Re: [Rd] View() crashy on Ubuntu 9.04

2009-05-12 Thread Dirk Eddelbuettel
On 12 May 2009 at 22:58, Ben Bolker wrote: | Actually, gdb seems not to want to debug this -- in either the | Debian-magic version or the one I configured/made on my own system, I | get to the View() command and get | | >> View(v) | > [Thread debugging using libthread_db enabled] | > Error whil

Re: [Rd] View() crashy on Ubuntu 9.04

2009-05-12 Thread Dirk Eddelbuettel
And to push the ball a little downcourt: e...@joe:~$ wajig install r-base-core-dbg Reading package lists... Done Building dependency tree Reading state information... Done The following NEW packages will be installed: r-base-core-dbg 0 upgraded, 1 newly installed, 0 to remove and 0 not upgraded

Re: [Rd] View() crashy on Ubuntu 9.04

2009-05-12 Thread Ben Bolker
Actually, gdb seems not to want to debug this -- in either the Debian-magic version or the one I configured/made on my own system, I get to the View() command and get >> View(v) > [Thread debugging using libthread_db enabled] > Error while reading shared library symbols: > Cannot find new thread

Re: [Rd] View() crashy on Ubuntu 9.04

2009-05-12 Thread Kjetil Halvorsen
I can reproduce this too. Run from within emacs: > v <- data.frame(1:3,2:4) > sessionInfo() R version 2.9.0 (2009-04-17) i686-pc-linux-gnu locale: LC_CTYPE=en_US.UTF-8;LC_NUMERIC=C;LC_TIME=en_US.UTF-8;LC_COLLATE=en_US.UTF-8;LC_MONETARY=C;LC_MESSAGES=en_US.UTF-8;LC_PAPER=en_US.UTF-8;LC_NAME=C;LC_

Re: [Rd] View() crashy on Ubuntu 9.04

2009-05-12 Thread Dirk Eddelbuettel
On 12 May 2009 at 19:46, Ben Bolker wrote: | It's my vague impression that View() is workable on Windows and maybe | on MacOS, but on Ubuntu Linux 9.04 (intrepid) it seems completely | unstable. I can reliably crash R by trying to look at a very small, | simple data frame ... | |I was goi

[Rd] View() crashy on Ubuntu 9.04

2009-05-12 Thread Ben Bolker
It's my vague impression that View() is workable on Windows and maybe on MacOS, but on Ubuntu Linux 9.04 (intrepid) it seems completely unstable. I can reliably crash R by trying to look at a very small, simple data frame ... I was going to try to run with debug turned on, but my installed

Re: [Rd] suggestion for extending ?as.factor

2009-05-12 Thread Martin Maechler
> "PS" == Petr Savicky > on Tue, 12 May 2009 13:17:15 +0200 writes: PS> On Mon, May 11, 2009 at 05:06:38PM +0200, Martin Maechler wrote: >> The version I have committed a few hours ago is indeed a much >> re-simplified version, using as.character(.) explicitly PS> Th

Re: [Rd] In C, a fast way to slice a vector?

2009-05-12 Thread Laurent Gautier
r-devel-requ...@r-project.org wrote: Impressive stuff. Nice to see people giving some though to this. I will explore the packages you mentioned. Thank you Saptarshi Guha On Mon, May 11, 2009 at 12:37 AM, Patrick Aboyoun wrote: Saptarshi, I know of two alternatives you can use to do fast

Re: [Rd] suggestion for extending ?as.factor

2009-05-12 Thread Petr Savicky
On Mon, May 11, 2009 at 05:06:38PM +0200, Martin Maechler wrote: > The version I have committed a few hours ago is indeed a much > re-simplified version, using as.character(.) explicitly The current development version (2009-05-11 r48528) contains in ?factor a description of levels parametr le

[Rd] bug in axis.POSIXct relating to tz (PR#13696)

2009-05-12 Thread kelley . dan
Full_Name: Dan Kelley Version: 2.8.0 OS: OS X Submission from: (NULL) (142.177.154.193) Some time ago, I posted a note about what I considered to be a bug in axis.POSIXt() for R 2.8.x, relating to whether timezones in the data are obeyed on the axes. A link to that note, and to a quick and helpf