Re: [Rd] R on AIX?

2008-02-14 Thread Prof Brian Ripley
A few people have reported success on AIX 5.2, and their experiences are in the 'R Installation and Administration Manual'. At least one of those people has reported success on AIX 5.3 as well. Of course, we tend only to hear about failures. On Thu, 14 Feb 2008, Susan R. Atlas wrote: > Hi,

Re: [Rd] Small encoding question

2008-02-14 Thread Prof Brian Ripley
Have you set R_ENCODING_LOCALES? That's how you tell R what locale to use for latin1 and UTF-8 when checking. Details in R-exts.texi. As it works for me in 'C' on Leopard with R-devel without setting this, I can't reproduce the problem to check if setting works. For l10n_info, it is asking

Re: [Rd] Small encoding question

2008-02-14 Thread Simon Urbanek
I think I found the cause, but fixing it may be more complicated (other than a hot fix for this particular case). What it boils down to is that the code for .check_package_code_syntax is trying to change the locale in a manner that doesn't work. In addition to that, the output of l10n_info()

[Rd] Documentation in merge() in base package: mistake and fix (PR#10761)

2008-02-14 Thread roland . rau
Full_Name: Roland Rau Version: 2.6.0 OS: mingw32 Submission from: (NULL) (152.3.243.170) There is a minor problem in the documentation of the function merge in the base package. The corresponding file is .../src/library/base/man/merge.Rd ?merge states [...] all logical; all = L is shorthand for

Re: [Rd] number formsat

2008-02-14 Thread Simon Urbanek
Hill0093, On Feb 14, 2008, at 5:43 PM, hill0093 wrote: > PROBLEM ONE > In my way of using R in print and plots, > R severely ignores formatting requests for numbers. > E.g., >> n1=2008021323595999 >> n1 > [1] 2.008021e+15 >> print(n1,digits=16) > [1] 2008021323595999 >> print(n1,digits=18) > [1]

[Rd] number formsat

2008-02-14 Thread hill0093
PROBLEM ONE In my way of using R in print and plots, R severely ignores formatting requests for numbers. E.g., > n1=2008021323595999 > n1 [1] 2.008021e+15 > print(n1,digits=16) [1] 2008021323595999 > print(n1,digits=18) [1] 2008021323595999 > print(n1,digits=15) [1] 2008021323595999 The e+15 form

Re: [Rd] R on AIX?

2008-02-14 Thread Deepayan Sarkar
On 2/14/08, Susan R. Atlas <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi, >Last year our systems group tried to install R on an IBM > p5-570 machine (16 nodes, 256 GB shared RAM), running AIX 5.3. They > ran into all sorts of difficulties and finally gave up. >I am interested in trying again (and wor

Re: [Rd] 0.45<0.45 = TRUE (PR#10744)

2008-02-14 Thread Douglas Bates
In the "R Programming Style" thread on R-help Ronald Rau gave a list of aphorisms from "Elements of Programming Style" by Kernighan and Plauger. These include 10.0 times 0.1 is hardly ever 1.0 I think that should be included in FAQ 7.31 __ R-devel@r-p

[Rd] R on AIX?

2008-02-14 Thread Susan R. Atlas
Hi, Last year our systems group tried to install R on an IBM p5-570 machine (16 nodes, 256 GB shared RAM), running AIX 5.3. They ran into all sorts of difficulties and finally gave up. I am interested in trying again (and working with an IBM support group if necessary), but before embarking

Re: [Rd] Small encoding question

2008-02-14 Thread Prof Brian Ripley
On Thu, 14 Feb 2008, Simon Urbanek wrote: On Feb 14, 2008, at 2:45 PM, Kurt Hornik wrote: Vincent Goulet writes: Dear developeRs, Compilation of the latest version (0.9-5) of my actuar package fails with r-release MacOS_X ix86 on CRAN; see http://www.R-project.org/nosvn/R.check

Re: [Rd] Small encoding question

2008-02-14 Thread Simon Urbanek
On Feb 14, 2008, at 2:45 PM, Kurt Hornik wrote: >> Vincent Goulet writes: > >> Dear developeRs, >> Compilation of the latest version (0.9-5) of my actuar package fails >> with r-release MacOS_X ix86 on CRAN; see > >> >> http://www.R-project.org/nosvn/R.check/r-release-macosx-ix86/actuar

Re: [Rd] Small encoding question

2008-02-14 Thread Kurt Hornik
> Vincent Goulet writes: > Dear developeRs, > Compilation of the latest version (0.9-5) of my actuar package fails > with r-release MacOS_X ix86 on CRAN; see > > http://www.R-project.org/nosvn/R.check/r-release-macosx-ix86/actuar-00check.html > All errors come from accented letters

Re: [Rd] Vector binding on harddisk

2008-02-14 Thread Benilton Carvalho
also, take a look at the "ff" package. b On Feb 14, 2008, at 11:43 AM, Greg Snow wrote: You may want to look at the SQLiteDF package, this allows you to put your data into an SQLite database and treat that like a normal vector or data frame inside of R. Hope this helps, -- Gregory (Greg) L

