Re: [Rd] re ad.spss (foreign) conflict with SPSS 17 files.

2008-12-14 Thread Prof Brian Ripley
See the help page. We haven't been told but it looks like the Debian system is in a UTF-8 locale: reencode=FALSE is likely appropriate there. However, the posting guide does ask for the output of sessionInof() for a good reason. Yes, it looks like 65001 is UTF-8, but we don't know for certain

Re: [Rd] [R] Some clarificatins of anova() and summary ()

2008-12-14 Thread Ben Bolker
It is quite likely to be an uphill battle getting them accepted, but ... can you propose some changes (preferably in the form of diffs to the current development version) that would improve the current documentation? That would at least be a start for the inevitable discussions about what, sp

Re: [Rd] re ad.spss (foreign) conflict with SPSS 17 files.

2008-12-14 Thread Peter Dalgaard
Jeroen Ooms wrote: SPSS seems to have changed its default datafile format, resulting in issues for read.spss(). In Windows this results in a warning, in Debian the import completely fails: Debian (R version 2.8.0 (2008-10-20) i486-pc-linux-gnu, foreign_0.8-29) read.spss("/home/jeroen/samples/T

[Rd] re ad.spss (foreign) conflict with SPSS 17 files.

2008-12-14 Thread Jeroen Ooms
SPSS seems to have changed its default datafile format, resulting in issues for read.spss(). In Windows this results in a warning, in Debian the import completely fails: Debian (R version 2.8.0 (2008-10-20) i486-pc-linux-gnu, foreign_0.8-29) > read.spss("/home/jeroen/samples/Tomato.sav") Error i

Re: [Rd] package development

2008-12-14 Thread Dirk Eddelbuettel
On 12 December 2008 at 11:05, Paul Gilbert wrote: | Yes, there are several options for not distributing tests. I was | thinking more about how to distribute them with a simple mechanism for | anyone to run them, but in a way that they are not run by the usual R | CMD check. One scheme I quite

[Rd] NAMESPACE/DESCRIPTION and imports

2008-12-14 Thread James MacDonald
Hi, Could someone point me to the relevant documentation that covers what should be in the DESCRIPTION file for packages that have functions imported via the NAMESPACE file? I have read the R Extensions manual, but I cannot find where it covers the DESCRIPTION file vis a vis importing from a na