gzip... /bin/gzip
checking for firefox... no
checking for mozilla... no
checking for netscape... no
checking for galeon... no
checking for kfmclient... no
checking for opera... no
checking for gnome-moz-remote... no
checking for open... /usr/bin/open
using default browser ... /usr/bin/open
checking for acroread... no
checking for acroread4... no
checking for xpdf... no
checking for gv... no
checking for gnome-gv... no
checking for ggv... no
checking for kghostview... no
checking for open... /usr/bin/open
checking for gcc... pgcc
checking for C compiler default output file name... a.out
checking whether the C compiler works... yes
checking whether we are cross compiling... no
checking for suffix of executables...
checking for suffix of object files... o
checking whether we are using the GNU C compiler... no
checking whether pgcc accepts -g... yes
checking for pgcc option to accept ANSI C... none needed
checking how to run the C preprocessor... pgcc -E
checking how to run the C preprocessor... pgcc -E
defining F77 to be pgf77
checking whether we are using the GNU Fortran 77 compiler... no
checking whether pgf77 accepts -g... yes
checking whether we are using the GNU C++ compiler... no
checking whether pgCC accepts -g... yes
checking how to run the C++ preprocessor... pgCC -E
checking whether __attribute__((visibility())) is supported... no
checking whether pgcc accepts -fvisibility... yes
checking whether pgf77 accepts -fvisibility... yes
checking for a sed that does not truncate output... /bin/sed
checking for non-GNU ld... /usr/bin/ld
checking if the linker (/usr/bin/ld) is GNU ld... yes
checking for /usr/bin/ld option to reload object files... -r
checking for BSD-compatible nm... /usr/bin/nm -B
checking how to recognise dependent libraries... pass_all
checking for ANSI C header files... yes
checking for sys/types.h... yes
checking for sys/stat.h... yes
checking for stdlib.h... yes
checking for string.h... yes
checking for memory.h... yes
checking for strings.h... yes
checking for inttypes.h... yes
checking for stdint.h... yes
checking for unistd.h... yes
checking dlfcn.h usability... yes
checking dlfcn.h presence... yes
checking for dlfcn.h... yes

Re: [Rd] helping out

2006-05-18 Thread Paul Gilbert
Kevin

The developers page is available from the  left side menu frame on the 
main R page http://www.r-project.org/ ,  but not from CRAN.

(BTW, R-devel does not have nearly as much traffic as R-help, so digest 
mode may not be so important.)

Paul Gilbert

Kevin B. Hendricks wrote:

Hi,

I just joined the list and wanted to introduce myself.  I am a  
professor of operations management at a Canadian University and an  
empirical researcher (using mainly archival data from finance and  
accounting primarily with econometric methods).  I have finally made  
the leap to remove all of SAS from my machines (damn license code  
nonsense was killing me) and decided to adopt R.  So I am very new to  
the R system and still just getting up to speed (reading the fine  
*long* manuals and etc).

I am also an old programmer (read that late 1970s, early 1980s  
timeframe) and more recently I have been an open source volunteer for  
OpenOffice.org (ran their lingucomponent project until last year), a  
volunteer for the Blackdown Java project (helped do the initial port  
of Java 1.1.1 to PowerPC Linux) and I have submitted bug fixes and  
patches to the Linux kernel, glibc, gcc, and the like,  mainly to  
support PPC Linux.  I now primarily use x86_64 Linux and MacOSX.  I  
can program in C, C++, Fortran and a number of other languages.

So once I get up to speed, I would love to volunteer to help pay back  
for the really nice system you have made available.

I found this mailing list by accident looking for something to tell  
me about the NULL environment issue that hit me when I moved from  
version 2.2.1 to version 2.3.0.  If there is a developers page that  
lists cvs checkout info (or do you use subversion or some other  
system) and the details of who to submit all patches and things to  
(is this list for diffs?), I would love to be pointed at it.

I am on too many mailing lists right now, so I signed up for digest  
mode.  So if anyone wants/needs an immediate response please simply  
cc me.

