Re: [Rd] looks in liblapack.a not liblapack.so

2005-09-20 Thread Luke Tierney
On Tue, 20 Sep 2005, Charles Geyer wrote: > On Mon, Sep 19, 2005 at 10:44:00AM +0200, Martyn Plummer wrote: >> On Sat, 2005-09-17 at 17:19 -0500, Charles Geyer wrote: >>> I can't compile R-alpha on AMD 64 ... >> >> You would need to modify the LDFLAGS and CPPFLAGS environment variables, >> as thes

Re: [Rd] looks in liblapack.a not liblapack.so

2005-09-20 Thread Charles Geyer
On Mon, Sep 19, 2005 at 10:44:00AM +0200, Martyn Plummer wrote: > On Sat, 2005-09-17 at 17:19 -0500, Charles Geyer wrote: > > I can't compile R-alpha on AMD 64 ... > > You would need to modify the LDFLAGS and CPPFLAGS environment variables, > as these default to -L/usr/local/lib and -I/usr/local/i

Re: [Rd] coplot using Date object (PR#8147)

2005-09-20 Thread Prof Brian Ripley
On Tue, 20 Sep 2005 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Full_Name: Michael Toews > Version: 2.1.1 > OS: WinXP (SP2) > Submission from: (NULL) (142.58.206.114) > > > This is a simple feature request concerning the display of the axis in the > coplot function. > Consider an arbritrary set of values from 1990

[Rd] coplot using Date object (PR#8147)

2005-09-20 Thread mwtoews
Full_Name: Michael Toews Version: 2.1.1 OS: WinXP (SP2) Submission from: (NULL) (142.58.206.114) This is a simple feature request concerning the display of the axis in the coplot function. Consider an arbritrary set of values from 1990-1999: date <- as.Date(paste(rep(1990:1999,each=365),1:365),"

Re: [Rd] Shy Suggestion?

2005-09-20 Thread Kurt Hornik
> Roger D Peng writes: > I think the reason is that the standard for 'R CMD check' is that > examples in help pages are guaranteed to be executable by the user (as > long as the requirements are met). There is no way to guarantee this > without having the packages installed. So strictly spea

Re: [Rd] indicating progress in RGui from a c function

2005-09-20 Thread Seth Falcon
On 20 Sep 2005, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > I'd like to indicate progress of a calculation from within a C > shared library to the R GUI. The apparent function call is > flush.console() after RPrintf, but it isn't clear to me what the > easiest way to do this is. Would it be possible to add a flag

Re: [Rd] indicating progress in RGui from a c function

2005-09-20 Thread Prof Brian Ripley
On Tue, 20 Sep 2005, Chris Paulse wrote: > I'm sure this issue has come up before, but searching the archives didn't > lead me to a solution or resolution of the issue. It is documented in the rw-FAQ: Q8.8 in the R-2.2.0-alpha version. > I'd like to indicate progress of a calculation from within

[Rd] indicating progress in RGui from a c function

2005-09-20 Thread Chris Paulse
Hi, I'm sure this issue has come up before, but searching the archives didn't lead me to a solution or resolution of the issue. I'd like to indicate progress of a calculation from within a C shared library to the R GUI. The apparent function call is flush.console() after RPrintf, but it isn't

Re: [Rd] looks in liblapack.a not liblapack.so

2005-09-20 Thread José Matos
Martyn Plummer wrote: > Fedora have just split off a separate lapack-devel package containing > the static library and the symlink liblapack.so. (Mandrake/Mandriva has > been doing this for some time. I don't know about SuSE). The up2date > service will recognize that it needs to update lapack,

Re: [Rd] Shy Suggestion?

2005-09-20 Thread Paul Gilbert
Seth Falcon wrote: >On 20 Sep 2005, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > >>As I said above, and will try to emphasize, I really do not want R >>CMD check to do any checking of Uses (unless asked to do >>so). Developers that use Uses need to make sure that their package >>works and passes R CMD check whe

Re: [Rd] Shy Suggestion?

2005-09-20 Thread Seth Falcon
On 20 Sep 2005, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > As I said above, and will try to emphasize, I really do not want R > CMD check to do any checking of Uses (unless asked to do > so). Developers that use Uses need to make sure that their package > works and passes R CMD check whether the package is there o

Re: [Rd] Shy Suggestion?

2005-09-20 Thread Robert Gentleman
Prof Brian Ripley wrote: > On Tue, 20 Sep 2005, Jari Oksanen wrote: > > >>On Tue, 2005-09-20 at 09:42 -0400, Roger D. Peng wrote: >> >>>I think this needs to fail because packages listed in 'Suggests:' may, for >>>example, be needed in the examples. How can 'R CMD check' run the examples >>>a

Re: [Rd] Shy Suggestion?

