[R] install.packages parameters

2005-05-16 Thread Janet Elise Rosenbaum
Hello. R is having some trouble installing a package because it passed arguments to gcc which were non-existent directories and files. It also didn't find g77, although it's in a directory in my $PATH; I tricked it by making a sym link in /usr/bin. What file does R get these parameters from

[R] Resources for optimizing code

2004-11-05 Thread Janet Elise Rosenbaum
I want to eliminate certain observations in a large dataframe (21000x100). I have written code which does this using a binary vector (0=delete obs, 1=keep), but it uses for loops, and so it's slow and in the extreme it causes R to hang for indefinite time periods. I'm looking for one of two thin