[Rd] Windows Vista Issues

2007-09-04 Thread Dominick Samperi
This is a repost of a simple question about Windows Vista and R (with answer), along with a heads-up on other Windows Vista issues that people may not be aware of and that may impact R development. 1. The standard package install process fails because the user does not have permission to write to

[Rd] Hyball in R? (Factor analysis & exploratory SEM)

2007-09-04 Thread Chris
Dear all, Hyball is a free, DOS program for factor analysis and exploratory structural equation modeling (SEM), with some distinct capabilities. For a brief introduction and overview see http://www.psych.ualberta.ca/~rozeboom/READHYBL.TXT (A list of more formal references is at the end of this e-

Re: [Rd] (PR#9896) read.spss converts string variables with value

2007-09-04 Thread ripley
There is nothing we can do to reproduce this without an example 'some.sav' file exhibiting the problem. Can you please supply one? On Mon, 3 Sep 2007, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Full_Name: Jan Hucin > Version: 2.5.1 (foreign 0.8-20) > OS: WinXP > Submission from: (NULL) (195.113.83.7) > > > Whe

[Rd] User interrupts while plotting

2007-09-04 Thread Henrik Bengtsson
Hi, not often, but still once in a while, I call plot functions (by mistake) with ridiculous large number of data points. In such cases, the only option you've got is to wait for it to finish, or kill R. At least on WinXP, it is not possible to interrupt the plotting. Dummy example: s <- 100e3;

Re: [Rd] compiling R-devel *on Windows*

2007-09-04 Thread apjaworski
Thanks for quick responses from Prof Ripley and Duncan Murdoch. I tried to play around with TMP and TEMP paths but again with no success. It looks like the problem was this: 1. I have texinfo cygwin package installed. 2. This package has a shell script named texi2dvi 3. This script is installed