[Rd] Vector binding on harddisk

2008-02-14 Thread cstrato
Dear Henrik Please allow me to add also my opinion: Databases may be the most straightforward way to expand, but in my opinion there is a better solution, which was developed for high energy physics, where people need to work with huge amounts of data including very large vectors. The solution

Re: [Rd] Vector binding on harddisk

2008-02-14 Thread Henrik Bengtsson
On Thu, Feb 14, 2008 at 8:18 AM, Duncan Murdoch <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On 2/14/2008 10:54 AM, Henrik Bengtsson wrote: > > On Thu, Feb 14, 2008 at 7:23 AM, Jeffrey Horner > > <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >> Paul Gilbert wrote on 02/14/2008 09:14 AM: > >> > >> > > >> > _ wrote: > >> >>

Re: [Rd] Vector binding on harddisk

2008-02-14 Thread Greg Snow
You may want to look at the SQLiteDF package, this allows you to put your data into an SQLite database and treat that like a normal vector or data frame inside of R. Hope this helps, -- Gregory (Greg) L. Snow Ph.D. Statistical Data Center Intermountain Healthcare [EMAIL PROTECTED] (801) 408-8111

[Rd] Small encoding question

2008-02-14 Thread Vincent Goulet
Dear developeRs, Compilation of the latest version (0.9-5) of my actuar package fails with r-release MacOS_X ix86 on CRAN; see http://www.R-project.org/nosvn/R.check/r-release-macosx-ix86/actuar-00check.html All errors come from accented letters in comments in latin-1 encoded files

Re: [Rd] Vector binding on harddisk

2008-02-14 Thread Duncan Murdoch
On 2/14/2008 10:54 AM, Henrik Bengtsson wrote: > On Thu, Feb 14, 2008 at 7:23 AM, Jeffrey Horner > <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> Paul Gilbert wrote on 02/14/2008 09:14 AM: >> >> > >> > _ wrote: >> >> Hi all, >> >> Using big vectors (more than 4GB) is unfortunately not possible under >> >> Windo

Re: [Rd] Vector binding on harddisk

2008-02-14 Thread Gabor Csardi
On Thu, Feb 14, 2008 at 07:54:38AM -0800, Henrik Bengtsson wrote: > On Thu, Feb 14, 2008 at 7:23 AM, Jeffrey Horner > <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Paul Gilbert wrote on 02/14/2008 09:14 AM: > > > > > > > > _ wrote: > > >> Hi all, > > >> Using big vectors (more than 4GB) is unfortunately not po

Re: [Rd] Vector binding on harddisk

2008-02-14 Thread Henrik Bengtsson
On Thu, Feb 14, 2008 at 7:23 AM, Jeffrey Horner <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Paul Gilbert wrote on 02/14/2008 09:14 AM: > > > > > _ wrote: > >> Hi all, > >> Using big vectors (more than 4GB) is unfortunately not possible under > >> Windows or other OS's if not enough RAM exists. > > > > This

Re: [Rd] Vector binding on harddisk

2008-02-14 Thread Simon Urbanek
On Feb 14, 2008, at 6:32 AM, _ wrote: > Hi all, > Using big vectors (more than 4GB) is unfortunately not possible under > Windows or other OS's if not enough RAM exists. > Could it be possible to implement an a new data type in R, like a > vector, but instead holding the information in memory, th

Re: [Rd] Vector binding on harddisk

2008-02-14 Thread Jeffrey Horner
Paul Gilbert wrote on 02/14/2008 09:14 AM: > > _ wrote: >> Hi all, >> Using big vectors (more than 4GB) is unfortunately not possible under >> Windows or other OS's if not enough RAM exists. > > This is NOT true. It is not limited by RAM, but rather by RAM and swap > space. With 500G hard disk

Re: [Rd] Vector binding on harddisk

2008-02-14 Thread Paul Gilbert
_ wrote: > Hi all, > Using big vectors (more than 4GB) is unfortunately not possible under > Windows or other OS's if not enough RAM exists. This is NOT true. It is not limited by RAM, but rather by RAM and swap space. With 500G hard disks at about $100, the more serious limitation is a 32bi

[Rd] reordering combn(n,p)

2008-02-14 Thread roger koenker
I found the following slightly surprising and thought that it might (eventually) be useful to someone to document it: Problem: I wanted to reorder the columns of the matrix produced by combn(n,p) so that adjacent columns only differed by one element. I assumed that this was a problem known to t

[Rd] Vector binding on harddisk

2008-02-14 Thread _
Hi all, Using big vectors (more than 4GB) is unfortunately not possible under Windows or other OS's if not enough RAM exists. Could it be possible to implement an a new data type in R, like a vector, but instead holding the information in memory, the data lies on an file. If data is accessed, th

[Rd] RGtk2 : Using GtkImage with GIF (PR#10757)

2008-02-14 Thread cyrix333
Full_Name: Hans Dieter Version: 2.6.1 OS: Windows Submission from: (NULL) (217.93.95.129) Hi, I build a GUI with RGtk2 and used an GtkImage to display pictures like jpegs and others. This works but if I load a gif-Image it's not animated. It show's only the first picture, in general an GtkImage c