Re: [Rd] Inconsistency in as.data.frame.table for stringsAsFactors

2010-01-22 Thread Stavros Macrakis
Martin, I agree that global options settings that affect computations are problematic. But that's not the issue I was addressing. If for some classes, func.CLASS has certain defaults for some arguments, it is surprising that for other classes, it has different defaults, whether these defaults ar

Re: [Rd] R-2.10.1 : There is no make file. (PR#14192)

2010-01-22 Thread Dirk Eddelbuettel
On 22 January 2010 at 15:35, nachiket...@cox.net wrote: | Full_Name: N. Srinivasan | Version: R-2.10.1 | OS: Ubuntu 9.10, 64 bits | Submission from: (NULL) (68.110.238.141) | | ,/configure runs fine. | | But there is no make file mentioned in the INSTALL file. Please specifiy your question more

Re: [Rd] R-2.10.1 : There is no make file. (PR#14192)

2010-01-22 Thread Joshua Ulrich
On Fri, Jan 22, 2010 at 8:35 AM, wrote: > Full_Name: N. Srinivasan > Version: R-2.10.1 > OS: Ubuntu 9.10, 64 bits > Submission from: (NULL) (68.110.238.141) > > > ,/configure runs fine. > > But there is no make file mentioned in the INSTALL file. > > Usually this kind of information is provided i

Re: [Rd] R-2.10.1 : There is no make file. (PR#14192)

2010-01-22 Thread Ribatet Mathieu
If you follow this link http://stat.ethz.ch/CRAN/ and choose linux then you'll get all the information you asked for. Best, Mathieu Le 22 janv. 2010 à 15:35, a écrit : > Full_Name: N. Srinivasan > Version: R-2.10.1 > OS: Ubuntu 9.10, 64 bits > Submission from: (NULL) (68.110.238.141) > > >

[Rd] R-2.10.1 : There is no make file. (PR#14192)

2010-01-22 Thread nachikethas
Full_Name: N. Srinivasan Version: R-2.10.1 OS: Ubuntu 9.10, 64 bits Submission from: (NULL) (68.110.238.141) ,/configure runs fine. But there is no make file mentioned in the INSTALL file. Usually this kind of information is provided in the README file. I am a donor to the R Foundation. Ubunt

Re: [Rd] R CMD check error with the GNU Scientific Library

2010-01-22 Thread pleydell
You'll need something like : PKG_LIBS=-lgsl -lgslcblas in your Makevars. This is from package gsl (on CRAN). Of course! That makes sense 'cause I was already compiling using MAKEFLAGS="CFLAGS=-g -O0" R CMD SHLIB sharka.c -lgsl -lgslcblas and including the above line in Makevars has done the

Re: [Rd] Inconsistency in as.data.frame.table for stringsAsFactors

2010-01-22 Thread S Ellison
>> Some of us (including me) have strongly argued on several >> occasions that global options() settings should *not* have an effect >> on anything "computing" ... > ... Global options are less of a problem where a function allows them to be overridden by the user or programmer. If something is

Re: [Rd] Inconsistency in as.data.frame.table for stringsAsFactors

2010-01-22 Thread hadley wickham
>> Some of us (including me) have strongly argued on several >> occasions that  global options() settings should *not* have an effect >> on anything "computing" but just on "output" >> i.e. printing/graphing of R results. >> As it is currently, potentially R scripts and R functions may >> only work

Re: [Rd] Inconsistency in as.data.frame.table for stringsAsFactors

2010-01-22 Thread hadley wickham
On Fri, Jan 22, 2010 at 2:17 AM, Martin Maechler wrote: >> "SM" == Stavros Macrakis >>     on Thu, 21 Jan 2010 20:19:28 -0500 writes: > >    SM> I noticed that in as.data.frame.table, the stringsAsFactors argument >    SM> defaults to TRUE, whereas in the other as.data.frame methods, it

Re: [Rd] R CMD check error with the GNU Scientific Library

2010-01-22 Thread Romain Francois
Hi, You'll need something like : PKG_LIBS=-lgsl -lgslcblas in your Makevars. This is from package gsl (on CRAN). Or maybe you can just depend on the gsl package and let it worry about finding where gsl is, etc ... Romain On 01/22/2010 10:59 AM, pleyd...@supagro.inra.fr wrote: I have bee

Re: [Rd] R CMD check error with the GNU Scientific Library

2010-01-22 Thread Uwe Ligges
Maybe you want to check out the R package gsl and take a look how it is solved there using a configure script that looks up the gsl installation. Best wishes, Uwe On 22.01.2010 10:59, pleyd...@supagro.inra.fr wrote: I have been working on an R package that calls C code using .C(). I recently

[Rd] R CMD check error with the GNU Scientific Library

2010-01-22 Thread pleydell
I have been working on an R package that calls C code using .C(). I recently started including some functions from the GNU Scientific Library in my code. The code runs fine on my machine when not wrapped in the package. But I get the following error from "R CMD check" * checking whether the packag

Re: [Rd] Inconsistency in as.data.frame.table for stringsAsFactors

2010-01-22 Thread Martin Maechler
> "SM" == Stavros Macrakis > on Thu, 21 Jan 2010 20:19:28 -0500 writes: SM> I noticed that in as.data.frame.table, the stringsAsFactors argument SM> defaults to TRUE, whereas in the other as.data.frame methods, it defaults to SM> default.stringsAsFactors(). SM> The d

[Rd] arima with multiplicative season

2010-01-22 Thread stephenb
To: developers working on arima is there a relatively easy way to achieve true multiplicative seasonal effect and does multiplicative SMA make sense? some books refer to the seasonal arima as multiplicative, because of the multiplicative effect wrt to the ARMA spec: (1-Bs)(1-aB)y = (1+bB)e how