From Friedrich.Leisch at ci.tuwien.ac.at Wed Jan 3 19:07:38 2001 From: Friedrich.Leisch at ci.tuwien.ac.at (Friedrich Leisch) Date: Wed, 3 Jan 2001 19:07:38 +0100 Subject: Mailing List Archives Message-ID: <14931.27242.478863.484300@galadriel.ci.tuwien.ac.at> The HTML Mailing List Archives at www.R-project.org should now get online updates, i.e., each mail is integrated into the archives directly after it has been sent to the list. Hence, searching in the subjects of mails can easily be done using your web browser's search function. A more powerful search engine (which also searches the bodies of the emails) will hopefully be added soon. Best, -- ------------------------------------------------------------------- Friedrich Leisch Institut f?r Statistik Tel: (+43 1) 58801 10715 Technische Universit?t Wien Fax: (+43 1) 58801 10798 Wiedner Hauptstra?e 8-10/1071 Friedrich.Leisch at ci.tuwien.ac.at A-1040 Wien, Austria http://www.ci.tuwien.ac.at/~leisch PGP public key http://www.ci.tuwien.ac.at/~leisch/pgp.key ------------------------------------------------------------------- -.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.- r-announce mailing list -- Read http://www.ci.tuwien.ac.at/~hornik/R/R-FAQ.html Send "info", "help", or "[un]subscribe" (in the "body", not the subject !) To: r-announce-request at stat.math.ethz.ch _._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._ From Friedrich.Leisch at ci.tuwien.ac.at Fri Jan 5 15:17:36 2001 From: Friedrich.Leisch at ci.tuwien.ac.at (Friedrich Leisch) Date: Fri, 5 Jan 2001 15:17:36 +0100 Subject: package e1071 upgrade Message-ID: <14933.55168.354361.737100@galadriel.ci.tuwien.ac.at> Hi, the new version 1.1-0 of package e1071 is now on CRAN. Changes: *) use libsvm 2.1 for support vector machines. We are now also a kind of ``official'' R frontend to libsvm and linked from their homepage at http://www.csie.ntu.edu.tw/~cjlin/libsvm *) new functions for comparing partitions Best, Fritz -.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.- r-announce mailing list -- Read http://www.ci.tuwien.ac.at/~hornik/R/R-FAQ.html Send "info", "help", or "[un]subscribe" (in the "body", not the subject !) To: r-announce-request at stat.math.ethz.ch _._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._ From Friedrich.Leisch at ci.tuwien.ac.at Fri Jan 5 17:57:30 2001 From: Friedrich.Leisch at ci.tuwien.ac.at (Friedrich Leisch) Date: Fri, 5 Jan 2001 17:57:30 +0100 Subject: package multiv upgrade Message-ID: <14933.64762.538133.929972@galadriel.ci.tuwien.ac.at> Thanks to Peter Dalgaard, Kurt Hornik and Achim Zeileis there is now a new version (1.1-2) of package multiv on CRAN which passes R CMD check. All examples have been modified to use data sets available in R and a bug in a call to Fortran has been fixed. The remaining changes are mostly cosmetics. Best, -- ------------------------------------------------------------------- Friedrich Leisch Institut f?r Statistik Tel: (+43 1) 58801 10715 Technische Universit?t Wien Fax: (+43 1) 58801 10798 Wiedner Hauptstra?e 8-10/1071 Friedrich.Leisch at ci.tuwien.ac.at A-1040 Wien, Austria http://www.ci.tuwien.ac.at/~leisch ------------------------------------------------------------------- -.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.- r-announce mailing list -- Read http://www.ci.tuwien.ac.at/~hornik/R/R-FAQ.html Send "info", "help", or "[un]subscribe" (in the "body", not the subject !) To: r-announce-request at stat.math.ethz.ch _._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._ From greg at warnes.net Sun Jan 7 06:19:41 2001 From: greg at warnes.net (Gregory R. Warnes) Date: Sat, 06 Jan 2001 21:19:41 -0800 Subject: HYDRA Java library for Markov Chain Monte Carlo. Message-ID: <3A57FC6D.7E444C3A@warnes.net> Announcing the first release of the HYDRA Java library for Markov Chain Monte Carlo. HYDRA is an open-source, platform-neutral library for performing Markov Chain Monte Carlo. It implements the logic of standard MCMC samplers within a framework designed to be easy to use and to extend while allowing integration with other software tools. HYDRA provides methods for implementing MCMC samplers using Metropolis, Metropolis-Hastings, Gibbs methods. In addition, it provides classes implementing several unique adaptive and multiple chain/parallel MCMC methods. It was developed as part of my Ph.D. thesis work at the University of Washington. The Hydra package is available from: http://www.warnes.net/Hydra My thesis, which describes one of the adaptive MCMC algorithms and gives an tutorial on constructing MCMC samplers using the HYDRA library is available at http://www.warnes.net/MCMC -Greg Warnes -.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.- r-announce mailing list -- Read http://www.ci.tuwien.ac.at/~hornik/R/R-FAQ.html Send "info", "help", or "[un]subscribe" (in the "body", not the subject !) To: r-announce-request at stat.math.ethz.ch _._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._ From p.dalgaard at biostat.ku.dk Mon Jan 15 12:04:06 2001 From: p.dalgaard at biostat.ku.dk (Peter Dalgaard BSA) Date: 15 Jan 2001 12:04:06 +0100 Subject: R 1.2.1 is released Message-ID: I've rolled up R-1.2.1.tgz a moment ago. This is mainly a bugfix and minor tweaks release, although some new features (notably factor analysis) has sneaked in. You can get it from ftp://cvs.r-project.org/pub/CRAN/src/base/R-1.2.1.tgz or http://cvs.r-project.org/pub/CRAN/src/base/R-1.2.1.tgz or wait for it to be mirrored at a CRAN site near you within a day or two. There's also a version split in three for floppies and a patch file against 1.2.0. For the R Core Team, Peter D. Here's the relevant part of the NEWS file: CHANGES IN R VERSION 1.2.1 NEW FEATURES o New functions factanal(), varimax(), promax() and examples in package mva. o New functions readBin() and writeBin() to transfer binary data to and from connections. o merge() is partially moved to C to reduce its memory usage. o library(help = PKG) now displays the contents of the package's DESCRIPTION file in addition to its INDEX. o Sd2Rd can handle S4-style documentation too: see `Writing R Extensions'. o prompt() now also works with a character argument (useful for producing many *.Rd files in a loop). o The Unix front-end shell script now ignores a value for R_HOME found in the environment. o Connections functions such as file() now accept a description of length > 1, with a warning. o All text-mode connections now accept input with LF, CR or CRLF line endings. This means that readLines() can be used on DOS files and source() on Mac files, for example. Also, CRLF-terminated files can be used as stdin on Unix, and files with last lines without an EOL mark can be used as stdin and source()-ed on Unix and Windows. o DESCRIPTION file has a new recommended `Maintainer:' field. o stars() now uses a larger "cex" for the labels, and cex and lwd are now arguments. Further, the argument names (xlim, ylim, axes) are now consistent with other plot functions. The key symbol is not clipped anymore into the plot region by default. o Date-time quantities are now printed with the timezone, if known. o R CMD build now ignores all files specified (via Perl regexps) in file `.Rbuildignore' in the top-level source directory of a package. o Horizontal boxplots are possible with horizontal = TRUE. o all.equal() on lists now compares them as generic vectors, that is they are equal if have identical names attributes and all components are equal. o Invalid lines in .Renviron now give warnings when R is started. o Argument `na.last' implemented for rank(). BUG FIXES o There have been many small improvements/corrections in the documentation. In particular: The help pages for lm and glm now describe the fitted objects. is.vector() is now correctly documented: complex vectors and lists return TRUE. o The default sortedXyData constructor in the nls package now handles missing values in the response. o On startup, file .RData is now restored *after* the site and user profiles are loaded (if at all). This is as previously documented. o as.POSIXlt (and *ct) operating on a character string only extracted the date (and not the time) in some cases. o as.POSIXct() on character objects was ignoring `tz'. o codoc(ignore.generic.functions = TRUE) works again. o Explicitly close files opened by sink() for OSes (such as Windows) that benefit from it. o Prevent closing the sink connection (which would be a silly thing to do). o showConnections(all = TRUE) was sometimes counting connections incorrectly, and so not showing some closed ones. o ts(1:10, start= c(1999,6), end = c(2000,3), frequency = 12) now prints both years (as it should). o Monthly multivariate time series now print proper month names in all cases. o print.stl(), print.princomp() and print.prcomp() now pass on `digits =' etc. o prompt() now produces a \usage{} line for data frames and other datasets, as documented in `Writing R Extensions'. o glm() now returns correct linear predictor and fitted values for zero-weight cases. o scan(strip.white=TRUE) and readline() could give incorrect answers when an input field was empty or blank. o dchisq() now behaves better for large values of its ncp parameter. o besselJ(*, nu) is now ok for nu < 1; fix improves accuracy of other values by a few bits as well. o The convergence criterion in the Fortran SVD code has been changed to circumvent spurious convergence errors when comparing extended-precision quantities on ix86 Linux (and some compilers and options). o Rdindex now handles multi-line \title{}'s correctly. o Add weights.glm() so that plot.lm() gets the correct weights from glm objects (the ones that go with deviance residuals not the working residuals). o Printing a language object (e.g. a formula) in a list was clobbering the buffer holding the tag labels which then were lost in subsequent lines of printout (PR#746). o aic in family() objects is now computed more precisely using dxxxx(log=TRUE). For binomial fits the value was wrong for models specified via proportions and weights (PR#796). Avoid NaN values in aic where n = 0 occurs. o Using non-integer numbers of successes in a binomial glm (as formerly in demo(lm.glm)) now gives a warning, as the theory and in particular the AIC value is not applicable. o demo(is.things) works again {is.ALL() doesn't call methods anymore}. o persp(*, nticks = nn) now works (better) for too small nn. persp(*, main = t1, sub= t2) now work (as always documented). o Printing of attributes of a list element no longer precedes `attr' by the tag (PR#715). o It is no longer possible to use df[foo] to select non-existent columns in df and so create an invalid object of class "data.frame" (PR#698). o edit.data.frame() was trying to set row.names on a list, which is no longer allowed. o In the \link[pkg]{topic}, `pkg' was not being used if `topic' was found in a package in .lib.loc. Now `pkg' is always used. o plot() with small relative ranges gave an error, which e.g. broke library(ts); plot(stl(ts(rep(1:7, 15), freq = 7), s.win = "per")) o Using scan() with a 0-length `what' argument now gives an error message rather than a segfault. o Loading .Random.seed could extremely rarely and with some generators reject a value as NA_INTEGER when it was valid. o save(..., ascii=TRUE) created broken files when saving strings containing special characters (ASCII code > 127). o mean(c(1,NA,NA,NA)[-1], trim = .1, na.rm = TRUE) doesn't give an error anymore. o As the supplied afm files are not properly in the ISOLatin1 encoding, the font metric for "-" was wrong since 0.63 on a postscript/xfig device, and randomly wrong in 1.2.0. It will now be correct (but the files remain incorrect: C45 is "minus" not "hyphen" and there are missing slots). Metrics for the duplicated characters (acute, dieresis, macron, space) in ISOLatin1 encoding are now correct for both occurrences: previously only one was present. o The data-time functions try harder to guess the DST setting when the OS does not know, as some OSes were printing times in DST if this was marked as unknown. o Setting par(pty=) after par(pin=) or par(plt=) was having no effect until the margins were set. o Nested \describe sections in .Rd files have (again) nested indentation when converted to text. o Concatenation of C strings by ## is no longer used, to avoid spurious warnings from some recent versions of gcc. o dev.copy2eps() allows a `paper' argument to be passed to postscript(). o file.show() handles the case of zero files better. o formula.lm uses object$formula if it exists, in preference to object$terms. o strsplit() is corrected for an empty split pattern. o kronecker() now does a better job when creating dimnames. o Better handling of input dimnames in fourfoldplot(). -- O__ ---- Peter Dalgaard Blegdamsvej 3 c/ /'_ --- Dept. of Biostatistics 2200 Cph. N (*) \(*) -- University of Copenhagen Denmark Ph: (+45) 35327918 ~~~~~~~~~~ - (p.dalgaard at biostat.ku.dk) FAX: (+45) 35327907 -.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.- r-announce mailing list -- Read http://www.ci.tuwien.ac.at/~hornik/R/R-FAQ.html Send "info", "help", or "[un]subscribe" (in the "body", not the subject !) To: r-announce-request at stat.math.ethz.ch _._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._ From bates at stat.wisc.edu Mon Jan 15 14:11:35 2001 From: bates at stat.wisc.edu (Douglas Bates) Date: 15 Jan 2001 07:11:35 -0600 Subject: R-1.2.1 available from rsync.r-project.org Message-ID: <6rofx97yew.fsf@franz.stat.wisc.edu> The R-1.2.1 sources are now available via rsync as rsync.r-project.org::r-release -.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.- r-announce mailing list -- Read http://www.ci.tuwien.ac.at/~hornik/R/R-FAQ.html Send "info", "help", or "[un]subscribe" (in the "body", not the subject !) To: r-announce-request at stat.math.ethz.ch _._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._ From thomas at biostat.washington.edu Mon Jan 15 20:03:35 2001 From: thomas at biostat.washington.edu (Thomas Lumley) Date: Mon, 15 Jan 2001 11:03:35 -0800 (PST) Subject: announce: survival5 bug fix Message-ID: Anyone using the penalised partial likelihood routines in survival5 should update their version. A bug has been fixed in the S package: in coxph() models with penalised likelihood and strata it was possible in some circumstances to get an infinite loop or perhaps an incorrect answer. The new version (2.3) is on cran.r-project.org and will percolate through CRAN in the next few days. -thomas Thomas Lumley Asst. Professor, Biostatistics tlumley at u.washington.edu University of Washington, Seattle -.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.- r-announce mailing list -- Read http://www.ci.tuwien.ac.at/~hornik/R/R-FAQ.html Send "info", "help", or "[un]subscribe" (in the "body", not the subject !) To: r-announce-request at stat.math.ethz.ch _._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._ From guido at hal.stat.unipd.it Fri Jan 19 08:59:23 2001 From: guido at hal.stat.unipd.it (Guido Masarotto) Date: Fri, 19 Jan 2001 08:59:23 +0100 Subject: R 1.2.1 for Windows Message-ID: <20010119085923.07174@hal.stat.unipd.it> Windows binaries at CRAN (http://cran.r-project.org) have been updated to R-1.2.1. See below for the list of Windows-specific changes. guido masarotto (for the R-core team) Windows-specific changes to R ============================= Pipe connections now work under RGui and embedded R.dll, although slower than under Rterm, and as they run with no stdin or stdout to inherit what you can do with them is limited. They work better for reading than writing. The installer will no longer crash trying to install addons with a long PATH and R_HOME not set. Similarly, Rcmd accepts long paths. Using Rcmd INSTALL with an incorrect path specification ending in \ no longer runs amok. Internal pager no longer fails when given a file of one line and no line ending. Hyperlinks to other packages in CHTML files launched by help() will now work irrespective of the working directory (but like HTML, only to packages in the same library). The .chm files do need to be re-built under this version. help(, winhelp=TRUE) will now find alias topics as well as main items. Hitting the total memory allocation limit set by --max-mem-size will give a warning (and will usually also lead to an error, and that may suppress printing out the warning). There is a new make target test-Reg to run the regression tests (which now do I/0, so might give different results on Windows). Rcmd build with the latest tar.exe will exclude files as intended. There are further improvements in the GUI console receiving output (e.g. from tcltk interactive functions) during input. If you can, arrange to send output in a single piece, or at least a whole line at a time (although partial lines will now work). For example, don't use print() but capture the output in a text connection and use something like cat(paste(outlines, "", collapse="\n)) to output a single string. The initial rescaling is no longer done for windows(rescale="fixed"), and the scrollbars in that mode are more responsive but move the viewport 20 pixels at a time. -.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.- r-announce mailing list -- Read http://www.ci.tuwien.ac.at/~hornik/R/R-FAQ.html Send "info", "help", or "[un]subscribe" (in the "body", not the subject !) To: r-announce-request at stat.math.ethz.ch _._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._ From stefano.iacus at unimi.it Fri Jan 19 18:17:02 2001 From: stefano.iacus at unimi.it (Stefano Iacus) Date: Fri, 19 Jan 2001 18:17:02 +0100 Subject: R 1.2.1 (beta) for Macintosh In-Reply-To: <20010119085923.07174@hal.stat.unipd.it> References: <20010119085923.07174@hal.stat.unipd.it> Message-ID: Macintosh binaries and sources have been updated to R-1.2.1 You can find them at http://www.eco-dip.unimi.it/R Please remember that this is still at a developer stage. Feedback and interactions with other Macintosh developer is warmly welcome. Macintosh-specific changes to R =============================== * help.start() has been implemented. Now R for MacOS calls the standard HTML browser to visualize the HTML help and manuals. * getenv() in now working. The .Renviron file is assumed to be in "etc" directory. Directory "etc" is assumed to contain the history file, the image session and the environments variables * a command line has been added. It is possible to specify options as in the Unix/Win implementations. If you don't want to specify options, simply type return after starting R aplication. * InfoZip code has been included in this version. Help files are now stored in zipped archive to save disk space. * packages have been recompiled and few other bugs fixed -.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.- r-announce mailing list -- Read http://www.ci.tuwien.ac.at/~hornik/R/R-FAQ.html Send "info", "help", or "[un]subscribe" (in the "body", not the subject !) To: r-announce-request at stat.math.ethz.ch _._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._ From Friedrich.Leisch at ci.tuwien.ac.at Wed Jan 24 11:59:32 2001 From: Friedrich.Leisch at ci.tuwien.ac.at (Friedrich Leisch) Date: Wed, 24 Jan 2001 11:59:32 +0100 Subject: R News Volume 1/1 Message-ID: <14958.46484.299690.315352@galadriel.ci.tuwien.ac.at> We are pleased to announce the first volume of R News, the newsletter of the R project for statistical computing. The newsletter is available online as PDF file at http://cran.R-project.org/doc/Rnews and will propagate to the CRAN mirrors within the next days. R News will feature short to medium length articles covering topics that might be of interest to users or developers of R, including * Changes in R: new features of the latest release * Changes on CRAN: new add-on packages, manuals, binary distributions, mirrors, ... * Add-on packages: short introductions to or reviews of R extension packages * Programmer's Niche: nifty hints for programming in R (or S) * Applications: Examples of analyzing data with R The newsletter as a medium for communication intends to fill the gap between the R mailing lists and scientific journals: Compared with emails it is more persistent, one can cite articles in the newsletter and because the newsletter is edited it has better quality control. On the other hand, when compared to scientific journals, it is faster, less formal, and last but not least focused on R. As all of R, R News is a volunteer project. The editorial board currently consists of the R core development team plus Bill Venables. We really hope you will enjoy reading R News! For the editorial board, Fritz Leisch -- ------------------------------------------------------------------- Friedrich Leisch Institut f?r Statistik Tel: (+43 1) 58801 10715 Technische Universit?t Wien Fax: (+43 1) 58801 10798 Wiedner Hauptstra?e 8-10/1071 Friedrich.Leisch at ci.tuwien.ac.at A-1040 Wien, Austria http://www.ci.tuwien.ac.at/~leisch ------------------------------------------------------------------- -.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.- r-announce mailing list -- Read http://www.ci.tuwien.ac.at/~hornik/R/R-FAQ.html Send "info", "help", or "[un]subscribe" (in the "body", not the subject !) To: r-announce-request at stat.math.ethz.ch _._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._ From ramon-diaz at teleline.es Wed Jan 24 20:09:23 2001 From: ramon-diaz at teleline.es (Ramon Diaz-Uriarte) Date: Wed, 24 Jan 2001 20:09:23 +0100 Subject: R News Volume 1/1 In-Reply-To: <14958.46484.299690.315352@galadriel.ci.tuwien.ac.at> References: <14958.46484.299690.315352@galadriel.ci.tuwien.ac.at> Message-ID: <01012500203405.00669@ligarto> Thanks a lot and congratulations to the editors and contributors!!! It is really awesome. Ram?n On Wed, 24 Jan 2001, Friedrich Leisch wrote: > We are pleased to announce the first volume of R News, the > newsletter of the R project for statistical computing. The newsletter > is available online as PDF file at > > http://cran.R-project.org/doc/Rnews > > and will propagate to the CRAN mirrors within the next days. > > R News will feature short to medium length articles covering topics > that might be of interest to users or developers of R, including > > * Changes in R: new features of the latest release > * Changes on CRAN: new add-on packages, manuals, binary distributions, > mirrors, ... > * Add-on packages: short introductions to or reviews of R extension packages > * Programmer's Niche: nifty hints for programming in R (or S) > * Applications: Examples of analyzing data with R > > The newsletter as a medium for communication intends to fill the gap > between the R mailing lists and scientific journals: Compared with > emails it is more persistent, one can cite articles in the newsletter > and because the newsletter is edited it has better quality control. On > the other hand, when compared to scientific journals, it is faster, > less formal, and last but not least focused on R. > > As all of R, R News is a volunteer project. The editorial board > currently consists of the R core development team plus Bill > Venables. > > We really hope you will enjoy reading R News! > > For the editorial board, > Fritz Leisch > > -- > ------------------------------------------------------------------- > Friedrich Leisch > Institut f?r Statistik Tel: (+43 1) 58801 10715 > Technische Universit?t Wien Fax: (+43 1) 58801 10798 > Wiedner Hauptstra?e 8-10/1071 Friedrich.Leisch at ci.tuwien.ac.at > A-1040 Wien, Austria http://www.ci.tuwien.ac.at/~leisch > ------------------------------------------------------------------- > > -.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.- > r-announce mailing list -- Read http://www.ci.tuwien.ac.at/~hornik/R/R-FAQ.html > Send "info", "help", or "[un]subscribe" > (in the "body", not the subject !) To: r-announce-request at stat.math.ethz.ch > _._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._ -- Ram?n D?az-Uriarte Triana 47 28016 Madrid Spain email:ramon-diaz at teleline.es Phone: +-34-918-513-966 +-34-657-186-407 -.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.- r-announce mailing list -- Read http://www.ci.tuwien.ac.at/~hornik/R/R-FAQ.html Send "info", "help", or "[un]subscribe" (in the "body", not the subject !) To: r-announce-request at stat.math.ethz.ch _._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._ From Setzer.Woodrow at epamail.epa.gov Tue Feb 6 15:34:27 2001 From: Setzer.Woodrow at epamail.epa.gov (Setzer.Woodrow at epamail.epa.gov) Date: Tue, 06 Feb 2001 09:34:27 -0500 Subject: No subject Message-ID: CRAN now contains a new package for numerically solving ordinary differential equations. The package (odesolve_0.5-3) currently provides an interface to the solver "LSODA" written by Linda Petzold and Alan Hindmarsh. LSODA is an adaptive solver, switching between methods appropriate for non-stiff and stiff systems as the problem requires. In this implementation, the system of ODEs are written as an R function. A vector of parameters may be passed to the function, making it relatively easy to use lsoda in functions to be passed to various R optimizers. R. Woodrow Setzer, Jr. Phone: (919) 541-0128 Experimental Toxicology Division Fax: (919) 541-5394 Pharmacokinetics Branch NHEERL MD-74; US EPA; RTP, NC 27711 -.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.- r-announce mailing list -- Read http://www.ci.tuwien.ac.at/~hornik/R/R-FAQ.html Send "info", "help", or "[un]subscribe" (in the "body", not the subject !) To: r-announce-request at stat.math.ethz.ch _._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._ From Setzer.Woodrow at epamail.epa.gov Tue Feb 6 17:12:11 2001 From: Setzer.Woodrow at epamail.epa.gov (Setzer.Woodrow at epamail.epa.gov) Date: Tue, 06 Feb 2001 11:12:11 -0500 Subject: ODE solver submitted to CRAN Message-ID: [I inadvertantly submitted this just now without a subject line. My apologies for the double posting!] CRAN now contains a new package for numerically solving ordinary differential equations. The package (odesolve_0.5-3) currently provides an interface to the solver "LSODA" written by Linda Petzold and Alan Hindmarsh. LSODA is an adaptive solver, switching between methods appropriate for non-stiff and stiff systems as the problem requires. In this implementation, the system of ODEs are written as an R function. A vector of parameters may be passed to the function, making it relatively easy to use lsoda in functions to be passed to various R optimizers. R. Woodrow Setzer, Jr. Phone: (919) 541-0128 Experimental Toxicology Division Fax: (919) 541-5394 Pharmacokinetics Branch NHEERL MD-74; US EPA; RTP, NC 27711 -.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.- r-announce mailing list -- Read http://www.ci.tuwien.ac.at/~hornik/R/R-FAQ.html Send "info", "help", or "[un]subscribe" (in the "body", not the subject !) To: r-announce-request at stat.math.ethz.ch _._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._ From p.dalgaard at pubhealth.ku.dk Mon Feb 26 14:33:08 2001 From: p.dalgaard at pubhealth.ku.dk (Peter Dalgaard BSA) Date: 26 Feb 2001 14:33:08 +0100 Subject: R-1.2.2 is released Message-ID: I've rolled up R-1.2.2.tgz a moment ago. This is mainly a release to add Stefano's Macintosh sources, but there are also a couple of bugfixes and minor tweaks. You can get it from ftp://cvs.r-project.org/pub/CRAN/src/base/R-1.2.2.tgz or http://cvs.r-project.org/pub/CRAN/src/base/R-1.2.2.tgz or wait for it to be mirrored at a CRAN site near you within a day or two. There's also a version split in three for floppies and a patch file against 1.2.1. For the R Core Team, Peter D. Here's the relevant part of the NEWS file: CHANGES IN R VERSION 1.2.2 NEW FEATURES o The Macintosh port becomes a full member of the R family and its sources are incorporated as from this release. See `src/macintosh/INSTALL' for how that port is built. o The API header files and export files `R.exp' are released under LGPL rather than GPL to allow dynamically loaded code to be distributed under licences other than GPL. o postscript() and xfig() devices now make use of genuine Adobe afm files, and warn if characters are used in string width or height calculations that are not in the afm files. o Configure now uses a much expanded search list for finding a FORTRAN 77 compiler, and no longer disallows wrapper scripts for this compiler. o New Rd markup \method{GENERIC}{CLASS} for indicating the usage of methods. o print.ftable() and write.ftable() now have a `digits' argument. o undoc() has a new `lib.loc' argument, and its first argument is now called `package'. BUG FIXES o The behaviour of polygon() with NA coordinate values is now documented. o polygon() now correctly recycles the values of border and lty. Thanks to Denis White. o readBin() and writeBin() were not always making good use of long types (such as long double) when available. o The C function fprec was not handling very small denormalized numbers correctly. This affected the way they were printed on Windows, for example. o legend() now draws points after lines allowing "empty dots on lines" thanks to Ben Bolker. o Setting row/column names preserves the names of the dimnames (PR#809). o Using help() after help.start() on Unix was failing to find the linked help files if more than one package was loaded (as now happens by default). o scan now sets the maximal sizes internally when `what' is a list from `nmax' and failing that `nlines'. This uses memory much more efficiently if `nmax' is specified. read.table() makes use of this. o The FORTRAN code used is now much closer to ANSI compliance. o cov.rob() gives a useful error message on nearly-degenerate matrices. o summary() on a data frame was computing results to a precision based on options("digits") (default 4), not its `digits' argument. Now results are computed to full precision but formatted using `digits'. o summary(m, digits=*) also properly works for matrices. o When returning parameters from .C/.Fortran, the OBJECT field was not copied even though class attributes were (PR#834). o There was a spurious warning from the X11 driver on 100 dpi displays (PR#840, fix from Tom Vogels). o scan() was reading all-blank numeric fields as zero. Should be read as NA, and are now. o dnbinom(*, size, *) now works again for size < 1 (PR#842). o dgeom(*, p = 0) and pgeom(*, p = 0) don't give NaN anymore. o smooth.spline() allows zero weights again. o aperm() fix for list arg; aperm(*, resize=FALSE) now works with dimnames (by dropping them). o The xfig() driver was not closing unclosed polygons as the R driver expected (but did not document). o spec.ar() now handles order 1 correctly. o Add fuzz to prevent anomalies with hist(). o print.matrix() checks length of rowlab, collab (PR#850) o add1.glm() was using the wrong weights for binomial glms in cbind(successes, failures) ~ lhs form, since 1.2.0. o Eliminate packing of the `structRstart' structure, which was probably non-ISO C and caused some compilers problems (PR#852). o all.vars() no longer returns empty `names' (PR#829). o dotplot() passes `cex' down to the mtext() calls used for the labels (PR#816). o The pictex() driver was drawing polylines incorrectly (PR#845). o In the event of a fatal X11 error (this can be generated under FVWM by selecting Destroy), the input handler would loop, leaving the "please save work and shut down R" advice useless. There should now be an opportunity for a relatively graceful exit. o polyroot() misbehaved if all coefficients except that of the highest degree term were zero (partial fix for PR#751) o spline(method="natural") was extrapolating incorrectly (both to the left and to the right, for different reasons). (PR#653) o Line clipping was incorrect for log-plots. (PR#839) o Add explicit test for rank-deficient residuals to summary.manova(). o The help search databases did not contain the data from the platform-specific help files. o parse.dcf() and hence package.contents() now work with a warning for empty contents' files. o which.min() and which.max() now properly work for 0-length and NA-only arguments. -- O__ ---- Peter Dalgaard Blegdamsvej 3 c/ /'_ --- Dept. of Biostatistics 2200 Cph. N (*) \(*) -- University of Copenhagen Denmark Ph: (+45) 35327918 ~~~~~~~~~~~ - (p.dalgaard at biostat.ku.dk) FAX: (+45) 35327907 -.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.- r-announce mailing list -- Read http://www.ci.tuwien.ac.at/~hornik/R/R-FAQ.html Send "info", "help", or "[un]subscribe" (in the "body", not the subject !) To: r-announce-request at stat.math.ethz.ch _._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._ From bates at stat.wisc.edu Mon Feb 26 15:41:09 2001 From: bates at stat.wisc.edu (Douglas Bates) Date: 26 Feb 2001 08:41:09 -0600 Subject: R-1.2.2 via rsync Message-ID: <6rhf1h33sq.fsf@franz.stat.wisc.edu> R-1.2.2 is now available via rsync as rsync.r-project.org::r-release -.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.- r-announce mailing list -- Read http://www.ci.tuwien.ac.at/~hornik/R/R-FAQ.html Send "info", "help", or "[un]subscribe" (in the "body", not the subject !) To: r-announce-request at stat.math.ethz.ch _._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._ From gs at statlab.uni-heidelberg.de Fri Mar 2 17:47:26 2001 From: gs at statlab.uni-heidelberg.de (G. Sawitzki) Date: Fri, 2 Mar 2001 17:47:26 +0100 Subject: Introduction to R (S) [in German] Message-ID: Couse notes for a short introduction to the S language have been posted as This is material for a 4-5 days course, assuming some background in statistics (German style). As a matter of fact it is a Trojan horse, claiming it is teaching the S language, but under the shelf it is trying to convey some ideas about statistics. For those of you who are going to Vienna it is a chance to train your German. Comments and corrections are welcome (please mail to me directly). gs -.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.- r-announce mailing list -- Read http://www.ci.tuwien.ac.at/~hornik/R/R-FAQ.html Send "info", "help", or "[un]subscribe" (in the "body", not the subject !) To: r-announce-request at stat.math.ethz.ch _._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._ From ripley at stats.ox.ac.uk Fri Mar 2 19:25:49 2001 From: ripley at stats.ox.ac.uk (Prof Brian Ripley) Date: Fri, 2 Mar 2001 18:25:49 +0000 (GMT) Subject: VR_6.2-4 is released Message-ID: <200103021825.SAA29994@toucan.stats.ox.ac.uk> An update of the VR bundle was released on Monday and should have propagated around CRAN now. It is a collection of bug fixes (many to documentation, thanks to Kurt Hornik's great tools undoc and codoc) and small enhancements for R. It does need R 1.2.2 to install (the help files make use of new markup for methods) but only 1.2.0 to run. Thus the precompiled Windows version will run on rw1021. -- Brian D. Ripley, ripley at stats.ox.ac.uk Professor of Applied Statistics, http://www.stats.ox.ac.uk/~ripley/ University of Oxford, Tel: +44 1865 272861 (self) 1 South Parks Road, +44 1865 272860 (secr) Oxford OX1 3TG, UK Fax: +44 1865 272595 -.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.- r-announce mailing list -- Read http://www.ci.tuwien.ac.at/~hornik/R/R-FAQ.html Send "info", "help", or "[un]subscribe" (in the "body", not the subject !) To: r-announce-request at stat.math.ethz.ch _._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._ From cberry at tajo.ucsd.edu Sat Mar 3 02:00:57 2001 From: cberry at tajo.ucsd.edu (Charles C. Berry) Date: Fri, 02 Mar 2001 17:00:57 -0800 Subject: bqtl available on CRAN Message-ID: <3AA04249.37D71B10@tajo.ucsd.edu> Package bqtl version 1.0 is now available on CRAN. Description: QTL mapping toolkit for inbred crosses and recombinant inbred lines. Includes maximum likelihood and Bayesian tools. I am keen to have comments about this package including implementation details, additional functionality, and (of course) problems and bugs. Chuck Berry -- Charles C. Berry (858) 534-2098 Dept of Family/Preventive Medicine E mailto:cberry at tajo.ucsd.edu UC San Diego http://hacuna.ucsd.edu/members/ccb.html La Jolla, San Diego 92093-0645 -.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.- r-announce mailing list -- Read http://www.ci.tuwien.ac.at/~hornik/R/R-FAQ.html Send "info", "help", or "[un]subscribe" (in the "body", not the subject !) To: r-announce-request at stat.math.ethz.ch _._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._ From guido at hal.stat.unipd.it Mon Mar 5 09:22:36 2001 From: guido at hal.stat.unipd.it (Guido Masarotto) Date: Mon, 5 Mar 2001 09:22:36 +0100 Subject: Binaries of R 1.2.2 for Ms Windows at CRAN Message-ID: <20010305092235.11089@hal.stat.unipd.it> Windows binaries at CRAN (bin/windows/Windows-NT/base) have been updated to R-1.2.2. See below for a list of Windows-specific changes. guido masarotto (for the R-core team) ============================= Windows-specific changes to R ============================= The long-running saga of importing R metafiles into Word is over; lines are now visible in screen previews in Word. It was necessary to use `geometric' rather than `cosmetic' pens to achieve scalable line widths in metafiles: Word was failing to show lines drawn with `cosmetic' pens. bringToTop() now works with MDI child windows as well as SDI windows. Rcmd build/check use a different check for a directory, to work around a bug in (some versions of) Windows Perl. The datetime code has been modified to work around a problem reported on a Win98 machine which caused times to be reported in GMT. (This seems a bug in a particular version of msvcrt.dll and few machines were affected.) A side-effect of the changes is that the timezone names reported are usually more sensible (but sometimes less). File etc/Makeconf-tests was missing from rw102Xsp.zip. Rcmd SHLIB now supports compilation from C++ sources. Rterm now saves and resets the console window title. On Win2k, system(intern=TRUE) was failing to reset stderr to the console. -.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.- r-announce mailing list -- Read http://www.ci.tuwien.ac.at/~hornik/R/R-FAQ.html Send "info", "help", or "[un]subscribe" (in the "body", not the subject !) To: r-announce-request at stat.math.ethz.ch _._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._ From deleeuw at stat.ucla.edu Thu Mar 22 03:26:16 2001 From: deleeuw at stat.ucla.edu (Jan de Leeuw) Date: Wed, 21 Mar 2001 18:26:16 -0800 Subject: MacOS X (Darwin) version of R-1.2.2 Message-ID: <200103220226.SAA57875@pine.frazmtn.com> a version of R-1.2.2 for MacOS X (more precisely, for Darwin 1.3 with X11R6) is at http://www.stat.ucla.edu/~deleeuw/R-1.2.2-MacOSX.tar.gz the file should be 5161540 bytes -- su root -- unpack in / and everything gets put in /usr/local/bin and /usr/local/lib this has the standard packages, including tcltk, and it has X11R6 support it uses tcl/tk 8.0 from the GRASS distribution i also have a version with gnome support, but it still needs some work -- and it's probably nonsense anyway of course you need to install an X server and an X browser i have not tried this in the Public Beta, so some of you may have to wait a couple of days there were no big problems in porting, but of course you need Darwin versions of X11R6, of tcl/tk, and a shim for dlopen (that maps the usual calls to Mach-O dyld calls). because of dyld you have to replace "-shared" when linking foo.so to "-bundle -undefined suppress". -.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.- r-announce mailing list -- Read http://www.ci.tuwien.ac.at/~hornik/R/R-FAQ.html Send "info", "help", or "[un]subscribe" (in the "body", not the subject !) To: r-announce-request at stat.math.ethz.ch _._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._ From deleeuw at stat.ucla.edu Sun Mar 25 01:02:39 2001 From: deleeuw at stat.ucla.edu (Jan de Leeuw) Date: Sat, 24 Mar 2001 16:02:39 -0800 Subject: R-1.2.2 for MacOS X (Darwin/X11) Message-ID: <200103250002.QAA79478@pine.frazmtn.com> A tarball with the 03/23/01 patch version of R-1.2.2 (with X11 and tcl/tk support) is at http://www.stat.ucla.edu/~deleeuw/R/R-1.2.2.MacOSX.tar.gz This is not a Classic or Carbon or Cocoa application, you need to run it from the command line and you need to have an X11 server running. It only uses the classical Unix part of Mac OS X, i.e. it is similar in functionality to the Linux and OSF ports. === Jan de Leeuw; Professor and Chair, UCLA Department of Statistics; US mail: 8142 Math Sciences Bldg, Box 951554, Los Angeles, CA 90095-1554 phone (310)-825-9550; fax (310)-206-5658; email: deleeuw at stat.ucla.edu http://www.stat.ucla.edu/~deleeuw and http://home1.gte.net/datamine/ ======================================================== No matter where you go, there you are. --- Buckaroo Banzai http://www.stat.ucla.edu/sounds/nomatter.au ======================================================== -.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.- r-announce mailing list -- Read http://www.ci.tuwien.ac.at/~hornik/R/R-FAQ.html Send "info", "help", or "[un]subscribe" (in the "body", not the subject !) To: r-announce-request at stat.math.ethz.ch _._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._ From ihaka at stat.auckland.ac.nz Wed Apr 18 11:47:59 2001 From: ihaka at stat.auckland.ac.nz (Ross Ihaka) Date: Wed, 18 Apr 2001 21:47:59 +1200 Subject: New R Core Member Message-ID: <3ADD62CF.D9905314@stat.auckland.ac.nz> I would like (somewhat belatedly) to announce that Steffano Iacus has joined the R-core group, and will oversee the Macintosh port(s) for R. Steffano has done a stirling job of bringing the of Mac port into line with the other ports. Well done Steffano, and welcome aboard! -- Ross Ihaka Email: ihaka at stat.auckland.ac.nz Department of Statistics Phone: (64-9) 373-7599 x 5054 University of Auckland Fax: (64-9) 373-7018 Private Bag 92019, Auckland New Zealand -.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.- r-announce mailing list -- Read http://www.ci.tuwien.ac.at/~hornik/R/R-FAQ.html Send "info", "help", or "[un]subscribe" (in the "body", not the subject !) To: r-announce-request at stat.math.ethz.ch _._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._ From deleeuw at stat.ucla.edu Sun Apr 22 17:54:51 2001 From: deleeuw at stat.ucla.edu (Jan de Leeuw) Date: Sun, 22 Apr 2001 08:54:51 -0700 Subject: new Darwin/X11 builds Message-ID: <200104221555.IAA98495@pine.frazmtn.com> New MacOS X (Darwin with X11R6) builds are at http://www.stat.ucla.edu/~deleeuw/R These include some dylibs that were missing from previous builds. One is of R-1.2.2 (patched), the other of R-devel (with many add-on libraries included). You do need some version of X11 (I use Xtools, they tell me Xfree also works) installed. If something does not work for you, drop me an email. === Jan de Leeuw; Professor and Chair, UCLA Department of Statistics; US mail: 9432 Boulter Hall, Box 951554, Los Angeles, CA 90095-1554 phone (310)-825-9550; fax (310)-206-5658; email: deleeuw at stat.ucla.edu http://www.stat.ucla.edu/~deleeuw and http://home1.gte.net/datamine/ ======================================================== No matter where you go, there you are. --- Buckaroo Banzai http://www.stat.ucla.edu/sounds/nomatter.au ======================================================== -.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.- r-announce mailing list -- Read http://www.ci.tuwien.ac.at/~hornik/R/R-FAQ.html Send "info", "help", or "[un]subscribe" (in the "body", not the subject !) To: r-announce-request at stat.math.ethz.ch _._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._ From didier at fmrib.ox.ac.uk Tue Apr 24 12:36:45 2001 From: didier at fmrib.ox.ac.uk (Didier Leibovici) Date: Tue, 24 Apr 2001 11:36:45 +0100 Subject: New Package Released: PTAk Message-ID: <3AE5573D.FE48A63@fmrib.ox.ac.uk> PTAk_1.1-1 ( Principal Tensor Analysis on k modes) has been released on CRAN A multiway method to decompose a tensor (array) of any order, as a generalisation of SVD also supporting non-identity metrics and penalisations. 2-way SVD with these extensions is also available. The package includes also some other multiway methods: PCAn (Tucker-n) and PARAFAC/CANDECOMP with these extensions. please send comments + looking for nice not too big multi-arrays for the next release demos Didier -- Didier G. Leibovici didier at fmrib.ox.ac.uk +44 (0)1865 222 739 Image Analysis Group fax:+44 (0)1865 222 717 Oxford University, Centre For Functional Magnetic Resonance Imaging of the Brain (FMRIB), John Radcliffe Hospital, Headington, Oxford OX3 9DU, U.K http://www.fmrib.ox.ac.uk/~didier/ -.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.- r-announce mailing list -- Read http://www.ci.tuwien.ac.at/~hornik/R/R-FAQ.html Send "info", "help", or "[un]subscribe" (in the "body", not the subject !) To: r-announce-request at stat.math.ethz.ch _._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._ From zeileis at ci.tuwien.ac.at Tue Apr 24 17:50:32 2001 From: zeileis at ci.tuwien.ac.at (Achim Zeileis) Date: Tue, 24 Apr 2001 17:50:32 +0200 Subject: DSC 2001 Proceedings Announcement Message-ID: <3AE5A0C8.F3859BBB@ci.tuwien.ac.at> We are pleased to announce that the proceedings of the 2nd International Workshop on Distributed Statistical Computing March 15-17, 2001, Technische Universit?t Wien, Vienna, Austria are now available online at http://www.ci.tuwien.ac.at/Conferences/DSC.html Citing Thomas Lumley's conference summary: ``DSC 2001: Cooperation between programs (and programmers) There were about 30 presentations over the three days of the conference, with speakers from universities, industrial research groups, and software companies in twelve countries. Despite the programmed sessions' running about 30% over time there was lively discussion over coffee and lunch and in during the conference's social program. DSC 2001 emphasized the value of high quality open source software as a statistical research platform but also for the ultimate goal of delivering modern statistical methods to those with little knowledge of (or interest in) statistical computing.'' Table of Contents: ------------------- Summary Thomas Lumley DSC 2001: Cooperation between programs (and programmers) Contributions Anna Bartkowiak A Set of XLispStat Subroutines for Detecting Outliers Douglas Bates, Saikat C++ Classes for R Objects DebRoy Roger Bivand R and geographical information systems, especially GRASS Vince Carey GEE solvers: case studies in DSC design and implementation Peter Dalgaard The R-Tcl/Tk interface John W. Eaton Octave: Past, Present and Future Robert Gentleman Modeling with Objects Richard M. Heiberger Emacs Speaks Statistics: One Interface - Many Programs Torsten Hothorn, David R/S Interfaces to Databases A. James, Brian D. Ripley Stefano Iacus R porting for the Macintosh Ross Ihaka R Graphics - The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly Thomas Lumley Orca [ R [ RJava]] Duncan Murdoch RGL: An R Interface to OpenGL Paul Murrell R Lattice Graphics Balasubramanian JDiehard: An implementation of Narasimhan Diehard in Java Erich Neuwirth, Thomas Embedding R in Standard Baier Software, and the other way round Erich Neuwirth R sings - or using R to sonify data B. D. Ripley, R. M. Applications of R Clients and Ripley Servers Anthony Rossini Literate Statistical Analysis Duncan Temple Lang, GGobi meets R: an extensible Deborah F. Swayne environment for interactive dynamic data visualization Duncan Temple Lang Embedding S in Other Languages and Environments Martin Theus What dataminers want Luke Tierney Compiling R: A Preliminary Report Antony Unwin R objects, two interfaces! (R objects to interfaces?) Mikko Virtanen Distributing data to different platforms using XML Gregory R. Warnes Hydra: A Java library for Markov Chain Monte Carlo Hengyi Xue, E. James JavaStat: A Distributed Harner Statistical Computing Environment Gilles Zumbach, Adrian Orla: A data flow programming Trapletti system for processing very large time series For the organizing committee Achim Zeileis --------------------------- Institut f?r Statistik Technische Universti?t Wien -.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.- r-announce mailing list -- Read http://www.ci.tuwien.ac.at/~hornik/R/R-FAQ.html Send "info", "help", or "[un]subscribe" (in the "body", not the subject !) To: r-announce-request at stat.math.ethz.ch _._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._ From p.dalgaard at biostat.ku.dk Thu Apr 26 14:37:25 2001 From: p.dalgaard at biostat.ku.dk (Peter Dalgaard BSA) Date: 26 Apr 2001 14:37:25 +0200 Subject: R-1.2.3 is released Message-ID: I've rolled up R-1.2.3.tgz a moment ago. This is mainly adds fixes to the Macintosh port, but it also has a number of bugfixes for all versions. You can get it from the developer site ftp://cvs.r-project.org/pub/CRAN/src/base/R-1.2.3.tgz or http://cvs.r-project.org/pub/CRAN/src/base/R-1.2.3.tgz or wait for it to be mirrored at a CRAN site near you within a day or two. Binaries for various platforms will appear in due course. There's also a version split in three for floppies and a patch file against 1.2.3. (The patches miss out on one file because binary files cannot be patched: R-1.2.3/src/gnuwin32/installer/R.bmp . This not likely to be of consequence to anyone, but drop us a note if it bothers you.) For the R Core Team, Peter D. Here's the relevant part of the NEWS file: CHANGES IN R VERSION 1.2.3 NEW FEATURES o Support for configuration and building the Unix version of R under Mac OS X. (The `classic' Macintosh port is `Carbonized' and also runs under that OS.) o dotchart() and stripchart() become the preferred names for dotplot() and stripplot(), respectively. The old names are now deprecated. o Functions in package ctest now consistently use +/-Inf rather than NA for one-sided confidence intervals. BUG FIXES o `Writing R Extensions' incorrectly described an entry point `fmod' which was not included in the R binary on most systems. The entry point has been removed, to avoid any confusion with the standard C entry point of the same name. o Printing of kernels in package ts was unreliable: the internal representation was correct. o A problem with "..." in substitutions has been fixed (PR#860). o Various strangeness with match.call() and "..." has been fixed (PR#813). o sys.function() could return an unevaluated promise, messing up formals() and match.arg() (PR#872) o Deparsing or dumping attributes with non-standard names was not quoting the name (PR#871). o We now use match.fun() in tapply() so that it won't get trapped by non-functions masking FUN. o The `nmax' argument in scan(what=list(...), nmax=300) was counting blank lines, although they were said to be ignored. This affected using read.table on files with blank lines in 1.2.2, and using `n' with `what' a list. o as.numeric(), as.integer(), as.complex() returned zero on completely blank strings. Now they return NA. (PR#870) o Overflow in deparse() in terms(formula) with very long left-hand side fixed. (PR#873) o lowess(c(1:3, 7:5)) now should give the same on different platforms, since now in the C code (int)(f*n + 1e-7) is used. o curve(*, add = TRUE) now works properly with active log scales. o rt() could give different results on different platforms as the order of evaluation of calls to random numbers was not fully defined. This affected the Mac port. o ppr() inside nested calls sometimes failed to find objects due to a typo in the eval call in ppr.formula. o qchisq(0.025, 31, ncp=1, lower.tail=FALSE) now works. (PR#875) o dchisq with integer x, df and ncp sometimes gave incorrect results on i686 Linux. o Cancelling a quit caused quit() not to ask next time it was called. o Some complicated operations with "..." didn't work. o Missingness was not correctly propagated in some cases. o eigen() segfaulted on 0-dimensional matrices. o nls( ~ rhs, ..) now works (formula with empty left hand side). o The fuzz added in hist() for 1.2.2 broke the logic testing for equidistant breakpoints. o Calls to replacement functions ("f<-") lost argument names (PR#888). o is.na() and is.nan() gave random results on lists containing zero-length objects. o cor(), cov() and var() gave a result on a zero-length argument (now an error). cov(x, NULL) and cor(x, NULL) are now errors if x is a vector. (PR#883). o ?smooth.spline now properly describes `spar' which is *not* lambda. smooth.spline(1:20, spar = 50) gives an error instead of silent nonsense. print.smooth.spline() now makes use of a digits argument. o Confidence intervals for wilcox.test() had the samples reversed in the two-sided case (PR#895), and sometimes got continuity correction wrong (PR#896). o Using out-of-range font values in text() on a postscript() device on Windows could crash. .ps.prolog was incorrectly named in some of the documentation. (PR#914) o Warning messages of > 8191 chars could crash R (PR#902), as could errors. Now they are truncated to 8191 chars on machines which have vsnprintf (almost all). o range() now works properly for date-time objects. o contour() could loop infinitely (PR#897). o R-lang manual had precedence of %% wrong (PR#879). o try() constructs lost protection of R_alloc'ed memory (PR#877). o Documented that as.numeric() dispatches to as.double.foo methods (PR#918.1). o httpclient() (and the "socket" method of download.file) skipped ^V rather than ^Z in input (if drop.ctrl.z = TRUE, the default). o boxplot(*, range = 0) and boxplot.stats(*, coef = 0) now don't return outliers anymore (PR#917). o segmentation fault with tmp[[1,]] (PR#904) o incorrect "..." handling in plot.factor (PR#830) -- O__ ---- Peter Dalgaard Blegdamsvej 3 c/ /'_ --- Dept. of Biostatistics 2200 Cph. N (*) \(*) -- University of Copenhagen Denmark Ph: (+45) 35327918 ~~~~~~~~~~ - (p.dalgaard at biostat.ku.dk) FAX: (+45) 35327907 -.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.- r-announce mailing list -- Read http://www.ci.tuwien.ac.at/~hornik/R/R-FAQ.html Send "info", "help", or "[un]subscribe" (in the "body", not the subject !) To: r-announce-request at stat.math.ethz.ch _._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._ From deleeuw at stat.ucla.edu Thu Apr 26 19:06:21 2001 From: deleeuw at stat.ucla.edu (Jan de Leeuw) Date: Thu, 26 Apr 2001 10:06:21 -0700 Subject: R-1.2.3 for MacOS X Message-ID: <20010426170621.28351@smtp.frazmtn.com> A tar ball (14MB compressed) with R-1.2.3 for OS X/X11 is at http://www.stat.ucla.edu/~deleeuw/R It includes some of the dylibs that you need, but not the X11R6 distribution. It also has compiled/installed versions of the following packages CoCoAn Constrained Correspondence Analysis GLMMGibbs Generalised Linear Mixed Models by Gibbs Sampling GenKern Functions for generating and manipulating generalised kernel density estimates KernSmooth Functions for kernel smoothing for Wand &Jones (1995) MASS Main Library of Venables and Ripley's MASS PTAk Principal Tensor Analysis on k modes R2HTML Functions for exporting R objects in an HTML document XML Tools for parsing and generating XML within R and S-Plus. acepack ace() and avas() for selecting regression transformations akima Interpolation of irregularly spaced data ash David Scott's ASH routines base The R base package boot Bootstrap R (S-Plus) Functions (Canty) bootstrap Functions for the Book "An Introduction to the Bootstrap" cclust Convex Clustering Methods and Clustering Indexes chron Chronological objects which can handle dates and times class Functions for classification cluster Functions for clustering (by Rousseeuw et al.) coda Output analysis and diagnostics for MCMC conf.design Construction of factorial designs ctest Classical Tests curve Dynamic Systems Estimation - Curvature extensions dse1 Dynamic Systems Estimation (time series package) dse2 Dynamic Systems Estimation - extensions dsepadi Dynamic Systems Estimation - PADI extensions e1071 Misc Functions of the Department of Statistics (e1071), TU Wien eda Exploratory Data Analysis ellipse library ellipse for drawing ellipses and ellipse-like confidence regions event Event History Procedures and Models foreign Read data stored by Minitab, SAS, SPSS, Stata, ... fracdiff Fractionally differenced ARIMA (p,d,q) models gee Generalized Estimation Equation solver geoR geoR R functions for geostatistcal analysis gnlm Generalized Nonlinear Regression Models growth Multivariate Normal and Elliptically-contoured Repeated Measurements Models gss General Smoothing Splines integrate numerical integration juice Dynamic Systems Estimation - juice extensions locfit Local Regression, Likelihood and Density Estimation. lqs Resistant Regression and Covariance Estimation maptree Mapping and graphing tree models mclust Model-based cluster analysis mda Mixture and flexible discriminant analysis mgcv Multiple smoothing parameter estimation and GAMs by GCV modreg Modern Regression: Smoothing and Local Methods monitor Dynamic Systems Estimation - monitoring extensions multidim statistiques descriptives multidimensionnelles multiv Multivariate Data Analysis Routines mva Classical Multivariate Analysis mvnmle ML estimation for multivariate normal data with missing values mvtnorm Multivariate Normal and T Distribution nlme Linear and nonlinear mixed effects models nls Nonlinear regression nnet Feed-forward neural networks and multinomial log-linear models norm Analysis of multivariate normal datasets with missing ordinal Ordinal Library polymars Polychotomous Regression based on MARS princurve Fits a Principal Curve in Arbitrary Dimension pspline Penalized Smoothing Splines quadprog Functions to solve Quadratic Programming Problems. quantreg Quantile Regression repeated Non-normal Repeated Measurements Models rmutil Utilities for Nonlinear Regression and Repeated Measurements Models rpart Recursive partitioning in S+ spatial functions for kriging and point pattern analysis splancs Spatial and Space-Time Point Pattern Analysis splines Regression Spline Functions and Classes stable Probability Functions and Generalized Regression Models for Stable Distributions stepfun Step Functions, including Empirical Distributions survival5 Survival analysis, including penalised likelihood. syskern coding kernel for S/R and OS compatability tcltk Interface to Tcl/Tk tframe Time Frame coding kernel tree Classification and regression trees ts Time series functions tseries Package for time series analysis -.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.- r-announce mailing list -- Read http://www.ci.tuwien.ac.at/~hornik/R/R-FAQ.html Send "info", "help", or "[un]subscribe" (in the "body", not the subject !) To: r-announce-request at stat.math.ethz.ch _._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._ From bates at stat.wisc.edu Fri Apr 27 15:27:55 2001 From: bates at stat.wisc.edu (Douglas Bates) Date: 27 Apr 2001 08:27:55 -0500 Subject: R-1.2.3 available via rsync Message-ID: <6rzod24gmc.fsf@franz.stat.wisc.edu> R-1.2.3 sources are now available via rsync as r-release at rsync.r-project.org -.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.- r-announce mailing list -- Read http://www.ci.tuwien.ac.at/~hornik/R/R-FAQ.html Send "info", "help", or "[un]subscribe" (in the "body", not the subject !) To: r-announce-request at stat.math.ethz.ch _._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._ From jfox at mcmaster.ca Sat Apr 28 04:51:37 2001 From: jfox at mcmaster.ca (John Fox) Date: Fri, 27 Apr 2001 22:51:37 -0400 Subject: two new packages Message-ID: <5.0.2.1.2.20010427224918.0193d588@mcmail.cis.mcmaster.ca> I've prepared preliminary versions of two packages that I plan eventually to contribute to CRAN: car (for "Companion to Applied Regression") is a package that provides a variety of functions in support of linear and generalized linear models, including regression diagnostics (e.g., studentized residuals, hat-values, Cook's distances, dfbeta, dfbetas, added-variable plots, component+residual plots, ceres plots, Durbin-Watson statistics); some tools for graphing and exploring data (e.g., enhanced quantile-comparison plots -- with simulated envelopes for studentized residuals from linear models, scatterplot, and scatterplot-matrix functions); some utilities (e.g., for recoding variables); some functions for transformations of data (e.g., multivariate unconditional Box-Cox transformation); an enhanced Anova function; and many datasets. The object is to make tasks that are commonly employed in regression modeling more convenient, particularly for students with limited programming skills. I've tried largely to avoid duplicating capabilities in existing packages. sem is a package for fitting "structural-equation models." The package supports general structural equation models with latent varibles, fit by maximum likelihood assuming multinormality, and single-equation estimation for observed-variable models by two-stage least squares. For the present, I'm making these packages available on my web site, at and . I'm particularly interested in suggestions and comments. John ________________________________ John Fox Department of Sociology McMaster University email: jfox at McMaster.ca web: www.socsci.mcmaster.ca/jfox ________________________________ -.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.- r-announce mailing list -- Read http://www.ci.tuwien.ac.at/~hornik/R/R-FAQ.html Send "info", "help", or "[un]subscribe" (in the "body", not the subject !) To: r-announce-request at stat.math.ethz.ch _._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._ From stefano.iacus at unimi.it Sat Apr 28 17:24:55 2001 From: stefano.iacus at unimi.it (Stefano Iacus) Date: Sat, 28 Apr 2001 17:24:55 +0200 Subject: R 1.2.3 for MacOS/X available Message-ID: <200104281524.f3SFOYY14401@mail.mclink.it> From release 1.2.3, R can run different Macintosh platforms. Two versions are currently available that are non concurrent. One version runs on MacOS Systems from 8.6 to 9.1 and MacOSX using the standard MacOS/MacOSX interface, that means that is behaves like any usual Macintosh application. (This is mantained by Stefano M. Iacus) The other version is a Darwin/X11 that means a Unix-like version taking advantages of the X11 server (to be installed separately) and of the BSD kernel of MacOS X. (This version is mantained by Jan de Leeuw). About the Carbon version This new version of R fixes may bugs of the previous Macintosh release and adopt Apple's Carbon technology to let R run natively under both MacOS 8.6 to 9.1 and MacOS X. This means that under MacOS X when you double click on the R icon, the System no longer launches the Classic Compatibility environment. Under MacOS X the Carbon R take advantages of the new Aqua look/interface and memory management. More informations on this version can be found at: http://www.eco-dip.unimi.it/R/rmac-FAQ.html You can download the carbon distribution at: http://cran.r-project.org/bin/macos About the Darwin/X11 version There are two builds for Mac OS X, more precisely for Darwin/X11, of the R-patched and R-devel distributions of 04/14/01. They were build using the native cc compiler, with help from f2c, dlcompat, libjpeg, libpng, libz, OS X versions of tcl/tk., and Tenon's Xtools distribution. The dynamic libraries you need are included, except for the X11 libraries, which you have to install anyway along with an X11 server. In order to install one of these builds, su root, move to /, and unpack. Everything installs in /usr/local/lib, except for the R driver which goes to /usr/local/bin. The R-devel tarball contains most of the contributed R packages. You can find this distribution on Jan's page : http://www.stat.ucla.edu/~deleeuw/R For more information read the following r-announce msg http://www.r-project.org/nocvs/mail/r-announce/latest/0026.html Stefano -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... Name: not available Type: text/enriched Size: 2429 bytes Desc: not available URL: From stefano.iacus at unimi.it Sat Apr 28 17:25:22 2001 From: stefano.iacus at unimi.it (Stefano Iacus) Date: Sat, 28 Apr 2001 17:25:22 +0200 Subject: R for Mac Special Interest Group Message-ID: <200104281525.f3SFP1Y14654@mail.mclink.it> R for Mac Special Interest Group Along with latest version 1.2.3 of R a new mailing list has been activated. The list is intended to exchange ideas, impressions, give suggestions etc on the portings of R for MacOS and MacOS X. You can subscribe to the list going to its official page: Go to the list page : http://www.stat.math.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-sig-mac To post a message to this list just send a mail to r-sig- mac at stat.math.ethz.ch Stefano -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... Name: not available Type: text/enriched Size: 811 bytes Desc: not available URL: From guido at hal.stat.unipd.it Sun Apr 29 13:52:24 2001 From: guido at hal.stat.unipd.it (Guido Masarotto) Date: Sun, 29 Apr 2001 13:52:24 +0200 Subject: R 1.2.3 for Windows available Message-ID: <20010429135224.13386@hal.stat.unipd.it> A Windows binary distribution of R 1.2.3 is available at http://sirio.stat.unipd.it/RWin It will be mirrored at a CRAN site near you in a couple of days. See below for a list of Windows-specific changes. guido masarotto (for the R-core team) Windows-specific changes to R ============================= rw1023 ====== Alternative installers based on Inno Setup 2.0.x, either SetupR.exe or miniR* (which fits on four floppies). The location of R_HOME and the version can optionally be recorded in the Registry (and will be used by the DCOM interface). The Inno Setup installers register the installation, and unregister on uninstallation. rwinst.exe has an option to register. Program rw1023\bin\RSetReg.exe will register, and rw1023\bin\RSetReg.exe /U will unregister. The windows() device no longer rounds width and height to the nearest inch. You can override the settings Windows reports for pixels per inch (sometimes it is seriously adrift). See ?windows. File `extract-usage' needed for codoc was missing from rw1022sp.zip. The default memory limit (as reset by --max-mem-size) is set to at least 16Mb, to allow R to start on machines with 8Mb of RAM. link.html.help() has been re-written using connections and so is several times faster. Rcmd INSTALL now allows Windows-style paths to a tar file. rproxy.dll is now built for StatConnector version 0.99: earlier versions are no longer supported. A Windows-specific bug in bitmap() which caused output to appear twice has been fixed. Rcmd check now stops when package-specific tests fail (not just reports on the console). -.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.- r-announce mailing list -- Read http://www.ci.tuwien.ac.at/~hornik/R/R-FAQ.html Send "info", "help", or "[un]subscribe" (in the "body", not the subject !) To: r-announce-request at stat.math.ethz.ch _._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._ From jago at mclink.it Sat Apr 28 17:05:09 2001 From: jago at mclink.it (Stefano) Date: Sat, 28 Apr 2001 17:05:09 +0200 Subject: R 1.2.3 for MacOS/X available Message-ID: <200104281505.f3SF54q08771@mail.mclink.it> From release 1.2.3, R can run different Macintosh platforms. Two versions are currently available that are non concurrent. One version runs on MacOS Systems from 8.6 to 9.1 and MacOSX using the standard MacOS/MacOSX interface, that means that is behaves like any usual Macintosh application. (This is mantained by Stefano M. Iacus) The other version is a Darwin/X11 that means a Unix-like version taking advantages of the X11 server (to be installed separately) and of the BSD kernel of MacOS X. (This version is mantained by Jan de Leeuw). About the Carbon version This new version of R fixes may bugs of the previous Macintosh release and adopt Apple's Carbon technology to let R run natively under both MacOS 8.6 to 9.1 and MacOS X. This means that under MacOS X when you double click on the R icon, the System no longer launches the Classic Compatibility environment. Under MacOS X the Carbon R take advantages of the new Aqua look/interface and memory management. More informations on this version can be found at: http://www.eco-dip.unimi.it/R/rmac-FAQ.html You can download the carbon distribution at: http://cran.r-project.org/bin/macos About the Darwin/X11 version There are two builds for Mac OS X, more precisely for Darwin/X11, of the R-patched and R-devel distributions of 04/14/01. They were build using the native cc compiler, with help from f2c, dlcompat, libjpeg, libpng, libz, OS X versions of tcl/tk., and Tenon's Xtools distribution. The dynamic libraries you need are included, except for the X11 libraries, which you have to install anyway along with an X11 server. In order to install one of these builds, su root, move to /, and unpack. Everything installs in /usr/local/lib, except for the R driver which goes to /usr/local/bin. The R-devel tarball contains most of the contributed R packages. You can find this distribution on Jan's page : http://www.stat.ucla.edu/~deleeuw/R For more information read the following r-announce msg http://www.r-project.org/nocvs/mail/r-announce/latest/0026.html Stefano -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... 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R can be called by executing macros "real time", and we also have worksheet functions calling R as part of Excels automatic recalculation. Bugs/unimplemented features: ---------------------------- * COM server sometimes dies unexpectedly, then Excel has to be closed and restarted. Archives: --------- RExel073.zip ... Excel Addin and examples Installation: ------------- * Install the latest R release (>= R 1.2.3) * Install the DCOM server for R (>= 0.99.0) Installing the R-(D)COM Interface is still a little bit tricky (not yet fully automatic), your really have to read the instructions carefully. -- Erich Neuwirth, Computer Supported Didactics Working Group Visit our SunSITE at http://sunsite.univie.ac.at Phone: +43-1-4277-38624 Fax: +43-1-4277-9386 -.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.- r-announce mailing list -- Read http://www.ci.tuwien.ac.at/~hornik/R/R-FAQ.html Send "info", "help", or "[un]subscribe" (in the "body", not the subject !) To: r-announce-request at stat.math.ethz.ch _._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._ From Virgilio.Gomez at uv.es Thu May 3 20:00:24 2001 From: Virgilio.Gomez at uv.es (Virgilio.Gomez at uv.es) Date: Thu, 3 May 2001 20:00:24 +0200 (CEST) Subject: New Package Released: RArcInfo 0.02 Message-ID: Hi, I have relased a new package that can be helpful to the GIS users: RArcInfo. This package allows the user to import data from Arc/Info V7.x binary coverage. There are functions to import data from the basic files: ARC, PAL, BND, etc. and also from those that store tables. Besides, there are also two functions to plot arcs and polygons. The package will only work on Linux, but soon I will make it to work on Windows. Please, notice that the package is in an early stage and I need some feedback from the users to improve it. I have some ideas, but many more will be welcome. Have a nice day, Virgilio G?mez-Rubio Ph.D. Student Department of Statistics and Operating Research University of Valencia Spain -.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.- r-announce mailing list -- Read http://www.ci.tuwien.ac.at/~hornik/R/R-FAQ.html Send "info", "help", or "[un]subscribe" (in the "body", not the subject !) To: r-announce-request at stat.math.ethz.ch _._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._ From paul at stat.auckland.ac.nz Mon May 21 23:11:34 2001 From: paul at stat.auckland.ac.nz (Paul Murrell) Date: Tue, 22 May 2001 09:11:34 +1200 Subject: new packages: grid and lattice Message-ID: <007601c0e23a$9db66210$175dd882@stat.auckland.ac.nz> Hi Two new packages have just been uploaded to the _DEVEL_ section on CRAN: 1. package "grid" AUTHOR Paul Murrell OVERVIEW This package provides an altenative graphics system for R. FEATURES Very flexible layout facilities (viewports, units, layouts) Component-based design (graphics can be constructed incrementally and hierarchically) Basic support for interaction (graphics functions return "objects") Highly customisable and extensible BUGS/UNIMPLEMENTED FEATURES No clipping Only single active device Viewport rotation very fragile ... 2. package "lattice" AUTHOR Deepayan Sarkar OVERVIEW This package provides graphics functionality similar to the Trellis suite in S-Plus. FEATURES Mutipanel plots of one or two variables conditioned on one or more other variables. Formula-style specification of conditioning. Strips atop the panels to indicate levels of the conditioning variables. BUGS/UNIMPLEMENTED FEATURES The "key" argument. The "font" argument. The lattice package uses the graphics system provided by grid so you will need to download both packages in order to use lattice. Furthermore, the packages are most likely to work only with the latest development release of R. At the very least they require R 1.2.0 or later. The packages are in the DEVEL section of CRAN because they are far from complete and have many bugs and missing features. However, they should contain sufficient functionality to be of use to some people. We are also very interested in feedback on things that don't work, things that people don't like, and even things that people do like :) Paul Murrell Deepayan Sarkar -.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.- r-announce mailing list -- Read http://www.ci.tuwien.ac.at/~hornik/R/R-FAQ.html Send "info", "help", or "[un]subscribe" (in the "body", not the subject !) To: r-announce-request at stat.math.ethz.ch _._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._ From p.dalgaard at biostat.ku.dk Fri Jun 22 14:17:25 2001 From: p.dalgaard at biostat.ku.dk (Peter Dalgaard BSA) Date: 22 Jun 2001 14:17:25 +0200 Subject: R-1.3.0 is released Message-ID: I've rolled up R-1.3.0.tgz about an hour ago. This is a major upgrade, with some structural changes and major new features, especially in the areas of connections, dates, and the ctest package. As a new item, we also roll up (in a separate file) a set of recommended packages that are known to work with R-1.3.0. Binary distributions are expected to include these packages. Please note that the former "survival5" package is now named "survival". If you install over an existing installation, make sure to "R CMD REMOVE survival5" You can get it from the developer site ftp://cvs.r-project.org/pub/CRAN/src/base/R-1.3.0.tgz ftp://cvs.r-project.org/pub/CRAN/src/base/R-1.3.0-recommended.tgz or http://cvs.r-project.org/pub/CRAN/src/base/R-1.3.0.tgz http://cvs.r-project.org/pub/CRAN/src/base/R-1.3.0-recommended.tgz or wait for them to be mirrored at a CRAN site near you within a day or two. Binaries for various platforms will appear in due course. There are also versions split for floppies. (Are anyone actually using the split-source versions and not capable of using the "split" command themselves? They do take up a lot of space, and I had to remove split versions of earlier releases to make room for the new one.) For the R Core Team, Peter D. Here's the relevant part of the NEWS file: CHANGES IN R VERSION 1.3.0 NEW FEATURES o Changes to connections: - New function url() to read from URLs. file() will also accept URL specifications, as will all the functions which use it. - file connections can now be opened for both reading and writing. - Anonymous file connections (via file()) are now supported. - New function gzfile() to read from / write to compressed files. - New function fifo() for connections to / from fifos (on Unix). - Text input from file, pipe, fifo, gzfile and url connections can be read with a user-specified encoding. - New functions readChar() and writeChar() to read character strings with known lengths and no terminators, and to write user-specified lengths from strings. - sink() now has a stack of output connections, following S4. - sink() can also be applied to the message stream, to capture error messages to a connection. Use carefully! - seek() has a new `origin' argument. - New function truncate() to truncate a connection open for writing at the current position. - Socket connections via function socketConnection(). - The `blocking' argument for file, fifo and socket connections is now operational. o Changes to date/time classes and functions: - Date/time objects now all inherit from class "POSIXt". - New function difftime() and corresponding class for date/time differences, and a round() method. - Subtraction and logical comparison of objects from different date/time classes is now supported. NB: the format for the difference of two objects of the same date/time class has changed, but only for objects generated by this version, not those generated by earlier ones. - Methods for cut(), seq(), round() and trunc() for date/time classes. - Convenience generic functions weekdays(), months(), quarters() and julian() with methods for "POSIXt" objects. o Coercion from real to integer now gives NA for out-of-range values, rather than the most extreme integer of the same sign. o The Ansari-Bradley, Bartlett, Fligner-Killeen, Friedman, Kruskal-Wallis, Mood, Quade, t, and Wilcoxon tests as well as var.test() in package ctest now have formula interfaces. o Matrix multiplication functions %*% and crossprod() now use a level-3 BLAS routine dgemm. When R is linked with the ATLAS or other enhanced BLAS libraries this can be substantially faster than the previous code. o New functions La.eigen() and La.svd() for eigenvector and singular value decompositions, based on LAPACK. These are preferred to eigen() and svd() for new projects and can make use of enhanced BLAS routines such as ATLAS. They are used in cancor(), cmdscale(), factanal() and princomp() and this may lead to sign reversals in some of the output of those functions. o Provided the Fortran compiler can handle COMPLEX*16, the following routines now handle complex arguments, based on LAPACK code. qr, qr.coef, qr.solve, qr.qy, qr.qty, solve.default, svd, La.svd. o aperm() uses strides in the internal C code and so is substantially faster (by Jonathan Rougier). o The four bessel[IJKY](x,nu) functions are now defined for nu < 0. o [dpqr]nbinom also accept an alternative parametrization via the mean and the dispersion parameter (thanks to Ben Bolker). o Generalised "birthday paradox" functions [pq]birthday. o boxplot() and bxp() have a new argument `at' o New function capabilities() to report optional capabilities such as jpeg, png, tcltk, gzfile and url support. o New function checkFF() for checking foreign function calls. o New function col2rgb() for color conversion of names, hex, or integer. o coplot() has a new argument `bar.bg' (color of conditioning bars), gives nicer plots when the conditioners are factors, and allows factors for x and y (treated almost as if unclass()ed) using new argument `axlabels'. [original ideas by Thomas Baummann] o `hessian' argument added to deriv() and its methods. A new function deriv3() provides identical capabilities to deriv() except that `hessian' is TRUE by default. deriv(*, *, func = TRUE) for convenience. o New dev.interactive() function, useful for setting defaults for par(ask=*) in multifigure plots. o dist() in package mva can now handle missing values, and zeroes in the Canberra distance. o The default method for download.file() (and functions which use it such as update.packages()) is now "internal", and uses code compiled into R. o eigen() tests for symmetry with a numerical tolerance. o New function formatDL() for formatting description lists. o New argument `nsmall' to format.default(), for S-PLUS compatibility (and used in various packages). o ?