[Rd] Re: Question on Rprof(); was: Re: [R] sapply and loop

[Prof Brian Ripley]

Uwe: moved to R-devel.

Good point (and also happens on Unix).  But lack of write permission will
also give a fatal error, and the right place to fix this is in 
src/main/eval.c which has

        R_Suicide("can't open profile file");

and should I think throw a non-fatal error.

Brian

On Tue, 19 Oct 2004, Uwe Ligges wrote:

> Zhen Pang wrote:
> 
> > I am sorry for neglecting the acknowledgement for `Writing R 
> > Extensions', since I think I am just citing the code from the orignal 
> > R-help. I fail to get the results when I use my own code. So I refer to 
> > this code where Rprof() appears. Anyway, I am sorry for this.
> > 
> > In fact, I have tried to whether I specify boot.out. Neither one works.
> 
> Do you have read/write permissions? R-1.8.1 is pretty old. Please upgrade.
> 
> 
> 
> BTW: Rprof() to a non-existing directory
>     Rprof("c:/DoesNotExist/temp.out")
> under R-2.0.0, Windows, results in the GUI information message:
> "Fatal error: can't open profile file", and R is closed afterwards.
> 
> I think we should change this behaviour to a simple error message by 
> adding the lines
> 
>   if(!file.exists(dirname(filename)))
>       stop("Cannot open file ", filename)
> 
> just before
> 
>   invisible(.Internal(Rprof(filename, append, interval)))
> 
> 
> 
> Uwe Ligges
> 
> 
> 
> > Rprof("boot.out")
> >     storm.boot <- boot(rs, storm.bf, R = 4999) # pretty slow
> >      Rprof(NULL)
> > 
> > summaryRprof()
> > Error in summaryRprof() : no events were recorded
> > 
> > summaryRprof("boot.out")
> > Error in summaryRprof("boot.out") : no events were recorded
> > 
> >     Rprof()
> >     storm.boot <- boot(rs, storm.bf, R = 4999) # pretty slow
> >      Rprof(NULL)
> > 
> > summaryRprof()
> > Error in summaryRprof() : no events were recorded
> > 
> > 
> > Zhen
> > 
> > 
> >> From: Prof Brian Ripley <ripley at stats.ox.ac.uk>
> >> To: Zhen Pang <nusbj at hotmail.com>
> >> CC: tlumley at u.washington.edu, r-help at stat.math.ethz.ch
> >> Subject: Re: [R] sapply and loop
> >> Date: Tue, 19 Oct 2004 07:29:54 +0100 (BST)
> >>
> >> On Tue, 19 Oct 2004, Zhen Pang wrote:
> >>
> >> > I tried to use Rprof(). As an example, I consider the following code 
> >> (from
> >> > Venables & Ripley, 1999).
> >>
> >> I believe you parroted that from `Writing R Extensions', but failed to
> >> give proper credit!
> >>
> >> >      library(MASS); library(boot); library(nls)
> >> >      data(stormer)
> >> >      storm.fm <- nls(Time ~ b*Viscosity/(Wt - c), stormer,
> >> >                      start = c(b=29.401, c=2.2183))
> >> >      st <- cbind(stormer, fit=fitted(storm.fm))
> >> >      storm.bf <- function(rs, i) {
> >> >          st$Time <-  st$fit + rs[i]
> >> >          tmp <- nls(Time ~ (b * Viscosity)/(Wt - c), st,
> >> >                     start = coef(storm.fm))
> >> >          tmp$m$getAllPars()
> >> >      }
> >> >      rs <- scale(resid(storm.fm), scale = FALSE) # remove the mean
> >> >      Rprof("boot.out")
> >> >      storm.boot <- boot(rs, storm.bf, R = 4999) # pretty slow
> >> >      Rprof(NULL)
> >>
> >> At this point your unacknowledged copying went adrift.
> >>
> >> > summaryRprof()
> >> > Error in summaryRprof() : no events were recorded
> >> >
> >> > I am using R1.8.1 in windows. Why can't I get the results?
> >>
> >> Because you didn't do your homework, and didn't even follow your source.
> >> The 'file' arguments of Rprof and summaryProf have to agree: see their
> >> help pages (as the posting guide asks).
> >>
> >> -- 
> >> 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)
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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 272866 (PA)
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