Re: [Rd] Reference Classes copy(shallow=FALSE) unexpected behavior.

2011-05-11 Thread Manuel Castejón Limas
Dear Hadley, Thank you very much for your interest in the question proposed. The Con class is a Reference Class. P and k are from class listCon. I provide in the following lines a little more detail in order to be able to reproduce the case. #Class declaration gCon <- setRefClass("Con", fields=l

Re: [Rd] RCMD check fails on "checkin installed package size"

2011-05-11 Thread Stefan McKinnon Høj-Edwards
Thanks. It worked. I added the line "_R_CHECK_PKG_SIZES_=no" to /etc/Rcmd_environ (I am the only user of this computer). Regarding the 'du' executable, it is found in the first directory in the PATH environment variable and came with Rtools for R 2.13. Kind regards, Stefan McKinnon Høj-Edwards

Re: [Rd] Reference Classes copy(shallow=FALSE) unexpected behavior.

2011-05-11 Thread Manuel Castejón Limas
Dear Hadley and John, My main interest in the question was to understand what was happening. Thank you very much for your clarifications and the piece of code. Manuel El 11/05/11 18:32, "John Chambers" escribió: >Good suggestion for this case. > >But the general problem is tricky. What abou

Re: [Rd] How to document man/*.Rd pages with images?

2011-05-11 Thread Steve Lianoglou
Hi, On Wed, May 11, 2011 at 3:42 PM, Sean Robert McGuffee wrote: > > > > On 5/11/11 3:13 PM, "Dan Tenenbaum" wrote: > >> On Wed, May 11, 2011 at 12:08 PM, Sean Robert McGuffee >> wrote: >>> Hi, >>> Iąm trying to figure out how to put images into my packageąs help >>> documentation. Iąve gotten

Re: [Rd] How to document man/*.Rd pages with images?

2011-05-11 Thread Sean Robert McGuffee
Thanks everyone for your help, To summarize a resolution to my issue, it turns out that an image can be include in a documentation file via html by putting an image file in the inst/doc directory, for example inst/doc/myPic.png, and then pointing to it in the man/myHelpPage.Rd file, for example as

Re: [Rd] How to document man/*.Rd pages with images?

2011-05-11 Thread Sean Robert McGuffee
On 5/11/11 4:20 PM, "Paul Gilbert" wrote: > I thought the usual logic was that you might put graphs and images into a > vignette, and you might refer to the vignette in an Rd help file, but you > would not put the graphs into the help because ? access to the page cannot > assume that you actua

Re: [Rd] How to document man/*.Rd pages with images?

2011-05-11 Thread Paul Gilbert
> No one is > checking that there's not a function in ggplot2 that secretly sends me > all your code and data ;) Well, it is open source so we could check it. Hopefully you are checking this yourself, because it would be a criminal offense to do that. ;) Paul ===

Re: [Rd] Reference Classes copy(shallow=FALSE) unexpected behavior.

2011-05-11 Thread Hadley Wickham
> But the general problem is tricky.  What about reference objects contained > in attributes or slots of other objects, etc?  What is  needed for total > copying is a switch in the low-level duplication code that says to copy > reference objects.  It's also possible that one does NOT want all such

Re: [Rd] How to document man/*.Rd pages with images?

2011-05-11 Thread Hadley Wickham
> Oh, my ... it's worse than I thought. Not only does it run things so you have > to wait forever - it actually installs packages behind your back!  Wow, now > there is the nightmare abuse of \Sexpr - the malicious package retrieves > private data from your machine and deletes your files... and

Re: [Rd] How to document man/*.Rd pages with images?

2011-05-11 Thread Thomas Roth
Thank you for clarifying this We know there's no need to simulate at that point any more... we just had limited time since we used the package with our students, next version would be without simulation... but i guess next version will be without any image ;-). 2011/5/11 Simon Urbanek > On May

Re: [Rd] How to document man/*.Rd pages with images?

2011-05-11 Thread Duncan Murdoch
On 11/05/2011 4:45 PM, Sean Robert McGuffee wrote: On 5/11/11 4:20 PM, "Paul Gilbert" wrote: I thought the usual logic was that you might put graphs and images into a vignette, and you might refer to the vignette in an Rd help file, but you would not put the graphs into the help because ? a

Re: [Rd] How to document man/*.Rd pages with images?

2011-05-11 Thread Duncan Murdoch
On 11/05/2011 4:35 PM, Simon Urbanek wrote: On May 11, 2011, at 4:16 PM, Thomas Roth wrote: Well, it takes 5 seconds on a regular notebook... which i have Basically there's small simulation going on, so if you don't need any simulation just a small plot it will go in less then a second. Hav

Re: [Rd] How to document man/*.Rd pages with images?

