Re: [Rd] R in a sandbox/jail

2008-12-08 Thread Paul Murrell
Hi I set up R in a chroot jail for a course and it worked fine (students were able to submit R code via a web form, which was password-protected). I recall it taking a bit of setting up, but hard to estimate how much of that was figuring out how to use chroot. I have some notes, so might be able

[Rd] repeat bug report: as.factor argument to row / col fails if NULL dimnames

2008-12-08 Thread Dan Davison
This bug was reported to r-devel by Martin Morgan on 13th May 2008 (original email pasted below). However I couldn't locate it in the bug tracker (with searches for row, col, as\.factor) It is still present in today's svn version (rev 47115). I hope I'm doing something useful by bringing it up agai

[Rd] weekly update 20081208

2008-12-08 Thread Vadim Ogranovich
In Progress: * EURO DOLLAR data for trading Z* and vice versa * scripts for computing asset correlations w/ application to ED * improving R code for collecting stats accross dates and groups of data. Completed: * New signals for US Equity (based on PK alpha). Brandon will simulate and deploy if p

Re: [Rd] R in a sandbox/jail

2008-12-08 Thread Roger D. Peng
I've not tried an automated system like you describe but I have tried to make test scripts available that compare the output of their programs to correct output. That way the students can check their progress as they work. In general, I find this approach doesn't work well for grading because

Re: [Rd] Warning: missing text for item ... in \describe?

2008-12-08 Thread Prof Brian Ripley
On Mon, 8 Dec 2008, Dr. Peter Ruckdeschel wrote: Hi Brian and Berwin, thanks for finding the reason for all this trouble. 1) Having run tests on CRAN and BioC overnight, the results are quite depressing. There are 112 packages on CRAN and a score on BioC with incorrectly rendered help pages b

Re: [Rd] Warning: missing text for item ... in \describe?

2008-12-08 Thread Dr. Peter Ruckdeschel
Hi Brian and Berwin, thanks for finding the reason for all this trouble. > 1) Having run tests on CRAN and BioC overnight, the results are > quite depressing. There are 112 packages on CRAN and a score > on BioC with incorrectly rendered help pages because of spaces > after \item{foo}. > In two