Re: [Rd] suggested modification to the 'mle' documentation?

2007-12-07 Thread Peter Dalgaard
Luke Tierney wrote: [misc snippage] >> >> But I'd prefer to avoid the necessity for users to manipulate the >> environment of a function. I think the pattern >> >> model( f, data=d ) > > For working at the general likelihood I think is is better to > encourage the approach of definign likelihood

Re: [Rd] suggested modification to the 'mle' documentation?

2007-12-07 Thread Antonio, Fabio Di Narzo
2007/12/7, Ben Bolker <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- > Hash: SHA1 > > Luke Tierney wrote: > > On Fri, 7 Dec 2007, Duncan Murdoch wrote: > > > > > > > > For working at the general likelihood I think is is better to > > encourage the approach of definign likelihood construc

Re: [Rd] suggested modification to the 'mle' documentation?

2007-12-07 Thread Ben Bolker
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Luke Tierney wrote: > On Fri, 7 Dec 2007, Duncan Murdoch wrote: > > > > For working at the general likelihood I think is is better to > encourage the approach of definign likelihood constructor functions. > The problem with using f, data is that you

Re: [Rd] suggested modification to the 'mle' documentation?

2007-12-07 Thread Luke Tierney
On Fri, 7 Dec 2007, Duncan Murdoch wrote: > On 12/7/2007 8:10 AM, Peter Dalgaard wrote: >> Ben Bolker wrote: >>> At this point I'd just like to advertise the "bbmle" package >>> (on CRAN) for those who respectfully disagree, as I do, with Peter over >>> this issue. I have added a data= argument

[Rd] regression tests for unlink and wildcards fail - Solaris 10 SPARC / Sun Studio 12 (PR#10501)

2007-12-07 Thread brownjtb
Full_Name: Jim Brown Version: 2.6.0 / 2.6.1 OS: Solaris 10 (SPARC) Submission from: (NULL) (35.8.15.102) I have been able to successfully compile version 2.5.1 using the Sun Studio 12 compilers on Sun Solaris 10 (SPARC). All tests using "make check" pass with a status of OK. However, the follo

Re: [Rd] os x crash using rpanel and tcltk (PR#10495)

2007-12-07 Thread a . robotham
Here's the back trace i get after it crashes: Program received signal SIGTRAP, Trace/breakpoint trap. 0x90a61b09 in _objc_error () (gdb) bt #0 0x90a61b09 in _objc_error () #1 0x90a61b40 in __objc_error () #2 0x90a601a0 in _freedHandler () #3 0x93442c64 in -[NSDocument close] () #4 0x00015f0b

Re: [Rd] suggested modification to the 'mle' documentation?

2007-12-07 Thread Luke Tierney
On Fri, 7 Dec 2007, Duncan Murdoch wrote: > On 12/7/2007 8:10 AM, Peter Dalgaard wrote: >> Ben Bolker wrote: >>> At this point I'd just like to advertise the "bbmle" package >>> (on CRAN) for those who respectfully disagree, as I do, with Peter over >>> this issue. I have added a data= argument

Re: [Rd] suggested modification to the 'mle' documentation?

2007-12-07 Thread Luke Tierney
On Fri, 7 Dec 2007, Gabor Grothendieck wrote: On Dec 7, 2007 8:10 AM, Peter Dalgaard <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Ben Bolker wrote: At this point I'd just like to advertise the "bbmle" package (on CRAN) for those who respectfully disagree, as I do, with Peter over this issue. I have added a d

Re: [Rd] Building packages

2007-12-07 Thread hadley wickham
On 12/7/07, Barry Rowlingson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Gabor Grothendieck wrote: > > An svn checkout directory can contain a mix of files that > > are mirrored in the svn and not mirrored. In particular, if you > > add a new file into your checkout directory it will not automatically > > go int

Re: [Rd] (PR#10500) Bug#454678: followup

2007-12-07 Thread Dirk Eddelbuettel
On 7 December 2007 at 17:30, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: | [I was overlooked on the CC. Hopefully this message does not create a | new bug report.] [ That was my bad, but I did sent you a forwarded copy a few hours ago when I noticed this. ] | > Prof Brian Ripley wrote: | > I would say this was us

Re: [Rd] R-Cocoa Bridge

2007-12-07 Thread elw
>>> I had seen old posts on the list (circa 2002) regarding a Cocoa-R >>> bridge that was under development, but I can't find anything recent >>> about it. Does anyone know if this is available somewhere? If not, >>> does anyone have any experience/pointers calling R functions from >>> Cocoa?

