Re: [Rd] 1.9 contrib archive for win needed

2003-10-09 Thread Uwe Ligges
Dirk Eddelbuettel wrote: On Fri, Oct 10, 2003 at 12:06:06AM -0400, Vincent Carey wrote: in 1.9 for windows, contrib.url(getOption("CRAN")) names a non-existent resource; the contrib/1.9 directory needs to be made and populated on CRAN Err -- Knowing no better way to see how $CRAN/src/contrib cha

Re: [Rd] 1.9 contrib archive for win needed

2003-10-09 Thread Dirk Eddelbuettel
On Fri, Oct 10, 2003 at 12:06:06AM -0400, Vincent Carey wrote: > in 1.9 for windows, > contrib.url(getOption("CRAN")) > names a non-existent resource; the > contrib/1.9 directory needs to be > made and populated on CRAN Err -- Knowing no better way to see how $CRAN/src/contrib changes, I keep a br

[Rd] 1.9 contrib archive for win needed

2003-10-09 Thread Vincent Carey
in 1.9 for windows, contrib.url(getOption("CRAN")) names a non-existent resource; the contrib/1.9 directory needs to be made and populated on CRAN this happened for 1.8 also. i know it's early, just an fyi __ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list https://www.

[Rd] Recursive indexing can cause R-1.8.0 (and R-1.7.1) to segment fault (PR#4486)

2003-10-09 Thread anaximander
Recursive indexing can cause R-1.8.0 (and R-1.7.1) to segment fault First of all, many thanks to the R team!! R is really a software for everyday work. Yes, I've found a fault, but I hope it's not just faultfinding ;-) In the NEWS file of R-1.8.0, first printed in R NEWS 1.7.1, there was given a

Re: (PR#4485) Re: [Rd] R-1.8.0 on Sparc Solaris 8, gcc3.2.1, bus error and core dump (PR#4485)

2003-10-09 Thread William Annis
>Please do pay attention to the documentation, as the INSTALL file asks! >You probably haven't read that either, so please note it says: Yikes. Sorry. R has been in the past one of the easiest programs to install (and whoever thought up 'R INSTALL pkg.tar.gz' should get an award) that

Re: [Rd] S4 group generic Complex not working (PR#4483)

2003-10-09 Thread John Chambers
Prof Brian Ripley wrote: > > On Thu, 9 Oct 2003 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > > The Complex group generic for S4 methods is not working: > > > > > setClass('foo', representation(z='complex')) > > [1] "foo" > > > setMethod('Complex', 'foo', function(z) callGeneric([EMAIL PROTECTED])) > > [1] "Com

(PR#4485) Re: [Rd] R-1.8.0 on Sparc Solaris 8, gcc3.2.1, bus error and core dump (PR#4485)

2003-10-09 Thread Prof Brian Ripley
That's an obselete and broken compiler, and the R-admin manual says @command{gcc} 3.2.1 and 3.2.2 generate incorrect code on 32-bit Solaris builds with optimization, but versions 3.1, 3.2, 3.2.3 and 3.3 work correctly. Please do pay attention to the documentation, as the INSTALL file asks! You

Re: [Rd] R-1.8.0 on Sparc Solaris 8, gcc3.2.1, bus error and core dump (PR#4485)

2003-10-09 Thread Peter Dalgaard BSA
[EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: > Example run and stack trace: ... > Bus Error(coredump) Bug, but not in R. See http://cran.r-project.org/doc/manuals/R-admin.pdf, sec. B.7.2 -- O__ Peter Dalgaard Blegdamsvej 3 c/ /'_ --- Dept. of Biostatistics 2200 Cph. N (*) \(*) --

Re: [Rd] S4 group generic Complex not working (PR#4483)

2003-10-09 Thread Saikat DebRoy
On Thursday, Oct 9, 2003, at 12:46 US/Eastern, Prof Brian Ripley wrote: On Thu, 9 Oct 2003 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: The Complex group generic for S4 methods is not working: setClass('foo', representation(z='complex')) [1] "foo" setMethod('Complex', 'foo', function(z) callGeneric([EMAIL PROTECTED

[Rd] R-1.8.0 on Sparc Solaris 8, gcc3.2.1, bus error and core dump (PR#4485)

2003-10-09 Thread annis
Example run and stack trace: wazor /s/src/stat/R-1.8.0/tests/Examples $ ../../bin/R --no-save < base-Ex.R R : Copyright 2003, The R Development Core Team Version 1.8.0 (2003-10-08) R is free software and comes with ABSOLUTELY NO WARRANTY. You are welcome to redistribute it under certain condi

Re: [Rd] S4 group generic Complex not working (PR#4483)

2003-10-09 Thread Prof Brian Ripley
On Thu, 9 Oct 2003 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > The Complex group generic for S4 methods is not working: > > > setClass('foo', representation(z='complex')) > [1] "foo" > > setMethod('Complex', 'foo', function(z) callGeneric([EMAIL PROTECTED])) > [1] "Complex" > > Arg(new('foo', z=1+0i)) > Error

