[Rd] Inherited Methods in r-devel (for package maintainers mainly)

2009-01-26 Thread John Chambers
A recently committed revison of R-devel (47740) has introduced a new mechanism for ordering superclasses consistently, with related changes for selecting inherited methods. As part of the process, a function testInheritedMethods has been introduced that examines method selection for the relev

Re: [Rd] FW: [R] The Quality & Accuracy of R

2009-01-26 Thread David M Smith
On Sun, Jan 25, 2009 at 4:20 PM, Peter Dalgaard wrote: >>> - a good reason to want post-install validation is that validity can depend >>> on other part of the system outside developer control (e.g. an overzealous >>> BLAS optimization, sacrificing accuracy and/or standards compliance for >>> s

Re: [Rd] FW: [R] The Quality & Accuracy of R

2009-01-26 Thread Muenchen, Robert A (Bob)
Peter Dalgaard wrote: Now that I've asked you in, I probably should at least chip in with a couple of brief notes on the issue: - not everything can be validated, and it's not like the commercial companies are validating everything. E.g. nonlinear regression code will give different results on

Re: [Rd] [R] can't load rJava in R 2.8.1 on Windows XP

2009-01-26 Thread Simon Urbanek
Duncan, thanks for the analysis, I have updated rJava to check for the truncation and issue a warning with the kb link when detected. I have also made sure to not use file.path since it's using the wrong separator. The updated rJava version (0.6-2) should be available on CRAN soon. Than

Re: [Rd] bug in cor.test(method = "spearman")

2009-01-26 Thread Petr Savicky
Hi All: The p-value of Spearman's rank correlation test is calculated using algorithm AS 89. However, the way how AS 89 is used incures error, which may be an order of magnitude larger than the error of the original algorithm. In case of no ties AS 89 expects an even value of the statistic S =

Re: [Rd] [R] can't load rJava in R 2.8.1 on Windows XP

2009-01-26 Thread Duncan Murdoch
On 1/26/2009 7:04 AM, Duncan Murdoch wrote: Dieter Menne wrote: Duncan Murdoch stats.uwo.ca> writes: I don't know what's going wrong on your system. I added a browser() call to the .onLoad function in R/windows/FirstLib.R on my system, and I see it successfully gets JAVA_HOME from the re

Re: [Rd] [R] can't load rJava in R 2.8.1 on Windows XP

2009-01-26 Thread Duncan Murdoch
Dieter Menne wrote: Duncan Murdoch stats.uwo.ca> writes: I don't know what's going wrong on your system. I added a browser() call to the .onLoad function in R/windows/FirstLib.R on my system, and I see it successfully gets JAVA_HOME from the registry. It gets a number of other files, th

Re: [Rd] str(<1d-array>)

2009-01-26 Thread Martin Maechler
> "MS" == Marc Schwartz > on Fri, 23 Jan 2009 08:41:38 -0600 writes: MS> on 01/23/2009 07:36 AM Martin Maechler wrote: >>> "TP" == Tony Plate on Thu, 22 Jan >>> 2009 11:01:21 -0700 writes: >> TP> Martin Maechler wrote: >> >>> "TP" == Tony Plate >

Re: [Rd] loading RBlas.dll

2009-01-26 Thread Prof Brian Ripley
So you don't need this: you just need to replace Rblas.dll. DLLs can contain initialization code: that is standard Windows' practice so please read up on it. On Sat, 24 Jan 2009, sachin1234 wrote: hi Antonio, The name's Sachin :) . I need this because im not implementing the ATLAS, fast BL

Re: [Rd] Warning: closing unused connection 3

2009-01-26 Thread Prof Brian Ripley
Well, R-devel is 'under developemnt'. That log is from Jan 22, and the message shouild no longer occur on Jan 25. The help build process for R 2.9.0 is so far off final form that you just need some patience. It would be helpful to mention in your subject line that this is for a development