Re: [Rd] R postscript generation error (lines versus points) (PR#5285)

2003-11-25 Thread Stephen . Harker
Hi, On Tue, Nov 25, 2003 at 09:17:09AM +1300, Paul Murrell wrote: > Hi > > Peter Dalgaard wrote: > > [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: > > > >>Full_Name: Stephen Harker > >>Version: 1.80 > >>OS: linux (Yellow Dog 3.0 on ppc) > >>Submission from: (NULL) (130.194.13.101) > >> > >> > >>In creating a postscr

Re: [Rd] Re: 64-bit R on Opteron

2003-11-25 Thread A.J. Rossini
Douglas Bates <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > (Reply moved to R-devel where it may be more appropriate.) > > "Liaw, Andy" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > >> > From: Douglas Bates [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] >> > >> > "Liaw, Andy" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: >> > >> > > Sorry. I need to retract my cla

Re: [Rd] Re: 64-bit R on Opteron [was Re: [R] Windows R 1.8.0 hangs when M em Usage >1.8GB]

2003-11-25 Thread Ross Ihaka
Douglas Bates wrote: I wonder if R&R thought when they started out that they would one day see something like that. I think that's a pretty firm no. I seem to recall that we were targetting 512k Macintoshes. In our dreams we might have seen 16Mb Sun. -- Ross Ihaka Email:

[Rd] Re: 64-bit R on Opteron [was Re: [R] Windows R 1.8.0 hangs when M em Usage >1.8GB]

2003-11-25 Thread Douglas Bates
(Reply moved to R-devel where it may be more appropriate.) "Liaw, Andy" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > From: Douglas Bates [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > > > > "Liaw, Andy" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > > > Sorry. I need to retract my claim. There seems to be a 3G > > > limit, even though

Re: [Rd] O2 optimization produces wrong code (PR#5315)

2003-11-25 Thread Duncan Murdoch
On Tue, 25 Nov 2003 21:22:08 + (GMT), Prof Brian Ripley <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote : >On 25 Nov 2003, Peter Dalgaard wrote: > >> Duncan Murdoch <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: >> >> > On Tue, 25 Nov 2003 15:47:01 + (GMT), Prof Brian Ripley >> > <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote : >> > >> > >This is a

Re: [Rd] O2 optimization produces wrong code (PR#5315)

2003-11-25 Thread Prof Brian Ripley
On 25 Nov 2003, Peter Dalgaard wrote: > Duncan Murdoch <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > On Tue, 25 Nov 2003 15:47:01 + (GMT), Prof Brian Ripley > > <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote : > > > > >This is a long-known problem: one example is the MASS example in the > > >script ch15.R, and that has gone

Re: [Rd] O2 optimization produces wrong code (PR#5315)

2003-11-25 Thread Peter Dalgaard
Duncan Murdoch <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > On Tue, 25 Nov 2003 15:47:01 + (GMT), Prof Brian Ripley > <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote : > > >This is a long-known problem: one example is the MASS example in the > >script ch15.R, and that has gone wrong on platforms other than Windows. > >It has b

Re: [Rd] O2 optimization produces wrong code (PR#5315)

2003-11-25 Thread Duncan Murdoch
On Tue, 25 Nov 2003 15:47:01 + (GMT), Prof Brian Ripley <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote : >This is a long-known problem: one example is the MASS example in the >script ch15.R, and that has gone wrong on platforms other than Windows. >It has been reported to the maintainer in the past. Should we b

Re: [Rd] Proposal: 'global' package refactoring

2003-11-25 Thread Luke Tierney
On Tue, 25 Nov 2003, Prof Brian Ripley wrote: > I am explicitly not prepared to `refactor' MASS. Not only is it > explicitly support software for a book (which references it and those > references cannot be changed retrospectively), it also represents much > work over many years. Not that we get

Re: [Rd] O2 optimization produces wrong code (PR#5315)

2003-11-25 Thread Prof Brian Ripley
This is a long-known problem: one example is the MASS example in the script ch15.R, and that has gone wrong on platforms other than Windows. It has been reported to the maintainer in the past. On Tue, 25 Nov 2003, Duncan Murdoch wrote: > On Tue, 25 Nov 2003 15:51:22 +0100 (CET), [EMAIL PROTECTE

Re: [Rd] O2 optimization produces wrong code (PR#5315)

2003-11-25 Thread ripley
This is a long-known problem: one example is the MASS example in the script ch15.R, and that has gone wrong on platforms other than Windows. It has been reported to the maintainer in the past. On Tue, 25 Nov 2003, Duncan Murdoch wrote: > On Tue, 25 Nov 2003 15:51:22 +0100 (CET), [EMAIL PROTECTE

Re: [Rd] O2 optimization produces wrong code (PR#5315)

2003-11-25 Thread Duncan Murdoch
On Tue, 25 Nov 2003 15:51:22 +0100 (CET), [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote : >Full_Name: jean coursol >Version: 1.7.1, 1.8.0 >OS: linux & Windows-XP >Submission from: (NULL) (129.175.52.7) > > >Binary MS-Windows akima module from CRAN (1.8.0 version) produces wrong results >with some data. This isn't an R

Re: [Rd] dwilcox , pwilcox, qwilcox are not freeing memory (PR#5314)

2003-11-25 Thread maechler
> "jean" == jean coursol <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > on Tue, 25 Nov 2003 15:33:58 +0100 (CET) writes: jean> Full_Name: jean coursol Version: 1.7.1, 1.8.0 OS: jean> linux Submission from: (NULL) (129.175.52.7) jean> w <- pwilcox(1000,50,50) allocates the whole memory jean> a

