Re: [Rd] symbols function -- possible enhancements

2006-01-18 Thread Martin Maechler
Hi Jean, now that you've been told `the truth' .. : If you'd like to carefully look at symbols() and its help page and see which arguments ('axes' but maybe more) would be useful to pass to plot.default and if you provide enhanced versions of the two files

Re: [Rd] Section 7.1 HML documentation (PR#8484)

2006-01-18 Thread Hin-Tak Leung
Greg Kochanski wrote: Well, I don't know how it can be precise and correct when it has dangling antecedents. Gramatically speaking, that's the equivalent of an uninitialized pointer. I don't think there is anything dangling there. What the paragraph assumes (and quite patently wrongly) is

[Rd] phyper returns 1 if x==k (PR#8499)

2006-01-18 Thread utz . pape
Full_Name: Utz J. Pape Version: 2.2.0 OS: linux Submission from: (NULL) (141.14.23.12) If I use phyper and set parameter x equal to k (meaning that all balls I draw are white) phyper returns 1 which is not (always) correct: [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~ R2.2.0 --vanilla R : Copyright 2005, The R

Re: [Rd] Section 7.1 HML documentation (PR#8484)

2006-01-18 Thread Greg Kochanski
Well, you make two very strong assumptions. First, that your readers start in the beginning and read to the end. Second, that your readers are sufficiently dedicated to learn your terminology. The first is false: I got to that page via Google. The second is only true in varying degrees, and I

Re: [Rd] Section 7.1 HML documentation (PR#8484)

2006-01-18 Thread greg . kochanski
Well, you make two very strong assumptions. First, that your readers start in the beginning and read to the end. Second, that your readers are sufficiently dedicated to learn your terminology. The first is false: I got to that page via Google. The second is only true in varying degrees, and I

[Rd] Minumum memory requirements to run R.

2006-01-18 Thread Prof Brian Ripley
Quite a while back we set the goal of running R in 16Mb RAM, as people (I think Kjetil) had teaching labs that small. Since then R has grown, and we has recently started to optimize R for speed rather than size. I recently tested R-devel on my ancient Win98 notebook with 64Mb RAM -- it ran

[Rd] Loading of namespace on load of .Rdata (was strange behaviour of load)

2006-01-18 Thread Heather Turner
Last week Giovanni Parrinello posted a message asking why various packages were loaded when he loaded an .Rdata file. Brian Ripley replied saying he thought it was because the saved workspace contained a reference to the namespace of ipred. (Correspondence copied below). This begs the

Re: [Rd] Loading of namespace on load of .Rdata (was strange behaviour of load)

2006-01-18 Thread Prof Brian Ripley
On Wed, 18 Jan 2006, Heather Turner wrote: [Lines wrapped for legibility and R-help removed as it is not an appropriate list.] Last week Giovanni Parrinello posted a message asking why various packages were loaded when he loaded an .Rdata file. Brian Ripley replied saying he thought it was

[Rd] standard install on OS 10.3.9 crashes on start without useful diagnostics (PR#8500)

2006-01-18 Thread donahue
Full_Name: Bob Donahue Version: 2.2 OS: Mac OS 10.3.9 Submission from: (NULL) (204.152.13.26) That's pretty much it. I did the most basic install possible, tried running the package through the GUI and on the command line, it crashed hard, immediately, with absolutely NO useful information as

Re: [Rd] symbols function -- possible enhancements

2006-01-18 Thread Prof Brian Ripley
On Wed, 18 Jan 2006, Martin Maechler wrote: Hi Jean, now that you've been told `the truth' .. : If you'd like to carefully look at symbols() and its help page and see which arguments ('axes' but maybe more) would be useful to pass to plot.default and if you provide enhanced versions of

Re: [Rd] (PR#8500) standard install on OS 10.3.9 crashes on start without useful diagnostics (PR#8500)

2006-01-18 Thread Thomas Lumley
This won't actually help you at all, but I used the standard install on OS 10.3.9 (Powerbook G4) just last week without any problems. On the other hand, my install was on a machine that had previously had other versions of R. -thomas On Wed, 18 Jan 2006, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:

[Rd] Suboptimal EPS output (PR#8502)

2006-01-18 Thread mike . prager
Full_Name: Mike Prager Version: 2.2.1 OS: Windows XP with SP2 Submission from: (NULL) (205.156.36.17) When several EPS files are made with one invocation of postscript(), only the first displays correctly in gsview. Examination of the generated eps files with a diff utility reveals that

Re: [Rd] data.matrix returns mode logical for zero rows (PR#8496)

2006-01-18 Thread ripley
On Tue, 17 Jan 2006 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Full_Name: Jonathan Swinton Version: 2.2.1 OS: Windows Submission from: (NULL) (193.132.159.169) #The first line of description for data.matrix says that it will # 'Return the matrix obtained by converting all the variables in a #data

[Rd] StatLib mirror now OK

2006-01-18 Thread Friedrich . Leisch
Pantelis Vlachos (the StatLib admin) and I figured out what the problems with the CRAN mirror on StatLib were and he seems to have fixed all problems in the mirroring process. Please let us know if you still observe problems with the StatLib mirror. Best, --