[R] new bugs and new bundles Re: [Rd] R/Sweave/cairo/freetype bug fix.

2013-09-03 Thread Hin-Tak Leung
with a system font, fontconfig has problem with a system font, and cairo and R etc. Unix users should just upgrade. I'll get round to build R 2.15.3 (or 2.15.x) for windows and Mac OS X at some stage, but if somebody want to beat me to it, please feel free to do so. Hin-Tak Leung wrote: F

[R] R/Sweave/cairo/freetype bug fix.

2013-03-30 Thread Hin-Tak Leung
The problem was first seen with R/Sweave (#c0) then reproduced directly with cairo (#c10) and was eventually traced to freetype. The 5-part bug fix: 610ee58e07090ead529849b2a454bb6c503b4995 da11e5e7647b668dee46fd0418ea5ecbc33ae3b2 e1a2ac1900f2f16ec48fb4840a6b7965a8373c2b 869fb8c49ddf292d6daf482617

Re: [R] [Rd] R/Sweave/cairo/freetype bug fix.

2013-03-30 Thread Hin-Tak Leung
te: > Huh? > > This is utterly incomprehensible without reading the redhat > bugzilla, and even after reading, I'm not sure what the > issue is. Something with bold Chinese fonts in X11, but > maybe also affecting Latin fonts, ? > > Please explain yourself. > >

Re: [R] [Rd] R/Sweave/cairo/freetype bug fix.

2013-03-30 Thread Hin-Tak Leung
"... was committed to freetype in January and will form the next release (2.4.12)". -- On Sat, Mar 30, 2013 18:54 GMT Simon Urbanek wrote: >On Mar 30, 2013, at 9:24 AM, Hin-Tak Leung wrote: > >> Perhaps that's too much details. There

Re: [R] [Rd] R/Sweave/cairo/freetype bug fix.

2013-04-01 Thread Hin-Tak Leung
--- On Sat, 30/3/13, Hin-Tak Leung wrote: > "... was committed to freetype in January and will form the > next release (2.4.12)". It is perhaps worth repeating the quote: 'The official R binaries for windows ... are compiled against static libraries of cairo 1.10.2 ... a

[R] new window cairo bundle Re: [Rd] R/Sweave/cairo/freetype bug fix.

2013-04-02 Thread Hin-Tak Leung
--- On Mon, 1/4/13, Hin-Tak Leung wrote: > --- On Sat, 30/3/13, Hin-Tak Leung > > wrote: > > > "... was committed to freetype in January and will form > the > > next release (2.4.12)". > > It is perhaps worth repeating the quote:  'The of

Re: [R] new window cairo bundle Re: [Rd] R/Sweave/cairo/freetype bug fix.

2013-06-13 Thread Hin-Tak Leung
has a listing of versions. http://sourceforge.net/projects/outmodedbonsai/files/R/ Unix users should just upgrade. I'll get round to build R 2.15.3 (or 2.15.x) for windows and Mac OS X at some stage, but if somebody want to beat me to it, please feel free to do so. --- On Tue, 2/4/13, Hin

Re: [R] freetype 2.5.2, problem with the survival package, build R 2.15.x with gcc 4.8.x

2013-12-17 Thread Hin-Tak Leung
-- On Fri, Dec 13, 2013 16:29 GMT David Winsemius wrote: > >On Dec 11, 2013, at 7:30 PM, Hin-Tak Leung wrote: > >> Here is a rather long discussion etc about freetype 2.5.2, problem with the >> survival package, and build R 2.15.x with gcc 4.8.x

[R] The URL for the replacement dll/so bundle - Re: 2 bugs in R's grDevices, and fixes.

2014-01-06 Thread Hin-Tak Leung
Hin-Tak Leung wrote: ... Somewhat related, I have finally gotten round to make two small bundles, which replace the small cairo.dll/cairo.so' in the official windows or Mac R binaries, to fix quite a few problems with them, the first of which was reported almost a year ago. Just move th

[R] 2 bugs in R's grDevices, and fixes.

2014-01-06 Thread Hin-Tak Leung
Just before the holiday, I asked the freetype developers what is the context of these two comments about freetype in the code of R's grDevices: === R/src/library/grDevices/src/cairo/cairoFns.c around line 720 = /* some FreeType versions have broken index support,

Re: [R] Coxph convergence

2014-02-05 Thread Hin-Tak Leung
8/12/13, Terry Therneau wrote: Subject: Re:  Coxph convergence To: r-help@R-project.org, "Hin-Tak Leung" , "David Winsemius" Date: Wednesday, 18 December, 2013, 19:12 I'll re-enter the fray. The data set is an example where coxph is incorrect; due to round off error it is

Re: [R] 2 bugs in R's grDevices, and fixes.

2014-03-06 Thread Hin-Tak Leung
Since R 3.0.3 is just around the corner and the problem is still there, here is a repost from around the new year. Hin-Tak Leung wrote: Just before the holiday, I asked the freetype developers what is the context of these two comments about freetype in the code of R's grDevices: ===

[R] freetype 2.5.1 and mono 3.2.5 (was Re: new bugs and new bundles Re: [Rd] R/Sweave/cairo/freetype bug fix.)

2013-11-26 Thread Hin-Tak Leung
utine upgrade of mono 3.2 5. It is, as usual, slightly adapted to run Illumina GenomeStudio and ...-like workloads on Linux and Mac OS X better. Hin-Tak Leung wrote: The most up-to-date version of freetype (2.5.0.1) have problems with at least two of the system fonts shipped with Mac OS X. So the &q

[R] freetype 2.5.2, problem with the survival package, build R 2.15.x with gcc 4.8.x

2013-12-11 Thread Hin-Tak Leung
FUN = summary, maxsum = maxsum, digits = 12, ...) 7: summary.data.frame(support) ... r62430 needs a bit of adapting to apply to R 2.15.x , but you get the idea. I hope this info is useful to somebody else who is still using R 2.15.x , no doubt for very good reasons.

Re: [R] freetype 2.5.2, problem with the survival package, build R 2.15.x with gcc 4.8.x

2013-12-13 Thread Hin-Tak Leung
ddContr(A) + addContr(C) + addContr(A.C) + strata(set), > data=pscc, toler.chol=1e-10) > >I'll certainly add this to my list of test problems that I use to tune those >constants. > >Terry Therneau > >On 12/11/2013 09:30 PM, Hin-Tak Leung wrote: > Here is a rat