Thanks,

Kevin Hendricks


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Richard Ivey School of Business
University of Western Ontario
London, ON
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[Rd] PGI 6.1 compile error

2006-05-11 Thread Paul Gilbert
I am trying to compile R-2.3.0 (both first release and patched 
2006-05-10) on Red Hat Enterprise Linux AS release 3 (Taroon Update 7) 
using the Portland Group compiler version 6.1 and the notes from 
Jennifer Lai on p33 of R Installation and Administration version 2.3.0 
(2006-04-24). I have not used this compiler before, so it is possible 
things are messed up more than usual, even for me.

Following  the R Installation and Administration notes I set
  export PGI=/usr/pgi/linux86-64/6.1
  export PATH=$PGI/bin:$PATH
  export MANPATH=$MANPATH=$PGI/man:/
  export CC=pgcc
  export CFLAGS=-g -O2 -Kieee
  export CPPFLAGS=-I$PGI/include -I$PGI/include/CC
  export F77=pgf77
  export FFLAGS=-g -O2 -Kieee
  export CXX=pgCC
  export CXXFLAGS=-g -O2 -Kieee
  export F95=pgf95
  export FCFLAGS=-g -O2 -Kieee
  export SHLIB_CXXLDFLAGS=-shared
  export SHLIB_LDFLAGS=-shared
  export LDFLAGS=-L$PGI/libso -L/usr/lib64

However, the last line causes
:../../src/R-2.3.0-patched/configure
checking build system type... x86_64-unknown-linux-gnu
checking host system type... x86_64-unknown-linux-gnu
loading site script '../../src/R-2.3.0-patched/config.site'

checking for gcc... pgcc
checking for C compiler default output file name... a.out
checking whether the C compiler works... configure: error: cannot run C 
compiled programs.
If you meant to cross compile, use `--host'.
See `config.log' for more details.


Either unsetting  LDFLAGS, or setting it to  -L/usr/lib64

.../../src/R-2.3.0-patched/configure --x-libraries=/usr/X11R6/lib64
configures but I get

checking whether C99 double complex is supported...
checking complex.h usability... no
checking complex.h presence... yes
configure: WARNING: complex.h: present but cannot be compiled
configure: WARNING: complex.h: check for missing prerequisite headers?
configure: WARNING: complex.h: see the Autoconf documentation
configure: WARNING: complex.h: section Present But Cannot Be Compiled
configure: WARNING: complex.h: proceeding with the preprocessor's result
configure: WARNING: complex.h: in the future, the compiler will take 
precedence
configure: WARNING: ## --- ##
configure: WARNING: ## Report this to [EMAIL PROTECTED] ##
configure: WARNING: ## --- ##
checking for complex.h... yes
checking for double complex... no
no
checking for cblas_cdotu_sub in vecLib framework... no

R is now configured for x86_64-unknown-linux-gnu

  Source directory:  ../../src/R-2.3.0-patched
  Installation directory:/usr/local

  C compiler:pgcc  -g -O2 -Kieee
  Fortran 77 compiler:   pgf77  -g -O2 -Kieee

  C++ compiler:  pgCC  -g -O2 -Kieee
  Fortran 90/95 compiler:pgf95 -g -O2 -Kieee

  Interfaces supported:  X11, tcltk
  External libraries:readline
  Additional capabilities:   PNG, JPEG, iconv, MBCS, NLS
  Options enabled:   R profiling

  Recommended packages:  yes

configure: WARNING: you cannot build info or html versions of the R manuals


However, when I make I get


pgcc -shared  -L/usr/lib64 -o tools.so text.o init.o Rmd5.o md5.o   
mkdir -p -- ../../../../library/tools/libs
make[5]: Leaving directory 
`/home/mfa/gilp/toolchain/R/mfa04559/R-2.3.0PGI/src/library/tools/src'
make[4]: Leaving directory 
`/home/mfa/gilp/toolchain/R/mfa04559/R-2.3.0PGI/src/library/tools/src'
**ERROR: in routine alloca() there is a
stack overflow: thread 0, max 10228KB, used 0KB, request 16B
make[3]: *** [all] Error 1
make[3]: Leaving directory 
`/home/mfa/gilp/toolchain/R/mfa04559/R-2.3.0PGI/src/library/tools'
make[2]: *** [R] Error 1
make[2]: Leaving directory 
`/home/mfa/gilp/toolchain/R/mfa04559/R-2.3.0PGI/src/library'
make[1]: *** [R] Error 1
make[1]: Leaving directory 
`/home/mfa/gilp/toolchain/R/mfa04559/R-2.3.0PGI/src'
make: *** [R] Error 1

Any help would be appreciated.

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[Rd] slot named C

2006-04-17 Thread Paul Gilbert
C appears to be an illegal name for a slot in an S4 class (example 
below). If this is a known limitation, and not a bug, it would be nice 
if it were caught by setClass.

Paul Gilbert

  setClass(testobj, representation ( C = numeric))
[1] testobj
  new(testobj, C= 2)
Error in methodsPackageMetaName(C, name) :
'The name of the object (e.g,. a class or generic function) to 
find in the meta-data' must be a single string (got an object of class 
numeric)

  setClass(testobj, representation ( C. = numeric))
[1] testobj
  new(testobj, C.= 2)
An object of class testobj
Slot C.:
[1] 2


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Re: [Rd] slot named C

2006-04-17 Thread Paul Gilbert
Ok, but I'm surprised. I thought partial matching only happened for 
named arguments. I guess I've been lucky.

Paul

Prof Brian Ripley wrote:
 It's an error in your usage  The args of new() are
 
 args(new)
 function (Class, ...)
 
 and what does 'C' match?  You need to name your arguments here.
 
 On Mon, 17 Apr 2006, Paul Gilbert wrote:
 
 C appears to be an illegal name for a slot in an S4 class (example
 below).
 
 It is rather an example of something which does not work.
 
 foo - new(testobj)
 [EMAIL PROTECTED] - 2
 
 does, for example.
 
 If this is a known limitation, and not a bug, it would be nice
 if it were caught by setClass.

 Paul Gilbert

  setClass(testobj, representation ( C = numeric))
 [1] testobj
  new(testobj, C= 2)
 Error in methodsPackageMetaName(C, name) :
'The name of the object (e.g,. a class or generic function) to
 find in the meta-data' must be a single string (got an object of class
 numeric)

  setClass(testobj, representation ( C. = numeric))
 [1] testobj
  new(testobj, C.= 2)
 An object of class testobj
 Slot C.:
 [1] 2
 
  


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Re: [Rd] slot named C

2006-04-17 Thread Paul Gilbert


Prof Brian Ripley wrote:
 On Mon, 17 Apr 2006, Paul Gilbert wrote:
 
 Ok, but I'm surprised. I thought partial matching only happened for
 named arguments. I guess I've been lucky.
 
 Here C is named, so what did you mean?

Now I guess I've really been confused. I thought named arguments in a 
function were the optional ones you named when you define the function 
(with name=default, so Class is not a named argument in the call to 
new). Are you saying the named arguments are the ones you name when you 
call the function?

Paul
 
 Partial matching happens for all arguments called by name, except for 
 those following ... in the formals.
 

 Paul

 Prof Brian Ripley wrote:
 It's an error in your usage  The args of new() are

 args(new)
 function (Class, ...)

 and what does 'C' match?  You need to name your arguments here.

 On Mon, 17 Apr 2006, Paul Gilbert wrote:

 C appears to be an illegal name for a slot in an S4 class (example
 below).

 It is rather an example of something which does not work.

 foo - new(testobj)
 [EMAIL PROTECTED] - 2

 does, for example.

 If this is a known limitation, and not a bug, it would be nice
 if it were caught by setClass.

 Paul Gilbert

 setClass(testobj, representation ( C = numeric))
 [1] testobj
 new(testobj, C= 2)
 Error in methodsPackageMetaName(C, name) :
'The name of the object (e.g,. a class or generic function) to
 find in the meta-data' must be a single string (got an object of class
 numeric)

 setClass(testobj, representation ( C. = numeric))
 [1] testobj
 new(testobj, C.= 2)
 An object of class testobj
 Slot C.:
 [1] 2
 
  



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[Rd] xmkmf? problem

2006-04-13 Thread Paul Gilbert
I am having the  xmkmf  problem below with todays beta, but I also am 
trying to use an new (PGI 6.1),  so lots of other things in my setup may 
be wrong, and the warning may also be important. Any hints would be 
appreciated.

