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Subject: [Rd] R-devel Digest V1 #314
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R-devel Digest       Monday, September 24 2001       Volume 01 : Number 314



In this issue:

  [Rd] R 1.3.1 fails 'make check' on arm in the Bessel example (PR#1097)
  [Rd] Bug list summary (automatic post)
  [Rd] (PR#1089) Can be closed

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Date: Fri, 21 Sep 2001 06:54:39 +0200 (MET DST)
From: edd@debian.org
Subject: [Rd] R 1.3.1 fails 'make check' on arm in the Bessel example (PR#1097)

Debian tries to build its packages on a variety of platforms.  The arm
platform compiled 0.90.1 (the last Debian release before the Debian package
required an Atlas library, something we no longer require) failed in 'make
check'. The log snippet follows; I traced this to the example(Bessel) code.
 
> matplot(nu, t(outer(xx,nu, besselI)), type = 'l', ylim = c(-50,200),
+         main = expression(paste("Bessel ",I[nu](x)," for fixed ", x,
+                                 ",  as ",f(nu))),
+         xlab = expression(nu))
Error in title(main = main, sub = sub, xlab = xlab, ylab = ylab, ...) :
        Metric information not yet available for this device
        In addition: Warning messages:
        1: Nonfinite axis limits [GScale(nan,nan,1, .); log=0]
        2: relative range of values = 9.0072e+15 * EPS, is small (axis 1).
        3: Nonfinite axis limits [GScale(-inf,inf,2, .); log=0]
        4: relative range of values = 9.0072e+15 * EPS, is small (axis 2).
        Execution halted

Casual inspection suggests that GScale(nan,nan,1, .) is probably
incorrect. Now, src/nmath/bessel* provide the Bessel functions but does this
reflect a potential libc bug in IEEE handling?

I have also asked on the debian-arm mailing list, but no result so far. I
have some access to an arm box and could compile small test cases if that
helped. 

Dirk 
 
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 minor = 3.1
 year = 2001
 month = 08
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Date: Fri, 21 Sep 2001 07:15:03 +0200
From: Peter Dalgaard BSA <pd@pubhealth.ku.dk>
Subject: [Rd] Bug list summary (automatic post)

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Directory:  Accuracy

none

Directory:  Add-ons

* PR# 948 *
Subject:  xyplot,grid.text segfault 
From: Peter Malewski <p.malewski@tu-bs.de>
Date: Sat, 26 May 2001 13:24:11 +0200
* PR# 950 *
Subject:  lattice: dev.print(postscript) gives probl. false background Info 
From: Peter Malewski <p.malewski@tu-bs.de>
Date: Sat, 26 May 2001 23:20:29 +0200
* PR# 974 *
Subject: Lattice: panel.superpose with ordered factor groups
From: John Maindonald <john.maindonald@anu.edu.au>
Date: Sat, 9 Jun 2001 11:08:51 +1000 (EST)
- --The warning is standard S and R behaviour.
- --Probably xyplot needs to avoid it (by unclassing?)
* PR# 981 *
Subject: read.xport() bug
From: abroman@jhu.edu
Date: Fri, 15 Jun 2001 00:25:54 +0200 (MET DST)
- --confirmed on Windows and Solaris.
- --Seems that file is not in the expected format
* PR# 1038 *
Subject: nlme: bug in getCovariateFormula
From: Setzer.Woodrow@epamail.epa.gov
Date: Tue, 31 Jul 2001 11:24:09 -0400
- --change needed in package nlme
* PR# 1044 *
Subject: Polymarsall.c
From: pleu@hotmail.com
Date: Tue, 7 Aug 2001 22:42:07 +0200 (MET DST)

Directory:  Analyses

none

Directory:  Documentation

* PR# 988 *
Subject: input for R-intro
From: "Paul E. Johnson" <pauljohn@ku.edu>
Date: Mon, 18 Jun 2001 13:57:10 -0500
* PR# 1011 *
Subject: R-intro suggestions part II
From: "Paul E. Johnson" <pauljohn@ukans.edu>
Date: Tue, 03 Jul 2001 15:50:06 -0500