2005-09-20 Thread Achim Zeileis
On Tue, 20 Sep 2005, Jari Oksanen wrote: > On Tue, 2005-09-20 at 09:42 -0400, Roger D. Peng wrote: > > I think this needs to fail because packages listed in 'Suggests:' may, for > > example, be needed in the examples. How can 'R CMD check' run the examples > > and > > verify that they are execut

Re: [Rd] Shy Suggestion?

2005-09-20 Thread Gabor Grothendieck
On 9/20/05, Jari Oksanen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Tue, 2005-09-20 at 09:42 -0400, Roger D. Peng wrote: > > I think this needs to fail because packages listed in 'Suggests:' may, for > > example, be needed in the examples. How can 'R CMD check' run the examples > > and > > verify that they

Re: [Rd] Shy Suggestion?

2005-09-20 Thread Roger D. Peng
I think the reason is that the standard for 'R CMD check' is that examples in help pages are guaranteed to be executable by the user (as long as the requirements are met). There is no way to guarantee this without having the packages installed. So strictly speaking, the 'Suggested' packages ar

Re: [Rd] Shy Suggestion?

2005-09-20 Thread Prof Brian Ripley
On Tue, 20 Sep 2005, Jari Oksanen wrote: > On Tue, 2005-09-20 at 09:42 -0400, Roger D. Peng wrote: >> I think this needs to fail because packages listed in 'Suggests:' may, for >> example, be needed in the examples. How can 'R CMD check' run the examples >> and >> verify that they are executable

Re: [Rd] Shy Suggestion?

2005-09-20 Thread Jari Oksanen
On Tue, 2005-09-20 at 09:42 -0400, Roger D. Peng wrote: > I think this needs to fail because packages listed in 'Suggests:' may, for > example, be needed in the examples. How can 'R CMD check' run the examples > and > verify that they are executable if those packages are not available? I > su

Re: [Rd] Shy Suggestion?

2005-09-20 Thread Roger D. Peng
I think this needs to fail because packages listed in 'Suggests:' may, for example, be needed in the examples. How can 'R CMD check' run the examples and verify that they are executable if those packages are not available? I suppose you could put the examples in a \dontrun{}. -roger Jari Oks

Re: [Rd] as.data.frame segfaults on large lists (PR#8141)

2005-09-20 Thread tlumley
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Re: [Rd] as.data.frame segfaults on large lists (PR#8141)

2005-09-20 Thread Thomas Lumley
Under Valgrind on x86_64 I get ==27405== Access not within mapped region at address 0x33FFEFD8 ==27405==at 0x447045: Rf_substituteList (coerce.c:2003) ==27405== Stack overflow in thread 1: can't grow stack to 0x33FFEF98 -thomas On Sun, 18 Sep 2005, Peter Dalgaard wrote: [EMAIL P

[Rd] Shy Suggestion?

2005-09-20 Thread Jari Oksanen
The R-exts manual says about 'Suggests' field in package DESCRIPTION: "The optional `Suggests' field uses the same syntax as `Depends' and lists packages that are not necessarily needed." However, this seems to be a suggestion you cannot refuse. If you suggest packages: (a line from DESCRIPTION)

Re: [Rd] configuration and installation of R packages with C/C++ library dependencies.

2005-09-20 Thread Prof Brian Ripley
On Tue, 20 Sep 2005, Witold Eryk Wolski wrote: Please ask R development questions on the R list and not cross-post. > Dear R-developers, Bioc-developers, > > I am working on an R package which provides a R binding to a C library, which > again depends on two other "non-standard" C++ libraries. >

[Rd] configuration and installation of R packages with C/C++ library dependencies.

2005-09-20 Thread Witold Eryk Wolski
Dear R-developers, Bioc-developers, I am working on an R package which provides a R binding to a C library, which again depends on two other "non-standard" C++ libraries. I have this libraries installed on my box of course and I specified the library location in the Makevars file. However I t

Re: [Rd] (PR#8144) Error report upon using the help.search( ) command

2005-09-20 Thread Prof Brian Ripley
Please do not send a bug report on an obselete version of R. 2.1.1 is current and 2.2.0 is in alpha-testing. (This is covered in the posting guide and the FAQ.) It has been the case that a broken package DESCRIPTION could cause this, but as the comment on PR#8144 says, that has already been

Re: [Rd] Error report upon using the help.search( ) command (PR#8144)

2005-09-20 Thread maechler
> "paltr" == paltr <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > on Tue, 20 Sep 2005 11:24:18 +0200 (CEST) writes: paltr> Full_Name: Pål Trosvik Version: 2.0.1 paltr> OS: Windows XP Submission from: (NULL) (129.240.91.220) paltr> Upon entering the command: help.search("linear") paltr> I g

[Rd] Error report upon using the help.search( ) command (PR#8144)

2005-09-20 Thread paltr
Full_Name: Pål Trosvik Version: 2.0.1 OS: Windows XP Submission from: (NULL) (129.240.91.220) Hi Upon entering the command: help.search("linear") .I get the following error report: Error in rbind(...) : number of columns of matrices must match (see arg 8) I get the same error message whichever