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Assuming script 'common.q' contains code that needed different processing depending on interpreter (either S-PLUS or R), what should the condition be? if (<condition>) { # Do S-PLUS code } else { # Do R code } Looking for something akin to the C...

Was curious as to why I see some packages with the same version number in both installed and repository columns? In general, it seems to be packages installed at the user level, but don't understand why the distinction exists...

On Tue, 1 Nov 2005, Marcelo Damasceno wrote: > Is there some function that returns the directory where > the libraries of the instaled package are? Because in > Mandrake, R installs in /usr/lib/R/library/pack/libs, and in > Debian it...

As a generic capability, would it be possible for all known interactive devices (x11, windows, quartz) to have a title argument that could be displayed in their titlebar when invoked? Sounds like a roundabout means of doing so for x11...

Is there a means of recovering the source from a package with LazyLoad = true? Package is Windows 2.9.1 pure R but have no access to original. In R directory, I see <pkgname>, <pkgname>.rd[bx], <sysdata>.rd[bx...

On Wed, 12 Apr 2006, Brian Quinif wrote: > I want to do a for loop in which m takes on the values > 1, 5, 10, 15, 20. What is the syntax for doing that? > > I had been doing a loop...

Under Value section for attr: For the extractor, the value of the attribute matched, or \code{NULL} if no exact match is found and no or more ^^^^^^^^^^ than one partial match is found. R version 2.7.2 (2008-08...

Did google search and checked R-ext but found very little on this DESCRIPTION field. Does it document runtime dependency only? If I have some code that can only be used with a specific compiler (code makes use of GCC...

I'm trying to get a translation of some Splus code going. My problem is with the S-plus get.message() function not existing in R. Is there a replacement or alternative? ErrorHandler.func<-function() { cat("app.terminated\n"); cat...

Is there a means to provide a title for a Quartz window? When running code that creates lots of plots, it would be nice to be able to choose the desired window based on its title rather than attempting to...

On Tue, 3 Jan 2006, Marcelo Damasceno wrote: > Sorry about my incautiousness, I use the tips, but is > happen same problems. Not really. You definitely skipped over the most important one - don't terminate the host process. > if(temp4 == NULL...

On Thu, 1 Dec 2005, Sebastian Leuzinger wrote: > is R able to suppress tick labels (not tick marks)? i > know there is a way around this with axes=F and then > draw new axes, but it would be easier to...

Anyone else experiencing crashes when attempting to flush the console with the R GUI on OS X? I get a consistent crash launching the app-bundle and entering the following command: > flush.console() -------- platform powerpc-apple-darwin6.8 arch powerpc...

Isn't there a builtin method for doing this and, if so, what is it called? breakdown <- function(whole) { breaks <- c(250, 800) pieces <- integer(length(breaks) + 1) if (whole > breaks[2]) { pieces[3] <- whole - breaks[2] whole <- breaks[2...

<https://svn.r-project.org/R/trunk/src/library/graphics/man/image.Rd> Currently: ========== \arguments{ [...] \item{xlab, ylab}{ [...] Default to the \sQuote{call names} of \code{x} or \code{y}, or to \code{""} if these where unspecified.} ^^^^^ Should read: ============ \arguments...

Can the value of a list element be referenced from a sibling list element during list creation without the use of a temporary variable? The following doesn't work but it's the general idea. > list(value = 2, plusplus = $value...

On Mon, 31 Jan 2005, Faheem Mitha wrote: > [SNIP] > as I would expect. I thought that if the vectors in the list could be > regarded as integer vectors, they would be, but apparently not. Is there > any way I can...

Read in the Windows release notes for 2.4.0 that: There is a new file etc/Makeconf that provides an approximation to the Unix version and may help with src/Makefile's. Yet when I look at the CRAN...

On Wed, 20 Jul 2005, Steve Su wrote: > Is there a way I can turn off the following warning message > for using multi-argument returns? > > multi-argument returns are deprecated in: return(p1, p2, p3, p4) doubleEm <- function(p1, p2...

The gfortran referenced on the TigerGCC wiki page is 4.0.0(5202) for Xcode 2.1. I loaded this on my system before remembering I'm running Xcode 2.2.1. My gcc version is 4.0.1(5250...