Re: [Rd] Rcmd install mypkg

2006-10-01 Thread Gabor Grothendieck
This would seem to violate the user interface stereotype that command lines are case insensitive on Windows. On 10/1/06, Duncan Murdoch [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On 9/30/2006 10:54 PM, Gabor Grothendieck wrote: I noticed that in R version 2.4.0 alpha (2006-09-16 r39365) on Windows XP that I

[Rd] stack imbalance in contour

2006-10-01 Thread Patrick Burns
I'm not sure if this has much significance or not -- but it sounds rather ominous. It doesn't appear to be new as it happens with 2.0.0 in Linux (but the formatting of the warning messages has improved). contour(array(3e10, c(10,10), list(1:10, 11:20))) Warning: stack imbalance in 'contour',

Re: [Rd] Rcmd install mypkg

2006-10-01 Thread Uwe Ligges
Gabor Grothendieck wrote: This would seem to violate the user interface stereotype that command lines are case insensitive on Windows. This is an improvement. R tries to be as unique as possible on all platforms. Uwe Ligges On 10/1/06, Duncan Murdoch [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On

Re: [Rd] Rcmd install mypkg

2006-10-01 Thread Gabor Grothendieck
On 10/1/06, Uwe Ligges [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Gabor Grothendieck wrote: This would seem to violate the user interface stereotype that command lines are case insensitive on Windows. This is an improvement. R tries to be as unique as possible on all platforms. Not sure what the above

Re: [Rd] WISH: R CMD build should use the (correct) package name (PR#9266)

2006-10-01 Thread Duncan Temple Lang
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 I happened to be looking at that myself yesterday. It is relatively easy to get the package name from the DESCRIPTION file and not the directory name. But there are other issues. I'll look into this further in a week or two. D. [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: [Rd] WISH: R CMD build should use the (correct) package name (PR#9267)

2006-10-01 Thread duncan
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 I happened to be looking at that myself yesterday. It is relatively easy to get the package name from the DESCRIPTION file and not the directory name. But there are other issues. I'll look into this further in a week or two. D. [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: [Rd] Rcmd install mypkg

2006-10-01 Thread Dirk Eddelbuettel
On 1 October 2006 at 08:53, Gabor Grothendieck wrote: | On 10/1/06, Uwe Ligges [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: | Gabor Grothendieck wrote: | This would seem to violate the user interface stereotype that | command lines are case insensitive on Windows. | | This is an improvement. R tries to be as

Re: [Rd] Rcmd install mypkg

2006-10-01 Thread Gabor Grothendieck
On 10/1/06, Dirk Eddelbuettel [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On 1 October 2006 at 08:53, Gabor Grothendieck wrote: | On 10/1/06, Uwe Ligges [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: | Gabor Grothendieck wrote: | This would seem to violate the user interface stereotype that | command lines are case insensitive

Re: [Rd] Rcmd install mypkg

2006-10-01 Thread Duncan Murdoch
On 10/1/2006 7:20 AM, Gabor Grothendieck wrote: This would seem to violate the user interface stereotype that command lines are case insensitive on Windows. And command options use a / prefix in Windows, but a - or -- prefix in R, and the path separator in Windows is \ in most places, but / is

Re: [Rd] Rcmd install mypkg

2006-10-01 Thread Gabor Grothendieck
On 10/1/06, Duncan Murdoch [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On 10/1/2006 7:20 AM, Gabor Grothendieck wrote: This would seem to violate the user interface stereotype that command lines are case insensitive on Windows. And command options use a / prefix in Windows, but a - or -- prefix in R, and the

Re: [Rd] Rcmd install mypkg

2006-10-01 Thread Gabor Grothendieck
On 10/1/06, Duncan Murdoch [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: So what I'd suggest you do if you find typing INSTALL to be painful is to install an alias or command script that wraps it up in a way that feels more comfortable to you. It would be possible to do some processing in Rcmd.bat in batchfiles

Re: [Rd] Rcmd install mypkg

2006-10-01 Thread Duncan Murdoch
On 10/1/2006 4:30 PM, hadley wickham wrote: Requiring Perl script names to be specified in a case-sensitive way doesn't affect the R build process, but it does mean that a script written on Windows is slightly more likely to work when someone runs it on another platform. There's an install

Re: [Rd] Rcmd install mypkg

2006-10-01 Thread Gabor Grothendieck
I think the really annoying thing is that it was changed for the worse. Why not just keep it how it was before? On 10/1/06, Duncan Murdoch [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On 10/1/2006 4:30 PM, hadley wickham wrote: Requiring Perl script names to be specified in a case-sensitive way doesn't affect