/help() now advertises help.search() if it fails to find a topic. o image() is now a generic function. o New function integrate() with S-compatible call. o New function is.unsorted() the C version of which also speeds up .Internal(sort()) for sorted input. o is.loaded() accepts an argument PACKAGE to search within a specific DLL/shared library. o Exact p-values are available for the two-sided two-sample Kolmogorov-Smirnov test. o lm() now passes `...' to the low level functions for regression fitting. o Generic functions logLik() and AIC() moved from packages nls and nlme to base, as well as their *.lm methods. o New components in .Machine give the sizes of long, long long and long double C types (or 0 if they do not exist). o merge.data.frame() has new arguments, `all[.xy]' and `suffixes', for S compatibility. o model.frame() now calls na.action with the terms attribute set on the data frame (needed to distiguish the response, for example). o New generic functions naresid(), napredict() and naprint() (formerly in packages survival5 and MASS, also used in rpart). Also na.exclude(), a variant on na.omit() that is handled differently by naresid() and napredict(). The default, lm and glm methods for fitted, residuals, predict and weights make use of these. o New function oneway.test() in package ctest for testing for equal means in a one-way layout, assuming normality but not necessarily equal variances. o options(error) accepts a function, as an alternative to an expression. (The Blue Book only allows a function; current S-PLUS a function or an expression.) o outer() has a speed-up in the default case of a matrix outer product (by Jonathan Rougier). o package.skeleton() helps with creating new packages. o New pdf() graphics driver. o persp() is now a generic function. o plot.acf() makes better use of white space for `nser > 2', has new optional arguments and uses a much better layout when more than one page of plots is produced. o plot.mts() has a new argument `panel' providing the same functionality as in coplot(). o postscript() allows user-specified encoding, with encoding files supplied for Windows, Mac, Unicode and various others, and with an appropriate platform-specific default. o print.htest() can now handle test names that are longer than one line. o prompt() improved for data sets, particularly non-dataframes. o qqnorm() is now a generic function. o read.fwf() has a new argument `n' for specifying the number of records (lines) read in. o read.table() now uses a single pass through the dataset. o rep() now handles lists (as generic vectors). o scan() has a new argument `multi.line' for S compatibility, but the default remains the opposite of S (records can cross line boundaries by default). o sort(x) now produces an error when x is not atomic instead of just returning x. o split() now allows splitting on a list of factors in which case their interaction defines the grouping. o stl() has more optional arguments for fine tuning, a summary() and an improved plot() method. o New function strwrap() for formatting character strings into paragraphs. o New replacement functions substr<-() and substring<-(). o Dataset swiss now has row names. o Arguments `pkg' and `lib' of system.file() have been renamed to `package' and `lib.loc', respectively, to be consistent with related functions. The old names are deprecated. Argument `package' must now specify a single package. o The Wilcoxon and Ansari-Bradley tests now return point estimators of the location or scale parameter of interest along with confidence intervals for these. o New function write.dcf() for writing data in Debian Control File format. parse.dcf() has been replaced by (much faster) internal read.dcf(). o Contingency tables created by xtabs() or table() now have a summary() method. o Functions httpclient(), read.table.url(), scan.url() and source.url() are now deprecated, and hence method="socket' in download.file() is. Use url connections instead: in particular URLs can be specified for read.table(), scan() and source(). o Formerly deprecated function getenv() is now defunct. o Support for package-specific demo scripts (R code). demo() now has new arguments to specify the location of demos and to allow for running base demos as part of `make check'. o If not explicitly given a library tree to install to or remove from, respectively, R CMD INSTALL and R CMD REMOVE now operate on the first directory given in `R_LIBS' if this is set and non-null, and the default library otherwise. o R CMD INSTALL and package.description() fix some common problems of DESCRIPTION files (blank lines, ...) o The INSTALL command for package installation allows a `--save' option. Using it causes a binary image of the package contents to be created at install time and loaded when the package is attached. This saves time, but also uses a more standard way of source-ing the package. Packages that do more than just assign object definitions may need to install with `--save'. Putting a file `INSTALL.R' in the package directory makes `--save' the default behavior. If that file is not empty, its contents should be R commands executed at the end of creating the image. There is also a new command line option `--configure-vals' for passing variables to the configure script of a package. o R CMD check now also checks the keyword entries against the list of standard keywords, for code/documentation mismatches (this can be turned off by the command line option `--no-codoc'), and for sufficient file permissions (Unix only). There is a new check for the correct usage of library.dynam. It also has a new command line option `--use-gct' to use `gctorture(TRUE)' when running R code. o R CMD Rd2dvi has better support for producing reference manuals for packages and package bundles. o configure now tests for the versions of jpeg (>= 6b), libpng (>= 1.0.5) and zlib (>= 1.1.3). It no longer checks for the CXML/DXML BLAS libraries on Alphas. o Perl scripts now use Cwd::cwd() in place of Cwd::getcwd(), as cwd() can be much faster. o R::Dcf.pm can now also handle files with more than one record and checks (a little bit) for continuation lines without leading whitespace. o New manual `R Installation and Administration' with fuller details on the installation process: file `INSTALL' is now a brief introduction referencing that manual. o New keyword `internal' which can be used to hide objects that are not part of the API from indices like the alphabetical lists in the HTML help system. o Under Unix, shlib modules for add-on packages are now linked against R as a shared library (`libR') if this exists. (This allows for improved embedding of R into other applications.) o New mechanism for explicitly registering native routines in a DLL/shared library accessible via .C(), .Call(), .Fortran() and .External(). This is potentially more robust than the existing dynamic lookup, since it checks the number of arguments, type of the routine. o New mechanism allowing registration of C routines for converting R objects to C pointers in .C() calls. Useful for references to data in other languages and libraries (e.g. C and hdf5). o The internal ftp/http access code maintains the event loop, so you can download whilst running tcltk or Rggobi, say. It can be hooked into package XML too. BUG FIXES o boxplot.stats() now returns the correct `n' component in the case of NAs. This also affects `conf', the notch length (PR#967). o the "coef = 0" fix (PR#917) to boxplot.stats() broke boxplot.stats(do.out = FALSE). o curve(* , add = FALSE) now works correctly again if used when par("xlog") is true. o Printing a dataframe with a column called "row.names" or "check.names" omitted the column. o data.frame(a=1, b=2)[1, -(1:2)] now works, giving an empty data frame. as.matrix(df), deparse(), dput() and str() now work for empty data frames. o dbeta() could return zero erroneously on some platforms where roundoff makes e.g. 1.3 - 1 > (1.3 + 1) - 2 (Solaris and HP-UX were affected). (PR#970) o pointer protection in deriv() (PR#953) o expand.data.frame() didn't interpret its subset= argument in the data frame. (PR#979 et al., fix from Greg Warnes) o format() on character arrays was losing the dimensions. o hist.default() was ignoring its `probability' argument for equi-spaced breaks. o Occasionally insane results of is.nan(NULL), is.na(NULL) (PR#952) o ks.test() in package ctest now had the one-sided alternatives in the one-sample case reversed (PR#934). o ls.str() and lsf.str() now work better with pos > 1, and are correctly documented (PR#899). o plot(1:2, xaxs = "i") now gives both "1.0" and "2.0" x-axis labels. o promax() was not using its `m' argument (m=4 was always used). o qr.X() was ignoring pivoting (which happens only in rank-deficient cases). o sign of Pearson residuals was wrong for reciprocal link (PR#862) o The algorithm for determining starting estimates in the SSfpl self-starting model in the nls package was changed following a suggestion by Phillipe Grosjean o svd(x)$v was not a matrix when x had only 1 row (PR#963). o symnum(x) behaves more reasonably for zero length or non-numeric x. o The implementation of sys.function() did not work when the current function was already a function (e.g., a closure). o tapply() had "..." argument after simplify=, which made it incompatible with S when passing additional unnamed arguments to FUN. o use formula environments in xy.coords() (PR#932) o Unused entry points in `src/appl/fortran.c' and `Fortran.h' have been removed. o Unused directory `src/f2clib' and header `src/include/R_ext/f2c.h' have been removed. o The documentation and parts of the parse/deparse mechanism indicated that there was an operator `%'. Corrected (PR#925). o Fixed some cases where the deparser gave code that threw a syntax error when parsed. o Using a pushback with more than two lines at a time could crash. o Eliminate or warn on use of .Last.value in help examples, since .Last.value is only set from top-level expressions (and was incorrectly documented). o asInteger was ignoring integer overflow (PR#929 and others). o approxfun(*, ties = ) could return garbage when there were ties; ties = "ordered" was incorrect--also for approx()-- when there was a tie at the very right. -- O__ ---- Peter Dalgaard Blegdamsvej 3 c/ /'_ --- Dept. of Biostatistics 2200 Cph. N (*) \(*) -- University of Copenhagen Denmark Ph: (+45) 35327918 ~~~~~~~~~~ - (p.dalgaard at biostat.ku.dk) FAX: (+45) 35327907 -.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.- r-announce mailing list -- Read http://www.ci.tuwien.ac.at/~hornik/R/R-FAQ.html Send "info", "help", or "[un]subscribe" (in the "body", not the subject !) To: r-announce-request at stat.math.ethz.ch _._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._ From deleeuw at stat.ucla.edu Sat Jun 23 00:40:58 2001 From: deleeuw at stat.ucla.edu (Jan de Leeuw) Date: Fri, 22 Jun 2001 15:40:58 -0700 Subject: R-1.3.0 for OS X (with X11/tcl/tk, and gnome support) Message-ID: <200106222241.PAA36182@pine.frazmtn.com> At http://www.stat.ucla.edu/~deleeuw/R you can now find R-1.3.0-OSX.tar.gz (it's about 22 MB) This file has support for X11, tcl/tk, and gnome. It uses many dynamic libs, which are NOT included. If you need one (because R cannot find foo.dylib, just ask me, I'll send it, and you put it in the appropriate place). You could also install Xfree/XDarwin, plus dlcompat, plus all the gnome stuff from fink (fink.sourceforge.net) -- but that will take some time. This version has been build with f2c, not with the new f77. You unzip and untar in /, everything is put in /usr/local (so you probably must sudo). The file also contains compiled versions of the following packages (latest versions): AnalyzeIO acepack curve gee lokern nlrq regexp strucchange CoCoAn akima cxx geoR lpridge nls repeated survival Devore5 ash date gld lqs nnet rmeta syskern GLMMGibbs base dse1 gnlm maptree norm rmutil tcltk GenKern bindata dse2 gregmisc maxstat npConfRatio rpart tensor GeneSOM boot dsepadi grid mclust odesolve scatterplot3d tframe KernSmooth bootstrap e1071 growth mda ordinal sem tree MASS bqtl eda gss mgcv panel sgeostat tripack Oarray car ellipse hpower modreg permax sm ts PHYLOGR cclust ensemble ineq monitor pinktoe sma tseries PTAk cfa event juice muhaz pls sn twostage R.css class event.chart lattice multidim polymars sna wavethresh R2HTML cluster exactRankTests leaps multiv polynom spatial xgobi RMySQL cmprsk fdim lgtdl mva princurve splancs xtable RandomFields coda foreign lmtest mvtnorm pspline splines zmatrix Rstreams cramer fracdiff locfit netCDF quadprog stable SuppDists ctest gafit logspline nlme quantreg stepfun === Jan de Leeuw; Professor and Chair, UCLA Department of Statistics; US mail: 9432 Boulter Hall, Box 951554, Los Angeles, CA 90095-1554 phone (310)-825-9550; fax (310)-206-5658; email: deleeuw at stat.ucla.edu homepage: http://www.stat.ucla.edu/~deleeuw ======================================================== No matter where you go, there you are. --- Buckaroo Banzai http://www.stat.ucla.edu/~deleeuw/sounds/nomatter.au ======================================================== -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... 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The contrib RPMs and it's SPEC files are automatically generated using the ftp://cran.r-project.org/pub/R/bin/linux/suse/build-contrib-rpms.pl script (also available at ftp://ftp-stat.uni-klu.ac.at/pub/R/contrib/). All (base and contrib) RPMs had to pass "make check" or "R CMD check" to be built successfully. Logfiles of the build runs are available in the 7.2/RPMS/i386/build.log subdirectory. If you want to know why the RPM of some special package is not available, you may find the reason somewhere in these logfiles (e.g. R CMD check did not succeed, some prerequisites are not fulfilled on my build host, ...) Instead of providing the SRPM files I put now only the according rpm spec files into the SPECS subdirectory. This should save much space on CRAN and its mirrors. Using these spec files and downloading the original sources from according CRAN paths you can rebuild the RPMs the same way as it would be possible with the SRPM files. Best wishes Albrecht Gebhardt // Albrecht Gebhardt Tel.: (++43 463) 2700/3118 // Institut fuer Mathematik Fax : (++43 463) 2700/3198 // Universitaet Klagenfurt mailto:albrecht.gebhardt at uni-klu.ac.at // Universitaetsstr. 65 http://www-stat.uni-klu.ac.at/~agebhard // A-9020 Klagenfurt, Austria -.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.- r-announce mailing list -- Read http://www.ci.tuwien.ac.at/~hornik/R/R-FAQ.html Send "info", "help", or "[un]subscribe" (in the "body", not the subject !) To: r-announce-request at stat.math.ethz.ch _._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._ From plummer at iarc.fr Tue Jun 26 16:07:37 2001 From: plummer at iarc.fr (Martyn Plummer) Date: Tue, 26 Jun 2001 16:07:37 +0200 (CEST) Subject: R-1.3.0 RPM for Red Hat Linux/Intel In-Reply-To: Message-ID: An RPM of R-1.3.0 for Red Hat Linux 7.x/Intel is available on the main CRAN site and should be on a mirror near you soon. I am no longer supporting Red Hat 6.x. Martyn -.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.- r-announce mailing list -- Read http://www.ci.tuwien.ac.at/~hornik/R/R-FAQ.html Send "info", "help", or "[un]subscribe" (in the "body", not the subject !) To: r-announce-request at stat.math.ethz.ch _._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._ From mikalzet at libero.it Tue Jun 26 21:13:02 2001 From: mikalzet at libero.it (mikalzet at libero.it) Date: Tue, 26 Jun 2001 21:13:02 +0200 (CEST) Subject: R-1.3.0 RPM for Mandrake 8.0 Message-ID: An RPM of R-1.3.0 for Mandrake 8.0 is available on CRAN. I am no longer supporting Mandrake < 8; anyone needing an RPM for Mandrake < 8 can quite easily build it (contact me if you need instructions). -- Michele Alzetta -.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.- r-announce mailing list -- Read http://www.ci.tuwien.ac.at/~hornik/R/R-FAQ.html Send "info", "help", or "[un]subscribe" (in the "body", not the subject !) To: r-announce-request at stat.math.ethz.ch _._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._ From guido at hal.stat.unipd.it Wed Jun 27 15:56:43 2001 From: guido at hal.stat.unipd.it (Guido Masarotto) Date: Wed, 27 Jun 2001 15:56:43 +0200 Subject: R-1.3.0 for Windows Message-ID: <20010627155643.43977@hal.stat.unipd.it> A binary distribution of R-1.3.0 to run on Windows 95, 98, NT4.0 and 2000 on Intel/clone chips is available at http://sirio.stat.unipd.it/RWin It will be mirrored at a CRAN site near you in a couple of days. See below for a list of Windows-specific changes. guido masarotto (for the R-core team) Windows-specific changes to R ============================= rw1030 ====== SetupR.exe and miniR* now include the nine `recommended' packages, so the miniR* distribution needs six floppies rather than four. Rgui has a new menu `Packages' with items to load packages, to install packages from CRAN or from local zip files, and to update packages. The packages list shown by help.start() now includes all packages in all libraries, but the search index is still confined to the system library. The installers set up a file association for *.RData files, so double-clicking on a *.RData file launches R in that directory and loads the *.RData file. Also, a *.RData file can be dropped onto a shortcut to Rgui (or Rterm) on the desktop or in Windows Explorer. Drag-and-drop of images (.RData and .rda) and source files (.R) onto the Rgui.exe console window is now supported. Profiling (as described in `Writing R Extensions') is now available. There is a new `Save as PDF' option on the graphics device menu. bringToTop() can specify the console window in Rgui (as -1). The default graphics device is now windows() only in interactive use: otherwise it is postscript(). (This affects the DCOM interface, which is not interactive use.) Support for earlier (pre-Feb 2000) mingw compilers has been dropped: you must use a compiler system that supports --shared and has an in-memory dlltool. Rcmd check has been changed to be more robust to reported problems with Perl's system() command under 16-bit versions of Windows. It now works for us under Windows 98. (It has always worked under NT4 and 2000.) Rcmd SHLIB no longer adds a version tab to the DLL, as this seemed to cause some people problems under Windows 95/98/ME. The correct file version information should now appear on Windows 2000 Version tab under Properties (working around a Windows 2000 bug). rwinst.exe is no longer part of the distribution: use the newer installers to install R, and the Packages menu in Rgui.exe to install pre-compiled packages, or use an external unzip program. The old-style Windows help is no longer part of the standard distribution, but can be made from the sources. It is no longer tested. Make targets such as test-Reg have been moved to directory rw1030\tests. The default internet module modules\internet.dll is built using basic WinSock calls. There is an alternative modules\internet2.dll which uses WinInet calls (and so needs Internet Explorer installed) which can be used as a replacemnet. -.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.- r-announce mailing list -- Read http://www.ci.tuwien.ac.at/~hornik/R/R-FAQ.html Send "info", "help", or "[un]subscribe" (in the "body", not the subject !) To: r-announce-request at stat.math.ethz.ch _._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._ From mikalzet at libero.it Thu Jun 28 01:26:29 2001 From: mikalzet at libero.it (mikalzet at libero.it) Date: Thu, 28 Jun 2001 01:26:29 +0200 (CEST) Subject: second version of R-1.3.0 RPM for Mandrake 8.0 Message-ID: A new version of the RPM of R-1.3.0 for Mandrake 8.0 will be available on CRAN shortly: R-1.3.0-1.2mdk.i586.rpm. The first version (R-1.3.0-1.1mdk.i586.rpm) unhappily was broken, please do not install it. -- Michele Alzetta -.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.- r-announce mailing list -- Read http://www.ci.tuwien.ac.at/~hornik/R/R-FAQ.html Send "info", "help", or "[un]subscribe" (in the "body", not the subject !) To: r-announce-request at stat.math.ethz.ch _._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._ From stefano.iacus at unimi.it Thu Jun 28 11:24:41 2001 From: stefano.iacus at unimi.it (Stefano Iacus) Date: Thu, 28 Jun 2001 11:24:41 +0200 Subject: R 1.3.0 for MacOS 8.6 -> X Message-ID: <200106280925.LAA31830@mailserver.unimi.it> A binary distribution of R-1.3.0 to run on Macintosh PowerPC machines with System 8.6 to OS X is available at http://cran.r-project.org/bin/macos Stefano M. Iacus (for the R-core team) Macintosh-specific changes to R * Fixed a bug when saving from menus * Added module support * Fixed a bug that crashes R under System 8.6 due to a calling to a non-existent function under 8.6 * Stack and memory settings changed to work on System 8.6 * R main project file and packages project files have been changed * Added back the "Save" menu * file.choose() works correctly now * Now R takes track of file names associated to each window * Fixed a bug with printer dialog * Now R can handle "user breaks" in evaluation and printing loops -.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.- r-announce mailing list -- Read http://www.ci.tuwien.ac.at/~hornik/R/R-FAQ.html Send "info", "help", or "[un]subscribe" (in the "body", not the subject !) To: r-announce-request at stat.math.ethz.ch _._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._ From zeileis at ci.tuwien.ac.at Thu Jun 28 12:26:38 2001 From: zeileis at ci.tuwien.ac.at (Achim Zeileis) Date: Thu, 28 Jun 2001 12:26:38 +0200 Subject: new package 'strucchange' Message-ID: <3B3B065E.4C80E7CA@ci.tuwien.ac.at> There is a new package on CRAN called 'strucchange' providing functions for testing on structural change in linear regression relationships. It features tests/methods from the generalized fluctuation test framework as well as from the F test (Chow test) framework. This includes methods to fit, plot and test fluctuation processes (e.g., CUSUM, MOSUM, recursive/moving estimates) and F statistics, respectively. Furthermore it is possible to monitor incoming data online. Package: strucchange Version: 0.9-2 Date: 2001-06-28 Title: Tests on Structural Change Author: Achim Zeileis, Friedrich Leisch, Bruce Hansen, Kurt Hornik, Christian Kleiber, Andrea Peters Maintainer: Achim Zeileis Description: Testing on structural change in linear regression relationships. It features tests/methods from the generalized fluctuation test framework as well as from the F test (Chow test) framework. This includes methods to fit, plot and test fluctuation processes (e.g., CUSUM, MOSUM, recursive/moving estimates) and F statistics, respectively. Furthermore it is possible to monitor incoming data online. Depends: R (>= 1.3.0) License: GPL --------------------------- Achim Zeileis Institut f?r Statistik Technische Universit?t Wien -.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.