[Rd] stats, pics etc on CRAN

2010-11-01 Thread Barry Rowlingson
Does anyone have some nice ways of showing what's on CRAN? A time-series of the number of packages? A clustered graph of packages by keyword? I'm just after a more impressive way of saying there's 2600 packages on CRAN than saying that. Counts of lines of R and C/Fortran code would be

Re: [Rd] stats, pics etc on CRAN

2010-11-01 Thread Gabor Grothendieck
On Mon, Nov 1, 2010 at 3:20 PM, Barry Rowlingson b.rowling...@lancaster.ac.uk wrote: Does anyone have some nice ways of showing what's on CRAN? A time-series of the number of packages? A clustered graph of packages by keyword? I'm just after a more impressive way of saying there's 2600

Re: [Rd] BLAS benchmarks on R 2.12.0

2010-11-01 Thread Andrew Piskorski
On Sun, Oct 31, 2010 at 12:41:24PM -0400, Michael Spiegel wrote: 1) Compile the reference BLAS implementation with unsafe optimizations and include it as a part of the OpenMx library. If BLAS speed is important to you, why are you even trying to use the slow reference BLAS library at all,

Re: [Rd] BLAS benchmarks on R 2.12.0

2010-11-01 Thread Michael Spiegel
Hi Andrew, In the majority of use cases of our package, we end up doing lots and lots of matrix operations on small matrices, as opposed to matrix operations on large matrices. The optimized BLAS libraries are usually optimized for large matrices. The reference implementation is faster than

[Rd] can not built a package

2010-11-01 Thread Wincent
Dear all, I tried to build a package from source, and ran into a problem. R CMD build RQDA * checking for file 'RQDA/DESCRIPTION' ... OK * preparing 'RQDA': * checking DESCRIPTION meta-information ... OK ERROR copying to build directory failed I searched and found this