Paul
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Red Hat Enterprise Linux AS release 3 (Taroon Update 7)

checking whether C runtime needs -D__NO_MATH_INLINES... no
checking for xmkmf... /usr/X11R6/bin/xmkmf
Usage: which [options] [--] programname [...]
Options: --version, -[vV] Print version and exit successfully.
 --help,  Print this help and exit successfully.
 --skip-dot   Skip directories in PATH that start with a dot.
 --skip-tilde Skip directories in PATH that start with a tilde.
 --show-dot   Don't expand a dot to current directory in output.
 --show-tilde Output a tilde for HOME directory for non-root.
 --tty-only   Stop processing options on the right if not on 
tty.
 --all, -aPrint all matches in PATH, not just the first
 --read-alias, -i Read list of aliases from stdin.
 --skip-alias Ignore option --read-alias; don't read stdin.
 --read-functions Read shell functions from stdin.
 --skip-functions Ignore option --read-functions; don't read stdin.
Usage: which [options] [--] programname [...]
Options: --version, -[vV] Print version and exit successfully.
 --help,  Print this help and exit successfully.
 --skip-dot   Skip directories in PATH that start with a dot.
 --skip-tilde Skip directories in PATH that start with a tilde.
 --show-dot   Don't expand a dot to current directory in output.
 --show-tilde Output a tilde for HOME directory for non-root.
 --tty-only   Stop processing options on the right if not on 
tty.
 --all, -aPrint all matches in PATH, not just the first
 --read-alias, -i Read list of aliases from stdin.
 --skip-alias Ignore option --read-alias; don't read stdin.
 --read-functions Read shell functions from stdin.
 --skip-functions Ignore option --read-functions; don't read stdin.
configure: WARNING: I could not determine SHLIB_LDFLAGS.
configure: error: See the file doc/html/R-admin.html for more information.
~/toolchain/R/mfa04559/R-beta:


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[Rd] package?pac

2006-03-31 Thread Paul Gilbert
When I use

   package?pac

the author field gets reproduced twice, once with the  \author{ } string 
and a secod time formatted.

Also,  would it be possible to make   package?pac  find the overview 
without the package being attached,  or at least give a more informative 
error message.

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Re: [Rd] Bundle internal dependencies

2006-03-29 Thread Paul Gilbert
Iago

What you are trying to do should work, but there are a couple of things 
to watch out for. In the bundle DESCRIPTION Contains line be sure to 
put the packages in the order that they should be checked.  In the R 
code for package B be sure to put an .onload function with 
requires(A), or else require(A) explicitly for anything that needs 
it.  As I recall, this is not necessary for packages, if the package 
DESCRIPTION has Depends: A, but with bundles R CMD check does not work 
unless you explicitly do requires(A) in the code. It may also be 
necessary to specify the package in the data() function - I always do.

I think that is all, but is has been awhile since I worked this out, so 
I may have forgotten something.

Paul

Iago Mosqueira wrote:
 Dear all,
 
 When creating a bundle with some internal dependencies (package B in
 bundle depends on package A), would having the same version installed
 suffice? Can I ignore the dependencie in package B's description? The
 test of package B fails when calling data() for an object in pacakge A,
 so I am not sure right now whether the whole dependencie is not being
 met or simple relates to data(). What is the best way of dealing with
 this structure?
 
 Many thanks,
 
 
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Re: [Rd] Peculiar timing result

2006-03-03 Thread Paul Gilbert
Doug

This is probably not your reason, but I am finding my dual core Athlon 
64 is much slower running 64 bit Linux and R than it was running 32 bit 
Linux and R. All the programs are bigger.  (Some, like the clock applet, 
are a lot bigger for no obvious reason.)  The difference is enough to 
put my meager 1GB machine into swapping much more, with the result that 
it is a lot slower.

Paul

Douglas Bates wrote:

I have been timing a particular model fit using lmer on several
different computers and came up with a peculiar result - the model fit
is considerably slower on a dual-core Athlon 64 using Goto's
multithreaded BLAS than on a single-core processor.

Here is the timing on a single-core Athlon 64 3000+ running under
today's R-devel with version 0.995-5 of the Matrix package.