Re: [Rd] exceeding memory causes crash on Linux

2003-10-09 Thread Peter Dalgaard BSA
Paul Gilbert <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Paul Gilbert wrote: > > >> I am having an unusual difficulty with R 1.8.0 on Mandrake 9.1 > >> running a problem that takes a large amount of memory. With R 1.7.1 > >> this ran on the machine I am using (barely), but now takes more > >> memory than is av

Re: [Rd] building XML-0.95-1 on MacOS

2003-10-09 Thread Jan de Leeuw
This builds fine on Panther, using the libxml2 provided by Apple in /usr/lib. On Oct 9, 2003, at 9:02, Duncan Temple Lang wrote: Stefano asked me to post something along the following lines about the XML package. I have modified the configuration for the XML package so that it looks for libxml2 if

Re: [Rd] exceeding memory causes crash on Linux

2003-10-09 Thread Luke Tierney
On Thu, 9 Oct 2003, Paul Gilbert wrote: > Paul Gilbert wrote: > > > I am having an unusual difficulty with R 1.8.0 on Mandrake 9.1 running > > a problem that takes a large amount of memory. With R 1.7.1 this ran > > on the machine I am using (barely), but now takes more memory than is > > ava

Re: [Rd] exceeding memory causes crash on Linux

2003-10-09 Thread Paul Gilbert
Paul Gilbert wrote: I am having an unusual difficulty with R 1.8.0 on Mandrake 9.1 running a problem that takes a large amount of memory. With R 1.7.1 this ran on the machine I am using (barely), but now takes more memory than is available. The first two times I tried with R 1.8.0, R exited

Re: [Rd] building XML-0.95-1 on MacOS

2003-10-09 Thread Duncan Temple Lang
Stefano asked me to post something along the following lines about the XML package. I have modified the configuration for the XML package so that it looks for libxml2 if instructed, or alternatively looks for libxml 1 and, if that is not present, then libxml 2. The new version: XML_0.95-4.tar.g

[Rd] An artifact of base being namespace

2003-10-09 Thread Saikat DebRoy
Function in the base library of R 1.8.0 seems to use a search path with base coming before the local environment. I think this is intentional and is related to base being a namespace. > log <- function(x, base) 200 > log(1) [1] 200 > log10 function (x) log(x, 10) > log10(1) [1] 0 > This is most

Re: [Rd] exceeding memory causes crash on Linux

2003-10-09 Thread Paul Gilbert
Paul Gilbert wrote: I am having an unusual difficulty with R 1.8.0 on Mandrake 9.1 running a problem that takes a large amount of memory. With R 1.7.1 this ran on the machine I am using (barely), but now takes more memory than is available. The first two times I tried with R 1.8.0, R exited a

[Rd] S4 group generic Complex not working (PR#4483)

2003-10-09 Thread saikat
The Complex group generic for S4 methods is not working: > setClass('foo', representation(z='complex')) [1] "foo" > setMethod('Complex', 'foo', function(z) callGeneric([EMAIL PROTECTED])) [1] "Complex" > Arg(new('foo', z=1+0i)) Error in Arg(new("foo", z = 1 + (0+0i))) : non-numeric arg

[Rd] exceeding memory causes crash on Linux

2003-10-09 Thread Paul Gilbert
I am having an unusual difficulty with R 1.8.0 on Mandrake 9.1 running a problem that takes a large amount of memory. With R 1.7.1 this ran on the machine I am using (barely), but now takes more memory than is available. The first two times I tried with R 1.8.0, R exited after the program had

Re: [Rd] building XML-0.95-1 on MacOS

2003-10-09 Thread Stefano Iacus
Duncan is working on this at lower level in the xml package code. As you see on cran with XML version 95-3 which is still not optimal. All will be fixed in few days when Duncan has finished travelling around :)) Btw, it preferable to use libxml2 which builds and configs fine without problems

Re: [Rd] building XML-0.95-1 on MacOS

2003-10-09 Thread Duncan Temple Lang
Hi Sean. Two things. There is a new version of the XML package now on the Omegahat web site: http://www.omegahat.org/RSXML/XML_0.95-3.tar.gz That uses a different approach to dealing with errors and avoids having to redefine the xmlParserError() routine. As a result, one should not need th

Re: [Rd] building XML-0.95-1 on MacOS

2003-10-09 Thread Jan de Leeuw
1. Just download the package and unpack it. 2. Use R INSTALL until it breaks 3. Then go to the src directory and give the gcc command below with -Xlinker -m 4. Then use R INSTALL again There are not two definitions associated with the same symbol after linking. This unpleasant hack uses the de

[Rd] building XML-0.95-1 on MacOS

2003-10-09 Thread Sean Davis
I am trying to build the XML package on MacOS. I am using the fink installation of libxml-1.8.17. The configuration information is: Configuration information: Libxml settings libxml include directory: /sw/include/gnome-xml libxml library directory: -L/sw/lib -lxml -lz -lz -lxml libxml 2: