[Rd] R-2.0.1 and Rggobi

[Richard Beare]

Hi,

Thanks for that - I attempted to install the earlier versions I had been 
successful with before - Rggobi 1.0.0 and ggobi 1.0.0-beta. The R side 
of things wouldn't compile out of the box due to a change in the 
R_IsNaNorNA function. This caused a problem in RSGgobi.c, which I fixed 
by adding the following patch:

static int G_IsNaNorNA(double f)
{
   return (R_IsNaN(f) || R_IsNA(f));
}

and changed
    GGobi_setMissingValueIdentifier(R_IsNaNorNA);
to
    GGobi_setMissingValueIdentifier(G_IsNaNorNA);

I can at least load the package and start ggobi now.

Thanks

Dirk Eddelbuettel wrote:
> Richard,
> 
> On Wed, Nov 24, 2004 at 01:54:36PM +1100, Richard Beare wrote:
> 
>>Hi,
>>I've had no luck with the combination of R-2.0.1 and Rggobi/gobi (1.1-1 
>> and 1.0-1 beta). I've tried a default configuration of ggobi, as well 
>>as one with all the plugins enabled. I'm using RedHat 9 Linux.
>>
>>The problem I'm experiencing is a segmentation fault when library.dynam 
>>is called from .First.lib
>>
>>ggobi appears to work OK from the command line. I had an earlier 
>>combination working under R-1.8.1
>>
>>Does anyone have fixes/suggestions?
> 
> 
> It still works for me as this cut&pasted session log from ESS shows:
> 
>     R : Copyright 2004, The R Foundation for Statistical Computing
>     Version 2.0.1  (2004-11-15), ISBN 3-900051-07-0
>     
>     R is free software and comes with ABSOLUTELY NO WARRANTY.
>     You are welcome to redistribute it under certain conditions.
>     Type 'license()' or 'licence()' for distribution details.
>     
>     R is a collaborative project with many contributors.
>     Type 'contributors()' for more information and
>     'citation()' on how to cite R or R packages in publications.
>     
>     Type 'demo()' for some demos, 'help()' for on-line help, or
>     'help.start()' for a HTML browser interface to help.
>     Type 'q()' to quit R.
>     
>     > options(STERM='iESS', editor='gnuclient -q')
>     > library(Rggobi)
>     > ggobi()
>     [1] "ggobi reference (1)"
>     >                                ## and the ggobi gtk console comes up
> 
> but I'd also be the first to tell you that I (as the maintainer of these
> Debian packages) kept the versions frozen as I had difficulties building the
> newer ggobi and/or Rggobi versions (and possible combinations, been a while
> I since I tried last):
> 
> edd at basebud:~> COLUMNS=120 dpkg -l "*ggobi*" | cut -c -80
> Desired=Unknown/Install/Remove/Purge/Hold
> | Status=Not/Installed/Config-files/Unpacked/Failed-config/Half-installed
> |/ Err?=(none)/Hold/Reinst-required/X=both-problems (Status,Err: uppercase=bad)
> ||/ Name                     Version                  Description
> +++-========================-========================-========================
> ii  ggobi                    0.99.10-3                Data visualization syste
> ii  r-omegahat-ggobi         0.53.0-4                 GNU R package for the GG
> 
> Sources for these are on any Debian mirror and possibly also still on
> ggobi.org.  Can't recall if we needed patches; if so they also be on the
> Debian mirrors.
> 
> Hope this helps, Dirk
> 


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