  

library(Matrix)
data(star, package = 'mlmRev')
system.time(fm1 - lmer(math~gr+sx+eth+cltype+(yrs|id)+(1|tch)+(yrs|sch), 
star, control = list(nit=0,grad=0,msV=1)))


  0  241720.:  1.16440 0.335239  0.0  1.78732 0.867209 0.382318  
 0.0
  1  239722.:  1.94952 5.0e-10 0.00933767  1.65999 0.858003
0.341520 0.00908757
  2  239580.:  1.95924 0.0884059 0.00933767  1.65308 0.857487
0.339296 0.00954718
  3  239215.:  2.60877 0.0765848 0.0177699  1.45739 0.843562
0.275100 0.0236849
  4  239204.:  2.62582 0.106670 0.0239698  1.41976 0.841086
0.261033 0.0267073
  5  239176.:  2.63149 0.0787924 0.0367185  1.37952 0.838527
0.245076 0.0301134
  6  239141.:  2.64949 0.108534 0.0594586  1.28846 0.832543
0.208404 0.0375456
  7  239049.:  2.64794 0.0789214 0.121782  1.10436 0.819711
0.126101 0.0524965
  8  239004.:  2.66044 0.117957 0.181505 0.932202 0.798982
0.0718116 0.0628958
  9  238944.:  2.66310 0.0819653 0.334477 0.631735 0.740855
0.258359 0.0806590
 10  238893.:  2.72626 0.0975205 0.653432 0.703912 0.666067
0.109922 0.201809
 11  238892.:  2.74381 0.46 0.666155 0.693544 0.662000 0.104060 
 0.207591
 12  23.:  2.75052 0.0990238 0.689199 0.694588 0.655781
0.106516 0.216460
 13  238861.:  2.80325 0.126935  1.05912 0.733914 0.556162 0.159296 
 0.360938
 14  238832.:  2.82656 0.117617  1.59471 0.607916 0.441371
0.0749944 0.976142
 15  238811.:  2.87350 0.136332  1.59046 0.653141 0.353763 0.226061  
 1.79285
 16  238810.:  2.87663 0.125135  1.58992 0.656808 0.352605 0.220488  
 1.79282
 17  238806.:  2.89342 0.141551  1.58607 0.676523 0.344212 0.181833  
 1.79268
 18  238804.:  2.90080 0.125137  1.56624 0.682921 0.261295 0.180598  
 1.74325
 19  238802.:  2.91950 0.128569  1.56836 0.680436 0.336051 0.159940  
 1.80400
 20  238801.:  2.92795 0.134762  1.56597 0.685121 0.331695 0.145547  
 1.80414
 21  238801.:  2.93741 0.125667  1.56139 0.687827 0.332700 0.138854  
 1.81495
 22  238800.:  2.94588 0.131757  1.55294 0.687909 0.330414 0.137834  
 1.82826
 23  238799.:  2.96867 0.129716  1.52943 0.688678 0.323171 0.139912  
 1.84615
 24  238799.:  2.98994 0.133378  1.52188 0.700038 0.337387 0.131403  
 1.77623
 25  238799.:  3.00312 0.135308  1.51475 0.697550 0.311750 0.145683  
 1.78037
 26  238799.:  3.00461 0.129920  1.51083 0.697666 0.306722 0.138745  
 1.81188
 27  238799.:  3.00504 0.134882  1.50539 0.696745 0.302949 0.135897  
 1.84405
 28  238799.:  3.00422 0.134013  1.47947 0.698115 0.303243 0.133806  
 1.86486
 29  238799.:  3.00819 0.134378  1.48185 0.701871 0.307097 0.134637  
 1.84996
 30  238799.:  3.01313 0.134279  1.49098 0.702883 0.304788 0.133682  
 1.86254
 31  238799.:  3.01291 0.134253  1.49060 0.701818 0.303155 0.133771  
 1.84613
 32  238799.:  3.01142 0.134314  1.48921 0.701782 0.303589 0.134439  
 1.84653
 33  238799.:  3.01174 0.134315  1.48926 0.701641 0.304120 0.134145  
 1.84635
 34  238799.:  3.01175 0.134304  1.48942 0.701740 0.303762 0.134185  
 1.84649
 35  238799.:  3.01173 0.134307  1.48937 0.701724 0.303809 0.134206  
 1.84647
[1] 43.10  3.78 48.41  0.00  0.00


(If you run the timing yourself and don't want to see the iteration
output, take the msV=1 out of the control list.  I keep it in there so
I can monitor the progress.)

