Re: [Rd] Help with OS X (BSD) ps command

2007-02-06 Thread Paul Roebuck
On Fri, 2 Feb 2007, Jeffrey J. Hallman wrote: > My fame package has a function that checks to see if > a FAME SERVER process is already running. On Linux, > I can do this in one of two ways: > > pid <- Sys.getpid() > user <- Sys.info()["user"] > > cmd <- paste("pgrep -fU", user, "-P", pid,

[Rd] Transparency convenience function

2007-02-06 Thread Byron Ellis
Hi all, For making plots with transparency I've found the following function quite useful when specifying colors that I thought might be of interest (I suspect it's easier to implement under R-devel. IIRC rgb() now takes matrix arguments): alpha <- function(colors,alpha=1.0) { if(alpha <

Re: [Rd] R from SVN fails to build on win32

2007-02-06 Thread James W. MacDonald
Hi Professor Ripley, Prof Brian Ripley wrote: > On Tue, 6 Feb 2007, Prof Brian Ripley wrote: > >> You have not told us which version of R you are trying to build. >> But this looks like a problem with your bintools, as nothing has >> changed in that line for a long time. >> >> I am using binutil

Re: [Rd] R from SVN fails to build on win32

2007-02-06 Thread Prof Brian Ripley
On Tue, 6 Feb 2007, Prof Brian Ripley wrote: > You have not told us which version of R you are trying to build. > But this looks like a problem with your bintools, as nothing has changed in > that line for a long time. > > I am using binutils-2.17.50-20060824. There was an update at the weekend,

Re: [Rd] RPM support for package installation?

2007-02-06 Thread Rhiannon L Weaver
Hi, Thanks for the clarification. As long as the admins don't mind (which I guess they won't because it means they won't have to build RPMs or binaries), I will be okay with just using local versions of the libraries. I just wanted to make sure I wasn't missing something obvious (which is pr

Re: [Rd] R from SVN fails to build on win32

2007-02-06 Thread Prof Brian Ripley
You have not told us which version of R you are trying to build. But this looks like a problem with your bintools, as nothing has changed in that line for a long time. I am using binutils-2.17.50-20060824. There was an update at the weekend, and I suspect that is broken because it says In

[Rd] R from SVN fails to build on win32

2007-02-06 Thread James MacDonald
I get the following error when building R from the subversion server as well as the latest tarball. I am on Windows XP, and I recently updated my MinGW installation. It's quite possible I am doing something wrong, but I am not sure what that might be. making console.d from console.c making dataent

Re: [Rd] RPM support for package installation?

2007-02-06 Thread Prof Brian Ripley
The problem is the speed with which R packages change. My dept considered this, and decided against. There have been something like 200 new versions of CRAN packages already this year. Even if we provided automated wrappers to make source RPMs, someone would still have to build the binary RPM

Re: [Rd] Build error with last R-devel tarball

2007-02-06 Thread Prof Brian Ripley
On Tue, 6 Feb 2007, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Quoting Prof Brian Ripley <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > >> This was fixed in SVN within a few hours. Tarballs are snapshots, please >> check SVN before reporting problems. > > Thanks! I will check SVN before reporting problems with a tarball. > Just hope th

Re: [Rd] Build error with last R-devel tarball

2007-02-06 Thread hpages
Quoting Prof Brian Ripley <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > This was fixed in SVN within a few hours. Tarballs are snapshots, please > check SVN before reporting problems. Thanks! I will check SVN before reporting problems with a tarball. Just hope that nobody will get too upset if I'm reporting a problem

[Rd] RPM support for package installation?

2007-02-06 Thread Rhiannon L Weaver
Hello, Tech question, I hope this has not been addressed before. I searched help archives and looked for online help but came up empty-handed. My question is: (short version) Is there a RPM-supported version of update.packages() for use with updating package libraries on managed multi-user Li

Re: [Rd] Metapost device driver

2007-02-06 Thread Peter Dalgaard
Geoff Russell wrote: > Hi All, > > I've started work on a MetaPost device driver (please don't hold your > breath) and have one question about a magic number, see below. > > I've copied the XFig driver and renamed everything and this works, I can > open the new metapost() and it works exactly like

Re: [Rd] convolve: request for "usual" behaviour + some improvements + some fixes

2007-02-06 Thread Katharine Mullen
To add to the wish-list for "convolve": For modeling processes that decay exponentially in time, e.g., fluorescence, it is desirable to have a function that convolves an arbitrary vector with an exponential using an iterative method. In the TIMP package (which won't be on CRAN till R 2.5.0 is off

[Rd] Metapost device driver

2007-02-06 Thread Geoff Russell
Hi All, I've started work on a MetaPost device driver (please don't hold your breath) and have one question about a magic number, see below. I've copied the XFig driver and renamed everything and this works, I can open the new metapost() and it works exactly like the xfig driver. Now all I have t