Directory:  Graphics

* PR# 202 *
Subject: persp box occlusion bug
From: wsi@gcal.ac.uk
Date: Wed, 2 Jun 1999 15:02:03 +0200 (MET DST)
- --The persp algorithm does not apply the occlusion rules to the frame, 
- --which is always plotted first. 
- --A bug, but not very simple to fix.
* PR# 660 *
Subject: identify.default ignores any setting of cex.
From: Prof Brian Ripley <ripley@stats.ox.ac.uk>
Date: Fri, 15 Sep 2000 10:23:39 +0100 (BST)
* PR# 776 *
Subject: strwidth does not take font into account
From: Martyn Plummer <plummer@iarc.fr>
Date: Tue, 19 Dec 2000 14:56:01 +0100 (CET)
- --This needs a substantial redesign.
* PR# 791 *
Subject:  par(lab= *) / axis(*) bug 
From: maechler@stat.math.ethz.ch
Date: Fri, 22 Dec 2000 10:59:26 +0100
* PR# 816 *
Subject: dotplot: character size of labels
From: RINNER Heinrich <H.RINNER@TIROL.GV.AT>
Date: Thu, 18 Jan 2001 14:54:32 +0100
- --Suggested fix is incorporated in 1.2.2.
- --
- --There is a deeper problem:  mtext() ignores par(cex=.5) in general.  
- --To see the problem try:  par(cex=.5); mtext("hi")
- --Paul thinks the right fix is to change the argument list for mtext so that
- --cex=par(cex) by default rather than cex=NA by default (plus corresponding
- --internal changes to  do_mtext in plot.c).
- --This needs to be done very carefully because (i) the change suggested above 
- --mayhave side-effects in many other pieces of interpreted code 
- --(ii) do_mtext ignores dd->gp.cexbase unlike, for example, do_plot_xy 
- --and anything to do with cexbase needs extreme care.
* PR# 820 *
Subject: interaction.plot
From: "Mark M. Span" <span@psy.uva.nl>
Date: Mon, 22 Jan 2001 10:47:39 +0100
- --mtext is unscaled by default.  It is not clear if this should
- --use the par("cex") setting or an inline cex setting such as cex.axis.
- --It might make more sense to use axis rather than mtext, as boxplot does.
* PR# 828 *
Subject: termplot fails for composite non-factor terms
From: John Maindonald <john.maindonald@anu.edu.au>
Date: Sat, 27 Jan 2001 11:57:37 +1100 (EST)
- --Neither of the proposed changes actually works in sufficient generality.
- --
- --The easy and unimportant part of this, the labels, is fixed in 1.2.2. Getting
- --the data right is a project for 1.3
* PR# 831 *
Subject: screen can't go back to (split) screen with log="y" plot
From: Thomas Vogels <tov@ece.cmu.edu>
Date: 30 Jan 2001 00:39:41 -0500
- --Still there. Suggested fix included in followups, but we didn't get around to
- --try it in time for 1.2.3.
- --
- --Fix doesn't work. One problem is that the opar<-par();par(opar) idiom updates
- --xaxp before xlog, and the new value of xaxp may only be valid under the new
- --value of xlog.
* PR# 837 *
Subject: screen doesn't handle redrawing properly
From: Thomas Vogels <tov@ece.cmu.edu>
Date: 01 Feb 2001 14:20:52 -0500
* PR# 887 *
Subject: axis(adj=anything) has no effect
From: jhallman@frb.gov
Date: Wed, 28 Mar 2001 20:51:05 +0200 (MET DST)
* PR# 916 *
Subject:  par(mgp) bug 
From: paul@stat.auckland.ac.nz
Date: Fri, 20 Apr 2001 08:33:45 +1200 (NZST)
* PR# 940 *
Subject: GCircle(): fails for non-clippable devices under certain circumstances (see below)
From: "Thomas Hoffmann" <thoffman@zappa.sax.de>
Date: Tue, 15 May 01 23:34:17 +0100
* PR# 943 *
Subject: legend() with xpd=T; omission of initial plot character
From: John Maindonald <john.maindonald@anu.edu.au>
Date: Sun, 20 May 2001 10:35:16 +1000
* PR# 997 *
Subject:  las=1 with log axis 
From: Peter Dalgaard BSA <pd@pubhealth.ku.dk>
Date: Wed, 27 Jun 2001 11:54:06 +0200
* PR# 1045 *
Subject: Palette changes on redraw
From: Peter Dalgaard BSA <p.dalgaard@biostat.ku.dk>
Date: 08 Aug 2001 19:08:01 +0200
* PR# 1088 *
Subject:  barplot forces xpd=TRUE 
From: Peter Whiting <pwhiting@whitings.org>
Date: Sat, 8 Sep 2001 10:19:00 -0500

