[Rd] Optimization in R

2007-08-03 Thread Andrew Clausen
Hi all, I've been working on improving R's optim() command, which does general purpose unconstrained optimization. Obviously, this is important for many statistics computations, such as maximum likelihood, method of moments, etc. I have focused my efforts of the BFGS method, mainly because it be

Re: [Rd] O(?) access time for rownames/colnames/named dimensions

2007-08-03 Thread Prof Brian Ripley
On Fri, 3 Aug 2007, mfrumin wrote: > > Dear princely R developers to whom I owe so much of my daily productivity > level, > > I am wondering how indexing by row and column names are implemented. That > is, when I have a matrix with named rows (or columns) and I then index into > that matrix using

[Rd] O(?) access time for rownames/colnames/named dimensions

2007-08-03 Thread mfrumin
Dear princely R developers to whom I owe so much of my daily productivity level, I am wondering how indexing by row and column names are implemented. That is, when I have a matrix with named rows (or columns) and I then index into that matrix using the string names (rather than integers), how do

Re: [Rd] Compiling R for the Sony Playstation 3?

2007-08-03 Thread Marcus G. Daniels
Hi, >> Beyond that, there may be a few more things that can be done to make R run >> "stupidly fast" on ps3 or IBM Cell blades. >> >> > > Wouldn't the right way to go here be to make it use the PS3 graphics > hardware, in a http://www.gpgpu.org/ kind of way? Or are the Cell > processors o

Re: [Rd] Compiling R for the Sony Playstation 3?

2007-08-03 Thread Barry Rowlingson
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Beyond that, there may be a few more things that can be done to make R run > "stupidly fast" on ps3 or IBM Cell blades. > Wouldn't the right way to go here be to make it use the PS3 graphics hardware, in a http://www.gpgpu.org/ kind of way? Or are the Cell process

Re: [Rd] Compiling R for the Sony Playstation 3?

2007-08-03 Thread Douglas Bates
On 8/3/07, Paul Gilbert <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Doug > Does it still play DVDs? > (My wife keeps telling me that academics have to do all their serious > work in the summer.) The way that you install Linux on a PS3 it becomes a dual-boot machine. You have to reboot to the original operatin

Re: [Rd] Compiling R for the Sony Playstation 3?

2007-08-03 Thread elw
I've been working off-and-on for a few months on devising some patches to R to make it much happier with a Cell processor; to be honest I've not had much time to work at it lately. Douglas is right that it is mostly a PPC64 sort of architecture; taking real advantage of the hardware is going

Re: [Rd] Compiling R for the Sony Playstation 3?

2007-08-03 Thread Douglas Bates
P.S. A site with instructions for installing Ubuntu on the PS3 is psubuntu.com or google "PS3 Ubuntu" to get the community pages documentation. It is a good idea to have an Ethernet connection so that once you install from the CD you can upgrade the packages. The kernel on the installation CD ima

Re: [Rd] Compiling R for the Sony Playstation 3?

2007-08-03 Thread Douglas Bates
On 8/1/07, Marc Schwartz <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Wed, 2007-08-01 at 11:13 -0500, Douglas Bates wrote: > > Has anyone installed Linux on a Sony Playstation 3 and compiled R for it? > Doug, > > I don't have any personal experience with both Linux and R on the PS3, > but do know folks who hav

[Rd] correct Rd markup for \value{}

2007-08-03 Thread Gavin Simpson
Dear DevelopeRs Several functions in a package of mine have complex returned objects that are lists within the returned list. I wish to document each of the components of these sublists. If I do this within a \value{} section and nest \item within an existing \item, I get indented R-help sections

Re: [Rd] the amazing prof. ripley ...

2007-08-03 Thread Barry Rowlingson
Ben Bolker wrote: > x = readLines("http://developer.r-project.org/R.svnlog.2007";) > rx = x[grep("^r",x)] > who = gsub(" ","",sapply(strsplit(rx,"\\|"),"[",2)) > twho = table(who) > twho["ripley"]/sum(twho) > > 74% of all commits! And 99% of all 'This is not a bug/You have not read the postin