[Rd] arbitrary size data frame or other stcucts, curious about issues invovled.

2011-06-12 Thread Mike Marchywka
We keep getting questions on r-help about memory limits and I was curious to know what issues are involved in making common classes like dataframe work with disk and intelligent swapping? That is, sure you can always rely on OS for VM but in theory it should be possible to make a data

Re: [Rd] Require of gWidgetsRGtk2 fails: RGtk2.dll can't be found, but it's there

2011-06-12 Thread Tony Plate
I also had frustrations trying to use libary RGtk2 under Windows XP. I kept getting the message unable to load shared object C:\R\site-library\RGtk2\libs\i386\RGtk2.dll even though it was on my path. Uninstalling and reinstalling various versions of GTK2, both through R and outside R, many

[Rd] Cross-compiling package

2011-06-12 Thread Sylvain Loiseau
Hello, I'm facing problems with compiling a package (containing only R-code and dataset) under OSX for Windows. Is there a command line producing a zip archive that can be installed on Windows using the windows R GUI ? Best, Sylvain __

Re: [Rd] Cross-compiling package

2011-06-12 Thread Uwe Ligges
On 12.06.2011 18:57, Sylvain Loiseau wrote: Hello, I'm facing problems with compiling a package (containing only R-code and dataset) under OSX for Windows. Is there a command line producing a zip archive that can be installed on Windows using the windows R GUI ? Well, cross compiling was

Re: [Rd] Cross-compiling package

2011-06-12 Thread Prof Brian Ripley
On Sun, 12 Jun 2011, Uwe Ligges wrote: On 12.06.2011 18:57, Sylvain Loiseau wrote: Hello, I'm facing problems with compiling a package (containing only R-code and dataset) under OSX for Windows. Packages are 'installed': compilation is only involved if they contain C/Fortran/C++/...