Directory:  In-Out

none

Directory:  Installation

* PR# 1034 *
Subject: Compiling R (1.3.0) on AIX (4.3) fails
From: "Thomas J Vogels" <tov@ece.cmu.edu>
Date: Sun, 29 Jul 2001 12:27:51 -0400
* PR# 1081 *
Subject: problems installing R on Solaris 2.8 machine
From: Paivio Pollari <pollari@sun3.oulu.fi>
Date: Fri, 31 Aug 2001 08:54:23 +0300 (EET DST)
* PR# 1093 *
Subject: Solution to (well known) problem with Rdconv.pm on Sun Solaris
From: hb@maths.lth.se
Date: Sat, 15 Sep 2001 14:23:02 +0200 (MET DST)

Directory:  Language

* PR# 408 *
Subject: convolution bug
From: wsimpson@gcal.ac.uk
Date: Fri, 28 Jan 2000 11:17:36 +0100 (MET)
* PR# 412 *
Subject: anomalies with call objects
From: Peter Dalgaard BSA <p.dalgaard@biostat.ku.dk>
Date: 06 Feb 2000 01:18:50 +0100
* PR# 669 *
Subject: Bug(s) w/ rbind.data.frame(); fix also read.table(*, as.is = TRUE) ?
From: Martin Maechler <maechler@stat.math.ethz.ch>
Date: Mon, 25 Sep 2000 10:17:15 +0200
- --status of AsIs columns
* PR# 921 *
Subject:  Managed to confuse match.arg 
From: J.C.Rougier@durham.ac.uk
Date: Wed, 25 Apr 2001 12:22:54 +0100 (BST)
* PR# 1052 *
Subject:  Inconsistent behaviour of is.vector? 
From: J.C.Rougier@durham.ac.uk
Date: Tue, 14 Aug 2001 09:04:57 +0100
* PR# 1073 *
Subject: Wierd problem comparing numeric values and list using ==
From: "Warnes, Gregory R" <gregory_r_warnes@groton.pfizer.com>
Date: Fri, 24 Aug 2001 22:07:41 -0400
- --see also PR#1075
* PR# 1076 *
Subject: Re: [Rd] Wierd problem comparing numeric values and list using == 
From: John Chambers <jmc@research.bell-labs.com>
Date: Mon, 27 Aug 2001 08:44:22 -0400
- --part of PR#1073

Directory:  Low-level

* PR# 989 *
Subject: "[.data.frame" allows un-named 3rd subscript
From: "Charles C. Berry" <cberry@tajo.ucsd.edu>
Date: Mon, 18 Jun 2001 13:13:46 -0700 (PDT)
* PR# 1063 *
Subject: interrupting Sys.sleep
From: Thomas Lumley <tlumley@u.washington.edu>
Date: Mon, 20 Aug 2001 13:55:29 -0700 (PDT)
* PR# 1068 *
Subject: Interrupts (was Re: [Rd] X11 protocol errors ...)
From: Luke Tierney <luke@nokomis.stat.umn.edu>
Date: Wed, 22 Aug 2001 19:32:51 -0500
- --see also followup in PR#1069
* PR# 1069 *
Subject: Interrupts (was Re: [Rd] X11 protocol errors ...)
From: "John W. Eaton" <jwe@bevo.che.wisc.edu>
Date: Wed, 22 Aug 2001 21:56:33 -0500
- --part of PR#1068