- r-announce mailing list -- Read http://www.ci.tuwien.ac.at/~hornik/R/R-FAQ.html Send "info", "help", or "[un]subscribe" (in the "body", not the subject !) To: r-announce-request at stat.math.ethz.ch _._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._ From virgil at matheron.estadi.uv.es Fri Jun 29 14:20:00 2001 From: virgil at matheron.estadi.uv.es (virgil at matheron.estadi.uv.es) Date: Fri, 29 Jun 2001 14:20:00 +0200 (CEST) Subject: RArcInfo 0.1 (Please rebuild binaries at CRAN for LINUX/WIN) Message-ID: Hello: There is a new release (0.1) of the package RArcInfo at CRAN. I have made many changes to the source code and the functions now returns data frames (when possible) instead of lists, that are easier to edit and modify (in my opinion). Besides, the package works under Windows too. I would like to ask to the developers who maintain the binaries (for WINDOWS and LINUX) to recompile this package and upload it to CRAN. Can anyone test the packege under Mac? Thanks. Feedback from the users are always welcome. Regards, Virgilio G?mez Rubio -.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.- r-announce mailing list -- Read http://www.ci.tuwien.ac.at/~hornik/R/R-FAQ.html Send "info", "help", or "[un]subscribe" (in the "body", not the subject !) To: r-announce-request at stat.math.ethz.ch _._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._ From bates at stat.wisc.edu Fri Jun 29 21:14:32 2001 From: bates at stat.wisc.edu (Douglas Bates) Date: 29 Jun 2001 14:14:32 -0500 Subject: Debian packages for R-1.3.0 Message-ID: <6r8zibqesn.fsf@franz.stat.wisc.edu> I have installed the binary packages for Debian GNU/Linux release 2.3 (woody) in the U.S. mirror of the CRAN archive. They should propagate to the main CRAN archive within a day and to the other mirrors within two days. These packages have been compiled with gcc-3.0 and g77-3.0. I believe the testing distribution currently provides only a snapshot of gcc-3.0, not the latest released version, so this may cause problems with installation under the testing distribution. I can recompile the packages if this becomes too awkward. Let me know if you need this. These packages have been linked against Camm Maguire's latest atlas2-base package for Atlas. I would recommend getting that - it is a much more recent version of Atlas. I need a volunteer to compile the packages on a Debian 2.2 (potato) system. Thomas Lumley has done that but I know he is very busy now and I don't want to impose on him. If you have a machine running the stable Debian distribution and could create the package, please contact me. -- Douglas Bates bates at stat.wisc.edu Statistics Department 608/262-2598 University of Wisconsin - Madison http://www.stat.wisc.edu/~bates/ -.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.- r-announce mailing list -- Read http://www.ci.tuwien.ac.at/~hornik/R/R-FAQ.html Send "info", "help", or "[un]subscribe" (in the "body", not the subject !) To: r-announce-request at stat.math.ethz.ch _._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._ From mikalzet at libero.it Tue Jul 3 12:54:45 2001 From: mikalzet at libero.it (mikalzet at libero.it) Date: Tue, 3 Jul 2001 12:54:45 +0200 (CEST) Subject: R-1.3.0 RPM for Mandrake 8.0 (correct version) Message-ID: The RPM of R-1.3.0 for Mandrake 8.0 is now available on CRAN in the complete and correct version. Sorry to all those who had problems with the previous version because of absent linking against the readline library. -- Michele Alzetta -.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.- r-announce mailing list -- Read http://www.ci.tuwien.ac.at/~hornik/R/R-FAQ.html Send "info", "help", or "[un]subscribe" (in the "body", not the subject !) To: r-announce-request at stat.math.ethz.ch _._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._ From mikalzet at libero.it Wed Jul 4 00:36:23 2001 From: mikalzet at libero.it (mikalzet at libero.it) Date: Wed, 4 Jul 2001 00:36:23 +0200 (CEST) Subject: R-recommended RPM for Mandrake 8.0 Message-ID: The RPM of R-recommended packages for Mandrake 8.0 will be propagating to CRAN shortly. I keep on receiving requests for Mandrake 7.1 and 7.2 RPM's; I am no longer able to support these. Building the RPM is quite simple, and in fact I've already sent a detailed HowTo to those who have asked; I will now be away for a couple of days, in the meantime the HowTo can be found on http://mikalzet.hobbiton.org -- Michele Alzetta -.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.- r-announce mailing list -- Read http://www.ci.tuwien.ac.at/~hornik/R/R-FAQ.html Send "info", "help", or "[un]subscribe" (in the "body", not the subject !) To: r-announce-request at stat.math.ethz.ch _._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._ From chong at stat.purdue.edu Fri Jul 6 16:55:52 2001 From: chong at stat.purdue.edu (Chong Gu) Date: Fri, 6 Jul 2001 09:55:52 -0500 Subject: gss 0.6-2 Message-ID: <200107061455.JAA86812@odds.stat.purdue.edu> A new release of gss (0.6-2) is available at CRAN. Support is added in gssanova for accelerated life models with right-censored, left-truncated data. The added families are weibull, log normal, and log logistic, extending the parametric models of survreg in the survival package. Chong Gu -.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.- r-announce mailing list -- Read http://www.ci.tuwien.ac.at/~hornik/R/R-FAQ.html Send "info", "help", or "[un]subscribe" (in the "body", not the subject !) To: r-announce-request at stat.math.ethz.ch _._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._ From bates at stat.wisc.edu Sat Jul 7 04:20:31 2001 From: bates at stat.wisc.edu (Douglas Bates) Date: 06 Jul 2001 21:20:31 -0500 Subject: New Debian packages for R-1.3.0 available Message-ID: <6rith5pjio.fsf@franz.stat.wisc.edu> I have installed new Debian packages r-base_1.3.0-2 and r-recommended_1.3.0-2 for the testing distribution (woody) and r-base_1.3.0-1 for the stable distribution (potato) on http://cran.us.r-project.org/ They should be transferred to cran.r-project.org within 24 hours and to the other mirrors within 48 hours. My thanks to James MacKinnon of Queen's University for building the packages for the stable distribution. -- Douglas Bates bates at stat.wisc.edu Statistics Department 608/262-2598 University of Wisconsin - Madison http://www.stat.wisc.edu/~bates/ -.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.- r-announce mailing list -- Read http://www.ci.tuwien.ac.at/~hornik/R/R-FAQ.html Send "info", "help", or "[un]subscribe" (in the "body", not the subject !) To: r-announce-request at stat.math.ethz.ch _._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._ From Friedrich.Leisch at ci.tuwien.ac.at Mon Jul 9 12:00:58 2001 From: Friedrich.Leisch at ci.tuwien.ac.at (Friedrich Leisch) Date: Mon, 9 Jul 2001 12:00:58 +0200 Subject: R News Volume 1/2 published Message-ID: <15177.32986.93029.526128@galadriel.ci.tuwien.ac.at> We have just published the second volume of R News on http://cran.R-project.org/doc/Rnews where you can download the newsletter as PDF or postscript file. It will propagate to the CRAN mirrors within a day or two.. Contents: Changes in R Changes on CRAN Date-Time Classes Installing R under Windows Spatial Statistics in R geoR: A Package for Geostatistical Analysis Simulation and Analysis of RAndom Fields mgcv: GAMs and Generalized Ridge Regression for R What's the Point of `tensor'? On Multivariate t and Gau? Probabilities in R Programmer's Niche Recent Events which makes a total of 32 pages of features, applications and riddles about our favourite data analysis environment. Enjoy reading! For the editorial board, Fritz Leisch -- ------------------------------------------------------------------- Friedrich Leisch Institut f?r Statistik Tel: (+43 1) 58801 10715 Technische Universit?t Wien Fax: (+43 1) 58801 10798 Wiedner Hauptstra?e 8-10/1071 Friedrich.Leisch at ci.tuwien.ac.at A-1040 Wien, Austria http://www.ci.tuwien.ac.at/~leisch ------------------------------------------------------------------- -.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.- r-announce mailing list -- Read http://www.ci.tuwien.ac.at/~hornik/R/R-FAQ.html Send "info", "help", or "[un]subscribe" (in the "body", not the subject !) To: r-announce-request at stat.math.ethz.ch _._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._ From maximino.ameneiro at metropoli2000.com Wed Jul 11 14:14:42 2001 From: maximino.ameneiro at metropoli2000.com (Maximino Ameneiro Gomez) Date: Wed, 11 Jul 2001 14:14:42 +0200 Subject: R-1.3.0 RPM for Mandrake 7.2 Message-ID: <01071114144200.01550@linux> The RPMs of R-1.3.0 and R-recommended for Mandrake 7.2 are now available on CRAN and its mirrors. Thanks to Michele Alzetta for his support. Maximino Ameneiro Gomez -.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.- r-announce mailing list -- Read http://www.ci.tuwien.ac.at/~hornik/R/R-FAQ.html Send "info", "help", or "[un]subscribe" (in the "body", not the subject !) To: r-announce-request at stat.math.ethz.ch _._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._ From deleeuw at stat.ucla.edu Mon Aug 20 16:59:44 2001 From: deleeuw at stat.ucla.edu (Jan de Leeuw) Date: Mon, 20 Aug 2001 07:59:44 -0700 Subject: R-1.3.0 full update (151 packages) Message-ID: <200108201500.IAA41864@pine.frazmtn.com> You may want to wait for R-1.3.1, but there is a new version R-1.3.0-MacOSX.tar.gz in http//www.stat.ucla.edu/~deleeuw/R. It's in the folder "overfull", and it -- will be updated to 1.3.1 as soon as that exists -- has support for gnome, tcl/tk, and atlas -- includes 151 add-on packages (see the list in packages.txt). Most of them have been updated to the latest CRAN versions. -- uses the newest versions of the readline, dlcompat, gnome, f2c, atlas, tcl/tk libraries (all from fink, see fink.sourceforge.net) -- has the necessary dylibs in the folder "dylibs". If you find you need one, because R asks for it, download it and install it. If R asks for one which is not there, drop me an email. -- has five screenshots in the folder "screenshots", a small sample of the many possibilities. a. One has rootless XFree86 with the gnome interface for R. This may be as close to the Carbon version as you can get with Xfree. b. The Aqua rootless mode is fine if you want to interact directly with Carbon and Cocoa applications. The second screenshot is full screen X11, and proud of it. It has some tcl/tk demos running. c. The windowmanager for the first two screenshots is blackbox, and you see two fancy eterm windows running as well (with dragons and far-away planets and stuff). The third screenshot uses the sawfish window manager, running in a gnome-session. d. If you don't like gnome (most sane persons don't), then screenshot four uses the ice window manager, and shows another tcltk demo. Look in the lower left hand corner of this screen -- you are running Linux. And on a decent computer too. e. Finally, there is a screenshot which uses the Xtools Aqua window manager in rootless mode. This is obviously close to optimal for Mac junkies. By the way, the gnome gui does not work with XTools. Note: Running cksum on the file it should give 3276119375 28310961 R-1.3.0-MacOSX.tar.gz Note: If you install fink on your system, you will have easy access to the following window managers: twm, mwm, pwm, fvwm, xfwm, icewm, blackbox, enlightenment, windowmaker, sawfish, oroborus, afterstep. Xtools adds the Aqua window manager. Thus you can make your Mac look like a machine running vanilla X11, Motif, NextStep, Gnome, and even Aqua/Quartz. references: http://fink.sourceforge.net/doc/x11/index.php http://www.xwinman.org/ === Jan de Leeuw; Professor and Chair, UCLA Department of Statistics; US mail: 9432 Boulter Hall, Box 951554, Los Angeles, CA 90095-1554 phone (310)-825-9550; fax (310)-206-5658; email: deleeuw at stat.ucla.edu homepage: http://www.stat.ucla.edu/~deleeuw ======================================================== No matter where you go, there you are. --- Buckaroo Banzai http://www.stat.ucla.edu/~deleeuw/sounds/nomatter.au ======================================================== -.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.- r-announce mailing list -- Read http://www.ci.tuwien.ac.at/~hornik/R/R-FAQ.html Send "info", "help", or "[un]subscribe" (in the "body", not the subject !) To: r-announce-request at stat.math.ethz.ch _._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._ From p.dalgaard at biostat.ku.dk Fri Aug 31 15:55:48 2001 From: p.dalgaard at biostat.ku.dk (Peter Dalgaard BSA) Date: 31 Aug 2001 15:55:48 +0200 Subject: R-1.3.1 is released Message-ID: I've rolled up R-1.3.1.tgz a short while ago. This is a minor upgrade, fixing a number of bugs and only containing a few small new features. The most immediately visible new feature is that "less" is used for viewing help pages if available. A set of recommended packages which have been tested with R-1.3.1 has been bundled up. Binary distributions are expected to include these packages. The mgcv package is included this time (we intended to have it in 1.3.0, but encountered portability problems). Please note (as for 1.3.0) that the former "survival5" package is now named "survival". If you install over an existing installation which has survival5 installed, make sure to "R CMD REMOVE survival5" You can get the files from the developer site ftp://cvs.r-project.org/pub/CRAN/src/base/R-1.3.1.tgz ftp://cvs.r-project.org/pub/CRAN/src/base/R-1.3.1-recommended.tgz or http://cvs.r-project.org/pub/CRAN/src/base/R-1.3.1.tgz http://cvs.r-project.org/pub/CRAN/src/base/R-1.3.1-recommended.tgz or wait for them to be mirrored at a CRAN site near you. This will probably happen after the weekend due to circumstances in Vienna. Binaries for various platforms will appear in due course. There are also versions split for floppies, and a patch file relative to R-1.3.0. For the R Core Team, Peter D. Here's the relevant part of the NEWS file: CHANGES IN R VERSION 1.3.1 NEW FEATURES o massage-examples is now a Perl script and about 50x faster. o On Unix(-alike) systems the default pager is now determined during configuration, and is `less' if available, otherwise `more' (and not `more -s' as previously). o configure now tests for strptime functions that fail on inputs before 1970 (found on Irix). It no longer checks for the SCSL and SGIMATH libraries on Irix. o New formula interface to cor.test() in package ctest. o "NA" is now a valid color name (as NA has been a valid integer color). o pairs() function has a new `gap' argument for adjusting the spacing between panels. o R CMD check has a new test for unbalanced braces in Rd files. o readBin() has a new argument `signed' to simplify reading unsigned 8- and 16-bit integers. o New capabilities() option "cledit". o Modified restore code to give clearer error messages in some cases. BUG FIXES o Fixed placement of mtext() output (including tick labels) when text is perpendicular to axis AND axis is logged (PR#997 and PR#865). o rect() and arrows() now respond to setting of par(xpd) o abline() now responds to the setting of par(xpd), including via the "..." argument (PR#750). o Using cat() to a gzfile() connection no longer compresses poorly (at the expense of some latency). o The `exact' p-values for the two-sided two-sample Kolmogorov-Smirnov test in 1.3.0 were for the wrong tail. o In the HTML conversion of .Rd files, \link[foo]{bar} was ignoring [foo] outside \code{} statements. o lm.influence(), plot.lm(), influence.measures() and the related diagnostic measures now handle lm() fits with na.action=na.exclude. o Eliminated segmentation fault in while loops without braces in their bodies. o barplot did not accept NA heights unless ylim was specified. o predict.lm() failed with single-column model matrix (PR#1018). o legend() now also works with 100s of entries (thanks to M. Schlather). o A long-standing bug leading to inaccuracy in polyroot() has been fixed (PR#751) o A very old bug with eval() not handling a numeric `envir' argument according to specifications has been fixed. [This in particular broke ported S-PLUS code that used eval(..., sys.parent())]. Also, eval() now checks that a numeric `envir' has length one to prevent accidental passing of matrices instead of data frames. o The C code underlying nlm(f, *) now also works correctly when f(x) returns +Inf {nlm() itself *did* work!}. o pdfcolor.tex is now included in doc/manual, as pdftex seems no longer to include it. o Fixed protect bug in save() code that might have been responsible for occasionally saving corrupted workspaces. o capabilities("X11") now reports if X11 is available in this session, thereby giving the correct answer if --gui=none was specified. o Rd files with ,, inside \code{} were treating this as a ligature in LaTeX: now corrected in Rdconv. o dlopen on Compaq Tru64 was finding the wrong entry points: worked-around by using different names in the modules. o plot.mts() allows a type argument again (broken in 1.3.0: PR#1010). o scan() has a limit of 8190 on the length of char strings, and now warns if it is exceeded (when the string has always been truncated). o par adj now accepts values of integer mode (such as text(adj=0:1)). o horizontal adj values outside the range [0, 1] are now supported on devices with canHAdj==1 (Windows devices, xfig). o xtabs() without a response was ignoring drop.unused.levels=TRUE. o readLines(ok=FALSE) was not generating an error when it should. o princomp(covmat=) has been broken. o Many documentation clean-ups: formerly undocumented arguments, use of T/F rather than TRUE/FALSE. o df[] <- foo now works for data frames (PR#1047). o nargs() was documented incorrectly. o Using seq.POSIXt(by="2 weeks") was stepping by single weeks (PR#1046). o dummy.coef.lm was not handling complex terms like z:I(x). It now either does or warns and gives NAs (PR#1048). o predict.mlm() was broken (PR#1049). o ksmooth (in package modreg) was using points to the left of the kernel under some circumstances (PR#1050). o attr(x, "class") <- character(0) was segfaulting. Similar problem with "comment" attribute also fixed. o loadings() results from PCA (as well as from factor analysis) are now printed by print.loadings. o Using chol() on an non-positive-definite matrix gave an misleading error message (PR#1061). o as.character() on a language object was truncating to about 70 characters: the internal limit (from the deparse code) is now the maximum possible 500. o X11() device was failing to re-initialize correctly after all devices were shut down, so the colortype could not be changed and some systems showed protocol errors. (PR#1065) o Converting Inf and NaN values by as.character() and reading by scan() was supported by strtod on some platforms and not others: these are now handled by R itself. (PR#1072) o hclust(dist(1)) doesn't loop infinitely but signal an error. o cutree() can now cut outside heights and does not return garbage for h >= max(tree$heights) anymore. (PR#1067) o interaction(...,drop=F) returned an object looking like a factor, but with storage mode "double", confusing model.matrix.default (PR#1003) o splineDesign(*, ord=) and others give better error messages for wrong `ord' (and have slightly improved documentation). -- O__ ---- Peter Dalgaard Blegdamsvej 3 c/ /'_ --- Dept. of Biostatistics 2200 Cph. N (*) \(*) -- University of Copenhagen Denmark Ph: (+45) 35327918 ~~~~~~~~~~ - (p.dalgaard at biostat.ku.dk) FAX: (+45) 35327907 -.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.- r-announce mailing list -- Read http://www.ci.tuwien.ac.at/~hornik/R/R-FAQ.html Send "info", "help", or "[un]subscribe" (in the "body", not the subject !) To: r-announce-request at stat.math.ethz.ch _._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._ From bates at stat.wisc.edu Fri Aug 31 16:44:22 2001 From: bates at stat.wisc.edu (Douglas Bates) Date: 31 Aug 2001 09:44:22 -0500 Subject: rsync repository updated to R-1.3.1 Message-ID: <6r3d68xpa1.fsf@franz.stat.wisc.edu> The rsync repository at rsync.r-project.org has been updated to R-1.3.1 For example you can create a local directory R-1.3.1 and populate it with the source tree by rsync -avC rsycn.r-project.org::r-release ./R-1.3.1 -.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.- r-announce mailing list -- Read http://www.ci.tuwien.ac.at/~hornik/R/R-FAQ.html Send "info", "help", or "[un]subscribe" (in the "body", not the subject !) To: r-announce-request at stat.math.ethz.ch _._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._ From deleeuw at stat.ucla.edu Fri Aug 31 19:33:32 2001 From: deleeuw at stat.ucla.edu (Jan de Leeuw) Date: Fri, 31 Aug 2001 10:33:32 -0700 Subject: R-1.3.1 for OS X Message-ID: <200108311733.KAA25682@pine.frazmtn.com> The full version with 154 packages is on http://gifi.stat.ucla.edu/R I dropped the gnome support, and ATLAS is now standard. Unpack in /usr/local Once again, if your R complains about missing dynamic libraries, first look in http://gifi.stat.ucla.edu/R/dylibs and if you cannot find what you need drop me an email. === Jan de Leeuw; Professor and Chair, UCLA Department of Statistics; US mail: 9432 Boulter Hall, Box 951554, Los Angeles, CA 90095-1554 phone (310)-825-9550; fax (310)-206-5658; email: deleeuw at stat.ucla.edu homepage: http://www.stat.ucla.edu/~deleeuw ======================================================== No matter where you go, there you are. --- Buckaroo Banzai http://www.stat.ucla.edu/~deleeuw/sounds/nomatter.au ======================================================== -.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.- r-announce mailing list -- Read http://www.ci.tuwien.ac.at/~hornik/R/R-FAQ.html Send "info", "help", or "[un]subscribe" (in the "body", not the subject !) To: r-announce-request at stat.math.ethz.ch _._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._ From lina at u.washington.edu Sun Sep 2 00:10:41 2001 From: lina at u.washington.edu (Michael Na Li) Date: Sat, 01 Sep 2001 15:10:41 -0700 Subject: Ann: New package rpvm 0.2 Message-ID: An new package, rpvm 0.2 has been uploaded to ftp://cran.r-project.org/incoming. Here is the DESCRIPTION, Package: rpvm Version: 0.2 Date: $Date: 2001/08/30 21:44:37 $ Title: R interface to PVM (Parallel Virtual Machine) Author: Na (Michael) Li and A. J. Rossini . Maintainer: Na (Michael) Li Depends: R (>= 1.2.0) Description: Provides interface to PVM APIs, and examples and documentation for its use. License: GPL version 2 or newer URL: http://www.r-project.org/, http://software.biostat.washington.edu/statsoft/snake/ PVM (Parallel Virtual Machine, http://www.epm.ornl.gov/pvm/pvm_home.html or http://www.netlib.org/pvm3/, ) is a de facto standard message passing library for distributed cluster computing. It runs on existing network of heterogeneous computers. RPVM provides interfaces to PVM APIs, and enables parallel statistical computation in an environment already familiar to statisticians. Note that because of its dependence on PVM, R CMD check won't work out of box. However, once pvm is properly set up and running, the examples in demo should work. A technical report describing rpvm is available upon request. Comments are most welcome. Michael -- --------------------------------------------------- Michael Na Li Email: lina at u.washington.edu Department of Biostatistics, Box 357232 University of Washington, Seattle, WA 98195 --------------------------------------------------- -.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.- r-announce mailing list -- Read http://www.ci.tuwien.ac.at/~hornik/R/R-FAQ.html Send "info", "help", or "[un]subscribe" (in the "body", not the subject !) To: r-announce-request at stat.math.ethz.ch _._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._ From jago at mclink.it Mon Sep 3 01:08:15 2001 From: jago at mclink.it (Stefano Iacus) Date: Mon, 3 Sep 2001 01:08:15 +0200 Subject: R-1.3.1 for both MacOS version released Message-ID: <200109022308.f82N8Er02447@mail.mclink.it> Version 1.3.1 of R(s) for MacOS have been released. They will be mirrored starting from tomorrow at CRAN. For the Carbon version (MacOS 8.6 to 9.2 and OSX) refer to http://cran.r-project.org/bin/macos/rm131 and for the Darwin/X11 version refer to http://cran.r-project.org/bin/macosx/rx131 (this last was already announced by Jan de Leeuw and now mirrored at CRAN). Stefano M. Iacus What follows are specific changes to Carbon R. rm131 ===== * Added the "Config" menu * Fixed a bug in the lapack module. Complex functions are now available. * Added MPW makefiles to build standard libraries and modules * Added experimental script to build R via Apple's MRC compiler * Now R needs a new shared library "f2c" lib that will increase portability for all fortran based packages * Added support for apple events. R begins to be a scriptable application. Very limited support by now but will increase soon. Some demo scripts have been added. * link.html.help() function has been added by picking windows code. -.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.