2011-05-11 Thread Simon Urbanek
On May 11, 2011, at 4:43 PM, Thomas Roth wrote: > i got the original idea from > > http://romainfrancois.blog.free.fr/index.php?post/2010/04/03/embed-images-in-Rd-documents > > i really won't mind if this is removed. i can put a "clean" package online. > Didn't mean to do any harm. > Well, ex

Re: [Rd] How to document man/*.Rd pages with images?

2011-05-11 Thread Sean Robert McGuffee
On 5/11/11 4:20 PM, "Paul Gilbert" wrote: > I thought the usual logic was that you might put graphs and images into a > vignette, and you might refer to the vignette in an Rd help file, but you > would not put the graphs into the help because ? access to the page cannot > assume that you actua

Re: [Rd] How to document man/*.Rd pages with images?

2011-05-11 Thread Thomas Roth
i got the original idea from http://romainfrancois.blog.free.fr/index.php?post/2010/04/03/embed-images-in-Rd-documents i really won't mind if this is removed. i can put a "clean" package online. Didn't mean to do any harm. Thomas 2011/5/11 Simon Urbanek > > On May 11, 2011, at 4:16 PM, Thomas

Re: [Rd] How to document man/*.Rd pages with images?

2011-05-11 Thread Simon Urbanek
On May 11, 2011, at 4:16 PM, Thomas Roth wrote: > Well, it takes 5 seconds on a regular notebook... which i have > > Basically there's small simulation going on, so if you don't need any > simulation just a small plot it will go in less then a second. Haven't seen > any other solution :-) >

Re: [Rd] How to document man/*.Rd pages with images?

2011-05-11 Thread Paul Gilbert
I thought the usual logic was that you might put graphs and images into a vignette, and you might refer to the vignette in an Rd help file, but you would not put the graphs into the help because ? access to the page cannot assume that you actual have a graphics device. Of course, examples in the

Re: [Rd] How to document man/*.Rd pages with images?

2011-05-11 Thread Thomas Roth
Well, it takes 5 seconds on a regular notebook... which i have Basically there's small simulation going on, so if you don't need any simulation just a small plot it will go in less then a second. Haven't seen any other solution :-) it only takes long because there's a simulation going on in the

Re: [Rd] How to document man/*.Rd pages with images?

2011-05-11 Thread Simon Urbanek
On May 11, 2011, at 4:00 PM, Thomas Roth wrote: > Hi, > > There's a possibility to put images into documentation files. Have a look at > the package visualizationTools to see how it works. The original idea is/was > by Romain Francois as far as i remember. > > For instance have a look at the do

Re: [Rd] How to document man/*.Rd pages with images?

2011-05-11 Thread Thomas Roth
Hi, There's a possibility to put images into documentation files. Have a look at the package visualizationTools to see how it works. The original idea is/was by Romain Francois as far as i remember. For instance have a look at the documentation for the function CLT HTH Thomas 2011/5/11 Hadley

Re: [Rd] How to document man/*.Rd pages with images?

2011-05-11 Thread Hadley Wickham
> I¹m trying to figure out how to put images into my package¹s help > documentation. I¹ve gotten to the point where I can put the images in the > /inst/doc/ directory. I have also gotten to the point where I have package > checks without any warnings. I couldn¹t find the terms ³picture,² ³image,² >

Re: [Rd] How to document man/*.Rd pages with images?

2011-05-11 Thread Sean Robert McGuffee
On 5/11/11 3:13 PM, "Dan Tenenbaum" wrote: > On Wed, May 11, 2011 at 12:08 PM, Sean Robert McGuffee > wrote: >> Hi, >> I¹m trying to figure out how to put images into my package¹s help >> documentation. I¹ve gotten to the point where I can put the images in the >> /inst/doc/ directory. I have

Re: [Rd] How to document man/*.Rd pages with images?

2011-05-11 Thread Dan Tenenbaum
On Wed, May 11, 2011 at 12:08 PM, Sean Robert McGuffee wrote: > Hi, > I¹m trying to figure out how to put images into my package¹s help > documentation. I¹ve gotten to the point where I can put the images in the > /inst/doc/ directory. I have also gotten to the point where I have package > checks

[Rd] How to document man/*.Rd pages with images?

2011-05-11 Thread Sean Robert McGuffee
Hi, I¹m trying to figure out how to put images into my package¹s help documentation. I¹ve gotten to the point where I can put the images in the /inst/doc/ directory. I have also gotten to the point where I have package checks without any warnings. I couldn¹t find the terms ³picture,² ³image,² or ³g

Re: [Rd] Reference Classes copy(shallow=FALSE) unexpected behavior.

