Re: [Rd] R logo as SVG ?

2010-03-01 Thread Peter Dalgaard
Peter Dalgaard wrote: Jens Elkner wrote: On Sat, Feb 27, 2010 at 08:23:17PM +0100, baptiste auguie wrote: You got the first two letters right, but it's actually *Barry*'s work! Oh - sorry, Barry!!! BTW: screenshots I made from my desktop are available via http://iws.cs.uni-magdeburg.de/~elk

Re: [Rd] R logo as SVG ?

2010-03-01 Thread Peter Dalgaard
Jens Elkner wrote: On Sat, Feb 27, 2010 at 08:23:17PM +0100, baptiste auguie wrote: You got the first two letters right, but it's actually *Barry*'s work! Oh - sorry, Barry!!! BTW: screenshots I made from my desktop are available via http://iws.cs.uni-magdeburg.de/~elkner/r/ OT: Incl. the

Re: [Rd] Have another apparent version skew

2010-03-01 Thread Uwe Ligges
On 01.03.2010 01:02, Jan Theodore Galkowski wrote: The package "sm" was obtained twice, one using R's built-in updating of packages, the second directly. In both cases the USA-NC CRAN mirror was used. In both cases, loading the package under R 2.10.1 for Windows resulted in a 'package obsolet

Re: [Rd] R logo as SVG ?

2010-03-01 Thread Jens Elkner
On Sat, Feb 27, 2010 at 08:23:17PM +0100, baptiste auguie wrote: > You got the first two letters right, but it's actually *Barry*'s work! Oh - sorry, Barry!!! BTW: screenshots I made from my desktop are available via http://iws.cs.uni-magdeburg.de/~elkner/r/ OT: Incl. the iconv patch I used fo

Re: [Rd] ICONV error installing R-2.10.1 on HP-UX B.11.23 U ia64

2010-03-01 Thread Prof Brian Ripley
On Mon, 1 Mar 2010, Alex Bryant wrote: Hi, I have the following error during the ./configure phase checking iconv.h usability... yes checking iconv.h presence... yes checking for iconv.h... yes checking for iconv... in libiconv checking whether iconv accepts "UTF-8", "latin1" and "UCS-*"... no

Re: [Rd] Idea for install.packages on (certain) linux distributions

2010-03-01 Thread Uwe Ligges
On 01.03.2010 16:33, Carlos J. Gil Bellosta wrote: Hello, I do not know whether this idea would be considered useful or not. Or easy to implement. But it is the case that on certain Linux distributions there are OS packages with precompiled R packages. However, install.packages (and related f

[Rd] ICONV error installing R-2.10.1 on HP-UX B.11.23 U ia64

2010-03-01 Thread Alex Bryant
Hi, I have the following error during the ./configure phase checking iconv.h usability... yes checking iconv.h presence... yes checking for iconv.h... yes checking for iconv... in libiconv checking whether iconv accepts "UTF-8", "latin1" and "UCS-*"... no configure: error: a suitable iconv is esse

[Rd] Idea for install.packages on (certain) linux distributions

2010-03-01 Thread Carlos J. Gil Bellosta
Hello, I do not know whether this idea would be considered useful or not. Or easy to implement. But it is the case that on certain Linux distributions there are OS packages with precompiled R packages. However, install.packages (and related functions) download the source ones. Would it be

[Rd] Have another apparent version skew

2010-03-01 Thread Jan Theodore Galkowski
The package "sm" was obtained twice, one using R's built-in updating of packages, the second directly. In both cases the USA-NC CRAN mirror was used. In both cases, loading the package under R 2.10.1 for Windows resulted in a 'package obsolete' kind of message. Switching the mirror to USA-CA-1 (

[Rd] Update 2 on MinGW-w64 builds for 64-bit Windows

2010-03-01 Thread Prof Brian Ripley
This post updates https://stat.ethz.ch/pipermail/r-devel/2010-January/056301.html https://stat.ethz.ch/pipermail/r-devel/2010-January/056411.html The MinGW-w64 snapshots have moved back to gcc pre-4.4.4 (from pre-4.5.0) with static linking to C++ and Fortran run-time DLLs, and seem more stable