From pd@pubhealth.ku.dk  Mon May 21 06:15:06 2001
From: pd@pubhealth.ku.dk (Peter Dalgaard BSA)
Date: Mon, 21 May 2001 07:15:06 +0200
Subject: [Rd] Bug list summary (automatic post)
Message-ID: <200105210515.HAA17058@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
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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# 930 *
Subject: Re: [R] Crazy plots of time-series against dates
From: Peter Dalgaard BSA <p.dalgaard@biostat.ku.dk>
Date: 01 May 2001 21:33:53 +0200
--error in chron package
* PR# 824 *
Subject: trouble with netCDF 
From: jasont@indigoindustrial.co.nz
Date: Thu, 25 Jan 2001 12:00:39 +1300
--Only on a specific sample file: send to maintainer.
* 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.

Directory:  Analyses

none

Directory:  Documentation

* PR# 899 *
Subject: documentation problems in str.Rd
From: Kurt Hornik <Kurt.Hornik@ci.tuwien.ac.at>
Date: Sat, 7 Apr 2001 23:08:23 +0200
--fixed (both code and documentation) for 1.3  (MM).

Directory:  Graphics

* PR# 917 *
Subject: boxplot
From: skala@incoma.cz
Date: Fri, 20 Apr 2001 08:43:29 +0200 (MET DST)
--fixed for 1.2.3  (one could consider the bug an `accidental feature',
--		  but the documentation and the other S implementations 
--		  differ).
* 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# 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# 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# 791 *
Subject:  par(lab= *) / axis(*) bug 
From: maechler@stat.math.ethz.ch
Date: Fri, 22 Dec 2000 10:59:26 +0100
* 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# 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# 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# 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
* 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# 857 *
Subject: Plotting points on a filled.contour plot
From: marchini@stats.ox.ac.uk
Date: Tue, 27 Feb 2001 10:00:30 +0100 (MET)
--This needs at least to be documented, and preferably par("usr")
--set to the coordinate system of the plotting region after use.
* 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# 916 *
Subject:  par(mgp) bug 
From: paul@stat.auckland.ac.nz
Date: Fri, 20 Apr 2001 08:33:45 +1200 (NZST)
* 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# 865 *
Subject:  axis(...,las=1) breaks postscript code in certain cases 
From: maechler@stat.math.ethz.ch
Date: Wed, 7 Mar 2001 18:08:58 +0100

Directory:  In-Out

none

Directory:  Installation

* PR# 924 *
Subject: bug when compiling using --with-f2c option
From: wang@rjka.com
Date: Thu, 26 Apr 2001 19:58:17 +0200 (MET DST)
--same as 923
* PR# 923 *
Subject: bug when compiling using --with-f2c option
From: wang@rjka.com
Date: Thu, 26 Apr 2001 19:56:59 +0200 (MET DST)
--too little information

Directory:  Language

* 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# 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# 929 *
Subject:  Segmentation fault linked to memory? 
From: J.C.Rougier@durham.ac.uk
Date: Mon, 30 Apr 2001 14:34:11 +0100 (BST)
--looks like 32-bit integer overflow error in counting allocation size
* 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

* PR# 862 *
Subject: Wrong sign for Pearson residuals
From: faraway@umich.edu
Date: Mon, 5 Mar 2001 18:04:34 +0100 (MET)

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# 935 *
Subject:  help.start() fails 
From: "Wilhelm B. Kloke" <wb@vestein.arb-phys.uni-dortmund.de>
Date: Wed, 9 May 2001 13:43:49 +0200 (MET DST)
--Report on 1.2.1: on other systems the file is installed with 644.
* PR# 863 *
Subject: src/main/arithmetic.c on OpenBSD
From: ian@darwinsys.com (Ian Darwin)
Date: Tue,  6 Mar 2001 19:49:53 -0500 (EST)
--Not applied for 1.2.3 (why?)
* PR# 851 *
Subject: Comments on R-1.2.1 builds
From: "Nelson H. F. Beebe" <beebe@math.utah.edu>
Date: Fri, 16 Feb 2001 17:44:17 -0700 (MST)
--These are only warnings: some have been eliminated for 1.2.2.
--Some are about constructs needed to satisfy other compilers.
--
--Also: configure problem with g77 on SGI.
--(Should be taken care of for 1.2.3).
* 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

Directory:  TooMuchAtOnce

* PR# 918 *
Subject: several bugs
From: Rich Heiberger <rmh@surfer.sbm.temple.edu>
Date: Sun, 22 Apr 2001 23:13:38 -0400 (EDT)
--1. as.numeric -> use as.double.FOO for methods -- doc.fixed for 1.2.3
--2. cannot set attribute on NULL -- no bug
--3. rep(list() ... ) :  a wish  fulfilled for 1.3.x
--4. %*% is not a generic in R (but is fast!) but in S+  -- not a bug
--5. S-plus (S4) compatibility  -- a wish but not for now
--6. list()s with dim() attribute -- an ongoing `research topic'  :-)
* 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

* PR# 927 *
Subject: Rgui 1.2.3 for Windows crashes reading huge CSV file
From: znmeb@aracnet.com
Date: Mon, 30 Apr 2001 07:14:50 +0200 (MET DST)
--Not clear this is to do with Windows.
* PR# 926 *
Subject: Rgui crash
From: bellis@hsph.harvard.edu
Date: Sun, 29 Apr 2001 20:45:15 +0200 (MET DST)
--Unable to reproduce even on a Win2k machine
* PR# 912 *
Subject: Rgui.exe crash on Windows 2000
From: gilg.seeber@uibk.ac.at
Date: Thu, 12 Apr 2001 15:07:52 +0200 (MET DST)
--seems to be specific to the submitter's system.
--Cannot reproduce.
* PR# 906 *
Subject: Win98 wheelmouse graphics lock problem
From: cpaul@ucla.edu
Date: Tue, 10 Apr 2001 17:50:44 +0200 (MET DST)
--Cannot reproduce without more information
--In particular, does not happen with Microsoft Intellimouse on W2K

Directory:  incoming

* PR# 944 *
Subject: hist() ignores 'probability=T'
From: John Maindonald <john.maindonald@anu.edu.au>
Date: Sun, 20 May 2001 10:42:13 +1000
* PR# 937 *
Subject: name creation with index arrays
From: sint@oeaw.ac.at
Date: Thu, 10 May 2001 23:31:58 +0200 (MET DST)
* PR# 932 *
Subject: scoping error in xy.coords
From: kjetil halvorsen <kjetilh@umsanet.edu.bo>
Date: Fri, 04 May 2001 11:20:57 -0400
* PR# 939 *
Subject: Windows, RCMD INSTALL and path
From: david.firth@nuf.ox.ac.uk
Date: Fri, 11 May 2001 17:59:29 +0200 (MET DST)
* PR# 938 *
Subject: name creation with index arrays
From: sint@oeaw.ac.at
Date: Thu, 10 May 2001 23:39:53 +0200 (MET DST)
* PR# 941 *
Subject: Mistake in qbeta.c ?
From: tlm21@cam.ac.uk
Date: Wed, 16 May 2001 13:49:34 +0200 (MET DST)
* 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# 942 *
Subject: Minor documentation issue
From: jebacklund@dowagro.com
Date: Wed, 16 May 2001 19:58:13 +0200 (MET DST)
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[Rd] Bug list summary (automatic post)
Peter Dalgaard BSA