Re: [Rd] tcl problem with R-3.6.3?

2020-02-29 Thread Charles Geyer
33 PM Charles Geyer wrote: > No. I didn't do any of that and am now at a hockey game. But since I > can't reproduce the problem after an Ubuntu online update and reboot, I > assume the issue is moot. But I will check these things in an hour or so. > > On Sat, Feb 29, 2

Re: [Rd] tcl problem with R-3.6.3?

2020-02-29 Thread Charles Geyer
No. I didn't do any of that and am now at a hockey game. But since I can't reproduce the problem after an Ubuntu online update and reboot, I assume the issue is moot. But I will check these things in an hour or so. On Sat, Feb 29, 2020, 3:24 PM Dirk Eddelbuettel wrote: > > Charles, > > Did you

Re: [Rd] tcl problem with R-3.6.3?

2020-02-29 Thread Charles Geyer
ls::select.list(c("hello", "world", "again"), graphics=TRUE) > > Does it? > > FYI, I installed R 3.6.3 from source on CentOS 7 a few hours ago, and > for me the above works just fine. > > For your immediate needs of selecting a CRAN mirror,

[Rd] tcl problem with R-3.6.3?

2020-02-29 Thread Charles Geyer
ernal(.C_dotTclObjv, objv), class = "tclObj") : [tcl] grab failed: window not viewable. > q() What's up with that? -- Charles Geyer Professor, School of Statistics Resident Fellow, Minnesota Center for Philosophy of Science University of Minnesota char...@stat.umn.edu [[alte

Re: [Rd] unlicense

2017-01-18 Thread Charles Geyer
imited" on them, but I do have some on github that are just examples for teaching. I'll change them to CC0. On Wed, Jan 18, 2017 at 9:44 AM, Kurt Hornik wrote: >>>>>> Charles Geyer writes: > >> In that case, perhaps the question could be changed to could CC0

Re: [Rd] unlicense

2017-01-18 Thread Charles Geyer
ended for >> the public domain. > > I'd second the recommendation for CC0. Lawyers at IP-restrictive firms > I've worked for in the past have been OK with this license. > > - Brian > -- Charles Geyer Professor, School of Statistics Resident Fellow, Minneso

Re: [Rd] unlicense

2017-01-14 Thread Charles Geyer
in software license" on Google turns > up unlicense.org as the second result. > > Frederick > > On Fri, Jan 13, 2017 at 07:19:47PM -0500, Duncan Murdoch wrote: >> On 13/01/2017 3:21 PM, Charles Geyer wrote: >> > I would like the unlicense (http://unlicense.org/) ad

[Rd] unlicense

2017-01-13 Thread Charles Geyer
I would like the unlicense (http://unlicense.org/) added to R licenses. Does anyone else think that worthwhile? -- Charles Geyer Professor, School of Statistics Resident Fellow, Minnesota Center for Philosophy of Science University of Minnesota char...@stat.umn.edu

[Rd] calling native routines in another package (Sec 5.4.2 of Writing R Extensions)

2017-01-13 Thread Charles Geyer
I just (apparently) figured out how to do the stuff described in Section 5.4.2 of Writing R Extensions. I put my test toy packages on github for anyone to copy. If anyone cares to read the README and the bits of code it links to and tell me anywhere I am wro

[Rd] makefile in inst/doc

2013-06-25 Thread Charles Geyer
files in the package build that R CMD check --as-cran then complains about. The only thing I can figure out that works is remove the makefile. That does work, but makes it difficult to make the vignettes. Is my only option to remove the Makefile? If so, why discuss makefiles under vignettes a

Re: [Rd] Regression stars

2013-02-13 Thread Charles Geyer
l confidence intervals as if they cover (i. e., take the true confidence level to be 100%). You cannot fix lack of user understanding of statistics by any such simplistic idea. Yes R is a prime example of "worse is better", but it is the way it is. Don't try to turn it into C++.

Re: [Rd] setting option in function

2012-10-19 Thread Charles Geyer
tions(oldopt)) > expr<-substitute(expr) > eval.parent(expr) > } > > > -thomas > > > > On Sat, Oct 20, 2012 at 10:35 AM, Charles Geyer > wrote: > > is it possible to set an option inside a function ((I want to set > > na.action = na.fail) and

[Rd] setting option in function

2012-10-19 Thread Charles Geyer
to Google. -- Charles Geyer Professor, School of Statistics University of Minnesota char...@stat.umn.edu __ R-devel@r-project.org mailing list https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-devel

[Rd] R CMD check bug or misfeature

2011-01-04 Thread Charles Geyer
rse(file = f, n = -1L), error = function(e) stop(gettextf("parse error in file '%s':\n%s", file, .massage_file_parse_error_message(conditionMessage(e))), domain = NA, call. = FALSE)) 1: tools:::.check_packages_used_in_tests("rcdd&quo

[Rd] possible error checking bug and documentation bug in ts

2010-10-22 Thread Charles Geyer
have to figure it out too. -- Charles Geyer Professor, School of Statistics University of Minnesota char...@stat.umn.edu __ R-devel@r-project.org mailing list https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-devel

