[Rd] R-2.0.1 and Rggobi

[Prof Brian Ripley]

Please note that is not the correct fix.  From the ONEWS in 2.0.1:

     o   The undocumented C-level entry point R_IsNaNorNA has been
         removed.  It was used in a couple of packages, and should be
         replaced by a call to the documented macro ISNAN.

The ggobi list are now operational again (or at least they have had a 
burst of activity), and that would be the appropriate place to pursue 
this.

On Wed, 24 Nov 2004, Richard Beare wrote:

> 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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