If I time the same model fit on a dual-core Athlon 64 X2 3800+ with
the same version of R, BLAS and Matrix package, the timing ends up
with something like

90 140 235 0 0

I do see that the multithreading is working on a calculation that is
essentially BLAS-bound such as

  

mm - Matrix(rnorm(1e6), nc = 1e3)
system.time(crossprod(mm))


[1] 0.57 0.02 0.60 0.00 0.00

On the X2 processor it still takes about 0.6 seconds user time but
only 0.3 seconds elapsed time when the machine is otherwise idle and
both cores are available for the calculation.

Any suggestions why the dual-core processor is so much slower than the
single core processor?

By the way, I would be interested in accumulating timings of this
model fit on other systems.  If you do time it please send me
(off-list) a summary of the version of R, version 

[Rd] package introductions

2006-02-01 Thread Paul Gilbert
I have been experimenting with different possibilities for an 
introduction page for my packages. That is, a good place to tell users 
about the most important things in a package, and where to start.


Recently there was a discussion about this, and a suggestion to use 
foo-package.Rd, and also a function that generates a skeleton 
document. My problem with this suggestion is that foo-package may not 
be high in the sort order, so users will not find this unless they know 
to look for it (and so there is difficulty establishing the convention). 
A second problem is that the skeleton document has information that may 
be useful, but is not really what I am looking for. (It has all the 
methods in the package, but what I want is to tell users the most 
important ones to look at first. It also has high maintenance 
information, like version numbers. I want something that is either 
completely automatic, or manual but low maintenance.) Another related 
problem is that the information put in the skeleton  foo-package.Rd 
possibly should be in a man page somewhere, so if this does happen, that 
naming convention will likely be used and would then conflict with my 
introduction.


I now think I have found something that works fairly well. I put the 
introduction in a file 00.foo.Intro.Rd and in that file have


/name{00.foo.Intro}
/alias{00.foo.Intro}
/alias{foo.Intro}

Then sorting puts the 00 version at the beginning of the table of 
contents in both the pdf version with all the help pages, and in the 
html version for the help.start() system. Also, ?foo.Intro works. 
(?00.foo.Intro works too, but the quote marks are necessary and this 
seems likely to cause problems for beginners.)


It is also helpful to put something like See ?foo.Intro for more 
details in the Description: line of the DESCRIPTION file, so users 
see this with help(package=foo). (I don't think users of the 
help.start() system ever see this, but perhaps someone can correct me.)


I also would like to put in my vote for a DESCRIPTION file tag
  GettingStarted: foo.Intro
probably as an optional tag to begin.

Of course, the biggest simplification happens when things like this are 
done in a similar way by everyone. ( configure ; make is not 
intuitively simple, but everyone now knows the incantation.)


Paul Gilbert

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[Rd] typo in factanal.Rd

2006-01-11 Thread Paul Gilbert
In the file factanal.Rd the line

then the first fit is started at the value suggested by J\ureskog

should be

then the first fit is started at the value suggested by
 \enc{J\ureskog}{Joreskog}

or whatever that translates to on a system that does not mangle cut and 
paste of special characters.

Paul

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Re: [Rd] [R] ouml in an .Rd

2006-01-09 Thread Paul Gilbert
(moved from r-help)

Ok, UTF-8 works on some of my machines and latin1 on others. If I use 
one I get failure or spurious characters when I build on the wrong 
machine. Are .Rd files suppose to work on different platforms when there 
are special characters, or is this a known limitation?

Paul

Prof Brian Ripley wrote:

 It means what it says: you need to put the actual character in the file, 
 and specify the encoding for the file via \encoding.  (For you, UTF-8 or 
 latin1, I would guess.)
 
 It's not a question of trying variations, rather of following instructions.
 
 On Fri, 6 Jan 2006, Paul Gilbert wrote:
 
 I am trying to put an ouml in an .Rd file with no success. Writing R
 Extensions suggests:

 Text which might need to be represented differently in different
 encodings should be marked by |\enc|, e.g. |\enc{Jöreskog}{Joreskog}|
 where the first argument will be used where encodings are allowed and
 the second should be ASCII (and is used for e.g. the text conversion).

