Re: [R] Research Assistant Position
I posted this job opportunity on November 20 (see below). I would like to provide some background on the position for those who might be interested. It is in the University of California at the new Merced campus. This is the second academic year since the Merced campus opened, and the first in the all-new facilities. Merced is a 2-hour drive from the Bay Area, from Monterey, and from Yosemite National Park. Pay scales are competitive, and housing costs in Merced and neighboring communities are less than in most of California. There is considerable interest among the faculty in emphasizing the development, teaching and use of open source software as we build educational and research programs. Core courses for statistical data analysis for Engineering, Natural Sciences, and Cognitive and Social Sciences students using R are being taught or are in planning and development stages. This position is designed for a person experienced with programming and analysis using R. The advertised position includes duties supporting and participating in research and teaching development using R, including opportunities for publication or joint publication of research articles and R libraries. An example of relevant analyses and data visualization using R by the PI funding this position can be seen at http://www.sciencemag.org/cgi/rapidpdf/1128834.pdf . Anthony Westerling University of California Merced Merced, CA Programmer Analyst II/III (Research Assistant) Job Code SSNRI723A Open until filled. In the Sierra Nevada Research Institute at UC Merced, act in support of research in applied climatology and statistical modeling for wildfire, energy and water resource management applications and assist the Principle Investigator with the development of software, management of data sets and design, modification, and implementation of systems for modeling and analysis. Develop software libraries for the R statistical project for publication and use in the classroom environment. Requires experience and demonstrated expertise in programming and data visualization. Relevant programming experience includes R, Fortran and/or C. HTML is also desired; background in statistics, physics, climatology, hydrology, fire ecology or a similar field (Masters preferred); strong problem solving; demonstrated written communication and programming skills. A UC Merced job application, resume and cover letter are requested. For more information and to apply call 1-866-669-JOBS or visit http://jobs.ucmerced.edu/n/staff/position.jsf?positionId=723. EOE Anthony Westerling School of Engineering School of Social Sciences, Humanities, and Arts University of California, Merced http://tenaya.ucsd.edu/~westerli/westerling.html [EMAIL PROTECTED] (209) 228 4099 __ R-help@stat.math.ethz.ch mailing list https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-help PLEASE do read the posting guide http://www.R-project.org/posting-guide.html and provide commented, minimal, self-contained, reproducible code.
[R] HTML Help Browser in R Mac OS X Aqua GUI
I'm using R 2.0.1 with the Aqua R GUI 1.0 for Mac OS X, and I would
like very much to use a firefox browser window for viewing help topics.
options("htmlhelp") = TRUE
options("browser") =
"/Applications/Connections/Firefox.app/Contents/MacOS/firefox-bin"
Java Embedding Plugin 0.9.0 is installed (the Java Embedding Plugin
(JavaEmbeddingPlugin.bundle) and the MRJ Plugin JEP (MRJPlugin.plugin),
are in the /Library/Internet Plug-Ins folder, and MRJ Plugin's
timestamp is more recent than the Java Embedding Plugin's timestamp)
help.start() launches firefox and displays the initial html help page.
however, the following error message is displayed:
/Applications/Connections/Firefox.app/Contents/MacOS/firefox-bin: can't
map file: /Library/Internet Plug-Ins/MRJPlugin.plugin ((os/kern)
invalid argument)
subsequent calls to help in the form ?help.topic do not open html help
documentation for help.topic. instead, the documentation is displayed
in the internal help browser for the Aqua GUI.
has anyone encountered this problem and found a solution?
thanks
Tony
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Re: [R] Cocoa GUI: pasting in R Console yields syntax error
Thanks David. I'm glad I'm not the only one. I was beginning to wonder if I had really lost it. Anthony On Dec 6, 2004, at 1:23 AM, David Enot wrote: Anthony I faced the same problem and it took me some time to spot the origin: I have no clue where it can come from!( I suspect this happened when I moved from 1.9.0 to 2.0.0, OS X 1.3...). I know that the built in R editor is very handy: what I do is a "more myfile.r" on the terminal to check if there are weird characters and then delete then directly with the R editor. Not very efficient I reckon: OS X gurus may have another solution! David On 6 Dec 2004, at 08:33, Anthony Westerling wrote: I've recently upgraded to R-2.0.1 on a Mac running OS X 10.3+ I am using the new Cocoa-based GUI. Everything was working well for a while. In the middle of an R session, I started "suddenly" to have a problem where code copied from an open editor window and pasted into the R Console gives a syntax error. It doesn't matter what the code is. If the same exact text is typed into the console directly, I get no errors. I tried quitting the R session and restarting. The problem did not go away. I tried using a different editor, instead of the built-in editor. After opening the file with my R code in it in AlphaX instead of the built-in editor, I could see that the text typed most recently ( ie, since the problem started) had a character that looked like an open square or box at the start of most lines. I deleted these and can't see any other extraneous symbols in AlphaX. However, I still get syntax errors when trying to paste code that was originally typed in using the built-in editor. If I retype the same thing in the same file using AlphaX, one line below the original, then copy and paste into the R console, it executes without generating syntax errors. So, it looks like something odd is going on with the built-in editor? Anthony Westerling __ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-help PLEASE do read the posting guide! http://www.R-project.org/posting-guide.html __ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-help PLEASE do read the posting guide! http://www.R-project.org/posting-guide.html