- r-announce mailing list -- Read http://www.ci.tuwien.ac.at/~hornik/R/R-FAQ.html Send "info", "help", or "[un]subscribe" (in the "body", not the subject !) To: r-announce-request at stat.math.ethz.ch _._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._ From jago at mclink.it Mon Sep 3 14:41:31 2001 From: jago at mclink.it (Stefano Iacus) Date: Mon, 3 Sep 2001 14:41:31 +0200 Subject: R-1.3.1 for both MacOS version released (correct URLs) Message-ID: <200109031241.f83CfUr29871@mail.mclink.it> Version 1.3.1 of R(s) for MacOS have been released. They will be mirrored starting from tomorrow at CRAN. For the Carbon version (MacOS 8.6 to 9.2 and OSX) refer to http://cran.r-project.org/bin/macos/ and for the Darwin/X11 version refer to http://cran.r-project.org/bin/macosx/ (this last was already announced by Jan de Leeuw and now mirrored at CRAN). Stefano M. Iacus What follows are specific changes to Carbon R. rm131 ===== * Added the "Config" menu * Fixed a bug in the lapack module. Complex functions are now available. * Added MPW makefiles to build standard libraries and modules * Added experimental script to build R via Apple's MRC compiler * Now R needs a new shared library "f2c" lib that will increase portability for all fortran based packages * Added support for apple events. R begins to be a scriptable application. Very limited support by now but will increase soon. Some demo scripts have been added. * link.html.help() function has been added by picking windows code. -.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.- r-announce mailing list -- Read http://www.ci.tuwien.ac.at/~hornik/R/R-FAQ.html Send "info", "help", or "[un]subscribe" (in the "body", not the subject !) To: r-announce-request at stat.math.ethz.ch _._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._ From guido at hal.stat.unipd.it Tue Sep 4 17:00:11 2001 From: guido at hal.stat.unipd.it (Guido Masarotto) Date: Tue, 4 Sep 2001 17:00:11 +0200 Subject: R-1.3.1 for Windows Message-ID: <20010904170011.47357@hal.stat.unipd.it> A binary distribution of R-1.3.1 to run on Windows 95, 98, NT4.0 and 2000 on Intel/clone chips is available at http://sirio.stat.unipd.it/RWin It will be mirrored at a CRAN site near you in a couple of days. See below for a list of Windows-specific changes. guido masarotto (for the R-core team) Windows-specific changes to R ============================= Lines with lty > 1 and many pieces were being drawn very slowly on Windows 2000 (but not 98/ME). To work around this, such lines are now drawn 5000 pieces at a time. The dialog for the `Change dir' item now uses a standard folder selection widget for its Browse button. White backgrounds are now omitted for metafiles (as they are for postscript, PDF and XFig plots), so white backgounds (the default) appear to be transparent. help.start() now updates the HTML search index (as well as the packages index) when it is started up. link.html.help() works better when R_LIBS omits the drive, and uses relative links for the main library, so R installations can be relocated in the file system. The background colour of the GUI preferences editor and the select.list() popup is now taken from the Windows colour scheme. Rcmd INSTALL now rejects invalid options for --docs (rather than ignoring them), and checks for the R version in the DESCRIPTION file exactly the same way as Rcmd check (so with fewer spurious messages). Added support for building with the ATLAS optimized BLAS library: on a PII this speeds up La.svd on a 500x500 matrix by about 30%, and the multiplication of two 1000x1000 matrices by about 8x. See INSTALL. The recommended compiler system has been changed, but that recommended for rw1030 still works. -.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.- r-announce mailing list -- Read http://www.ci.tuwien.ac.at/~hornik/R/R-FAQ.html Send "info", "help", or "[un]subscribe" (in the "body", not the subject !) To: r-announce-request at stat.math.ethz.ch _._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._ From plummer at iarc.fr Fri Sep 7 10:37:18 2001 From: plummer at iarc.fr (Martyn Plummer) Date: Fri, 07 Sep 2001 10:37:18 +0200 (CEST) Subject: RPM binaries of R 1.3.1 on Red Hat/Mandrake/Linuxppc Message-ID: RPM based binary distributions of R are avaiable on CRAN for the following flavours of Linux: Distribution Version Platform Packager Red Hat 7.x intel Martyn Plummer Red Hat 7.x alpha Naoki Takebayashi Red Hat 6.x intel Stephen Eglen Mandrake 8.0 intel Michele Alzetta LinuxPPC ppc Alex Buerkle The RPMS are R-base: The base distribution R-recommended: Recommended packages Martyn -.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.- r-announce mailing list -- Read http://www.ci.tuwien.ac.at/~hornik/R/R-FAQ.html Send "info", "help", or "[un]subscribe" (in the "body", not the subject !) To: r-announce-request at stat.math.ethz.ch _._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._ From Friedrich.Leisch at ci.tuwien.ac.at Tue Sep 11 18:52:42 2001 From: Friedrich.Leisch at ci.tuwien.ac.at (Friedrich Leisch) Date: Tue, 11 Sep 2001 18:52:42 +0200 Subject: New package pixmap Message-ID: <15262.16730.432546.63278@galadriel.ci.tuwien.ac.at> A new package called `pixmap' has been released on CRAN. From the DESCRIPTION file: Package: pixmap Version: 0.2-1 Title: Bitmap Images (``Pixel Maps'') Depends: R (>= 1.3) Author: Friedrich Leisch and Roger Bivand Maintainer: Friedrich Leisch Description: Functions for import, export, plotting and other manipulations of bitmapped images. License: GPL version 2. The package is intended to provide the central low-level support for reading/writing/plotting bitmapped images. It replaces the read.pnm and write.pnm functions of package e1071. Currently only PNM images are supported for import/export, but we want to add other filter real soon. A rich class structure is already in place, allowing for grey, rgb and indexed images together with conversions between all three formats. The classes allow images also to have a coordinate system attached, such that, e.g., locator() can be used meaningfully on geographical maps. This is a first release, all comments and feedback are more than welcome (thanks to Jonathan Marchini for valuable feedback on the first development version). Best, Fritz Leisch -- ------------------------------------------------------------------- Friedrich Leisch Institut f?r Statistik Tel: (+43 1) 58801 10715 Technische Universit?t Wien Fax: (+43 1) 58801 10798 Wiedner Hauptstra?e 8-10/1071 Friedrich.Leisch at ci.tuwien.ac.at A-1040 Wien, Austria http://www.ci.tuwien.ac.at/~leisch ------------------------------------------------------------------- -.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.- r-announce mailing list -- Read http://www.ci.tuwien.ac.at/~hornik/R/R-FAQ.html Send "info", "help", or "[un]subscribe" (in the "body", not the subject !) To: r-announce-request at stat.math.ethz.ch _._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._ From p.murrell at auckland.ac.nz Fri Sep 21 05:05:14 2001 From: p.murrell at auckland.ac.nz (Paul Murrell) Date: Fri, 21 Sep 2001 15:05:14 +1200 Subject: new versions of grid and lattice Message-ID: <011701c1424a$3c3c1c30$175dd882@stat.auckland.ac.nz> Hi There are new versions of the grid and lattice packages on CRAN: grid 0.2 and lattice 0.3-0 These packages are still _under development_ (they are in CRAN/src/contrib/Devel) There have been some bug fixes and, especially in lattice, there are lots of new features. Descriptions of the changes are included below. If you have any grid code, it may break under the new version because of a change to the interface of the pop.viewport() function -- see the changes below. Many thanks to those who have provided feedback and suggestions for corrections/improvements. Don't worry if you can't see your suggestion in the new version; it just means we haven't found time to try to implement it yet :) Paul Murrell Deepayan Sarkar ---snip--- Changes from grid_0.1 to grid_0.2: 1. Fixed bug in rotating viewports; this should be more reliable now (the rotation of viewports, not the bug!). 2. Added grid.line.to() and grid.move.to(). These allow drawing BETWEEN different coordinate systems. See example in inst/doc/demo3.ps. 3. Added some more demonstrations to the doc directory. 4. Added more test code to the tests directory. 5. Added "grobwidth" and "grobheight" units. See the document grid/inst/doc/advanced/parentchild.ps 6. Added more detailed documentation to grid/inst/doc/advanced. This stuff is not necessarily very friendly for the reader, but may be useful if you're tearing your hair out wondering why some strange effect is occurring. 7. Changed frames and packing to use the new "grobwidth" and "grobheight" units. This fixes some problems with frames and packing. 8. Fixed a bug where the gpar settings for "fontsize" and "lineheight" _within a grob_ would not affect the location or size of the grob if they were specified in "lines" or "char" units. This required adding new "mylines" and "mychar" units (alternative suggestions for names welcome !) so that you can specify whether a grob's a location/size is in terms of the current viewport's fontsize and lineheight ("lines" and "char") or in terms of its own fontsize and lineheight ("mylines" and "mychar"). 9. Added grid.polygon() and grid.circle() primitives 10. Added newpage=TRUE argument to grid.start() so that you can restart grid graphics mode without having to move to a new page. For example, try ... postscript() grid.start() grid.polygon() grid.stop() grid.start() # moves to new page grid.circle() grid.stop() grid.start(newpage=FALSE) # does NOT move to new page grid.rect() grid.stop() dev.off() 11. Changed interface for pop.viewport(). This now just takes a number of viewports to pop, which defaults to 1. For example ... push.viewport(viewport()) pop.viewport(current.viewport()) ... becomes ... push.viewport(viewport()) pop.viewport() ... and ... vp1 <- viewport() vp2 <- viewport() push.viewport(vp1, vp2) pop.viewport(vp2, vp1) ... becomes ... vp1 <- viewport() vp2 <- viewport() push.viewport(vp1, vp2) pop.viewport(2) 12. Speed-up of pushing and popping viewports. This will probably not be noticeable in normal usage, but makes a big difference for frames and packing. 13. Added a convertNative() function for converting a unit object to "user" or "data" coordinates. This is useful for performing calculations (e.g., smoothing) on a location or dimension which is easiest to specify in units. You must specify whether you wish to convert relative to the current x- or y-scale AND whether you are converting a location or a dimension. The following example shows the difference: > push.viewport(viewport(w=unit(4,"inches"), xscale=c(-10,10))) > convertNative(unit(1:4, "inches")) [1] -5 0 5 10 > convertNative(unit(1:4, "inches"), "y") [1] 0.1430986 0.2861972 0.4292958 0.5723944 # on my default window size > convertNative(unit(1:4, "inches"), "y", "dimension") [1] 0.1430986 0.2861972 0.4292958 0.5723944 > convertNative(unit(1:4, "inches"), "x", "dimension") [1] 5 10 15 20 WARNING: if you draw objects based on output from these conversion functions, then resize your device, the objects will be drawn incorrectly -- the base R display list will not recalculate these conversions. This means that you can only rely on the results of these calculations if the size of your device is fixed. This change motivated by discussions with Frank Harrell. ---snip--- Changes in lattice 0.3 ====================== The overall internal structure of the lattice library has changed considerably in verion 0.3, in particular making it far more readable and debuggable. However, this also means that some code which had worked with the earlier version might now fail. (This is just a discalimer, there are no known instances.) New Features: ============ o (Almost) full support for the `key' argument for drawing legends o Support for log scales o levelplot (but no contourplot. In particular, the contour = T option in levelplot does not work) o tmd now works on the output from qq o panel function names can now be quoted strings o scales and its x and y components can now be just a character string like "free" or "sliced", i.e., the relation tag can be omitted. o extension to the `type' argument in panel.xyplot and panel.superpose to allow stair-like and histogram-like plots (type="s" and "h" in plot), as well as loess smooths (using the loess.smooth function in the modreg library). Also, more than one of these options can now be used concurrently. This allows, for example, a grouped plot where a grouping variable can be used to fit separate loess curves along with the scatter for each group. See example(xyplot) o wrappers around grid functions with API-s of traditional graphics functions to help port existing S-Plus Trellis code. See below for details. o changes in print.trellis to allow mixing of Lattice and usual R graphics. See below for details. o `data' can now be second unnamed argument in high level functions o `pscales' implemented for splom Porting S-Plus Trellis code to Lattice ====================================== One of the basic problems in porting existing Trellis code to R is the unusability of the base R functions like lines and points inside panel functions. To help make the changes more transparently, lattice now includes several wrappers around grid functions that provide an API similar to the corresponding base R functions. The list currently includes lpoints, llines, ltext and lsegments. Using Lattice and base R graphics concurrently ============================================== Grid graphics normally do not mix with usual R graphics. However, end-users typically might want to use lattice functions concurrently with traditional R graphics. To allow this without intermittent calls to grid.stop() and grid.start(), print.trellis (which ultimately does all the plotting in lattice) now tries to preserve the state of the device on which it plots. By default, library(lattice) opens a device in grid enabled mode. It can be reverted to non grid mode by grid.stop(). Subsequently, both Lattice functions and traditional graphics functions can be used. Devices opened by trellis.device() start in non-grid mode, unless grid.start() is called. Still Missing ============= o contourplot, wireframe, cloud (partially implemented) and of course, piechart o Some components of scale (I haven't found a full list, so can't say exactly which are missing) o Fonts o axis labels badly implemented, no checking for overlaps. -.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.- r-announce mailing list -- Read http://www.ci.tuwien.ac.at/~hornik/R/R-FAQ.html Send "info", "help", or "[un]subscribe" (in the "body", not the subject !) To: r-announce-request at stat.math.ethz.ch _._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._ From Friedrich.Leisch at ci.tuwien.ac.at Thu Oct 4 10:03:21 2001 From: Friedrich.Leisch at ci.tuwien.ac.at (Friedrich Leisch) Date: Thu, 4 Oct 2001 10:03:21 +0200 Subject: new version of e1071 on CRAN Message-ID: <15292.6089.760015.233382@galadriel.ci.tuwien.ac.at> A new version of e1071 has been released to CRAN which should be much easier to install on a lot of platforms because reading/writing PNM images has been moved to the pixmap package, hence there are no longer dependencies on external libraries and no configure mechanism. For the authors, Fritz Leisch ********************************************************** Changes in Version 1.2-0: o Added functions for bagged clustering, see help(bclust). o read.pnm() and write.pgm() have been removed from e1071, much improved versions can now be found in the new package pixmap. o Lots of documentation updates and bugfixes. o Support Vector Machine interface now upgraded to libsvm V. 2.31 featuring: - Multi-Class Classification - weighting of classes for C-classification (for asymmetric sample sizes) - nu-regression - Formula Interface - k-fold cross-validation In addition, an introductory article is provided in directory `docs/' (svmdoc.pdf). o classAgreement now features an option to match factor levels o updated API design for the fuzzy clustering functions (cmeans, cshell, scaclust). Documentation updates and function name changes (cmeanscl -> cmeans, validity.measures -> fclustIndex) -- ------------------------------------------------------------------- Friedrich Leisch Institut f?r Statistik Tel: (+43 1) 58801 10715 Technische Universit?t Wien Fax: (+43 1) 58801 10798 Wiedner Hauptstra?e 8-10/1071 Friedrich.Leisch at ci.tuwien.ac.at A-1040 Wien, Austria http://www.ci.tuwien.ac.at/~leisch ------------------------------------------------------------------- -.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.- r-announce mailing list -- Read http://www.ci.tuwien.ac.at/~hornik/R/R-FAQ.html Send "info", "help", or "[un]subscribe" (in the "body", not the subject !) To: r-announce-request at stat.math.ethz.ch _._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._ From james.lindsey at luc.ac.be Wed Oct 17 12:49:29 2001 From: james.lindsey at luc.ac.be (Jim Lindsey) Date: Wed, 17 Oct 2001 12:49:29 +0200 (MET DST) Subject: stochastic course notes with R Message-ID: <200110171049.MAA21217@luc.ac.be> I have just put the postscript file for the first draft of a manuscript of a course on The Statistical Analysis of Stochastic Processes in Time, as well as the R code to do all of the examples, on my web page at www.luc.ac.be/~jlindsey/manuscripts.html The chapters are Part I Basic principles 1. What is a stochastic process? 2. Normal theory models and extensions. Part II Categorical state space 3. Survival processes. 4. Recurrent events. 5. Discrete-time Markov chains. 6. Event histories. 7. Dynamic models. 8. More complex dependencies. Part III Continuous state space 9. Time series. 10. Growth curves. 11. Dynamic models. 12. Repeated measurements. Although it contains chapters on survival analysis and time series, as far as I have been able to see, the ts and survival libraries are not capable of performing the analyses that I required, except for some of the simple plots. As a reminder, the following books all have complete R code available on my web page as well: Introductory Statistics. A Modelling Approach. OUP, 1995 0-19-852345-9 (also instructor's manual can be downloaded) Models for Repeated Measurements. (2nd edn) OUP, 1999 0-19-850559-0 Nonlinear Models in Medical Statistics. OUP, 2001 0-19-850812-3 Of course, all four require my R libraries available at www.luc.ac.be/~jlindsey/rcode.html Comments and criticisms are very welcome. Jim -.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.- r-announce mailing list -- Read http://www.ci.tuwien.ac.at/~hornik/R/R-FAQ.html Send "info", "help", or "[un]subscribe" (in the "body", not the subject !) To: r-announce-request at stat.math.ethz.ch _._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._ From Friedrich.Leisch at ci.tuwien.ac.at Wed Oct 24 14:58:48 2001 From: Friedrich.Leisch at ci.tuwien.ac.at (Friedrich Leisch) Date: Wed, 24 Oct 2001 14:58:48 +0200 Subject: bugfix release of e1071 Message-ID: <15318.47880.81171.759753@galadriel.ci.tuwien.ac.at> A bugfix release of package e1071 that passes `Rcmd check' on windows has been uploaded to CRAN. Changes in Version 1.2-1: o Bug fixes in cmeans.c, cshell.c and scaclust.c (R header files included and unused variables removed) o Bug fixes in Rsvm.c and svm.R (incomplete list of returned Support Vectors). o Encapsulate kmeans call in bclust() in a try construct, because kmeans gives an error when a cluster becomes empty (which can happen for almost every data set from time to time). Best, -- ------------------------------------------------------------------- Friedrich Leisch Institut f?r Statistik Tel: (+43 1) 58801 10715 Technische Universit?t Wien Fax: (+43 1) 58801 10798 Wiedner Hauptstra?e 8-10/1071 Friedrich.Leisch at ci.tuwien.ac.at A-1040 Wien, Austria http://www.ci.tuwien.ac.at/~leisch ------------------------------------------------------------------- -.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.- r-announce mailing list -- Read http://www.ci.tuwien.ac.at/~hornik/R/R-FAQ.html Send "info", "help", or "[un]subscribe" (in the "body", not the subject !) To: r-announce-request at stat.math.ethz.ch _._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._ From Friedrich.Leisch at ci.tuwien.ac.at Wed Nov 7 13:32:59 2001 From: Friedrich.Leisch at ci.tuwien.ac.at (Friedrich.Leisch at ci.tuwien.ac.at) Date: Wed, 7 Nov 2001 13:32:59 +0100 Subject: R News Volume 1/3 published Message-ID: <15337.10747.900828.615916@galadriel.ci.tuwien.ac.at> We have just published the third issue of R News on http://cran.R-project.org/doc/Rnews where you can download the newsletter as PDF or postscript file. It will propagate to the CRAN mirrors within a day or two.. Contents: Porting R to Darwin/X11 and Mac OS X RPVM: Cluster Statistical Computing in R strucchange: Testing for Structural Change in Linear Regression Relationships Programmer's Niche: Macros in R More on Spatial Data Analysis Object-Oriented Programming in R In Search of C/C++ \& FORTRAN Routines A Primer on the R-Tcl/Tk Package wle: A Package for Robust Statistics using Weighted Likelihood Changes on CRAN Changes in R which makes a total of 40 pages. For the editorial board, Fritz Leisch -- ------------------------------------------------------------------- Friedrich Leisch Institut f?r Statistik Tel: (+43 1) 58801 10715 Technische Universit?t Wien Fax: (+43 1) 58801 10798 Wiedner Hauptstra?e 8-10/1071 Friedrich.Leisch at ci.tuwien.ac.at A-1040 Wien, Austria http://www.ci.tuwien.ac.at/~leisch ------------------------------------------------------------------- -.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.- r-announce mailing list -- Read http://www.ci.tuwien.ac.at/~hornik/R/R-FAQ.html Send "info", "help", or "[un]subscribe" (in the "body", not the subject !) To: r-announce-request at stat.math.ethz.ch _._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._ From brahm at alum.mit.edu Mon Dec 3 17:25:02 2001 From: brahm at alum.mit.edu (David Brahm) Date: Mon, 3 Dec 2001 11:25:02 -0500 Subject: New package: g.data Message-ID: <15371.42846.422155.287658@gargle.gargle.HOWL> A new package "g.data" is available on CRAN, to create and maintain databases that work more like the S-Plus model. Here's the official Description for g.data (v1.2): Create and maintain delayed-data packages (DDP's). Data stored in a DDP are available on demand, but do not take up memory until requested. You attach a DDP with g.data.attach(), then read from it and assign to it in a manner similar to S-Plus, except that you must run g.data.save() to actually commit to disk. Here's a very abbreviated (Unix) example: g.data.attach("/tmp/mydir") # Open package:mydir in pos=2 assign("x1", matrix(1, 1000, 1000), 2) # Put data there g.data.save() # Commit to disk detach(2) # Detach package:mydir g.data.attach("/tmp/mydir") # Re-attach it, no resources used dim(x1) # x1 is loaded only when needed! find("x1") # It still lives in package:mydir g.data is the end result of my post "Reading and writing to S-like databases", sent to R-help on Sep 28, 2001. Thanks to all who responded, especially Dr. Agustin Lobo and (by reference) Ray Brownrigg , who suggested using delay(); Martin Maechler , Thomas Lumley , Brian D. Ripley , and Peter Dalgaard , who helped me with platform independence issues; and Kurt Hornik , who cleaned it up for CRAN. I have one concern: g.data relies heavily on delay(), whose documentation says: This is an experimental feature and its addition is purely for evaluation purposes. Is there any plan to deprecate delay()? Feedback is welcome! -- -- David Brahm (brahm at alum.mit.edu) -.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.- r-announce mailing list -- Read http://www.ci.tuwien.ac.at/~hornik/R/R-FAQ.html Send "info", "help", or "[un]subscribe" (in the "body", not the subject !) To: r-announce-request at stat.math.ethz.ch _._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._ From mikalzet at libero.it Fri Dec 7 11:44:35 2001 From: mikalzet at libero.it (mikalzet at libero.it) Date: Fri, 7 Dec 2001 11:44:35 +0100 (CET) Subject: New RPM for Mandrake 8.1 available In-Reply-To: <15337.10747.900828.615916@galadriel.ci.tuwien.ac.at> Message-ID: A new binary RPM of R (1.3.1-4mdk), compiled for Mandrake 8.1, is available for download. Added functionality is that R is now automatically added to desktop menus. SRPM's, with instructions on how to compile, are also available for those who wish to build the new package on other versions of Mandrake (and hopefully contribute it): I will only support 8.1 in the future (I know R 1.4.0 is not very far away). -- Michele Alzetta -.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.- r-announce mailing list -- Read http://www.ci.tuwien.ac.at/~hornik/R/R-FAQ.html Send "info", "help", or "[un]subscribe" (in the "body", not the subject !) To: r-announce-request at stat.math.ethz.ch _._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._ From Friedrich.Leisch at ci.tuwien.ac.at Fri Dec 14 13:03:42 2001 From: Friedrich.Leisch at ci.tuwien.ac.at (Friedrich.Leisch at ci.tuwien.ac.at) Date: Fri, 14 Dec 2001 13:03:42 +0100 Subject: CRAN Mirror in Germany Message-ID: <15385.60062.367880.492221@galadriel.ci.tuwien.ac.at> A new site has been added to the list of CRAN mirrors: http://cran.de.R-project.org Thanks go to Alexander Mieland for providing the Server! Best, -- ------------------------------------------------------------------- Friedrich Leisch Institut f?r Statistik Tel: (+43 1) 58801 10715 Technische Universit?t Wien Fax: (+43 1) 58801 10798 Wiedner Hauptstra?e 8-10/1071 Friedrich.Leisch at ci.tuwien.ac.at A-1040 Wien, Austria http://www.ci.tuwien.ac.at/~leisch ------------------------------------------------------------------- -.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.