 (Above may get mangled by the mail.) I have tried variations

   \enc{Joreskog}{Joreskog}
   \enc{J\oreskog}{Joreskog}
   \enc{Jo\reskog}{Joreskog}
   \enc{Jo\reskog}{Joreskog}
   \enc{J\{o}reskog}{Joreskog}
   \enc{J\\{o}reskog}{Joreskog}
   \enc{Jouml;oreskog}{Joreskog}

 all with no effect on the generated pdf file.  Suggestions would be
 appreciated.

 Thanks,
 Paul Gilbert

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[Rd] proposal to make loadings() generic in R-devel

2005-11-03 Thread Paul Gilbert
I propose that loadings() be made generic in R-devel with definition

loadings - function(x, ...) UseMethod(loadings)

loadings.default - function(x, ...) x$loadings

The default is the current definition of loadings with the ... argument 
added.

The current definition is not specific about the returned value, though 
$loadings may usually be a matrix. I'm not sure what would be broken if 
a more strict definition of the return value is enforced. For my 
purposes a matrix is fine, but I am not sure that there is a benefit 
from imposing that the returned value must be a matrix, so I suggest 
sticking with the current non-specific structure for the return value. 
(For piecewise linear or other non-linear analysis there may be good 
reasons to allow more general structures for the loadings.)

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Re: [Rd] checking S3 generic/method consistency

2005-10-17 Thread Paul Gilbert
Kurt

Ok, but I'm still confused about what as seen from the package means. 
I'm especially confused because at first in my testing (on Linux) a 
method (in a package not in dse but using dse1) was being compared 
against the stats generic, so I put in a work around. Then I discovered 
in Solaris the comparison was made against the generic in dse1. And now, 
after some further ongoing development I find that in some of my 
packages in Linux it is compared against the dse1 generic, and I can't 
see what is different between the ones compared with dse1 and the ones 
compared with stats. This is all with the released version of R-2.2.0. I 
can't figure out what changes this, but I'm not even sure where to start 
looking. Is the package's view determined by its NAMESPACE, Depends in 
the DESCRIPTION file, or if there is requires() in the .onLoad will that 
override? This is all with a fairly clean test environment. What 
happens when other packages are attached? Where/how does it break when 
there are other packages attached that need conflicting generics (or can 
that actually work)?

Thanks,
Paul

Kurt Hornik wrote:
Paul Gilbert writes:
 
 
In R-2.2.0,  how does   checking S3 generic/method consistency  
determine which generic to check against when there are two?  I have a 
generic simulate in dse1 and there is a new generic simulate in 
stats, and I don't seem to be able to get  my simulate methods to be 
checked consistently against one or the other. Is this deteremined by 
Depends in the DESCRIPTION file, the NAMESPACE, or something else?
 
 
 It is attempted to use the generic as seen from the package.
 Actually, I made a code change to get things right for dse ...
 
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Re: [Rd] Installing R-2.2.0 package

2005-10-13 Thread Paul Gilbert


Uwe Ligges wrote:

Dean, David P wrote:

  

Dear list,

I've just installed R-2.2.0 under Solaris and have a question about
installing packages. If a package fails to install for any reason and I go
to install another package, I get this message:

$ R-2.2.0-64bit --vanilla CMD INSTALL ~/srca/cran/RSQLite_0.4-0.tar.gz 
ERROR: failed to lock directory
'/app/openpkg/lib/R-2.2.0-64bit/lib/R/library' for modifying
Try removing '/app/openpkg/lib/R-2.2.0-64bit/lib/R/library/00LOCK'

I can remove the lock directory by hand, and then the next package installs,
but this makes it quite difficult to download and install a batch of
packages from CRAN or Biocondctor! Is this lock directory a new feature with
R-2.2.0? Is there a work around in the R build itself or the installation
scripts?



No, not a new feature in R-2.2.0, it has been there for some time now.
  

I have the impression the feature behaves slightly differently as of 
R-2.2.0. Now the 00LOCK file is not removed in Solaris when there is an 
unsuccessful install. (In Linux I think it does get removed.)

Paul Gilbert

After a *successful* installation, the 00LOCK directory should be 
deleted by the installation tools themselves.
After an unsuccessful installation, the installation tools should 
restore the stuff in the 00LOCK directory.
Do you abort the installtion manually (this is the only way I figured 
out how not to remove 00LOCK automatically)?

