From pd@biostat.ku.dk  Wed Feb  7 06:15:04 2001
From: pd@biostat.ku.dk (Peter Dalgaard BSA)
Date: Wed, 7 Feb 2001 07:15:04 +0100
Subject: [Rd] Bug list summary (automatic post)
Message-ID: <200102070615.HAA03109@biostat.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# 751 *
Subject: BUG: polyroot()
From: "Li Dongfeng" <mavip1@inet.polyu.edu.hk>
Date: Tue, 28 Nov 2000 13:24:33 +0800
--Numerical instability. We may want a better algorithm!

Directory:  Add-ons

* PR# 824 *
Subject: trouble with netCDF 
From: jasont@indigoindustrial.co.nz
Date: Thu, 25 Jan 2001 12:00:39 +1300
* PR# 496 *
From: bonneau@epi.roazhon.inra.fr (en148)
Date: Tue, 21 Mar 2000 10:57:13 +0100 (MET)
--base R has no est.variogram function.
--This appears to be a bug report on sgeostat.
* PR# 812 *
Subject: segmentation fault in integrate
From: Achim Zeileis <zeileis@ci.tuwien.ac.at>
Date: Thu, 11 Jan 2001 22:49:59 +0100
* PR# 781 *
Subject: syskern fails Rcmd check on Windows, gives incorrect information
From: Prof Brian Ripley <ripley@stats.ox.ac.uk>
Date: Wed, 20 Dec 2000 11:12:47 +0000 (GMT)
--Partially fixed by dse_2000.12, but still uses "ls" and gives
--incorrect information

Directory:  Analyses

* PR# 653 *
Subject: bug in spline()?
From: Ian White <imsw@holyrood.ed.ac.uk>
Date: Mon, 4 Sep 2000 12:29:26 +0100 (BST)
--bug in spline: replace by interSpline in package spline?
--address problems are fixed

Directory:  Documentation

none

Directory:  Graphics

* 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)
* PR# 726 *
Subject: par(las=.)  gives wrong "adj" for mtext()
From: Martin Maechler <maechler@stat.math.ethz.ch>
Date: Tue, 7 Nov 2000 13:03:58 +0100
* 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# 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# 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)
* PR# 750 *
Subject: abline() does not obey "xpd" (clipping rules)
From: Martin Maechler <maechler@stat.math.ethz.ch>
Date: Mon, 27 Nov 2000 18:27:11 +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 will work (and spaces for labels will be fine), but there is a
--deeper problem:  mtext() ignores par(cex=.5) in general.  
--To see the problem try:  par(cex=.5); mtext("hi")
--I think 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 may
--have 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# 791 *
Subject:  par(lab= *) / axis(*) bug 
From: maechler@stat.math.ethz.ch
Date: Fri, 22 Dec 2000 10:59:26 +0100
* PR# 823 *
Subject: adjustment of expressions with mtext(..., las=2)
From: Uwe Ligges <ligges@statistik.uni-dortmund.de>
Date: Wed, 24 Jan 2001 20:12:43 +0100
* PR# 820 *
Subject: interaction.plot
From: "Mark M. Span" <span@psy.uva.nl>
Date: Mon, 22 Jan 2001 10:47:39 +0100

Directory:  In-Out

* PR# 814 *
Subject: Memory problem ?
From: Zoltan Barta <Z.Barta@bristol.ac.uk>
Date: Mon, 15 Jan 2001 09:54:16 +0000 (GMT Standard Time)
--scan crashes R on Linux: a memory allocation problem, probably
--Uses n= or nlines= in scan will use less memory, and read.table does.

Directory:  Installation

* PR# 806 *
Subject: configure error on alpha
From: Richard Beare <Richard.Beare@cmis.CSIRO.AU>
Date: Wed, 10 Jan 2001 16:52:58 +1100

Directory:  Language

* PR# 813 *
Subject: match.call problem
From: Peter Dalgaard BSA <p.dalgaard@biostat.ku.dk>
Date: 12 Jan 2001 17:46:15 +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# 412 *
Subject: anomalies with call objects
From: Peter Dalgaard BSA <p.dalgaard@biostat.ku.dk>
Date: 06 Feb 2000 01:18:50 +0100
* PR# 408 *
Subject: convolution bug
From: wsimpson@gcal.ac.uk
Date: Fri, 28 Jan 2000 11:17:36 +0100 (MET)