Directory:  Macintosh

none

Directory:  Misc

none

Directory:  Models

* PR# 1003 *
Subject: interaction() -- problem with drop
From: Matthew Wiener <mcw@ln.nimh.nih.gov>
Date: Thu, 28 Jun 2001 20:14:47 -0400 (EDT)

Directory:  Startup

none

Directory:  System-specific

* PR# 848 *
Subject: X11 device doesn't handle destroy events correcly
From: Thomas Vogels <tov@ece.cmu.edu>
Date: 13 Feb 2001 17:40:46 -0500
* PR# 964 *
Subject: R-1.2.3 OSF precompiled binary doesn't run under DU4.0D
From: paul@gromit.dlib.vt.edu
Date: Fri, 1 Jun 2001 17:47:10 +0200 (MET DST)
- --Builder needs to avoid -ldnet in distributed binaries..
* PR# 1002 *
Subject: core dump running modreg-Ex.R
From: WhiteG@dfo-mpo.gc.ca
Date: Thu, 28 Jun 2001 19:14:18 +0200 (MET DST)
- --Only reported on SGI, solved by removing optimization.
- --Needs debugging there.
* PR# 1020 *
Subject: .Call and Mandrake 8.0
From: lcottret@yahoo.fr
Date: Wed, 11 Jul 2001 15:34:23 +0200 (MET DST)
- --problem with symbol names only on Mandrake 8.0, not 7.2
- --needs reply to follow-up
* PR# 1026 *
Subject: make check failure on SGI-IRIX6.5
From: laurent@cbs.dtu.dk
Date: Mon, 16 Jul 2001 15:06:17 +0200 (MET DST)
* PR# 1057 *
Subject: crt1.o skipped at configure time ?
From: laurent@cbs.dtu.dk
Date: Thu, 16 Aug 2001 08:52:34 +0200 (MET DST)
* PR# 1062 *
Subject: system.file("",package)
From: Thomas Lumley <tlumley@u.washington.edu>
Date: Sun, 19 Aug 2001 16:01:57 -0700 (PDT)
* PR# 1084 *
Subject: Install problems R 1.3.1 on HP-UX
From: Peter Kleiweg <kleiweg@let.rug.nl>
Date: Sun, 2 Sep 2001 15:07:41 +0200 (CEST)
* PR# 1089 *
Subject: Debian Woody r-base depends on blas2
From: michael_odonnell@acm.org
Date: Sat, 8 Sep 2001 20:25:32 +0200 (MET DST)

Directory:  TooMuchAtOnce

none

Directory:  Windows

none

Directory:  incoming

* PR# 1094 *
Subject: lab does not work
From: puetsch@bigfoot.de
Date: Mon, 17 Sep 2001 12:53:25 +0200 (MET DST)
* PR# 1095 *
Subject:  Bizarre clipping with abline and points 
From: J.C.Rougier@durham.ac.uk
Date: Wed, 19 Sep 2001 14:45:52 +0100
* PR# 1096 *
Subject: missing()
From: hosking@watson.ibm.com
Date: Wed, 19 Sep 2001 16:38:52 +0200 (MET DST)
* PR# 1097 *
Subject: R 1.3.1 fails 'make check' on arm in the Bessel example
From: Dirk Eddelbuettel <edd@debian.org>
Date: Thu, 20 Sep 2001 23:54:19 -0500
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Date: Fri, 21 Sep 2001 16:32:47 +0200 (MET DST)
From: edd@debian.org
Subject: [Rd] (PR#1089) Can be closed

I replied to Michael (on the list) explaining that the Depends: on blas2 was
"virtual", ie can be satisfied by either blas1 or atlas2. The bug report
probably belonged into the Debian bug archive anyway...

This can be closed.

Dirk

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