Dear Alex,
Another idea is to use pkgdown (http://pkgdown.r-lib.org) to convert
all the documentation of your package (include the vignettes) into a
website. Then you make that available to your students, e.g. through
github pages.
Best regards,
ir. Thierry Onkelinx
Statisticus / Statistician
Vlaamse Overheid / Government of Flanders
INSTITUUT VOOR NATUUR- EN BOSONDERZOEK / RESEARCH INSTITUTE FOR NATURE
AND FOREST
Team Biometrie & Kwaliteitszorg / Team Biometrics & Quality Assurance
thierry.onkel...@inbo.be
Havenlaan 88 bus 73, 1000 Brussel
www.inbo.be
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more than asking him to perform a post-mortem examination: he may be
able to say what the experiment died of. ~ Sir Ronald Aylmer Fisher
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not ensure that a reasonable answer can be extracted from a given body
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2018-04-19 18:33 GMT+02:00 Alexandre Courtiol :
> Thanks a lot Thierry, I was happy to discover and implement a "drat"
> installation workflow.
> Unfortunately it did not solve the issue (but I will stick to drat).
> Also, I checked the sessionInfo() and could not find any package version
> discriminating accurately between computers that shows vignettes from those
> who do not.
> Only Windows computer have the issue but this proves nothing (and other
> computers with the same OS version are fine).
> Goergi, I did not yet retried outside RStudio (I am trying not to waste too
> much time at the beginning of each course...
> I wish I could hijack a problematic laptop but they don't let me do it as
> they need them).
> ++
> Alex
>
>
> On 17 April 2018 at 10:42, Thierry Onkelinx
> wrote:
>>
>> Dear Alex,
>>
>> Have a look at drat
>> (http://eddelbuettel.github.io/drat/DratForPackageAuthors.html). This
>> makes it easier to distribute prepackaged R packages (including When
>> you uploaded a new version, then the student would only have to do
>> drat::addRepo("your_repo") and then install.pakages("LM2GLMM") or
>> update.packages()
>>
>> Best regards,
>>
>> ir. Thierry Onkelinx
>> Statisticus / Statistician
>>
>> Vlaamse Overheid / Government of Flanders
>> INSTITUUT VOOR NATUUR- EN BOSONDERZOEK / RESEARCH INSTITUTE FOR NATURE
>> AND FOREST
>> Team Biometrie & Kwaliteitszorg / Team Biometrics & Quality Assurance
>> thierry.onkel...@inbo.be
>> Havenlaan 88 bus 73, 1000 Brussel
>> www.inbo.be
>>
>>
>> ///
>> To call in the statistician after the experiment is done may be no
>> more than asking him to perform a post-mortem examination: he may be
>> able to say what the experiment died of. ~ Sir Ronald Aylmer Fisher
>> The plural of anecdote is not data. ~ Roger Brinner
>> The combination of some data and an aching desire for an answer does
>> not ensure that a reasonable answer can be extracted from a given body
>> of data. ~ John Tukey
>>
>> ///
>>
>>
>>
>>
>> 2018-04-16 19:38 GMT+02:00 Alexandre Courtiol
>> :
>> > Re,
>> >
>> > On 16 April 2018 at 17:35, Georgi Boshnakov <
>> > georgi.boshna...@manchester.ac.uk> wrote:
>> >
>> >> Hi,
>> >>
>> >> The problem is indeed difficult to debug but there are things that can
>> >> be
>> >> done to narrow it down.
>> >>
>> >> 1. Are there 1/3 unlucky computers fixed? (I.e does the problem occur
>> >> always on the same computers) Also, do you really mean computer or
>> >> user?
>> >>
>> >
>> > Yes, I mean computer, not user.
>> >
>> >>
>> >> 2. Are the students working under R studio? If so, does the same
>> >> problem
>> >> appear if the same procedure is run outside R studio.
>> >>
>> >
>> > I will try tomorrow (but from memory I think the answer will be yes).
>> >
>> >>
>> >> 3. Further to 2., You mention development mode - do (some) students
>> >> also
>> >> have a copy of your repository? This may be aproblem if they don't
>> >> update
>> >> it too.
>> >>
>> >
>> > No, only me has the devel version.
>> >
>> >>
>> >> 4. What happens if R is restarted?
>> >
>> >
>> > I will try tomorrow (but I think the answer will be nothing).
>> >
>> >
>> >> 5. It may be worth checking .Rprofle and similar for the concerned
>> >> computers (or users, see 1.)
>> >>
>> >
>> > I will try as well but most had a fresh install and did not mess with
>> > settings.
>> >
>> >>
>> >> Hope this is of some help.
>> >>
>> >
>> > I will look at all this and also gather the session infos as Ben
>> > suggested.
>> > I think I know how to proceed to get to the bottom of that, but I was
>> > just
>> > hoping that the problem was already well known and the answer as well...
>> > If i