2011-05-11 Thread John Chambers
Good suggestion for this case. But the general problem is tricky. What about reference objects contained in attributes or slots of other objects, etc? What is needed for total copying is a switch in the low-level duplication code that says to copy reference objects. It's also possible that

Re: [Rd] New code in R-devel: Rao score test for glm.

2011-05-11 Thread Brett Presnell
I agree that homage is nice, but I really think you'll get more confusion from "Rao" than you would from "score". You could always label the column some other way, right? I mean, it doesn't have to be exactly the same as the option. FWIW, I also have another vote for "score" from Alan Agresti,

Re: [Rd] New code in R-devel: Rao score test for glm.

2011-05-11 Thread Peter Ehlers
On 2011-05-11 07:30, peter dalgaard wrote: On May 11, 2011, at 15:10 , Brett Presnell wrote: Thanks for doing this Peter. I'll have to install the development version to try this out. One suggestion though. I'm pretty confident that plain old "score test" is a more common terminology than

Re: [Rd] New code in R-devel: Rao score test for glm.

2011-05-11 Thread peter dalgaard
On May 11, 2011, at 15:10 , Brett Presnell wrote: > > Thanks for doing this Peter. I'll have to install the development > version to try this out. > > One suggestion though. I'm pretty confident that plain old "score test" > is a more common terminology than anything involving Rao's name > (e

Re: [Rd] Reference Classes copy(shallow=FALSE) unexpected behavior.

2011-05-11 Thread Hadley Wickham
Hi Manuel, The source code for copy is short and pretty readable, so I'd encourage you to look at it: > setRefClass("XXX")$copy Class method definition for method copy() function (shallow = FALSE) { def <- .refClassDef value <- new(def) vEnv <- as.environment(value) selfEnv <- as.

Re: [Rd] New code in R-devel: Rao score test for glm.

2011-05-11 Thread Frank Harrell
Economists re-invented the Rao efficient score test, calling it the Lagrange multiplier test. Please check the history of this test. Rao's paper was published in 1947. That being said, "score" would be more consistent with the survival and rms packages. Frank Brett Presnell wrote: > > Thanks f

Re: [Rd] New code in R-devel: Rao score test for glm.

2011-05-11 Thread Brett Presnell
Thanks for doing this Peter. I'll have to install the development version to try this out. One suggestion though. I'm pretty confident that plain old "score test" is a more common terminology than anything involving Rao's name (econometricians even call it the Lagrange multiplier test). In lig

Re: [Rd] Reference Classes copy(shallow=FALSE) unexpected behavior.

2011-05-11 Thread Hadley Wickham
2011/5/10 Manuel Castejón Limas : > Dear all, > > I've just discovered the 'Reference Classes'. > In a previous attempt ---a year ago--- to re-implement in a Object Oriented > fashion the AMORE package using S4 classes I strongly felt the need of such > capability. It's great to have the Reference

Re: [Rd] RCMD check fails on "checkin installed package size"

2011-05-11 Thread Prof Brian Ripley
On Wed, 11 May 2011, Stefan McKinnon Høj-Edwards wrote: Hi, When I run RCMD check on my package, I receive the following error: C:\R-packages\AnnotationFuncs>RCMD check --no-vignettes AnnotationFuncs * using log directory 'C:/R-packages/AnnotationFuncs/AnnotationFuncs.Rcheck' * using R version

[Rd] RCMD check fails on "checkin installed package size"

2011-05-11 Thread Stefan McKinnon Høj-Edwards
Hi, When I run RCMD check on my package, I receive the following error: C:\R-packages\AnnotationFuncs>RCMD check --no-vignettes AnnotationFuncs * using log directory 'C:/R-packages/AnnotationFuncs/AnnotationFuncs.Rcheck' * using R version 2.13.0 (2011-04-13) * using platform: i386-pc-mingw32 (32-b

[Rd] New code in R-devel: Rao score test for glm.

2011-05-11 Thread peter dalgaard
I have just committed some code to the r-devel branch to implement the Rao efficient score test. This is asymptotically equivalent to the LRT, but there is some indication that it might have better properties in smaller samples since it is based more directly on the distribution of the sufficien

[Rd] stats:::biplot.prcomp: Scaling, typo in the help file?

2011-05-11 Thread Thaler, Thorn, LAUSANNE, Applied Mathematics
Dear all, >From the documentation of biplot.prcomp: scale: The variables are scaled by 'lambda ^ scale' and the observations are scaled by 'lambda ^ (1-scale)' where 'lambda' are the singular values as computed by 'princomp'. >From the source code of prcomp: lam <- x$sdev[choi