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Bernd Johannes Wuebben
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Hi Troels,

Its in the incoming directory:

        ftp://ftp.ci.tuwien.ac.at/incoming

Try this for a nice demo:
Bernd
On 01-Jan-99 Troels Ring wrote:
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Peter Dalgaard
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Bernd Johannes Wuebben <wuebben at math.cornell.edu> writes:
But
total 367
drwxrw-r--   2 ftp      ftp          3072 Jan  1 06:19 .
dr-xrwxr-x  10 root     sysadmin     1024 Aug 26 14:57 ..
-rw-rw----   1 root     sysadmin   188267 Jan  1 06:20
timeslab-1.0-1.tar.gz
-rw-rw-r--   1 root     sysadmin   180290 Jan  1 02:02
timeslab-1.0.tar.gz

i.e. timeslab-1.0-1.tar.gz is not readable by "other" although
timeslab-1.0.tar.gz is? 

[This has me a bit puzzled: generally, one read-protects "incoming"
entirely in order to avoid becoming a "warezhouse" for various illicit
operations. This probably *should* be the case for CRAN too.]

As a general matter, please do not announce things as "uploaded" until
the CRAN manager has moved it from "incoming" to its final (and
mirrored!) destination.
Bernd Johannes Wuebben
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Hi,
On 01-Jan-99 Peter Dalgaard BSA wrote:

            

      
      
      
    

        
I think that is an issue for the ftpadmin ...

            

      
      
      
    

        
With all due respect, but I think I will continue to announce things
when I am ready and have occasion to do so, not when the ftpadmin is
ready.

Best,
Bernd
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      Brian Ripley
    

    

      
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On Fri, 1 Jan 1999, Bernd Johannes Wuebben wrote:

        

            

      
      
      
    

        
The difference is surely due to the permissions of the file
you uploaded, i.e. the permissions set on your computer.

            

      
      
      
    

        
I think they should be announced when they are available, and this
currently is not.  (I would disagree with Peter to the extent that
if they are available somewhere else but not yet on CRAN, that counts).

timeslab is a port of other people's code (Joseph Newton and Jane Harvill)
and I believe they do deserve a credit in the announcement, as a courtesy
at least. However, as the original has no help pages, writing the manual
pages must have been a lot of work. (Pity there is only one line of 
examples in all of them, and that does not work!)

  
    

      
      
    

  


  


      

    

    

      
      

        


  

        

      Bernd Johannes Wuebben
    

    

      
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On 02-Jan-99 Prof Brian D Ripley wrote:

            

      
      
      
    

        
That would certainly indicate a highly non-standard and potentially
dangerous configuration of the wuftpd that runs on ftp.ci.tuwien.ac.at

/etc/ftpaccess should contain a line like this

        upload home/ftp /incoming yes  root sysadmin 0664 

All version of wuftp that I came across would even set the permission
to 0664 by default, that is without the above explicit entry in
/etc/ftpaccess to a sane 0664. I recommend the ftpadmin look into this
matter and makes sure that things are fine ...

            

      
      
      
    

        
Brian, I don't think it is appropriate for you to criticize me for
letting people know that I have uploaded my port. Nowhere have I
hidden the fact that the package is a port of an S package and nowhere
have I removed Joseph's and Jane's authorship notices in the code or
documentation. In fact additionally, following R tradition, I have
clearly mentioned them as authors in the DESCRIPTION file.

            

      
      
      
    

        
Actually converting the Fortran code to double and making it compile
cleanly was more work ... The Rd files where generated from the
original tex document by means of a little perl script. This explains
also the poor quality of the Rd files: What's the best way of expressing
math such as $\sigma^2$ in Rd? Is there a way expressing this sort of 
math in Rd, that will preserve the tex expression for the latex docs
generated from Rd and at the same time translate into something legible in
the html docs?

            

      
      
      
    

        
Let me know which example and I will correct it.

Bernd

            

      
      
      
    

        
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      Alvaro A. Novo
    

    

      
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Hi,

I am trying to install the quantreg package following the FAQ instructions.
Here's what I am doing and the correspondig error messages:


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[root at localhost /root]# R INSTALL -l /usr/lib/R/library quantreg
Installing package `quantreg' ...
 libs
g77 -O2 -fpic -c rq.f -o rq.o
make: g77: Command not found
make: *** [rq.o] Error 127
ERROR: Compilation failed for package `quantreg'
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I edit the Makeconf file under /usr/lib/R/etc and in fact there's a line
that reads:

FC = g77

I changed it to FC = gcc, but still get an error messages, although not the
same (of course) and, I believe, down the line.

Additional Information:

R Version 0.63.1  (December 5, 1998)
Linux RedHat 5.1

I would appreciate any help in solving my problem.

Alvaro

ps. I was able to use R REMOVE command (not on quantreg, of course).

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"Alvaro A. Novo" <anovo at ysidro.econ.uiuc.edu> writes:

            

      
      
      
    

        
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Um, you *will* need a Fortran compiler to compile Fortran routines... 
Sticking a C compiler in there is guaranteed not to work.

            

      
      
      
    

        
But how did you get that compiled w/o Fortran? (What is in the
toplevel Makeconf? something other than in etc/Makeconf?)

            

      
      
      
    

        
You might install the egcs-g77 RPM. That's what I have here.

  
    

      
      
    

  


  


      

    

    

      
      

        


  

        

      Thomas Lumley
    

    

      
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On Sat, 2 Jan 1999, Bernd Johannes Wuebben wrote:

        

            

      
      
      
    

        
This (unlike quite a lot of  things) *is* documented.
doc/manual/writing-Rd.tex describes how to give equations that have both
TeX and plain text versions. The Poisson help page
src/library/base/man/Poisson.Rd has an example.  

Thomas Lumley
Assistant Professor, Biostatistics
University of Washington, Seattle

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On 3 Jan 1999, Peter Dalgaard BSA wrote:

        

            

      
      
      
    

        
Thanks a lot for your help. In fact I had the f2c library installed and,
I believe, that allowed to install R. I, then, installed egcs-g77 and was
able to install quantreg. (I am having some problems running it, but I 
will give it some additional thought before I pick your brains!)

Thanks a lot to all that helped me.

Alvaro

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