- r-announce mailing list -- Read http://www.ci.tuwien.ac.at/~hornik/R/R-FAQ.html Send "info", "help", or "[un]subscribe" (in the "body", not the subject !) To: r-announce-request at stat.math.ethz.ch _._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._ From p.murrell at auckland.ac.nz Tue Dec 18 04:52:36 2001 From: p.murrell at auckland.ac.nz (Paul Murrell) Date: Tue, 18 Dec 2001 16:52:36 +1300 Subject: new versions of grid and lattice Message-ID: <011d01c18777$6e5c5f50$7632d882@stat.auckland.ac.nz> Hi New versions of the grid and lattice packages will be available with the release of R 1.4 (in a couple of days): grid_0.5 lattice_0.3-1 These packages will no longer be in the "development" directory (i.e., they will be in CRAN/src/contrib). The changes in this release are mostly to grid, with lattice modified just to take account of those changes. Some important points about the grid changes are ... (i) grid_0.5 will only work with R version 1.4 or later. (ii) The main new features are support for clipping to viewports and support for multiple devices. See the file grid/doc/changes_0.5.txt for other changes. (iii) There is a known bug on Windows; turning on plot history recording while producing grid graphics will crash R. Adding individual plots to the plot history seems to work ok. (iv) Some things still missing are: vector fonts, mathematical annotation, compatibility with base graphics, and many helpful suggestions from users that I still haven't found time to get to! :) Paul Murrell Deepayan Sarkar -.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.- r-announce mailing list -- Read http://www.ci.tuwien.ac.at/~hornik/R/R-FAQ.html Send "info", "help", or "[un]subscribe" (in the "body", not the subject !) To: r-announce-request at stat.math.ethz.ch _._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._ From p.dalgaard at biostat.ku.dk Wed Dec 19 12:41:07 2001 From: p.dalgaard at biostat.ku.dk (Peter Dalgaard BSA) Date: 19 Dec 2001 12:41:07 +0100 Subject: R-1.4.0 is released Message-ID: I've rolled up R-1.4.0.tgz a short while ago. This is a major upgrade, with several new features. A set of recommended packages which have been tested with R-1.4.0 has been bundled up. Binary distributions are expected to include these packages. You can get the files from the developer site ftp://cvs.r-project.org/pub/CRAN/src/base/R-1.4.0.tgz ftp://cvs.r-project.org/pub/CRAN/src/base/R-1.4.0-recommended.tgz or http://cvs.r-project.org/pub/CRAN/src/base/R-1.4.0.tgz http://cvs.r-project.org/pub/CRAN/src/base/R-1.4.0-recommended.tgz or wait for them to be mirrored at a CRAN site near you. This may not happen right away due to circumstances in Vienna. Binaries for various platforms will appear in due course. As usual, we try to ensure that R can be built on as many platforms as possible. However, this time the problem with Fortran dynamic libraries on RedHat 6.2, which previously only affected some packages, has caught up with the main distribution. I.e. you cannot build R on that platform without upgrading the compiler suite (building with f2c probably works). There are also versions split for floppies. For the R Core Team, Peter D. Here's the relevant part of the NEWS file: CHANGES IN R VERSION 1.4.0 USER-VISIBLE CHANGES [This is a new section to highlight changes in behaviour, which may be given in more detail in the following sections. Many bug fixes are also user-visible changes.] o The default save format has been changed, so saved workspaces and objects cannot (by default) be read in earlier versions of R. o The number of bins selected by default in a histogram uses the correct version of Sturges' formula and will usually be one larger. o data.frame() no longer converts logical arguments to factors (following S4 rather than S3). o read.table() has new arguments `nrows' and `colClasses'. If the latter is NA (the default), conversion is attempted to logical, integer, numeric or complex, not just to numeric. o model.matrix() treats logical variables as a factors with levels c(FALSE, TRUE) (rather than 0-1 valued numerical variables). This makes R compatible with all S versions. o Transparency is now supported on most graphics devices. This means that using par("bg"), for example in legend(), will by default give a transparent rather than opaque background. o [dpqr]gamma now has third argument `rate' for S-compatibility (and for compatibility with exponentials). Calls which use positional matching may need to be altered. o The meaning of spar = 0 in smooth.spline() has changed. o substring() and substring()<- do nothing silently on a character vector of length 0, rather than generating an error. This is consistent with other functions and with S. o For compatibility with S4, any arithmetic operation using a zero-length vector has a zero-length result. (This was already true for logical operations, which were compatible with S4 rather than S3.) o undoc() and codoc() have been moved to the new package `tools'. o The name of the site profile now defaults to `R_HOME/etc/Rprofile.site'. o The startup process for setting environment variables now first searches for a site environment file (given by the environment variable `R_ENVIRON' if set or `R_HOME/etc/Renviron.site' if not), *and* then for a user `.Renviron' file in the current or the user's home directory. o Former stars(*, colors = v) must now be stars(*, col.segments = v). o The default methods for La.svd and La.eigen have changed and so there may be sign changes in singular/eigen vectors, including in cancor, cmdscale, factanal, princomp and varimax. NEW FEATURES o Transparency is now supported on most graphics devices. Internally colors include an alpha channel for opacity, but at present there is only visible support for transparent/opaque. The new color "transparent" (or NA or "NA") is transparent, and is the default background color for most devices. Those devices (postscript, XFig, PDF, Windows metafile and printer) that previously treated bg = "white" as transparent now have "transparent" as the default and will actually print "white". (NB: you may have bg = "white" saved in .Postscript.options in your workspace.) o A package `methods' has been added, containing formal classes and methods ("S4" methods), implementing the description in the book "Programming with Data". See "?Methods" and the references there for more information. - In support of this, the "@" operator has been added to the grammar. - Method dispatch for formal methods (the standardGeneric function), is now a primitive. Aside from efficiency issues, this allows S3-style generics to also have formal methods (not really recommended in the long run, but it should at least work). The C-level dispatch is now implemented for primitives that use either DispatchGroup or DispatchOrEval internally. - A version of the function "plot" in the methods package has arguments "x" and "y", to allow methods for either or both. See "?setMethod" for examples of such methods. - The methods package now uses C-level code (from within DispatchOrEval) to dispatch any methods defined for primitive functions. As with S3-style methods, methods can only be defined if the first argument satisfies is.object(x) (not strictly required for formal methods, but imposed for now for simplicity and efficiency). o Changes to the tcltk package: - New interface for accessing Tcl variables, effectively making the R representations lexically scoped. The old form is being deprecated. - Callbacks can now be expressions, with slightly unorthodox semantics. In particular this allows bindings to contain "break" expressions (this is necessary to bind code to e.g. Alt-x without having the key combination also insert an "x" in a text widget.) - A bunch of file handling and dialog functions (previously only available via tkcmd) have been added o The "?" operator is now an actual function. It can be used (as always) as a unary operator (?plot) and the grammar now allows it as a binary operator, planned to allow differentiating documentation on the same name but different type (class?matrix, for example). So far, no such documentation exists. o New methods AIC.default() and logLik.glm(), also fixing AIC(). o axis.POSIXct() allows the label date/times to be specified via the new `at' argument. o arrows() now allows length = 0 (and draws no arrowheads). o Modifications to the access functions for more consistency with S: arguments `name', `pos' and `where' are more flexible in assign(), exists(), get(), ls(), objects(), remove() and rm(). o Three new primitive functions have been added to base: dataClass(), objWithClass(), and as.environment(). The first two are support routines for class() and class<-() in package methods. The third replaces pos.to.env() in the functions get(), exists(), and friends. o barplot() now respects an inline `cex.axis' argument and has a separate `cex.names' argument so names and the numeric axis labels can be scaled separately. Also, graphics parameters intended for axis() such as `las' can now be used. o Shading by lines added to functions barplot(), hist(), legend(), piechart(), polygon() and rect(). o bxp() has a show.names argument allowing labels on a single boxplot; it and hence boxplot() now makes use of pch, cex, and bg for outlier points(). bxp() and boxplot() also have an argument `outline' to suppress outlier drawing {S-PLUS compatibly}. o New capabilities() options "GNOME" and "IEEE754". o New function casefold(), a wrapper for tolower/toupper provided for compatibility with S-PLUS. o contour() is now generic. o cor.test() in package ctest now also gives an asymptotic confidence interval for the Pearson product moment correlation coefficient. o data(), demo() and library() now also return the information about available data sets, demos or packages. Similarly, help.search() returns its results. o density() allows `bw' or `width' to specify a rule to choose the bandwidth, and rules "nrd0" (the previous default), "nrd", "ucv", "bcv", "SJ-ste" and "SJ-dpi" are supplied (based on functions in package MASS). o df.residual() now has a default method, used for classes "lm" and "glm". o New argument `cacheOK' to download.file() to request cache flushing. All methods for download.file() do tilde-expansion on the path name. The internal download.file() etc now allow URLs of the form ftp://user at foo.bar/ and ftp://user:pass at foo.bar/ o duplicated() and unique() are now generic functions with methods for data frames (as well as atomic vectors). o factanal() and princomp() use napredict() on their scores, so na.action = na.exclude is supported. o Function getNativeSymbolInfo() returns details about a native routine, potentially including its address, the library in which it is located, the interface by which it can be called and the number of parameters. o Functions such as help() which perform library or package index searches now use NULL as default for their `lib.loc' argument so that missingness can be propagated more easily. The default corresponds to all currently known libraries as before. o Added function file.rename(). o hist.default() allows `breaks' to specify a rule to choose the number of classes, and rules "Sturges" (the previous default), "Scott" and "FD" (Freedman-Diaconis) are supplied (based on package MASS). o Function identical(), a fast and reliable way to test for exact equality of two objects. o New generic function is.na<-(), from S4. This is by default equivalent to x[value] <- NA but may differ, e.g. for factors where "NA" is a level. o is.xxx reached through do_is are now generic. o La.eigen() and La.svd() have new default methods to use later (and often much faster) LAPACK routines. The difference is most noticeable on systems with optimized BLAS libraries. o length() is now generic. o New function .libPaths() for getting or setting the paths to the library trees R knows about. This is still stored in .lib.loc, which however should no longer be accessed directly. o Using lm/glm/... with `data' a matrix rather than a data frame now gives a specific error message. o loess(), lqs(), nls() and ppr() use the standard NA-handling and so support na.action = na.exclude. o mahalanobis() now has a `tol' argument to be passed to solve(). o mean() has `data frame' method applying mean column-by-column. When applied to non-numeric data mean() now returns NA rather than a confusing error message (for compatibility with S4). Logicals are still coerced to numeric. o The formula interface to mosaicplot() now allows a contingency table as data argument. o new.env() is now internal and allows you to set hashing. Also, parent.env() and parent.env<-() are included to provide direct access to setting and retrieving environments. o Function nsl() to look up IP addresses of hosts: intended as a way to test for internet connectivity. o Ops(), cbind(), diff() and na.omit() methods for time series objects moved from package ts to package base. o New option `download.file.method' can be used to set the default method for download.file() and functions which use it such as update.packages(). o order() and sort.list() now implement na.last = FALSE, NA. o Started work on new package management system: packageStatus() and friends. o page() has a new `method' argument allowing `method = print'. o png(), jpeg() and bmp() devices now have a `bg' argument to set the background color: useful to set "transparent" on png(). o Changes to the postscript() device: - The symbol font can now be set on a postscript() device, and support has been added for using Computer Modern type-1 fonts (including for symbols). (Contributed by Brian D'Urso.) - There is now support for URW font families: this will give access to more characters and more appropriate metrics on PostScript devices using URW fonts (such as ghostscript). - %%IncludeResource comments have been added to the output. (Contributed by Brian D'Urso.) o predict.ppr() now predicts on `newdata' containing NAs. o princomp() now has a formula interface. o readChar() now returns what is available if fewer characters than requested are on the file. o readline() allows up to 256 chars for the prompt. o read.table(), scan() and count.fields() have a new argument `comment.char', default `#', that can be used to start comments on a line. o New function reg.finalizer() to provide R interface to finalization. o reshape() extends reshapeLong, reshapeWide, which are deprecated. o rle() now returns a classed object, has a print method and an inverse. o Changes to save() and friends: - save() now takes an envir argument for specifying where items to be saved are to be found. - A new default format for saved workspaces has been introduced. This format provides support for some new internal data types, produces smaller save files when saving code, and provides a basis for a more flexible serialization mechanism. - Modified `save' internals to improve performance when saving large collections of code. - save() and save.image() now take a `version' argument to specify the workspace file-format version to use. The version used from R 0.99.0 to 1.3.1 is version 1. The new default format is version 2. load() can read a version 2 saved workspace if it is compressed. - save() and save.image() now take a `compress' argument to specify that the saved image should be written using the zlib compression facilities. - save.image() now takes an argument `ascii'. - save.image() now takes an argument `safe'. If TRUE, the default, a temporary file is used for creating the saved workspace. The temporary file is renamed if the save succeeds. This preserves an existing workspace if the save fails, but at the cost of using extra disk space during the save. - save.image() default arguments can be specified in the `save.image.defaults' option. These specifications are used when save.image() is called from q() or GUI analogs. o scan() allows unlimited (by R) lengths of input lines, instead of a limit of 8190 chars. o smooth.spline() has a new `control.spar' argument and returns `lambda' besides `spar'. spar <= 0 is now valid and allows to go more closely towards interpolation (lambda -> 0) than before. This also fixes smooth.spline() behavior for "df ~= n - 2". Better error messages in several situations. Note that spar = 0 is no longer the default and no longer entails cross-validation. o stars() has been enhanced; new `mar' argument uses smaller mar(gins) by default; further `nrow and `ncol' as S-PLUS, `frame.plot', `flip.labels', `lty' and explicit `main', `sub', `xlab' and `ylab'. Note that `colors' has been replaced by `col.segments' and there's a new `col.stars'. stars() now returns the locations invisibly. o step() is now closer to stepAIC() and so handles a wider range of objects (but stepAIC [in MASS] is still more powerful). o symbols() now has automatic xlab and ylab and a main argument which eliminates an incorrect warning. It better checks wrongly scaled arguments. o Sys.setlocale() now issues a warning if it fails. o An enhanced function type.convert() is now a documented function, rather than just internal to read.table(). o warning() allows multiple arguments, following S4's style. o New function with() for evaluating expressions in environments constructed from data. o Unix x11() devices can now have a canvas color set, which can help to distinguish plotting "white" from plotting "transparent". o On Unix, X11(), png() and jpeg() now give informative warnings if they fail to open the device. o The startup processing now interprets escapes in the values of environment variables set in R_HOME/etc/Renviron in a similar way to most shells. o The operator "=" is now allowed as an assignment operator in the grammar, for consistency with other languages, including recent versions of S-Plus. Assignments with "=" are basically allowed only at top-level and in braced or parenthesized expressions, to make famous errors such as "if(x=0) 1 else 2" illegal in the grammar. (There is a plan to gradually eliminate the underscore as an assignment in future versions of R.) o Finalizers can be registered to be run on system exit for both reachable and unreachable objects. o integer addition, subtraction, and multiplication now return NA's on overflow and issue a warning. o Printing factors with both level "NA" and missing values uses `' for the missing values to distinguish them. o Added an experimental interface for locking environments and individual bindings. Also added support for "active bindings" that link a variable to a function (useful for example for linking an R variable to an internal C global). o GNOME interface now has separate colours for input and output text (like the windows GUI). These can be modified via the properties dialogue. o Output from the GNOME console is block buffered for increased speed o The GNOME console inherits standard emacs-style keyboard shortcuts from the GtkText widget for cursor motion, editing and selection. These have been modified to allow for the prompt at the beginning of the command line. o One can register R functions and C routines to be called at the end of the successful evaluation of each top-level expression, for example to perform auto-saves, update displays, etc. See addTaskCallback() and taskCallbackManager(). See http://developer.r-project.org/TaskHandlers.pdf. DEPRECATED & DEFUNCT o .Alias has been removed from all R sources and deprecated. o reshapeLong(), reshapeWide() are deprecated in favour of reshape(). o Previously deprecated functions read.table.url(), scan.url(), source.url(), httpclient() and parse.dcf() are defunct. Method "socket" for download.file() no longer exists. DOCUMENTATION CHANGES o `Writing R Extensions' has a new chapter on generic/method functions. UTILITIES o New package `tools' for package development and administration tools, containing the QA tools checkFF(), codoc() and undoc() previously in package base, as well as the following new ones: - checkAssignFuns() for checking whether the final argument of assignment functions in a package is named `value'. - checkDocArgs() for checking whether all arguments shown in \usage of Rd files are documented in the corresponding \arguments. - checkMethods() for checking whether all methods defined in a package have all arguments of their generic. - checkTnF() for finding expressions containing the symbols `T' and `F'. o R CMD Rd2dvi has more convenient defaults for its output file. o R CMD check now also fully checks the Depends field in the package DESCRIPTION file. It also tests for syntax errors in the R code, whether all methods in the code have all arguments of the corresponding generic, for arguments shown in \usage but not documented in \arguments, and whether assignment functions have their final argument named `value'. C-LEVEL FACILITIES o arraySubscript and vectorSubscript are now available to package users. All "array-like" packages can use a standard method for calculating subscripts. o The C routine type2symbol, similar to type2str, returns a symbol corresponding to the type supplied as an argument. o The macro SHLIB_EXT now includes `.', e.g. ".so" or ".dll", since the Mac uses "Lib" without a `.'. o New Fortran entry points rwarn() and rexit() for warnings and error exits from compiled Fortran code. o A new serialization mechanism is available that can be used to serialize R objects to connections or to strings. This mechanism is used for the version 2 save format. For now, only an internal C interface is available. o R_tryEval() added for evaluating expressions from C code with errors handled but guaranteed to return to the calling C routine. This is used in embedding R in other applications and languages. o Support for attach()'ing user-defined tables of variables is available and accessed via the RObjectTables package currently at http://www.omegahat.org/RObjectTables. BUG FIXES o Fixed share/perl/massage-examples.pl to detect instances of par() at the very start of a line. o Fixed Pearson residuals for glms with non-canonical link.(PR#1123). Fixed them again for weights (PR#1175). o Fixed an inconsistency in the evaluation context for on.exit expressions between explicit calls to `return' and falling off the end returns. o The code in model.matrix.default() handling contrasts was assuming a response was present, and so without a response was failing to record the contrasts for the first variable if it was a factor. o diffinv() could get the time base wrong in some cases. o file.append() was opening all files in text mode: mattered on Windows and classic Macintosh. (PR#1085) o f[] <- g now works for factor f. o substr<-() was misbehaving if the replacement was too short. o The version of `packages.html' generated when building R or installing packages had an incorrect link to the style sheet. The version used by help.start() was correct. (PR#1090) o rowsum() now gives character (not factor codes) as rownames. (PR#1092) o plot.POSIX[cl]t now respect the `xaxt' parameter. o It is now possible to predict from an intercept-only model: previously model.matrix.default() objected to a 0-column model frame. o c.POSIXct was not setting the right classes in 1.3.x. o cor(*, use = "all.obs") <= 1 is now guaranteed which ensures that sqrt(1 - r^2) is always ok in cor.test(). (PR#1099) o anova.glm() had a missing drop=FALSE and so failed for some intercept-less models. o predict.arima0() now accepts vector as well as matrix `newxreg' arguments. o cbind(d,f) now works for 0-column dataframes. This fixes PR#1102. o plot(ts(0:99), log = "y") now works o method "gnudoit" of bug.report() was incorrectly documented as "gnuclient" (PR#1108) o saving with ascii=TRUE mangled backslashes. (PR#1115) o frac(,) {and others} now adds a gap appropriately. (PR#1101) o logLik.lm() now uses the correct "df" (nlme legacy code). o closeAllConnections() works again, and closes all sink() diversions. o sink(type="message") works again. o sink.number was (accidentally) returning the result invisibly. o as.POSIXct("NA") (or ..lt) now work; hence, merge(*, all=TRUE) now works with dataframes containing POSIXt date columns. o integer(2^30+1) and similar ones do not segfault anymore but duly report allocation errors. o seq(0, 0, 1) now works (PR#1133). o reshapeWide() got it wrong if the "i" factor was not sorted (the function is now deprecated since reshape() is there, but the bug still needed fixing...) o PR#757 was fixed incorrectly, causing improper subsetting of pch etc. in plot.formula(). o library() no longer removes environments of functions that are not defined in the top-level package scope. Also, packages loaded by require() when sourcing package code are now visible in the remaining source evaluations. o names(d) <- v now works (again) for "dist" objects d. (PR#1129) o Workarounds for problems with incompletely specified date-times in strptime() which were seen only on glibc-based systems (PR#1155). o promax() was returning the wrong rotation matrix. (PR#1146) o The [pqr]signrank and [pqr]wilcox functions failed to check that memory has been allocated (PR#1149), and had (often large) memory leaks if interrupted. They now can be interrupted on Windows and MacOS and don't leak memory. o range(numeric(0)) is now c(NA, NA) not NA. o round(x, digits) for digits <= 0 always gives an integral answer. Previously it might not due to rounding errors in fround. (PR#1138/9) o Several memory leaks on interrupting functions have been circumvented. Functions lqs() and mve() can now be interrupted on Windows and MacOS. o image() was finding incorrect breakpoints from irregularly-spaced midpoints. (PR#1160) o Use fuzz in the 2-sample Kolmogorov-Smirnov test in package ctest to avoid rounding errors (PR#1004, follow-up). o Use exact Hodges-Lehmann estimators for the Wilcoxon tests in package ctest (PR#1150). o Arithmetic which coerced types could lose the class information, for example `table - real' had a class attribute but was not treated as a classed object. o Internal ftp client could crash R under error conditions such as failing to parse the URL. o Internal clipping code for circles could attempt to allocate a vector of length -1 (related to PR#1174) o The hash function used internally in match(), unique() and duplicated() was very inefficient for integers stored as numeric, on little-endian chips. It was failing to hash the imaginary part of complex numbers. o fifo() no longer tries to truncate on opening in modes including "w". (Caused the fifo example to fail on HP-UX.) o Output over 1024 characters was discarded from the GNOME console. o rug() now correctly warns about clipped values also for logarithmic axes and has a `quiet' argument for suppressing these (PR#1188). o model.matrix.default was not handling correctly contrasts.arg which did not supply a full set of contrasts (PR#1187). o The `width' argument of density() was only compatible with S for a Gaussian kernel: now it is compatible in all cases. o The rbinom() C code had a transcription error from the original Fortran which led to a small deviation from the intended distribution. (PR#1190) o pt(t, , ncp=0) was wrong if t was +/-Inf. o Subsetting grouping factors gave incorrect degrees of freedom for some tests in package ctests. (PR#1124) o writeBin() had a memory leak. o qbeta(0.25, 0.143891, 0.05) was (incorrectly) 3e-308. (PR#1201) o Fixed alignment problem in ppr.f on Irix. (PR#1002, 1026) o glm() failed on null binomial models. (PR#1216) o La.svd() with nu = 0 or nv = 0 could fail as the matrix passed to DGESVD was not of dimension at least one (it was a vector). o Rownames in xcoef and ycoef of cancor() were wrong if x or y was rank-deficient. o lqs() could give warnings if there was an exact fit. (PR#1184) o aov() didn't find free-floating variables for Error() terms when called from inside another function o write.table() failed if asked to quote a numerical matrix with no row names. (PR#1219) o rlnorm( *, *, sd=0) now returns the mean, rnbinom(*, *, prob=1) gives 0, (PR#1218). -- O__ ---- Peter Dalgaard Blegdamsvej 3 c/ /'_ --- Dept. of Biostatistics 2200 Cph. N (*) \(*) -- University of Copenhagen Denmark Ph: (+45) 35327918 ~~~~~~~~~~ - (p.dalgaard at biostat.ku.dk) FAX: (+45) 35327907 -.