Re: [Rd] location of Sweave.sty in R devel (2010-06-15 r52280)

2010-06-15 Thread Charles Geyer
ess the problem, but there is > nothing here that I can do more than guess at. > > On Tue, 15 Jun 2010, Charles Geyer wrote: > > >Sorry if I was supposed to file a bug report, but I don't know whether > >we're supposed to do that on R devel. I just built

[Rd] location of Sweave.sty in R devel (2010-06-15 r52280)

2010-06-15 Thread Charles Geyer
--prefix=/HOME/faculty/charlie/local/devel and --with-valgrind-instrumentation=2 Don't see why either would mess up Sweave. On a linux box (openSUSE 11.1 (x86_64)). The day before I built R-2.11.1 the same way and it works fine. -- Charles Geyer Professor, School of Statistics Universi

Re: [Rd] how to document stuff most users don't want to see

2009-10-08 Thread Charles Geyer
On Mon, Oct 05, 2009 at 02:03:51PM -0400, Duncan Murdoch wrote: > On 10/5/2009 1:50 PM, Charles Geyer wrote: > >The functions metrop and temper in the mcmc package have a debug = FALSE > >argument that when TRUE adds a lot of debugging information to the returned > >list

[Rd] how to document stuff most users don't want to see

2009-10-05 Thread Charles Geyer
kind of page is really for). Any other possibilities to consider? -- Charles Geyer Professor, School of Statistics University of Minnesota char...@stat.umn.edu __ R-devel@r-project.org mailing list https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-devel

Re: [Rd] question about ... passed to two different functions

2009-09-07 Thread Charles Geyer
bal variables (objects in the R global environment) to specify any other information these functions need to use. That too follows the R way. But some people consider that bad programming practice. } I hope that sums it up. Apologies for submitting a rather stupid question to the list. -- Charles

[Rd] question about ... passed to two different functions

2009-09-06 Thread Charles Geyer
t understand what's going on. An obvious solution is to ignore ... and just use global variables, i. e., define degree <- 2 in the global environment and make the signature of outfun function(beta). That does work. But I don't want to have to explain this issue on the help pages if I can a

[Rd] question about --with-valgrind-instrumentation=level

2009-09-06 Thread Charles Geyer
Does --with-valgrind-instrumentation=2 slow down R when valgrind or gctorture are not in use? I am thinking of compiling the R that the whole department uses for research and teachin with --with-valgrind-instrumentation=2. Is that a good idea or a bad idea? -- Charles Geyer Professor, School of

Re: [Rd] R CMD check --use-valgrind doesn't run valgrind on tests

2009-08-18 Thread Charles Geyer
for 2.9.2. > > On Sun, 16 Aug 2009, Charles Geyer wrote: > > >R CMD check --use-valgrind used to run valgrind on the > >tests in the tests directory of the package. But it seems to have stopped. > >R-2.9.1 doesn't -- at least on my box -- and neither does R-2.10.0

[Rd] R CMD check --use-valgrind doesn't run valgrind on tests

2009-08-16 Thread Charles Geyer
(valgrind is run on tests). BTW valgrind is run on examples under 2.9.0, as cat .Rcheck/-Ex.Rout shows. -- Charles Geyer Professor, School of Statistics University of Minnesota char...@stat.umn.edu __ R-devel@r-project.org mailing list https://stat.ethz.c

Re: [Rd] Floating point precision / guard digits? (PR#13771)

2009-06-22 Thread Charles Geyer
act linear programming and other computational geometry operations. -- Charles Geyer Professor, School of Statistics University of Minnesota char...@stat.umn.edu __ R-devel@r-project.org mailing list https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-devel

[Rd] documenting datasets with more than one object

2009-03-21 Thread Charles Geyer
y package passes R CMD check but I don't want to ship it to CRAN if it is doing something considered harmful. -- Charles Geyer Professor, School of Statistics University of Minnesota __ R-devel@r-project.org mailing list https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-devel

Re: [Rd] Apparant bug in binomial model in GLM (PR#13434)

2009-01-07 Thread Charles Geyer
On Wed, Jan 07, 2009 at 04:48:03PM +0100, Peter Dalgaard wrote: > Charles Geyer wrote: > ... > > BTW the particular example given doesn't make clear WHAT question cannot > > be answered correctly. Some questions can be without fuss, for example > > > >> y &

Re: [Rd] Apparant bug in binomial model in GLM (PR#13434)

2009-01-07 Thread Charles Geyer
reliable, but in these small examples, still quite some > distance from the table based approaches of fisher.test(a,c) and > chisq.test(a,c). > > > > > > I hope that this message is understandable. > > > > Kind regards, S?ren > > > > __ > > R-devel@r-project.org mailing list > > https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-devel > > > -- >O__ Peter Dalgaard ?ster Farimagsgade 5, Entr.B > c/ /'_ --- Dept. of Biostatistics PO Box 2099, 1014 Cph. K > (*) \(*) -- University of Copenhagen Denmark Ph: (+45) 35327918 > ~~ - (p.dalga...@biostat.ku.dk) FAX: (+45) 35327907 -- Charles Geyer Professor, School of Statistics University of Minnesota char...@stat.umn.edu __ R-devel@r-project.org mailing list https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-devel

