[Rd] NEWS and ChangeLog in available.packages()

2008-02-18 Thread Gabor Grothendieck
With the newly available NEWS and ChangeLog links on the CRAN pages for packages it would be nice if available.packages() gave information on those. __ R-devel@r-project.org mailing list https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-devel

Re: [Rd] Perils of R_LIBRARY_PATH

2008-02-18 Thread Hin-Tak Leung
Prof Brian Ripley wrote: On Sat, 16 Feb 2008, Hin-Tak Leung wrote: Hi, Just for interest, may I ask which platform are you referring to? You are on a commercial unix platform such as solaris, right? amd64 Linux -- a bit of tracing shows that to be from a jpackage-d version of the Sun

Re: [Rd] NEWS and ChangeLog in available.packages()

2008-02-18 Thread Gabor Grothendieck
On Feb 18, 2008 11:59 AM, Martin Maechler [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: GaGr == Gabor Grothendieck [EMAIL PROTECTED] on Mon, 18 Feb 2008 10:19:05 -0500 writes: GaGr With the newly available NEWS and ChangeLog links on GaGr the CRAN pages for packages it would be nice if GaGr

Re: [Rd] NEWS and ChangeLog in available.packages()

2008-02-18 Thread Martin Maechler
GaGr == Gabor Grothendieck [EMAIL PROTECTED] on Mon, 18 Feb 2008 10:19:05 -0500 writes: GaGr With the newly available NEWS and ChangeLog links on GaGr the CRAN pages for packages it would be nice if GaGr available.packages() gave information on those. how would you propose? It

Re: [Rd] Namespace and function open

2008-02-18 Thread Martin Maechler
MS == Markus Schmidberger [EMAIL PROTECTED] on Fri, 15 Feb 2008 15:47:16 +0100 writes: MS Hello, I built a package, everything was working very MS well. Now I included a NAMESPACE to export only some MS variables. (export(f, g, ...) ) Everything is working MS fine, except

Re: [Rd] NAMESPACEs and S4 classes

2008-02-18 Thread John Chambers
Let's start from a simpler description, because the use of sealed adds some confusion. Here's a basic version. I have two packages, P2 and P3, with different definitions of myClass. Classes with the same name on two packages are supposed to work, at least for generating objects. There is

Re: [Rd] Namespace and function open

2008-02-18 Thread Prof Brian Ripley
On Mon, 18 Feb 2008, Martin Maechler wrote: MS == Markus Schmidberger [EMAIL PROTECTED] on Fri, 15 Feb 2008 15:47:16 +0100 writes: MS Hello, I built a package, everything was working very MS well. Now I included a NAMESPACE to export only some MS variables. (export(f, g, ...) )

[Rd] Is rcompgen still recommended?

2008-02-18 Thread James MacDonald
I just built R-devel from source on OS X (Tiger), using the subversion sources. Running ./tools/rsync-recommended didn't download rcompgen. I checked http://cran.r-project/src/contrib/2.7.0/Recommended and indeed, this package is not there. If I try to install using install.packages I get

Re: [Rd] Is rcompgen still recommended?

2008-02-18 Thread Peter Dalgaard
James MacDonald wrote: I just built R-devel from source on OS X (Tiger), using the subversion sources. Running ./tools/rsync-recommended didn't download rcompgen. I checked http://cran.r-project/src/contrib/2.7.0/Recommended and indeed, this package is not there. If I try to install using

Re: [Rd] Is rcompgen still recommended?

2008-02-18 Thread Prof Brian Ripley
From NEWS o Command-line completion has been moved from package 'rcompgen' to package 'utils': the former no longer exists as a separate package in the R distribution. It was always intended that it be merged into utils when finished and stable (and it helps that Deepayan