Re: [Rd] Fix for bug in arima function

2015-05-20 Thread Patrick Perry
I noticed that the 3.2.1 release cycle is about to start. Is there any chance that this fix will make it into the next version of R? This bug is fairly serious: getting the wrong variance estimate leads to the wrong log-likelihood and the wrong AIC, BIC etc, which can and does lead to suboptimal

[Rd] Is the parallel package the right place for locking functionality?

2015-05-20 Thread Ivan Popivanov
Hello, Sometime ago I had to solve the problem of writing to common files from parallel R processes. For the synchronization, I created a small package ( https://r-forge.r-project.org/projects/flock/) to perform a lock/unlock between different processes. My feeling is that this is something that b

Re: [Rd] Probably a "bug" in the dendextend package

2015-05-20 Thread Tal Galili
Dear Martin, You are right. When implementing the dendextend::set function, I failed to notice that edgePar should accept a list instead of a vector. So all I did was to discover a bug in my own code. I am both sorry for taking your time due to my own mistake, and also grateful for your help (I w

Re: [Rd] Probably a "bug" in the dendextend package

2015-05-20 Thread Martin Maechler
> Tal Galili > on Mon, 18 May 2015 23:01:44 +0300 writes: > The problem: > === > Once a dendrogram has a branch with both a line type AND a color (which is > a character color), the plot.dendrogram function will not plot and return > an error. If the dendr