[Rd] new TR about when MLE exist in GLM and what to do if not

2008-09-29 Thread Charles Geyer
about how this could be worked into the glm suite of functions, but it clearly could be done. I would be glad to help out any way I can if the core team think this should be done. -- Charles Geyer Professor, School of Statistics University of Minnes

[Rd] Bug in wilcox.test

2006-01-29 Thread Charles Geyer
outside the wider interval, with values at jumps that are the average of the left and right limits Sorry about the advert. Couldn't resist the opportunity. -- Charles Geyer Professor, School of Statistics University of Minnesota [EMAIL PROTECTED] ___

Re: [Rd] looks in liblapack.a not liblapack.so

2005-09-22 Thread Charles Geyer
On Tue, Sep 20, 2005 at 09:43:51PM -0500, Luke Tierney wrote: > On Tue, 20 Sep 2005, Charles Geyer wrote: > > > >I still don't understand why gcc -shared even bothers to look in *.a > >(on AMD64) when it won't do the slightest bit of good. Maybe I'm still >

Re: [Rd] looks in liblapack.a not liblapack.so

2005-09-20 Thread Charles Geyer
On Mon, Sep 19, 2005 at 10:44:00AM +0200, Martyn Plummer wrote: > On Sat, 2005-09-17 at 17:19 -0500, Charles Geyer wrote: > > I can't compile R-alpha on AMD 64 ... > > You would need to modify the LDFLAGS and CPPFLAGS environment variables, > as these default to -L/usr/loc

[Rd] looks in liblapack.a not liblapack.so

2005-09-17 Thread Charles Geyer
t's where the 32 bit R finds it's shared libraries), but I don't think that's the problem. Well maybe it is. How do I tell configure NOT to add /user/local ? -- Charles Geyer Professor, School of Statistics University of Minnesota [EMAIL PROTECTED]

[Rd] lattice and for loop

2005-09-02 Thread Charles Geyer
s this a bug or a feature? -- Charles Geyer Professor, School of Statistics University of Minnesota [EMAIL PROTECTED] __ R-devel@r-project.org mailing list https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-devel

Re: [Rd] bizarre signif stars in Sweave latex

2005-08-22 Thread Charles Geyer
e[utf8]{inputenc} Right. This works. Silly me. I fell like the drunk looking for his keys under the lamppost. Here I was looking for a solution in the R docs, when I should have been looking in the LaTeX Companion. -- Charles Geyer Professor, School of Statistics Uni

[Rd] bizarre signif stars in Sweave latex

2005-08-21 Thread Charles Geyer
at the beginning of the Rnw file. But is that TRT (the Right Thing)? -- Charles Geyer Professor, School of Statistics University of Minnesota [EMAIL PROTECTED] __ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-devel

Re: [Rd] valgrind complains about regex.c (PR#8043)

2005-08-04 Thread Charles Geyer
rather than cut and paste (I was just using someone else's account to send mail when I couldn't connect my laptop). Makes it hell teaching intro stats. I have to have all numerical examples worked in advance. I tell people I went into math so I could work with letters instead of numbers

Re: [Rd] valgrind complains about regex.c (PR#8043)

2005-08-03 Thread Charles Geyer
e at this R stuff. Next time I'll check against R-*-patched before submitting a bug report. -- Charles Geyer Professor, School of Statistics University of Minnesota [EMAIL PROTECTED] __ R-devel@r-project.org mailing list https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-devel

Re: [Rd] valgrind complains about regex.c (PR#8043)

2005-08-02 Thread Charles Geyer
) > >=3D=3D22324=3D=3Dby 0x8125913: parse_reg_exp (regex.c:4420) > >=3D=3D22324=3D=3D=20 > >=3D=3D22324=3D=3D ERROR SUMMARY: 2 errors from 2 contexts (suppressed: 39 > >f= > >rom 2) > >=3D=3D22324=3D=3D malloc/free: in use at exit: 12691882 bytes i

Re: [Rd] valgrind complains about regex.c (PR#8043)

2005-08-02 Thread Charles Geyer
a= > >>lloc'd > >>=3D=3D22324=3D=3Dat 0x1B90650D: calloc (in > >>/usr/lib/valgrind/vgpreload_= > >>memcheck.so) > >>=3D=3D22324=3D=3Dby 0x81247B5: parse_expression (regex.c:5406) > >>=3D=3D22324=3D=3Dby 0x8125868: parse_branch (regex.c

[Rd] still confused about vnsprintf, log1p, exp1m

2005-07-06 Thread Charles Geyer
pedantic (which Writing R Extensions says it should). So what do I do? Or will there be no problem because KH tests with a version of R compiled with -ansi -pedantic so R not the C libraries is providing these functions? Pardon me if this is solved in 2.1.1 (I haven't looked there yet). -- C