[R] Cocoa GUI: pasting in R Console yields syntax error
I've recently upgraded to R-2.0.1 on a Mac running OS X 10.3+ I am using the new Cocoa-based GUI. Everything was working well for a while. In the middle of an R session, I started "suddenly" to have a problem where code copied from an open editor window and pasted into the R Console gives a syntax error. It doesn't matter what the code is. If the same exact text is typed into the console directly, I get no errors. I tried quitting the R session and restarting. The problem did not go away. I tried using a different editor, instead of the built-in editor. After opening the file with my R code in it in AlphaX instead of the built-in editor, I could see that the text typed most recently ( ie, since the problem started) had a character that looked like an open square or box at the start of most lines. I deleted these and can't see any other extraneous symbols in AlphaX. However, I still get syntax errors when trying to paste code that was originally typed in using the built-in editor. If I retype the same thing in the same file using AlphaX, one line below the original, then copy and paste into the R console, it executes without generating syntax errors. So, it looks like something odd is going on with the built-in editor? Anthony Westerling __ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-help PLEASE do read the posting guide! http://www.R-project.org/posting-guide.html
Re: [R] R-2.0.1 reinstall non-CRAN pkg
Thank you Uwe
That was indeed the problem. I revised the depends line and removed
the old built line, and then rebuilt the package. Now it is recognized
as valid.
Thanks
Tony
On Nov 27, 2004, at 7:54 AM, Uwe Ligges wrote:
Anthony Westerling wrote:
Yes. It is looking the correct directory. Note that the package is
installed without errors. The problem is that, even after being
newly reinstalled, it is still not recognized as a valid package for
R-2.0
Tony
On Nov 26, 2004, at 9:08 PM, Liaw, Andy wrote:
Have you checked where R is looking for that package (.libPaths()
would tell
you), and whether that's where you've installed it?
HTH,
Andy
From: Anthony Westerling
I am trying to upgrade to R-2.0.1 from R-1.9 on a Mac running
OS X 10.3.
I have some simple packages I wrote myself that have to be
reinstalled
to be recognized as valid packages. I have been using them
for a while
on earlier versions of R, so didn't expect to have any problems.
I am probably going about this the wrong way? I simply used
R CMD build mypkgdir
and then
R CMD install mypkgdir.tar.gz
the package installs without any error messages.
however, library(mypkgname) still generates spiteful
Error in library(mypkgname) : 'mypkgname' is not a
valid package --
installed < 2.0.0?
So it is not packaged correctly, and thinks it has been installed
under R < 2.0.0.
Please check the DESCRIPTION file carefully and rebuild the package,
after that installating is should work.
Uwe Ligges
messages.
My apologies if answers to this kind of question have already been
posted. I have looked over the archived r-help threads for the last
couple of months.
Best
Anthony Westerling
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Re: [R] R-2.0.1 reinstall non-CRAN pkg
Yes. It is looking the correct directory. Note that the package is
installed without errors. The problem is that, even after being newly
reinstalled, it is still not recognized as a valid package for R-2.0
Tony
On Nov 26, 2004, at 9:08 PM, Liaw, Andy wrote:
Have you checked where R is looking for that package (.libPaths()
would tell
you), and whether that's where you've installed it?
HTH,
Andy
From: Anthony Westerling
I am trying to upgrade to R-2.0.1 from R-1.9 on a Mac running
OS X 10.3.
I have some simple packages I wrote myself that have to be
reinstalled
to be recognized as valid packages. I have been using them
for a while
on earlier versions of R, so didn't expect to have any problems.
I am probably going about this the wrong way? I simply used
R CMD build mypkgdir
and then
R CMD install mypkgdir.tar.gz
the package installs without any error messages.
however, library(mypkgname) still generates spiteful
Error in library(mypkgname) : 'mypkgname' is not a
valid package --
installed < 2.0.0?
messages.
My apologies if answers to this kind of question have already been
posted. I have looked over the archived r-help threads for the last
couple of months.
Best
Anthony Westerling
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[R] R-2.0.1 reinstall non-CRAN pkg
I am trying to upgrade to R-2.0.1 from R-1.9 on a Mac running OS X 10.3. I have some simple packages I wrote myself that have to be reinstalled to be recognized as valid packages. I have been using them for a while on earlier versions of R, so didn't expect to have any problems. I am probably going about this the wrong way? I simply used R CMD build mypkgdir and then R CMD install mypkgdir.tar.gz the package installs without any error messages. however, library(mypkgname) still generates spiteful Error in library(mypkgname) : 'mypkgname' is not a valid package -- installed < 2.0.0? messages. My apologies if answers to this kind of question have already been posted. I have looked over the archived r-help threads for the last couple of months. Best Anthony Westerling __ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-help PLEASE do read the posting guide! http://www.R-project.org/posting-guide.html
