[Rd] R-2.0.1 and Rggobi

[A.J. Rossini]

Brian is correct regarding the lists, but note that Rggobi 1.1 works
for me (Duncan T-L sent me the following link which worked for me on
an old R-H or SuSE system (sorry Dirk!  not had a chance to change it
yet...).

" Try the tar file at
    http://www.ggobi.org/Download/Rggobi_1.1-0.tar.gz
"

best,
-tony

On Wed, 24 Nov 2004 05:50:46 +0000 (GMT), Prof Brian Ripley
<ripley at stats.ox.ac.uk> wrote:
> 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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> >
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> 
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best,
-tony

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