Re: [Rd] Using svSocket with data.table

2009-08-06 Thread Matthew Dowle
Hi Olaf, Thanks for your feedback, much appreciated. > Don't be fooled. R does not handle multiple requests in parallel > internally. I wasn't fooled, but I've added some annotations to the video at the place I might have given the impression I was (at 4min 39sec). Later, at 5min30sec I did alr

Re: [Rd] [R] Repeatable, But Time Varying R GUI Crash (PR#13880)

2009-08-06 Thread Duncan Murdoch
William Dunlap wrote: The following change to src/main/saveload.c seems to fix the problem. (I think problem2() has gotten past the place where valgrind first complained, but it will be quite a while before it is done.) It just protects 'ans' before 'names' is allocated instead of afterwards.

Re: [Rd] [R] Repeatable, But Time Varying R GUI Crash (PR#13880)

2009-08-06 Thread William Dunlap
The following change to src/main/saveload.c seems to fix the problem. (I think problem2() has gotten past the place where valgrind first complained, but it will be quite a while before it is done.) It just protects 'ans' before 'names' is allocated instead of afterwards.

Re: [Rd] [R] Repeatable, But Time Varying R GUI Crash (PR#13880)

2009-08-06 Thread William Dunlap
> -Original Message- > From: r-devel-boun...@r-project.org > [mailto:r-devel-boun...@r-project.org] On Behalf Of > murd...@stats.uwo.ca > Sent: Thursday, August 06, 2009 1:45 PM > To: r-de...@stat.math.ethz.ch > Cc: r-b...@r-project.org > Subject: Re: [Rd] [R] Repeatable, But Time Varying

Re: [Rd] [R] Repeatable, But Time Varying R GUI Crash (PR#13880)

2009-08-06 Thread murdoch
On 8/6/2009 4:11 PM, Marilyn & Rich Short wrote: > Hello, > > I'm having a problem in R. The R GUI is crashing with a message to > contact Microsoft for the solution. I've contacted Microsoft and they > are of no help. Below is a distilled set of code that will cause the > crash. As you will se

[Rd] About numerical accuracy: should there be a rational number class for fractions?

2009-08-06 Thread Paul Johnson
Hello, useRs. I was monitoring the recent thread about the numerical (in)accuracy of the C pow function and the apparent mismatch between R and matlab. That particular problem has been addressed, but it seems there are many others awaiting. I'm wondering if there is advice for package writers & p

Re: [Rd] Inaccurate complex arithmetic of R (Matlab is accurate)

2009-08-06 Thread Ravi Varadhan
Dear All, I just tested the complex-step derivative method on the latest windows binary version: R 2.10.0 pre-release. The complex-step derivatives are "exact" to within machine epsilon, with very little additional computational effort compared to the simple, first-order forward difference scheme

Re: [Rd] Section 1.3.1 of R-Ext Documentation lists tests/Examples/pkg-Rex-Rout.save incorrectly (PR#13877)

2009-08-06 Thread Prof Brian Ripley
Same as 13876! On Thu, 6 Aug 2009, ar...@cantab.net wrote: Full_Name: Andrew Thornton Version: Webpage OS: Linux Submission from: (NULL) (81.154.9.63) The Writing R Extensions documentation at: http://cran.r-project.org/doc/manuals/R-exts.html lists two different filenames for making the ex

Re: [Rd] Inconsistent documentation in Writing R Extensions (PR#13878)

2009-08-06 Thread ripley
On Thu, 6 Aug 2009, brandon.j.whitc...@gsk.com wrote: > Greetings, > > I think there is an inconsistency in the Writing R Extensions document. > Please let me know if I am right or wrong on this one. > > Working from the PDF document (R-exts-2.9.1.pdf) > > - page 9 states that the file -Ex.Rout.s

Re: [Rd] Inconsistent documentation in Writing R Extensions (PR#13876)

2009-08-06 Thread Prof Brian Ripley
On Thu, 6 Aug 2009, brandon.j.whitc...@gsk.com wrote: Greetings, I think there is an inconsistency in the Writing R Extensions document. Please let me know if I am right or wrong on this one. Working from the PDF document (R-exts-2.9.1.pdf) - page 9 states that the file -Ex.Rout.save should

[Rd] Inconsistent documentation in Writing R Extensions (PR#13876)

2009-08-06 Thread Brandon . J . Whitcher
Greetings, I think there is an inconsistency in the Writing R Extensions document. Please let me know if I am right or wrong on this one. Working from the PDF document (R-exts-2.9.1.pdf) - page 9 states that the file -Ex.Rout.save should be placed in tests/Examples in order to check against

[Rd] Section 1.3.1 of R-Ext Documentation lists tests/Examples/pkg-Rex-Rout.save incorrectly (PR#13877)

2009-08-06 Thread art27
Full_Name: Andrew Thornton Version: Webpage OS: Linux Submission from: (NULL) (81.154.9.63) The Writing R Extensions documentation at: http://cran.r-project.org/doc/manuals/R-exts.html lists two different filenames for making the example's Rout.save a test result. Section 1.1.3 says: "If test

[Rd] tk_choose.filesn () (tcltk) intolerant of whitespace (PR#13875)

2009-08-06 Thread derek . eder
Full_Name: Derek Eder Version: 2.9.1 OS: x86_64-pc-linux-gnu Submission from: (NULL) (130.241.91.3) Function "tk_choose.files" (tcltk) is intolerant of filenames which contain whitespace. In that case, the return value is character vector of whitespace separated chunks. See example below. Than