[Rd] all.equal: possible mismatch between behaviour and documentation

2015-07-28 Thread Jon Clayden
Dear all, The documentation for `all.equal.numeric` says Numerical comparisons for ‘scale = NULL’ (the default) are done by first computing the mean absolute difference of the two numerical vectors. If this is smaller than ‘tolerance’ or not finite, absolute differences are used,

Re: [Rd] all.equal: possible mismatch between behaviour and documentation

2015-07-28 Thread Jon Clayden
Sorry; minor clarification. The actual test criterion in the example I gave is of course abs((0.1-0.102)/0.1) < 0.01, not abs(0.1) < 0.01. In any case, this does not match (my reading of) the docs, and the result is not `TRUE`. Regards, Jon On 28 July 2015 at 11:58, Jon Clayden wrote: > Dear al

[Rd] Installing/updating packages on a lab network

2015-07-28 Thread Michael Friendly
I'm the faculty member in my department who advises our IT staff on the details of installing R for students and faculty on our Windows 7 lab network. We are about to upgrade from R 3.1.1 to R 3.2.1, and once that is done, this version of R and all installed packages will be frozen in the image

Re: [Rd] Installing/updating packages on a lab network

2015-07-28 Thread Uwe Ligges
Just add the line R_LIBS_SITE=F:/R/library to the file R_HOME/etc/x64/Renviron.site Best, Uwe Ligges On 28.07.2015 15:53, Michael Friendly wrote: I'm the faculty member in my department who advises our IT staff on the details of installing R for students and faculty on our Windows 7 lab n