[Rd] O2 optimization produces wrong code (PR#5315)

2003-11-25 Thread jean . coursol
Full_Name: jean coursol Version: 1.7.1, 1.8.0 OS: linux & Windows-XP Submission from: (NULL) (129.175.52.7) Binary MS-Windows akima module from CRAN (1.8.0 version) produces wrong results with some data. Installing akima source in linux, with same data: -with gcc-2.95.3 -O2 : give correct resul

RE: [Rd] Proposal: 'global' package refactoring

2003-11-25 Thread Liaw, Andy
> From: John Fox > > Dear Gregory, Paul, and Jan, > > I recall proposing something like this (that is, a classification of > available functions) some time ago, but it never got off the > ground. The > advantage of using keywords is that package authors would > classify their > own functions

[Rd] dwilcox , pwilcox, qwilcox are not freeing memory (PR#5314)

2003-11-25 Thread jean . coursol
Full_Name: jean coursol Version: 1.7.1, 1.8.0 OS: linux Submission from: (NULL) (129.175.52.7) w <- pwilcox(1000,50,50) allocates the whole memory and freezes the system or qwilcox or dwilcox To fix the problem: in wilcox.c, call wilcox_free() before return in the three functions dwi

RE: [Rd] Proposal: 'global' package refactoring

2003-11-25 Thread John Fox
Dear Gregory, Paul, and Jan, I recall proposing something like this (that is, a classification of available functions) some time ago, but it never got off the ground. The advantage of using keywords is that package authors would classify their own functions, but I don't think that the current s

Re: [Rd] Question about Unix file paths

2003-11-25 Thread Gabor Grothendieck
Actually that's what I currently do using something like: readLines(pipe("cmd /c dir/b \\myfolder\\a*.txt")) but its a pain since: 1. One has to explicitly paste together the filename from the output of dir with the directory path to create a complete path/filename for use in other commands

Re: [Rd] Question about Unix file paths

2003-11-25 Thread Duncan Murdoch
On Tue, 25 Nov 2003 13:29:50 +0100 (CET), you wrote: >I think you should test for OS ( R.Version()$os ) > >The special meaning of "c:file" on Windows does not exist on >Unix, even if the filesystem is on a mounted Windows partition. The patch does that implicitly by an "#ifdef Win32" in the sourc

Re: [Rd] Question about Unix file paths

2003-11-25 Thread Duncan Murdoch
On Tue, 25 Nov 2003 07:27:46 -0500 (EST), you wrote: > >Perhaps the dir= and pattern= arguments could be combined so that >its not necessary to for list.files to paste them together: > > list.files("C:/a*.txt", glob=T) Why not use system() or shell() instead? Those explicitly do what ls or dir

Re: [Rd] Proposal: 'global' package refactoring

2003-11-25 Thread Duncan Murdoch
On Mon, 24 Nov 2003 17:12:24 -0500, you wrote: >I propose that from time to time the R community go through the complete set >of packages and 'refactor' the functions and data sets into packages that >have clearly defined goals. Package 'foreign' is currently such a multi-author common purpose

Re: [Rd] Question about Unix file paths

2003-11-25 Thread Peter Kleiweg
# aldus Duncan Murdoch : > On Tue, 25 Nov 2003 07:35:57 + (GMT), you wrote: > > > >I think there are some potential issues with doubling separators and final > >separators on dirs. On Unix file systems /part1//part2 and /path/to/dir/ > >are valid. However, file systems on Unix may not be Uni

Re: [Rd] Question about Unix file paths

2003-11-25 Thread Gabor Grothendieck
Perhaps the dir= and pattern= arguments could be combined so that its not necessary to for list.files to paste them together: list.files("C:/a*.txt", glob=T) Date: Tue, 25 Nov 2003 07:14:49 -0500 From: Duncan Murdoch <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: Prof Brian Ripley <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Cc: <[EMA

Re: [Rd] Question about Unix file paths

2003-11-25 Thread Duncan Murdoch
On Tue, 25 Nov 2003 07:35:57 + (GMT), you wrote: >I think there are some potential issues with doubling separators and final >separators on dirs. On Unix file systems /part1//part2 and /path/to/dir/ >are valid. However, file systems on Unix may not be Unix file systems: >examples are earlie

Re: [Rd] Question about Unix file paths

2003-11-25 Thread Peter Dalgaard
Prof Brian Ripley <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > I think there are some potential issues with doubling separators and final > separators on dirs. On Unix file systems /part1//part2 and /path/to/dir/ > are valid. However, file systems on Unix may not be Unix file systems: > examples are earlier Ma

Re: [Rd] Question about Unix file paths

2003-11-25 Thread Prof Brian Ripley
On Mon, 24 Nov 2003, Duncan Murdoch wrote: > >Duncan Murdoch <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > >> Gabor Grothendieck pointed out a bug to me in list.files(..., > >> full.name=TRUE), that essentially comes down to the fact that in > >> Windows it's not always valid to add a path separator (slash or

Re: [Rd] Proposal: 'global' package refactoring

2003-11-25 Thread Prof Brian Ripley
I am explicitly not prepared to `refactor' MASS. Not only is it explicitly support software for a book (which references it and those references cannot be changed retrospectively), it also represents much work over many years. Not that we get much credit for it, but we do get some and these days