From pd@pubhealth.ku.dk  Wed Nov  7 06:15:03 2001
From: pd@pubhealth.ku.dk (Peter Dalgaard BSA)
Date: Wed, 7 Nov 2001 07:15:03 +0100
Subject: [Rd] Bug list summary (automatic post)
Message-ID: <200111070615.fA76F3Z11764@blueberry.kubism.ku.dk>

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This is an automated summary of the status of the R-bugs
repository.

Note that this may be neither complete nor perfectly
correct at any given instance: Not all bugs are reported,
and some reported bugs may have been fixed, but the
repository not yet updated.

Some bug fixes are difficult to verify because they pertain
to specific hardware or operating system versions. If you
have information to contribute, please do so.

If you happen to know how to fix a problem please send
patches to the bug repository, too.

New bugs are reported either through the web
interface at r-bugs.r-project.org or via email to
r-bugs@r-project.org. The bug.report() function can be
used to automate parts of the procedure on many systems.
Followups on older bugs can be done by including the string
"(PR#999)" in the Subject of an email (change 999 to the
actual reference number, of course!).
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Directory:  Accuracy

* PR# 1138 *
Subject:  round() doesnt
From: David Brahm  <a215020@onyx.fmr.com>
Date: Mon, 22 Oct 2001 18:08:50 -0400 (EDT)
--rounding accuracy on some platformns.  Continued in PR#1139.
* PR# 1139 *
Subject: round() doesn't
From: David Brahm  <a215020@agate.fmr.com>
Date: Mon, 22 Oct 2001 19:15:13 -0400 (EDT)
--rounding accurcay on some platforms. Part of PR#1138

Directory:  Add-ons

* 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?)
--Still there in lattice 0.3-0.
* 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)
* PR# 1116 *
Subject: get.hist.quote does not work
From: arto.luoma@uta.fi
Date: Thu, 4 Oct 2001 14:45:29 +0200 (MET DST)
--Seems specific to one locale on one system.
--The bug is unlikely to be in R.
* PR# 1124 *
Subject: Wrong df in bartlett.test when subsetting data
From: jens.lund@nordea.com
Date: Wed, 10 Oct 2001 17:43:42 +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
* PR# 1113 *
Subject: bug.report() & docs should mention r-devel
From: murdoch@stats.uwo.ca
Date: Thu, 4 Oct 2001 01:23:27 +0200 (MET DST)
* PR# 1132 *
Subject: Problem with "describe" lists.
From: Rolf Turner <rolf@localhost.localdomain>
Date: Thu, 18 Oct 2001 16:41:03 +0800
* PR# 1136 *
Subject: cex/col/etc. in title(): documentation?
From: Ben Bolker <ben@zoo.ufl.edu>
Date: Mon, 22 Oct 2001 11:55:14 -0400 (EDT)
--MM:actually the documentation still could elaborate a bit..

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
* 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# 1101 *
Subject: ugly in plotmath: frac(1, sqrt(...))
From: Uwe Ligges <ligges@statistik.uni-dortmund.de>
Date: Thu, 27 Sep 2001 10:37:07 +0200
* PR# 1147 *
Subject: postscript problem
From: kjetil halvorsen <kjetilh@umsanet.edu.bo>
Date: Fri, 26 Oct 2001 15:23:45 -0400
--This seems to be a problem with screen/layout rather than postscript.
* PR# 1157 *
Subject: identify(...plot=F)
From: Rolf Turner <rolf@maths.uwa.edu.au>
Date: Fri, 2 Nov 2001 09:43:49 +0800 (WST)

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

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
* PR# 1120 *
Subject: bug in write.table?
From: Ott Toomet <siim@obs.ee>
Date: Sun, 7 Oct 2001 18:24:34 +0200 (CEST)
--Traced down to an effect of read.dta in foreign interacting with do_paste. Fixed
--in foreign, but do_paste may need to use strlen() rather than LENGTH().
--

Directory:  Macintosh

none

Directory:  Misc

* PR# 1126 *
Subject: R-bug report www page whishlist
From: jens.lund@nordea.com
Date: Wed, 10 Oct 2001 18:24:29 +0200 (MET DST)

Directory:  Models

none

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# 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# 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# 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
* PR# 1106 *
Subject: What is an error bu21?
From: Patrick Lindsey <patrick.lindsey@luc.ac.be>
Date: Mon, 1 Oct 2001 15:43:36 +0200 (MET DST)
--Looks like an SGI make bug
* PR# 1140 *
Subject: Possible bug, Rprof() and scan(pipe())
From: Don MacQueen <macq@llnl.gov>
Date: Tue, 23 Oct 2001 13:50:26 -0700
--Doesn't happen on Solaris or Linux
* PR# 1145 *
Subject: Problem testing R version 1.3.1 on SGI Irix
From: Gordon Lack <gml4410@ggr.co.uk>
Date: Fri, 26 Oct 2001 19:04:04 +0100

Directory:  TooMuchAtOnce

* PR# 1110 *
Subject: Several R vs S-Plus issues
From: David Brahm  <a215020@agate.fmr.com>
Date: Wed, 3 Oct 2001 11:35:58 -0400 (EDT)
--1. is perhaps a bug -- the best handling of string NAs is under discussion
--
--2 & 4 are just S-PLUS incompatibilities
--
--3. May be a bug -- worth checking.

Directory:  Windows

* PR# 1135 *
Subject: Canceling close behaves incorrectly
From: john_heumann@agilent.com
Date: Sat, 20 Oct 2001 01:02:02 +0200 (MET DST)

Directory:  incoming

* PR# 1158 *
Subject: bug.report()sends empty message
From: Paul Gilbert <pgilbert@bank-banque-canada.ca>
Date: Mon, 05 Nov 2001 10:05:27 -0500
* PR# 1159 *
Subject: stepwise algorithm step() on coxph()
From: jerome@hivnet.ubc.ca
Date: Mon, 5 Nov 2001 23:41:14 +0100 (MET)
* PR# 1160 *
Subject: incorrect xlim error message in image() 
Subject: Re: image function

[Rd] Bug list summary (automatic post)
Peter Dalgaard BSA