Re: [Rd] Updating library

2008-01-18 Thread Prof Brian Ripley
You need to use 'Run as admininistrator' for just the session updating those packages (assuming you installed R with administrator privileges and are running it without: you did not say). This is covered in rw-FAQ Q2.24. On Fri, 18 Jan 2008, Gabor Grothendieck wrote: > On Vista my R installati

Re: [Rd] a problem when i use JRI package in java

2008-01-18 Thread Prof Brian Ripley
On Sat, 19 Jan 2008, 文波胡 wrote: I used JRI package in java to connect R ,and want to use R do some work fo me. but most thing is ok, but there is a problem for me The best thing to do is to ask the maintainer, as the posting guide suggests. Very few of us will be using JRI (or even know Ja

[Rd] a problem when i use JRI package in java

2008-01-18 Thread 文波胡
I used JRI package in java to connect R ,and want to use R do some work fo me. but most thing is ok, but there is a problem for me these is some code of the program: re.eval("library(lattice)"); y=re.idleEval("print(1:10)"); y=re.eval("feq <- read.del

[Rd] Updating library

2008-01-18 Thread Gabor Grothendieck
On Vista my R installation is in C:\Program Files\R\R-2.6.0 and there is a library here: %userprofile%\Documents\R\win-library\2.6 If I use the GUI Packages menu to update my library it works ok _except_ for any packages such as lattice and the VR bundle that come with R. For those I get

Re: [Rd] Wishlist- Windows Gui (PR#10589)

2008-01-18 Thread Duncan Murdoch
John Fox wrote: > Dear Peter, > > Actually, "Edit -> Gui preferences" will already edit/generate an Rprofile > file, so mirror selection could be put there. I frankly find it simpler on a > single-user Windows system just to edit Rprofile.site. > That edits Rconsole, not Rprofile. Rconsole has

Re: [Rd] Wishlist- Windows Gui (PR#10589)

2008-01-18 Thread jfox
Dear Peter, Actually, "Edit -> Gui preferences" will already edit/generate an = Rprofile file, so mirror selection could be put there. I frankly find it simpler = on a single-user Windows system just to edit Rprofile.site. Best, John > -Original Message- > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mail

Re: [Rd] Wishlist- Windows Gui (PR#10589)

2008-01-18 Thread John Fox
Dear Peter, Actually, "Edit -> Gui preferences" will already edit/generate an Rprofile file, so mirror selection could be put there. I frankly find it simpler on a single-user Windows system just to edit Rprofile.site. Best, John > -Original Message- > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[

Re: [Rd] Wishlist- Windows Gui (PR#10589)

2008-01-18 Thread Peter Dalgaard
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Dear Robert, > > Your wish is granted retroactively; just put > > options(repos=c(CRAN="http://probability.ca/cran";, > CRANextra="http://www.stats.ox.ac.uk/pub/RWin";)) > > in your Rprofile.site file, which lives in R's etc directory (or in another > appropriate startu

Re: [Rd] Wishlist- Windows Gui (PR#10589)

2008-01-18 Thread John Fox
Dear Robert, Your wish is granted retroactively; just put options(repos=c(CRAN="http://probability.ca/cran";, CRANextra="http://www.stats.ox.ac.uk/pub/RWin";)) in your Rprofile.site file, which lives in R's etc directory (or in another appropriate startup file -- see ?Startup). Of course, you

Re: [Rd] Wishlist- Windows Gui (PR#10589)

2008-01-18 Thread jfox
Dear Robert, Your wish is granted retroactively; just put options(repos=c(CRAN="http://probability.ca/cran";, CRANextra="http://www.stats.ox.ac.uk/pub/RWin";)) in your Rprofile.site file, which lives in R's etc directory (or in another appropriate startup file -- see ?Startup). Of course, you

[Rd] Wishlist- Windows Gui (PR#10589)

2008-01-18 Thread rbaer
Full_Name: Robert Baer Version: 2.6.1 OS: Windows XP Submission from: (NULL) (198.209.172.95) It would be wonderful if the CRAN mirror had an easy way to set a "default CRAN mirror". Current behavior is to have to choose a CRAN mirror the first time a package is installed in a session. The clos

Re: [Rd] Bug in pacf -- Proposed patch (PR#10455)

2008-01-18 Thread Simone Giannerini
Dear all, regarding the bug in pacf I have prepared a patch (attached) and tested it against the latest R devel platform x86_64-unknown-linux-gnu arch x86_64 os linux-gnu system x86_64, linux-gnu status Under development (unstable) major 2 minor 7.0 year 2008 month 01 da

Re: [Rd] knnFinder package

2008-01-18 Thread Christos Hatzis
Hello, Perhaps not directly related to knnFinder package, but since the discussion is on knn-related algorithms, has anyone looked into incorporating the cover tree algorithm that was invented by the Yahoo team recently? It is supposed to be remarkably fast for exact kNN computations in very larg

Re: [Rd] knnFinder package

2008-01-18 Thread Andrew Finley
Hello all, The ann() function in the yaImpute package provides a more full featured interface to the same underlying approximate nearest neighbor library (http://www.cs.umd.edu/~mount/ANN) that is called by the nn() function in knnFinder. knnFinder is actually calling an older (defunct) version

[Rd] Memory loss in RODBC when reading DateTime values (no problem with integers)

2008-01-18 Thread Dieter Menne
This issue might be related to a similar one in http://article.gmane.org/gmane.comp.lang.r.devel/11452 ** Memory is not reclaimed when reading DateTime values, but works Ok when with integers. There is no memory loss when opening/closing of connection is done outside of the loop. However, openi

Re: [Rd] rm: failed to get attributes of `/':

2008-01-18 Thread Duncan Murdoch
On 1/14/2008 6:25 PM, Duncan Murdoch wrote: > Recently I have heard reports like the one below a couple of times: > > Tineke Casneuf wrote: >> However I did encouter an error when trying to install a self-made dummy >> package. I am sure it is not due to the package because it can be build on >> s

Re: [Rd] PR#10583

2008-01-18 Thread Prof Brian Ripley
On Fri, 18 Jan 2008, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Thank you for your quick reply and for only indirectly scolding me for > abusing the RBugs list. :-) However, I do think there is something > funny in the 2.7.0 docu (or in the code). Things behave as expected and > explained by you for version 2.6.0

[Rd] PR#10583

2008-01-18 Thread michael . hoehle
Thank you for your quick reply and for only indirectly scolding me for abusing the RBugs list. :-) However, I do think there is something funny in the 2.7.0 docu (or in the code). Things behave as expected and explained by you for version 2.6.0/2.6.1, but in the development version 2.7.0 (which I w