Re: [Rd] Building packages

2007-12-07 Thread Barry Rowlingson
Oleg Sklyar wrote: > If I am not mistaken R CMD build builds the package temporarily and uses > that build to build the vignette, so where is the problem? All my > vignettes build fine on both Linux and Windows and on Windows you > actually see that running R CMD build --binary builds the source c

Re: [Rd] (PR#10500) Bug#454678: followup

2007-12-07 Thread goodrich
[I was overlooked on the CC. Hopefully this message does not create a new bug report.] > Prof Brian Ripley wrote: > I would say this was user error (insisting on editing non-existent > rownames), although the argument is documented. You could argue that > there are implicit rownames, but they wou

Re: [Rd] Building packages

2007-12-07 Thread Oleg Sklyar
These files in the SVN tree does not harm the things that are checked in. However it is indeed reasonable to keep the rubbish out, so: > I've started a new package and I'm trying to work out the best way to do > it. I'm managing my package source directory with SVN, but "R CMD build" > likes to

Re: [Rd] Building packages

2007-12-07 Thread Barry Rowlingson
Gabor Grothendieck wrote: > An svn checkout directory can contain a mix of files that > are mirrored in the svn and not mirrored. In particular, if you > add a new file into your checkout directory it will not automatically > go into the repository on your next commit unless you specifically > pla

Re: [Rd] Building packages

2007-12-07 Thread Gabor Grothendieck
An svn checkout directory can contain a mix of files that are mirrored in the svn and not mirrored. In particular, if you add a new file into your checkout directory it will not automatically go into the repository on your next commit unless you specifically place that file under svn control so ju

[Rd] Building packages

2007-12-07 Thread Barry Rowlingson
I've started a new package and I'm trying to work out the best way to do it. I'm managing my package source directory with SVN, but "R CMD build" likes to dump things in the inst/doc directory when making vignette PDF files. I don't want to keep these in SVN (they aren't strictly 'source'), so

Re: [Rd] R installer

2007-12-07 Thread Simon Urbanek
On Dec 4, 2007, at 9:11 PM, Hin-Tak Leung wrote: > Simon Urbanek wrote: > >> Because it *is* the gcc files? (Note the "/local" in the paths.) >> Full R comes with GNU Fortran 4.2.1, because Apple doesn't offer >> any Fortran compiler and most other Fortran compiler binaries for >> Mac OS X

Re: [Rd] suggested modification to the 'mle' documentation?

2007-12-07 Thread Ben Bolker
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Gabor Grothendieck wrote: > On Dec 7, 2007 8:43 AM, Duncan Murdoch <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> On 12/7/2007 8:10 AM, Peter Dalgaard wrote: >>> This is at least cleaner than abusing the "fixed" argument. Agreed. >>> As you know, >>> I have

Re: [Rd] Friday question: negative zero

2007-12-07 Thread Robin Hankin
Hello everyone On 1 Sep 2007, at 01:39, Duncan Murdoch wrote: > The IEEE floating point standard allows for negative zero, but it's > hard > to know that you have one in R. One reliable test is to take the > reciprocal. For example, > >> y <- 0 >> 1/y > [1] Inf >> y <- -y >> 1/y > [1] -Inf

Re: [Rd] [R] R CMD Build feature searches or requests

2007-12-07 Thread Prof Brian Ripley
This is clearly an R-devel topic, so I've moved it there. Please re-read the descriptions of the lists in the posting guide. On Thu, 6 Dec 2007,Johannes Graumann wrote: > Hello, > > I'm missing two features in "R CMD build": > 1) Easy building of Windows/zip packaged package version alongside the

Re: [Rd] suggested modification to the 'mle' documentation?

2007-12-07 Thread Gabor Grothendieck
On Dec 7, 2007 8:43 AM, Duncan Murdoch <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On 12/7/2007 8:10 AM, Peter Dalgaard wrote: > > Ben Bolker wrote: > >> At this point I'd just like to advertise the "bbmle" package > >> (on CRAN) for those who respectfully disagree, as I do, with Peter over > >> this issue. I

Re: [Rd] suggested modification to the 'mle' documentation?

2007-12-07 Thread Duncan Murdoch
On 12/7/2007 8:10 AM, Peter Dalgaard wrote: > Ben Bolker wrote: >> At this point I'd just like to advertise the "bbmle" package >> (on CRAN) for those who respectfully disagree, as I do, with Peter over >> this issue. I have added a data= argument to my version >> of the function that allows oth

Re: [Rd] suggested modification to the 'mle' documentation?

2007-12-07 Thread Gabor Grothendieck
On Dec 7, 2007 8:10 AM, Peter Dalgaard <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Ben Bolker wrote: > > At this point I'd just like to advertise the "bbmle" package > > (on CRAN) for those who respectfully disagree, as I do, with Peter over > > this issue. I have added a data= argument to my version > > of th

Re: [Rd] os x crash using rpanel and tcltk (PR#10495)

2007-12-07 Thread Aaron Robotham
The machine in question is a black MacBook, a pretty standard setup with the rest of the details as listed in my first post (R 2.6.1 OSX 10.4.11). I'll give the back trace a try and let you know the result. On 06/12/2007, Simon Urbanek <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > On Dec 6, 2007, at 9:26 AM, Aar

Re: [Rd] suggested modification to the 'mle' documentation?

2007-12-07 Thread Peter Dalgaard
Ben Bolker wrote: > At this point I'd just like to advertise the "bbmle" package > (on CRAN) for those who respectfully disagree, as I do, with Peter over > this issue. I have added a data= argument to my version > of the function that allows other variables to be passed > to the objective funct

Re: [Rd] (PR#10500) Bug#454678: r-base-core: Crash when calling

2007-12-07 Thread ripley
I would say this was user error (insisting on editing non-existent rownames), although the argument is documented. You could argue that there are implicit rownames, but they would be 1, 2 ... not row1, row2 And rownames(mat) is NULL. For an interactive function the best solution seems to