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.- r-announce mailing list -- Read http://www.ci.tuwien.ac.at/~hornik/R/R-FAQ.html Send "info", "help", or "[un]subscribe" (in the "body", not the subject !) To: r-announce-request at stat.math.ethz.ch _._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._ From Torsten.Hothorn at rzmail.uni-erlangen.de Wed Dec 19 13:50:27 2001 From: Torsten.Hothorn at rzmail.uni-erlangen.de (Torsten Hothorn) Date: Wed, 19 Dec 2001 13:50:27 +0100 (MET) Subject: updates: exactRankTests, mvtnorm and maxstat Message-ID: Hi, following the release of R-1.4.0, new versions of the packages * exactRankTests (0.6-0) * mvtnorm (0.5-0) and * maxstat (0.5-2) are available on CRAN. Several changes to the user-interfaces were necessary (improvements, hopefully) and some new features are included, for example in `exactRankTests': * one- and two-sample permutation tests are available, * new interface to `pperm', * exact Hodges-Lehmann confidence intervals in `wilcox.exact' (PR#1150), * `perm.test' and `wilcox.exact' are generic and offer a formula interface. Major contributions came (and come) from Kurt Hornik, he is now co-author of `exactRankTests'. In `mvtnorm': * `{dr}mvnorm' moved from package `e1071' to `mvtnorm' (thanks to Fritz Leisch!), * `pmv{t}norm' has a slightly new interface: the length of lower, upper and mean are recycled to the length of the largest and it is possible to specify either the correlation or covariance matrix. In `maxstat': * `maxstat.test' is now generic and provides a formula interface as well as a print and plot method, * it depends on mvtnorm-0.5-0 and exactRankTests-0.6-0. Known bugs were fixed, see the CHANGES file in each of the packages for details. Torsten -.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.- r-announce mailing list -- Read http://www.ci.tuwien.ac.at/~hornik/R/R-FAQ.html Send "info", "help", or "[un]subscribe" (in the "body", not the subject !) To: r-announce-request at stat.math.ethz.ch _._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._ From bates at stat.wisc.edu Wed Dec 19 15:31:56 2001 From: bates at stat.wisc.edu (Douglas Bates) Date: 19 Dec 2001 08:31:56 -0600 Subject: R-1.4.0 sources available via rsync Message-ID: <6rzo4fb7s3.fsf@franz.stat.wisc.edu> The r-release directory on rsync.r-project.org has been updated to 1.4.0. If you have the rsync client available you can create a directory R-1.4.0 with a copy of the current released source tree by rsync -aC rsync.r-project.org::r-release ./R-1.4.0 rsync is an open source utility that provides fast incremental file transfer. See www.rsync.org for details. -.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.- r-announce mailing list -- Read http://www.ci.tuwien.ac.at/~hornik/R/R-FAQ.html Send "info", "help", or "[un]subscribe" (in the "body", not the subject !) To: r-announce-request at stat.math.ethz.ch _._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._ From zeileis at ci.tuwien.ac.at Wed Dec 19 21:41:07 2001 From: zeileis at ci.tuwien.ac.at (Achim Zeileis) Date: Wed, 19 Dec 2001 21:41:07 +0100 Subject: new versions of: lmtest, strucchange, ineq Message-ID: <3C20FB63.D9933CF1@ci.tuwien.ac.at> Dear R users, there are new versions of the following packages on CRAN: o lmtest 0.9-0 o strucchange 0.9-4 o ineq 0.2-1 Changes/fixes in "lmtest": There have been several bug fixes and the interfaces to all functions have been improved such that their use is much more flexible. Furthermore we have added: - p values for the Durbin-Watson test - studentized version of the Breusch-Pagan test - flexible specification of the alternative hypothesis of the RESET test - simulated p values for the Harrison-McCabe test - data sets with examples Changes/fixes in "strucchange": Besides a few minor changes and improvements there is a new fixed version of the function Fstats(), which provides also computation of F statistics based on heteroskedasticity-consistent covariance estimation. Changes/fixes in "ineq": The empirical and theoretical Lorenz curves have now their own classes with plot- and lines-method. A data set with examples has been added and a few bugs were fixed. >From the DESCRIPTION files: Package: lmtest Title: Testing Linear Regression Models Version: 0.9-0 Date: 2001-12-01 Author: Torsten Hothorn Achim Zeileis Maintainer: Achim Zeileis Description: A collection of tests, data sets and examples for testing the assumptions of linear regression models. License: GPL >From the DESCRIPTION: Package: strucchange Version: 0.9-4 Date: 2001-12-01 Title: Testing for Structural Change Author: Achim Zeileis, Friedrich Leisch, Bruce Hansen, Kurt Hornik, Christian Kleiber, Andrea Peters Maintainer: Achim Zeileis Description: Testing on structural change in linear regression relationships. It features tests/methods from the generalized fluctuation test framework as well as from the F test (Chow test) framework. This includes methods to fit, plot and test fluctuation processes (e.g. CUSUM, MOSUM, recursive/moving estimates) and F statistics, respectively. Furthermore it is possible to monitor incoming data online. Depends: R (>= 1.3.0) License: GPL Package: ineq Version: 0.2-1 Date: 2001-11-29 Title: Measuring inequality, concentration and poverty Author: Achim Zeileis Maintainer: Achim Zeileis Description: Inequality, concentration and poverty measures Lorenz curves (empirical and theoretical) License: GPL Seasonal greetings :-) Achim -.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.- r-announce mailing list -- Read http://www.ci.tuwien.ac.at/~hornik/R/R-FAQ.html Send "info", "help", or "[un]subscribe" (in the "body", not the subject !) To: r-announce-request at stat.math.ethz.ch _._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._ From edd at debian.org Thu Dec 20 04:09:50 2001 From: edd at debian.org (Dirk Eddelbuettel) Date: Wed, 19 Dec 2001 21:09:50 -0600 Subject: Debian packages for R-1.4.0 uploaded In-Reply-To: References: Message-ID: <15393.22142.927857.566940@sonny.eddelbuettel.com> Debian packages of R-1.4.0 and R-1.4.0-recommended [1] have been uploaded and are currently available at http://incoming.debian.org. These will run on any current "testing" (aka "woody") or "unstable" (aka "sid") distribution. [2] The next archive installation (around 14:00h Central time tomorrow) will move these files into the package pool from where they will propagate via the usual mirror sites. The build daemons for the non-i386 architectures will then start to complement the i386 release. We currently have 1.3.1 packages for alpha, ia64, m68k, powerpc, sparc and s390. We will look into the currently missing architectures (arm, hppa, mips, mipsel) but some of these do have (or had) compiler problems which prevent the build process from completing. Regards, Dirk [1] -rw-r--r-- 1 edd 6123442 Dec 19 19:50 r-base_1.4.0-1_i386.deb -rw-r--r-- 1 edd 44146 Dec 19 19:50 r-gnome_1.4.0-1_i386.deb -rw-r--r-- 1 edd 120974 Dec 19 19:50 r-mathlib_1.4.0-1_i386.deb -rw-r--r-- 1 edd 4577976 Dec 19 19:57 r-doc-pdf_1.4.0-1_all.deb -rw-r--r-- 1 edd 274902 Dec 19 19:57 r-doc-html_1.4.0-1_all.deb -rw-r--r-- 1 edd 1488 Dec 19 19:57 r-base-dev_1.4.0-1_all.deb -rw-r--r-- 1 edd 3288224 Dec 19 20:44 r-recommended_1.4.0-1_i386.deb [2] As I upgraded the build process, it becomes somewhat more difficult" to recompile these packages on a Debian "stable" (aka "potato") release. Doug Bates and I will look into this, but cannot promise any ETA. -- Good judgment comes from experience; experience comes from bad judgment. -- F. Brooks -.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.- r-announce mailing list -- Read http://www.ci.tuwien.ac.at/~hornik/R/R-FAQ.html Send "info", "help", or "[un]subscribe" (in the "body", not the subject !) To: r-announce-request at stat.math.ethz.ch _._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._ From ripley at stats.ox.ac.uk Fri Dec 21 07:13:10 2001 From: ripley at stats.ox.ac.uk (Prof Brian Ripley) Date: Fri, 21 Dec 2001 06:13:10 +0000 (GMT) Subject: R 1.4.0 on Windows Message-ID: (1) We've been unable to contact the maintainer to find out when the official release of R 1.4.0 on Windows might be available. As the holidays shutdown is looming, last night I built a binary distribution from the released sources and put the SetupR.exe and miniR* versions at http://www.stats.ox.ac.uk/pub/RWin/ (This has the post-release mgcv_0.6-2.) This is not the official release, so problem reports to me only, please. (I'd be interested to hear, but am unlikely to be able to change anything until 2002.) (2) The bin/windows/contrib section on CRAN has been updated to include the 1.4.0 versions of packages. (On TUWien now, mirrored elsewhere soon.) This means that update.packages() will pick up the latest versions. Some of these may not work with rw1031 (VR and grid for sure, maybe others). -- Brian D. Ripley, ripley at stats.ox.ac.uk Professor of Applied Statistics, http://www.stats.ox.ac.uk/~ripley/ University of Oxford, Tel: +44 1865 272861 (self) 1 South Parks Road, +44 1865 272860 (secr) Oxford OX1 3TG, UK Fax: +44 1865 272595 -.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.- r-announce mailing list -- Read http://www.ci.tuwien.ac.at/~hornik/R/R-FAQ.html Send "info", "help", or "[un]subscribe" (in the "body", not the subject !) To: r-announce-request at stat.math.ethz.ch _._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._ From mikalzet at libero.it Fri Dec 21 09:51:15 2001 From: mikalzet at libero.it (mikalzet at libero.it) Date: Fri, 21 Dec 2001 09:51:15 +0100 (CET) Subject: R-1.4.0 RPM's and SRPMS for Mandrake available In-Reply-To: Message-ID: R 1.4.0 RPM's built for Mandrake 8.1 as well as Mandrake SRPM's are now available on CRAN. Anyone with an earlier version of Mandrake can download the SRPM's and rebuild them for his own system (a detailed readme file is provided) and hopefully contribute the binaries. -- Michele Alzetta -.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.- r-announce mailing list -- Read http://www.ci.tuwien.ac.at/~hornik/R/R-FAQ.html Send "info", "help", or "[un]subscribe" (in the "body", not the subject !) To: r-announce-request at stat.math.ethz.ch _._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._ From Friedrich.Leisch at ci.tuwien.ac.at Fri Dec 21 12:31:38 2001 From: Friedrich.Leisch at ci.tuwien.ac.at (Friedrich.Leisch at ci.tuwien.ac.at) Date: Fri, 21 Dec 2001 12:31:38 +0100 Subject: CRAN has been cracked Message-ID: <15395.7578.973349.335690@galadriel.ci.tuwien.ac.at> The CRAN master server has been cracked this night, so I'll take the machine off the network until we have found out more. Please use one of the mirror sites in the meantime: http://cran.au.r-project.org/ (Australia) http://cran.mirror.aarnet.edu.au/ (Australia) http://cran.dk.r-project.org/ (Denmark) http://cran.de.r-project.org/ (Germany) http://cran.hu.r-project.org/ (Hungary) http://cran.it.r-project.org/ (Italy) ftp://ftp.u-aizu.ac.jp/pub/lang/R/CRAN/ (Japan) http://cran.ch.r-project.org/ (Switzerland) http://cran.uk.r-project.org/ (UK) http://lib.stat.cmu.edu/R/CRAN/ (USA/Pennsylvania) http://cran.us.r-project.org/ (USA/Wisconsin) We will try to fix the problem ASAP. Best, -- ------------------------------------------------------------------- Friedrich Leisch Institut f?r Statistik Tel: (+43 1) 58801 10715 Technische Universit?t Wien Fax: (+43 1) 58801 10798 Wiedner Hauptstra?e 8-10/1071 Friedrich.Leisch at ci.tuwien.ac.at A-1040 Wien, Austria http://www.ci.tuwien.ac.at/~leisch ------------------------------------------------------------------- -.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.- r-announce mailing list -- Read http://www.ci.tuwien.ac.at/~hornik/R/R-FAQ.html Send "info", "help", or "[un]subscribe" (in the "body", not the subject !) To: r-announce-request at stat.math.ethz.ch _._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._ From Friedrich.Leisch at ci.tuwien.ac.at Fri Dec 21 21:12:00 2001 From: Friedrich.Leisch at ci.tuwien.ac.at (Friedrich.Leisch at ci.tuwien.ac.at) Date: Fri, 21 Dec 2001 21:12:00 +0100 Subject: CRAN up again Message-ID: <15395.38800.401330.849047@galadriel.ci.tuwien.ac.at> The CRAN master server at cran.r-project.org is up again (running a fresh Debian Linux installation with hopefully better security). Please let me know if you experience any problems. Frohe Weihnachten und einen guten Rutsch ins neue Jahr, -- ------------------------------------------------------------------- Friedrich Leisch Institut f?r Statistik Tel: (+43 1) 58801 10715 Technische Universit?t Wien Fax: (+43 1) 58801 10798 Wiedner Hauptstra?e 8-10/1071 Friedrich.Leisch at ci.tuwien.ac.at A-1040 Wien, Austria http://www.ci.tuwien.ac.at/~leisch ------------------------------------------------------------------- -.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.- r-announce mailing list -- Read http://www.ci.tuwien.ac.at/~hornik/R/R-FAQ.html Send "info", "help", or "[un]subscribe" (in the "body", not the subject !) To: r-announce-request at stat.math.ethz.ch _._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._ From deleeuw at stat.ucla.edu Sat Dec 22 07:00:37 2001 From: deleeuw at stat.ucla.edu (Jan de Leeuw) Date: Fri, 21 Dec 2001 22:00:37 -0800 Subject: R-1.4.0 for MacOS X Message-ID: <385A0FB0-F6A1-11D5-BA85-00039364CC92@stat.ucla.edu> Get it from ftp://gifi.stat.ucla.edu in pub. This contains the base files plus the recommended packages (except rpart, which does not compile yet). It is compiled under MacOS X 10.1.2 with the December 2001 version of the Developer Tools, and with g77 from fink.sourceforge net. It has support for gnome, X11R6, and tcl/tk, and it uses the newest ATLAS from fink. It has two-level namespaces and has a libR.dylib included. For R,bin you need on your system (remember to set DYLD_LIBRARY_PATH, or --better-- install fink and compile these things yourself) /usr/lib/libSystem.B.dylib (compatibility version 1.0.0, current version 55.0.0) /sw/lib/libz.1.dylib (compatibility version 1.1.3, current version 1.1.3) /sw/lib/libreadline.4.dylib (compatibility version 4.2.0, current version 4.2.0) /sw/lib/libdl.dylib (compatibility version 0.0.0, current version 0.0.0) /sw/lib/libncurses.dylib.5 (compatibility version 5.0.0, current version 5.2.0) and for the two main modules R_X11.so: /usr/X11R6/lib/libSM.6.dylib (compatibility version 6.0.0, current version 6.0.0) /usr/X11R6/lib/libICE.6.dylib (compatibility version 6.3.0, current version 6.3.0) /usr/X11R6/lib/libX11.6.dylib (compatibility version 6.2.0, current version 6.2.0) /sw/lib/libjpeg.62.dylib (compatibility version 63.0.0, current version 63.0.0) /sw/lib/libpng.2.dylib (compatibility version 1.0.12, current version 1.0.12) /sw/lib/libz.1.dylib (compatibility version 1.1.3, current version 1.1.3) libR.dylib (compatibility version 0.0.0, current version 0.0.0) /sw/lib/libreadline.4.dylib (compatibility version 4.2.0, current version 4.2.0) /sw/lib/libdl.dylib (compatibility version 0.0.0, current version 0.0.0) /sw/lib/libncurses.dylib.5 (compatibility version 5.0.0, current version 5.2.0) /usr/lib/libSystem.B.dylib (compatibility version 1.0.0, current version 55.0.0) R_gnome.so: /sw/lib/libgnomeui.32.dylib (compatibility version 47.0.0, current version 47.1.0) /sw/lib/libart_lgpl.2.dylib (compatibility version 5.0.0, current version 5.0.0) /sw/lib/libgdk_imlib.1.dylib (compatibility version 11.0.0, current version 11.10.0) /usr/X11R6/lib/libSM.6.dylib (compatibility version 6.0.0, current version 6.0.0) /usr/X11R6/lib/libICE.6.dylib (compatibility version 6.3.0, current version 6.3.0) /sw/lib/libgtk-1.2.0.dylib (compatibility version 10.0.0, current version 10.1.0) /sw/lib/libgdk-1.2.0.dylib (compatibility version 10.0.0, current version 10.1.0) /sw/lib/libgmodule-1.2.0.dylib (compatibility version 1.0.0, current version 1.10.0) /sw/lib/libdl.dylib (compatibility version 0.0.0, current version 0.0.0) /sw/lib/libintl.1.dylib (compatibility version 2.0.0, current version 2.1.0) /usr/X11R6/lib/libXext.6.dylib (compatibility version 6.4.0, current version 6.4.0) /usr/X11R6/lib/libX11.6.dylib (compatibility version 6.2.0, current version 6.2.0) /sw/lib/libgnome.32.dylib (compatibility version 37.0.0, current version 37.3.0) /sw/lib/libgnomesupport.0.dylib (compatibility version 1.0.0, current version 1.0.0) /sw/lib/libesd.0.dylib (compatibility version 3.0.0, current version 3.22.0) /sw/lib/libaudiofile.0.dylib (compatibility version 1.0.0, current version 1.1.0) /usr/lib/libSystem.B.dylib (compatibility version 1.0.0, current version 55.0.0) /sw/lib/libglib-1.2.0.dylib (compatibility version 1.0.0, current version 1.10.0) /sw/lib/libglade-gnome.0.dylib (compatibility version 5.0.0, current version 5.2.0) /sw/lib/libglade.0.dylib (compatibility version 5.0.0, current version 5.2.0) /sw/lib/libxml.1.dylib (compatibility version 10.0.0, current version 10.16.0) /sw/lib/libz.1.dylib (compatibility version 1.1.3, current version 1.1.3) libR.dylib (compatibility version 0.0.0, current version 0.0.0) /sw/lib/libreadline.4.dylib (compatibility version 4.2.0, current version 4.2.0) /sw/lib/libncurses.dylib.5 (compatibility version 5.0.0, current version 5.2.0) tcl/tk support uses /sw/lib/libtcl8.3.dylib (compatibility version 8.0.0, current version 8.3.0) /sw/lib/libtk8.3.dylib (compatibility version 8.0.0, current version 8.3.0) Everything in /usr/X11R6 comes from Xfree86 (Xtools would also be OK), everything in /sw/lib comes from fink. === Jan de Leeuw; Professor and Chair, UCLA Department of Statistics; US mail: 9432 Boelter Hall, Box 951554, Los Angeles, CA 90095-1554 phone (310)-825-9550; fax (310)-206-5658; email: deleeuw at stat.ucla.edu homepage: http://www.stat.ucla.edu/~deleeuw ======================================================== No matter where you go, there you are. --- Buckaroo Banzai http://www.stat.ucla.edu/~deleeuw/sounds/nomatter.au ======================================================== -.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.- r-announce mailing list -- Read http://www.ci.tuwien.ac.at/~hornik/R/R-FAQ.html Send "info", "help", or "[un]subscribe" (in the "body", not the subject !) To: r-announce-request at stat.math.ethz.ch _._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._ From stefano.iacus at unimi.it Sat Dec 22 12:51:34 2001 From: stefano.iacus at unimi.it (Stefano Iacus) Date: Sat, 22 Dec 2001 12:51:34 +0100 Subject: R 1.4.0 for Apple Machines (both Carbon and Darwin) Message-ID: <3F2A0C3C-F6D2-11D5-888F-003065CC4CB8@unimi.it> I have just uplodaed on CRAN both versions of R 1.4.0. So starting from Dec 23rd, you'll find the builds for Carbon and Darwin directly on CRAN respectively at http://cran.r-project.org/bin/macos : Carbon R (8.6 -> 9.2 and OSX) http://cran.r-project.org/bin/macosx : Darwin/X11 R (thanks to Jan!) specific updates and bug fixing for the Carbon release can be found in http://cran.r-project.org/bin/macos/base/CHANGES along with the Carbon FAQ http://cran.r-project.org/bin/macos/rmac-FAQ.html Contributed packages for rm140 will come in 2002 ! stefano -.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.- r-announce mailing list -- Read http://www.ci.tuwien.ac.at/~hornik/R/R-FAQ.html Send "info", "help", or "[un]subscribe" (in the "body", not the subject !) To: r-announce-request at stat.math.ethz.ch _._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._ From stefano.iacus at unimi.it Sat Dec 22 12:49:40 2001 From: stefano.iacus at unimi.it (Stefano Iacus) Date: Sat, 22 Dec 2001 12:49:40 +0100 Subject: R 1.4.0 for Apple Machines (both Carbon and Darwin) Message-ID: I have just uplodaed on CRAN both versions of R 1.4.0. So starting from Dec 23rd, you'll find the builds for Carbon and Darwin directly on CRAN respectively at http://cran.r-project.org/bin/macos : Carbon R (8.6 -> 9.2 and OSX) http://cran.r-project.org/bin/macosx : Darwin/X11 R (thanks to Jan!) specific updates and bug fixing for the Carbon release can be found in http://cran.r-project.org/bin/macos/base/CHANGES along with the Carbon FAQ http://cran.r-project.org/bin/macos/rmac-FAQ.html Contributed packages for rm140 will come in 2002 ! stefano -.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.- r-announce mailing list -- Read http://www.ci.tuwien.ac.at/~hornik/R/R-FAQ.html Send "info", "help", or "[un]subscribe" (in the "body", not the subject !) To: r-announce-request at stat.math.ethz.ch _._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._ From plummer at iarc.fr Wed Dec 26 11:15:29 2001 From: plummer at iarc.fr (Martyn Plummer) Date: Wed, 26 Dec 2001 11:15:29 +0100 (CET) Subject: RPM binaries of R 1.4.0 for RedHat/Mandrake/Linuxppc Message-ID: RPM based binary distributions of R 1.4.0 are avaiable on CRAN for the following flavours of Linux: Distribution Version Platform Packager Red Hat 7.x intel Martyn Plummer Red Hat 7.x alpha Naoki Takebayashi Red Hat 6.x intel Stephen Eglen Mandrake 8.1 intel Michele Alzetta LinuxPPC ppc Alex Buerkle The RPMS are R-base: The base distribution R-recommended: Recommended packages Given the recent problems with CRAN being cracked, I would like to remind you that all of these binary distributions are signed with gpg by their respective maintainers. To verify the gpg signature of an rpm use a command like rpm --checksig R-base-1.4.0-1.i386.rpm First you must download the public key of the package maintainer from a public key server (see the man page for gpg). Martyn Plummer -.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.- r-announce mailing list -- Read http://www.ci.tuwien.ac.at/~hornik/R/R-FAQ.html Send "info", "help", or "[un]subscribe" (in the "body", not the subject !) To: r-announce-request at stat.math.ethz.ch _._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._ From guido at hal.stat.unipd.it Thu Dec 27 11:57:46 2001 From: guido at hal.stat.unipd.it (Guido Masarotto) Date: Thu, 27 Dec 2001 11:57:46 +0100 Subject: Binaries of R-1.4.0 for Windows Message-ID: <20011227115746.59141@hal.stat.unipd.it> A binary distribution of R-1.4.0 to run on Windows 95, 98, NT4.0, 2000 and XP on Intel/clone chips is available at http://sirio.stat.unipd.it/RWin It will be mirrored at a CRAN site near you in a couple of days. See http://sirio.stat.unipd.it/RWin/CHANGES for a list of Windows-specific changes. guido masarotto -.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.- r-announce mailing list -- Read http://www.ci.tuwien.ac.at/~hornik/R/R-FAQ.html Send "info", "help", or "[un]subscribe" (in the "body", not the subject !) To: r-announce-request at stat.math.ethz.ch _._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._ From bwheeler at echip.com Mon Dec 31 16:46:03 2001 From: bwheeler at echip.com (Bob Wheeler) Date: Mon, 31 Dec 2001 10:46:03 -0500 Subject: Johnson system Message-ID: <3C30883B.282449A@echip.com> With R 1.4.0 the JohnsonFit() function in SuppDists has been modified to accept a vector of the first four central moments. Previously the only obvious option was to input a set of observations. The most common need for this seems to be by those who have no data in hand, but want random values from non standard distributions. -- Bob Wheeler --- (Reply to: bwheeler at echip.com) ECHIP, Inc. --- (302) 239-6620, voice FAX 724 Yorklyn Rd., Hockessin, DE 19707 Randomness comes in bunches -.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.- r-announce mailing list -- Read http://www.ci.tuwien.ac.at/~hornik/R/R-FAQ.html Send "info", "help", or "[un]subscribe" (in the "body", not the subject !) To: r-announce-request at stat.math.ethz.ch _._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._