Re: [Rd] conflict between rJava and data.table

2013-02-28 Thread Steve Lianoglou
Ugh, sorry, I meant to say: On Thu, Feb 28, 2013 at 8:49 PM, Steve Lianoglou wrote: [snip] > The development version of data.table no longer exports J from, but > once could still use J inside data.tabe[ ... ] calls. The development version of data.table no longer exports J, so this shouldn't ha

Re: [Rd] conflict between rJava and data.table

2013-02-28 Thread Steve Lianoglou
Hi, On Thu, Feb 28, 2013 at 5:09 PM, Bunny wrote: > Dear devel-listers, > > I found a conflct between rJava and data.table. Actually me questions is > where to report it? > Should I rather send it directly to the package maintainers or post it on > some bug tracker. > The problem is that data.t

Re: [Rd] conflict between rJava and data.table

2013-02-28 Thread Simon Urbanek
On Feb 28, 2013, at 5:09 PM, Bunny wrote: > Dear devel-listers, > > I found a conflct between rJava and data.table. Actually me questions is > where to report it? > Should I rather send it directly to the package maintainers or post it on > some bug tracker. > The problem is that data.table

[Rd] conflict between rJava and data.table

2013-02-28 Thread Bunny
Dear devel-listers, I found a conflct between rJava and data.table. Actually me questions is where to report it? Should I rather send it directly to the package maintainers or post it on some bug tracker. The problem is that data.table has a function called "J" and rJava uses the same quite

Re: [Rd] nobs() with glm(family="poisson")

2013-02-28 Thread Milan Bouchet-Valat
Le mercredi 27 février 2013 à 18:59 -0500, John Fox a écrit : > Dear Milan and Steven, > > At the risk of muddying the water further, I think that the potential > confusion here is that Poisson GLMs are applied in two formally > equivalent but substantively different situations: (1) where the > co

Re: [Rd] nobs() with glm(family="poisson")

2013-02-28 Thread Thomas Lumley
On Thu, Feb 28, 2013 at 11:56 AM, Ravi Varadhan wrote: > This is getting further away from typical R-devel issues, but let me add > another perspective: the `n' in BIC reflects the rate at which the > information in the log-likelihood grows. > But in the derivation of BIC, the log(n) term is ke

[Rd] Return value of S4 validity function

2013-02-28 Thread Gabor Grothendieck
This issues a message about a needing to be non-negative as expected: setClass("A", representation = list(a = "numeric"), prototype = list(a = 0), validity = function(object) { out <- if (object@a < 0) "a must be non-negative" if (is.null(out)) TRUE else out ## }) new("A", a = -1)

Re: [Rd] Return value of S4 validity function

2013-02-28 Thread Gabor Grothendieck
On Thu, Feb 28, 2013 at 3:44 PM, Gabor Grothendieck wrote: > This issues a message about a needing to be non-negative as expected: > > setClass("A", > representation = list(a = "numeric"), > prototype = list(a = 0), > validity = function(object) { > out <- if (object@a < 0) "a must be no

[Rd] S3 generics in packages: default method

2013-02-28 Thread Thomas Lumley
For a package providing 'virtual' data.frames backed by MonetDB database tables, we want to make some functions generic, to implement versions that work on single or multiple database columns. My approach was sd <- function(x, na.rm=TRUE,...) UseMethod("sd") sd.default<- base::sd I've done that

Re: [Rd] Fortune?

2013-02-28 Thread Achim Zeileis
On Thu, 28 Feb 2013, Joris Meys wrote: Has my vote! Mine as well :-) Added to the devel-version on R-Forge now. thx, Z On Thu, Feb 28, 2013 at 10:57 AM, Patrick Burns wrote: I think the rule is that you can do anything as long as you don't complain. If you want to complain, you must follo

Re: [Rd] nobs() with glm(family="poisson")

2013-02-28 Thread Ravi Varadhan
This is getting further away from typical R-devel issues, but let me add another perspective: the `n' in BIC reflects the rate at which the information in the log-likelihood grows. Ravi -Original Message- From: r-devel-boun...@r-project.org [mailto:r-devel-boun...@r-project.org] On

[Rd] Bordered legend icons and Text in plots

2013-02-28 Thread James Hawley
Hello, My colleagues and I use lattice for a variety of different purposes, and we came across a couple issues involving legend.R and update.trellis.R: 1. When using xyplot, the shapes in the plots are able to have borders and fill colours, but not so in the legend. I created a short script to i

Re: [Rd] Fortune?

2013-02-28 Thread Joris Meys
Has my vote! On Thu, Feb 28, 2013 at 10:57 AM, Patrick Burns wrote: > I think the rule is that you can do anything as long as you don't > complain. If you want to complain, you must follow the instructions. > > -- Jari Oksanen in > > Re: [Rd] Keeping up to date with R-devel > > > -- > Patrick Bu

[Rd] Fortune?

2013-02-28 Thread Patrick Burns
I think the rule is that you can do anything as long as you don't complain. If you want to complain, you must follow the instructions. -- Jari Oksanen in Re: [Rd] Keeping up to date with R-devel -- Patrick Burns pbu...@pburns.seanet.com twitter: @burnsstat @portfolioprobe http://www.portfoli