Uwe Ligges



  

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Re: [Rd] automatically adding smooth to plot: options(plot.add.smooth)

2005-09-19 Thread Paul Gilbert


Duncan Murdoch wrote:

 On 9/19/2005 10:01 AM, Paul Gilbert wrote:
 
 Martin Maechler wrote:

 I've changed the subject in the hope some more people would
 voice an opinion...


 ...

 Now I even propose to have
   options(add.smooth = TRUE)

 as a new default.

 Do I get a reaction now?
 Martin


 I think you may break a lot of things if you make this the default for 
 plot. Plot gets used by other things (like matplot) where this default 
 may not make much sense. (But I may have missed too much of the 
 earlier discussion under some other subject.)
 
 
 This was going to affect only plot.lm, as far as I know.

 From the earlier discussion I thought so, but it was not really clear 
in the new subject line.

Paul
 
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Re: [Rd] simulate in stats

2005-09-15 Thread Paul Gilbert
BTW, I think there is a problem with the way the argument seed is used 
in the new simulate in stats.  The problem is that repeated calls to 
simulate using the default argument will introduce a new pattern into 
the RNG:

  stats:::simulate
function (object, nsim = 1, seed = as.integer(runif(1, 0, 
.Machine$integer.max)),   ...)
UseMethod(simulate)
environment: namespace:stats


  stats:::simulate.lm
function (object, nsim = 1, seed = as.integer(runif(1, 0, 
.Machine$integer.max)),...)
{
if (!exists(.Random.seed, envir = .GlobalEnv))
runif(1)
RNGstate - .Random.seed
set.seed(seed)
  ...

This should not be done, as the resulting RNG has not been studied or 
proven. A better mechanism is  to have a default argument equal NULL, 
and not touch the seed in that case. There are several examples of this 
in the package dse1 (in bundle dse),  see for example simulate.ARMA and 
simulate.SS. They also use the utilities in the setRNG package to save 
more of the information necessary to reproduce simulations. Roughly it 
is done like this:
 
simulate.x - function (model, rng = NULL,  ...)
  {if (is.null(rng)) rng - setRNG() #returns the RNG setting to be 
saved with the result
else {
old.rng - setRNG(rng)
on.exit(setRNG(old.rng))
}
   ...


The seed by itself is not very useful if the purpose is to be able to 
reproduce things, and I think it would be a good idea to incorporate the 
few small functions setRNG into stats (especially if the simulate 
mechanism is being introduced).

The argument nsim presumably alleviates to some extent the above 
concern about changing the RNG pattern. However, in my fairly extensive 
experience it is not very workable to produce all the simulations and 
then do the analysis of them. In a Monte Carlo experiment the generated 
data set is just too big. A better approach is to do the analysis and 
save only necessary information after each simulation. That is the 
approach, for example, in dse2:::EstEval.

Paul

Paul Gilbert wrote:

 Can the arguments nsim and seed be passed as part of ... in the new 
 simulate generic in R-2.2.0alpha package stats?

 This would potentially allow me to use the stats generic rather than 
 the one I define in dse. There are contexts where nsim and seed do not 
 make sense. I realize that the default arguments could be ignored, but 
 it does not really make sense to introduce a new generic with that in 
 mind. (I would also prefer that the object argument was called 
 model but this is less important.)

 Paul Gilbert

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[Rd] loadings() generic in R alpha

2005-09-15 Thread Paul Gilbert
Could loadings()  in R-2.2.0  please be made generic?

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[Rd] acf() generic in R alpha

2005-09-15 Thread Paul Gilbert
Could acf()  in R-2.2.0  please be made generic?

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[Rd] simulate in stats

2005-09-14 Thread Paul Gilbert
(Sorry if this was posted twice. I seem to be having some email issues.)

Can the arguments nsim and seed be passed as part of ... in the new 
simulate generic in R-2.2.0alpha package stats?

This would potentially allow me to use the stats generic rather than the 
one I define in dse. There are contexts where nsim and seed do not make 
sense. I realize that the default arguments could be ignored, but it 
does not really make sense to introduce a new generic with that in mind. 
(I would also prefer that the object argument was called model but 
this is less important.)

Paul Gilbert

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