Directory:  Low-level

* PR# 505 *
Subject: interrupted save 
From: Thomas Lumley <thomas@biostat.washington.edu>
Date: Sat, 25 Mar 2000 12:16:50 -0800 (PST)

Directory:  Misc

none

Directory:  Models

none

Directory:  Startup

* PR# 486 *
Subject: Re: autoload error in profile {was anova-bug in R-version  1.0.0?}
From: Martin Maechler <maechler@stat.math.ethz.ch>
Date: Tue, 14 Mar 2000 10:32:43 +0100 (MET)
--workaround to the origin problem in 1.0.1
--New report: try does not work from the profile.

Directory:  System-specific

* PR# 822 *
Subject: Re: Sys.time dumps core at start-up
From: Peter Kleiweg <kleiweg@let.rug.nl>
Date: Tue, 23 Jan 2001 19:56:32 +0100 (CET)
--part of 821
* PR# 821 *
Subject: Sys.time dumps core at start-up
From: Peter Kleiweg <kleiweg@let.rug.nl>
Date: Tue, 23 Jan 2001 19:44:28 +0100 (CET)
--See also 822, which shows the segfault is in strftime.c.
--From other correspondence, this is on RH5.0: we can't
--reproduce it on RH6.2 or anywhere else.
* PR# 808 *
Subject: Time zone
From: Herve Morin <morin@mat.ulaval.ca>
Date: Wed, 10 Jan 2001 07:24:07 -0500
--This appears to be a complaint about a warning on a beta Mac version
--(but Macs are never mentioned!).  That version is incomplete.

Directory:  TooMuchAtOnce

* PR# 811 *
Subject: problem with strptime example (and mention of bug.report)
From: Stephen Eglen <stephen@anc.ed.ac.uk>
Date: Thu, 11 Jan 2001 19:18:39 GMT
--1) On OSF4, strptime is deficient. Nothing we can do.
--
--2) On Windows NT, the strptime problems are (i) German locale, English dates,
--(ii) Windows system errors with unknown DST (it move times to DST).
--(i) now has another warning in the help file (there already was one).
--(ii) was already worked around for 1.2.1.
--
--3) bug.report() uses a mailer option that does not exist on OSF4.

Directory:  Windows

none

Directory:  incoming

* PR# 840 *
Subject: X11 warnings about "wrong" font sizes
From: Thomas Vogels <tov@ece.cmu.edu>
Date: 06 Feb 2001 09:50:44 -0500
* 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
* PR# 830 *
Subject: Disappearing x axis in plot.factor
From: Thomas Vogels <tov@ece.cmu.edu>
Date: 30 Jan 2001 00:27:13 -0500
* PR# 829 *
Subject: variables in nls
From: baron@cattell.psych.upenn.edu
Date: Sun, 28 Jan 2001 15:07:27 +0100 (MET)
* PR# 835 *
Subject: factors in data.frames
From: Jim Lindsey <james.lindsey@luc.ac.be>
Date: Thu, 1 Feb 2001 10:55:59 +0100 (MET)
* PR# 834 *
Subject:  inconsistent behaviour between class() and inherits() 
From: adrian@olsen.ch
Date: Thu, 01 Feb 2001 10:07:13 +0100
* PR# 832 *
Subject: Rconsole documentation
From: david.firth@nuffield.oxford.ac.uk
Date: Tue, 30 Jan 2001 15:52:49 +0100 (MET)
* 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# 836 *
Subject: configure bug in R-1.2.1 and earlier
From: Lars Hecking <lhecking@nmrc.ie>
Date: Thu, 1 Feb 2001 18:41:09 +0000
* PR# 839 *
Subject: clipped lines have wrong slope in log plot
From: Jason Eisner <jason@cs.rochester.edu>
Date: Sun, 4 Feb 2001 20:17:31 -0500 (EST)
* PR# 838 *
Subject: Linux shared library problem
From: daniel.egloff@dplanet.ch
Date: Sun, 4 Feb 2001 22:37:31 +0100 (MET)
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[Rd] Bug list summary (automatic post)
Peter Dalgaard BSA