Re: [Rd] How to execute R scripts simultaneously from multiple threads

2007-01-08 Thread Hin-Tak Leung
Erik van Zijst wrote: Vladimir Dergachev wrote: snipped At some point (years ago) there was even an argument on some mailiing list (xfree86-devel ?) about whether Xserver should support shared memory as unix socket was fast enough - with the other side arguing that when you pass megabyte

Re: [Rd] (PR#9437) pb in regular expression with the character -

2007-01-08 Thread Hin-Tak Leung
May I chip in at this point - I agree the bug report was invalid, but many of the replies were missing the point, as far as I see. It wasn't the backslash escape that Fan is *mainly* confused about (which he obviously is...), but the uses of the different brackets: [] ,() . He/She was expecting

Re: [Rd] Wish list

2007-01-08 Thread Martin Maechler
Duncan == Duncan Murdoch [EMAIL PROTECTED] on Sat, 06 Jan 2007 19:45:31 -0500 writes: Duncan On 1/1/2007 1:28 AM, Gabor Grothendieck wrote: 7. documentation standards for packages - NEWS/ChangeLog (also should be accessible from CRAN page for package and should be

Re: [Rd] Wish list

2007-01-08 Thread Gabor Grothendieck
On 1/8/07, Martin Maechler [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Duncan == Duncan Murdoch [EMAIL PROTECTED] on Sat, 06 Jan 2007 19:45:31 -0500 writes: Duncan On 1/1/2007 1:28 AM, Gabor Grothendieck wrote: 7. documentation standards for packages - NEWS/ChangeLog (also should be accessible

[Rd] can't compile on OSX: unsetenv header issues

2007-01-08 Thread Seth Falcon
Hi, A recent change has R failing to compile (for me) on ppc OSX 10.4.8 like this: ../../../../R-devel/src/main/datetime.c: In function `reset_tz': ../../../../R-devel/src/main/datetime.c:511: error: void value not ignored as it ought to be I suspect there is some sort of configure magic that

Re: [Rd] Wish list

2007-01-08 Thread Gabor Grothendieck
On 1/8/07, Gabor Grothendieck [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On 1/8/07, Martin Maechler [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Duncan == Duncan Murdoch [EMAIL PROTECTED] on Sat, 06 Jan 2007 19:45:31 -0500 writes: Duncan On 1/1/2007 1:28 AM, Gabor Grothendieck wrote: 7. documentation standards

[Rd] klin: a package for solving linear equations with Kronecker structure

2007-01-08 Thread Tamas K Papp
Hi, I decided to package some functions I wrote. klin is a package that implements efficient ways to evaluate and solve equations of the form Ax=b, where A is a kronecker product of matrices. Functions to solve least squares problems of this type are also included. The exact algorithm used was

Re: [Rd] can't compile on OSX: unsetenv header issues

2007-01-08 Thread Prof Brian Ripley
On Mon, 8 Jan 2007, Seth Falcon wrote: Hi, A recent change has R failing to compile (for me) on ppc OSX 10.4.8 like this: ../../../../R-devel/src/main/datetime.c: In function `reset_tz': ../../../../R-devel/src/main/datetime.c:511: error: void value not ignored as it ought to be I

Re: [Rd] How to execute R scripts simultaneously from multiple threads

2007-01-08 Thread Vladimir Dergachev
On Monday 08 January 2007 6:36 am, Hin-Tak Leung wrote: Erik van Zijst wrote: Vladimir Dergachev wrote: snipped At some point (years ago) there was even an argument on some mailiing list (xfree86-devel ?) about whether Xserver should support shared memory as unix socket was fast enough

[Rd] undocumented name mangling during unlist?

2007-01-08 Thread Seth Falcon
The documentation for unlist says: By default, 'unlist' tries to retain the naming information present in 'x'. If 'use.names = FALSE' all naming information is dropped. Hence, I find it odd that I see the following: b - list(highway1=1:5) unlist(b) highway11

Re: [Rd] Scoping issues

2007-01-08 Thread Chris Eisley
Hello Prof Ripley, Prof Brian Ripley wrote: I don't undersand what the issues are, but he actually said These files make up a package, and all the source files on an R packages are concatenated and loaded into a single environment. So my understanding of the answer to I assume

Re: [Rd] Scoping issues

2007-01-08 Thread Gabor Grothendieck
On 1/8/07, Chris Eisley [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hello Prof Ripley, Prof Brian Ripley wrote: I don't undersand what the issues are, but he actually said These files make up a package, and all the source files on an R packages are concatenated and loaded into a single environment.

Re: [Rd] can't compile on OSX: unsetenv header issues

2007-01-08 Thread Simon Urbanek
Thanks, Seth, it's now fixed in R-devel. Cheers, Simon On Jan 8, 2007, at 10:54 AM, Seth Falcon wrote: Hi, A recent change has R failing to compile (for me) on ppc OSX 10.4.8 like this: ../../../../R-devel/src/main/datetime.c: In function `reset_tz':