[Rd] r cmd build

2007-09-15 Thread Gabor Grothendieck
On Windows Vista hhc.exe is not available. One can do this on an install: rcmd install --docs=normal myPackage to avoid the message about hhc.exe; however, "rcmd build" does not appear to support --docs=normal so one cannot do a build without getting a message about hhc.exe (although the build s

Re: [Rd] Date vs date

2007-09-15 Thread Peter Dalgaard
Prof Brian Ripley wrote: >>> Arguably, it should (Is this a difftime object? Which units?). >>> I'd advise against numeric operation on difftime objects in general, >>> because of the unspecified units. These are always "days" when working >>> with Date objects, but with general time objects it is

[Rd] R-2.6.0 for Windows, semi-transparent colours and layout()

2007-09-15 Thread Henric Nilsson (Public)
Hi, The added support for semi-transparent colours in `windows' under R-2.6.0 for Windows is much appreciated. However, I've discovered that issuing a `layout' (or `par' with arguments `mfcol'/`mfrow') call and then trying to plot several figures with semi-transparent colour on the same page r

Re: [Rd] Building an R GUI using gWidgets and RGtk2

2007-09-15 Thread Hans-Peter
> > I'm developing a GUI in R that will be used to monitor financial > portfolio performance. The GUI will be distributed as an R package. So > far, I've decided to use the "cairoDevice", "RGtk2", "gWidgets", and > "gWidgetsRGtk2" packages to develop the GUI. I am trying to decide what > would b

Re: [Rd] (PR#9910) Incomplete library linking for grDevices.so on

2007-09-15 Thread ripley
What compiler system is this? And what settings were used? We are not seeing such a problem on Solaris 10 (neither Sparc nor x86_64) with the Sun Studio 11 compilers they shipped with (a month or two ago). Note that the error message is not to do with subject line: it is launching R and /expor

Re: [Rd] Date vs date

2007-09-15 Thread Prof Brian Ripley
On Fri, 14 Sep 2007, hadley wickham wrote: >>> 3. temp <- as.Date('1990/1/1') - as.date('1953/2/5') >>> sqrt(temp) >>> Error in Math.difftime(temp3) : sqrtnot defined for "difftime" objects >>> >>> Minor bug: no space before the word 'not' >>> Major: this shouldn't fail. >>> >>> >>