[Rd] error message when running news()

2009-11-22 Thread Gabor Grothendieck
When running news() in I get this error message from print.news_db: news() Error: invalid version specification 2.0.12.0.1 patched2.1.02.1.12.1.1 patched2.10.02.10.0 patched2.2.02.2.12.2.1 patched2.3.02.3.12.3.1 patched2.4.02.4.12.4.1 patched2.5.02.5.12.5.1 patched2.6.02.6.12.6.22.6.2

Re: [Rd] error message when running news()

2009-11-22 Thread Duncan Murdoch
On 22/11/2009 7:34 AM, Gabor Grothendieck wrote: When running news() in I get this error message from print.news_db: news() Error: invalid version specification 2.0.12.0.1 patched2.1.02.1.12.1.1 patched2.10.02.10.0 patched2.2.02.2.12.2.1 patched2.3.02.3.12.3.1 patched2.4.02.4.12.4.1

Re: [Rd] Including local dynamic libraries

2009-11-22 Thread Elana Fertig
Thank you all so much! It seems that using dyn.load() fixes the problem. On Nov 20, 2009, at 8:16 PM, Simon Urbanek wrote: On Nov 20, 2009, at 3:07 PM, Romain Francois wrote: On 11/20/2009 08:43 PM, Elana Fertig wrote: Hi All, I am trying to install the package rjags into a local

Re: [Rd] error message when running news()

2009-11-22 Thread Kurt Hornik
Duncan Murdoch writes: On 22/11/2009 7:34 AM, Gabor Grothendieck wrote: When running news() in I get this error message from print.news_db: news() Error: invalid version specification 2.0.12.0.1 patched2.1.02.1.12.1.1 patched2.10.02.10.0 patched2.2.02.2.12.2.1 patched2.3.02.3.12.3.1

Re: [Rd] Surprising length() of POSIXlt vector (PR#14073)

2009-11-22 Thread Tony Plate
maech...@stat.math.ethz.ch wrote: PD == Peter Dalgaard p.dalga...@biostat.ku.dk on Fri, 20 Nov 2009 09:54:34 +0100 writes: PD m...@celos.net wrote: Arrays of POSIXlt dates always return a length of 9. This is correct (they're really lists of vectors of seconds,

[Rd] file_path_as_absolute duplicates / (PR#14078)

2009-11-22 Thread joehl
Full_Name: Jens Oehlschlägel Version: 2.10.0 OS: Windows XP Submission from: (NULL) (85.181.157.36) file_path_as_absolute duplicates / for files in the root path, which goes back to the fact that file.path(dirname(x), basename(x)) currently is not guaranteed to restore x x - d:/x.RDAta

[Rd] Dead link in Nile help documentation (PR#14079)

2009-11-22 Thread maarten . blaauw
When doing ?Nile, the url for the data source is dead. It says http://www.= ssfpack.com/dkbook/ but this has changed to=20 http://www.ssfpack.com/DKbook.html Version: platform =3D i386-redhat-linux-gnu arch =3D i386 os =3D linux-gnu system =3D i386, linux-gnu status =3D major =3D 2 minor

[Rd] CRAN Server download statistics (Was: R Usage Statistics)

2009-11-22 Thread Fellows, Ian
Hi All, It seems that the question of how may people use (or download) R, and it's packages is one that comes up on a fairly regular basis in a variety of forums (There was also recent thread on the subject on Stack Overflow). A couple of students at UCLA (including myself), wanted to address

Re: [Rd] CRAN Server download statistics (Was: R Usage Statistics)

2009-11-22 Thread Detlef Steuer
Hi! Nice work! But keep in mind, that for example the opensuse packages are no longer kept up to date on CRAN, but in openSUSE's Build Service. So the stats are biased towards windows and mac. It seems you only count binary downloads of contributed packages? Introduces some nice bias, too.