Re: [Rd] R's --enable-threads does nothing?; gdb needs -lpthread

2009-10-06 Thread Prof Brian Ripley
On Mon, 5 Oct 2009, Andrew Piskorski wrote: In the R-2-9-branch (svn revision 49914, 2009-09-24), R's configure script has an --enable-threads option. But, does it do anything useful? When I use --enable-threads=posix, some of the configure output changes slightly, but it seems to have no

Re: [Rd] unit testing for R packages?

2009-10-06 Thread Shane Conway
If you haven't done so already, you might want to read the RUnit Vignette: http://cran.r-project.org/web/packages/RUnit/vignettes/RUnit.pdf. On a somewhat related note: is anyone doing continuous integration with their R packages? I'm thinking about trying to use something like CruiseControl

Re: [Rd] how to document stuff most users don't want to see

2009-10-06 Thread Patrick Burns
I think the problem is more subtle than Spencer implies. It is good to have as much documentation as possible. However, if a help file is long and complex, then people get intimidated and don't read it at all. It would be nice to have a feature so that help files can be displayed with

Re: [Rd] str() gives odd looking output on complex vectors that are not purely imaginary (PR#13985)

2009-10-06 Thread maechler
RC == Rich Calaway richcala...@revolution-computing.com on Tue, 6 Oct 2009 01:00:10 +0200 (CEST) writes: RC Full_Name: Rich Calaway RC Version: R 2.9.2 RC OS: Windows Vista RC Submission from: (NULL) (65.47.30.18) RC Try this: RC x - rnorm(25) RC y -

Re: [Rd] Help file doesn't display correctly

2009-10-06 Thread Prof Brian Ripley
On Tue, 6 Oct 2009, Ronggui Huang wrote: Dear R Developer, It seems to be a problem with help file. Not sure if it is related to the new format of Rd parser. Multiple lines are joined together without proper line break. It was a problem with the handling of fancy quotes in a DBCS encoding

Re: [Rd] unit testing for R packages?

2009-10-06 Thread hadley wickham
If you haven't done so already, you might want to read the RUnit Vignette: http://cran.r-project.org/web/packages/RUnit/vignettes/RUnit.pdf. On a somewhat related note: is anyone doing continuous integration with their R packages?  I'm thinking about trying to use something like CruiseControl

Re: [Rd] unit testing for R packages?

2009-10-06 Thread Shane Conway
On a related note: I recently started to set up CruiseControl ( http://cruisecontrol.sourceforge.net/) to do continuous integration with my R packages (along with my RUnit test cases). Has anyone had any luck with this before? I use it for other software and it provides a very nice interface...

Re: [Rd] Help file doesn't display correctly

2009-10-06 Thread Prof Brian Ripley
On Tue, 6 Oct 2009, Ronggui Huang wrote: 2009/10/6 Prof Brian Ripley rip...@stats.ox.ac.uk: On Tue, 6 Oct 2009, Ronggui Huang wrote: Dear R Developer, It seems to be a problem with help file. Not sure if it is related to the new format of Rd parser. Multiple lines are joined together

Re: [Rd] Help file doesn't display correctly

2009-10-06 Thread Duncan Murdoch
On 10/6/2009 12:01 PM, Prof Brian Ripley wrote: On Tue, 6 Oct 2009, Ronggui Huang wrote: 2009/10/6 Prof Brian Ripley rip...@stats.ox.ac.uk: On Tue, 6 Oct 2009, Ronggui Huang wrote: Dear R Developer, It seems to be a problem with help file. Not sure if it is related to the new format of Rd

[Rd] openNLP Segmentation Fault (PR#13986)

2009-10-06 Thread michael
Full_Name: Michael Olschimke Version: 2.9 OS: Ubuntu 8.04 TLS Submission from: (NULL) (188.96.220.32) When using openNLP (0.0-7) with rJava (0.7-0) with java-6-sun-1.6.0.07 on Ubuntu 8.04 TLS 32 bit I get the following error message (see below) when calling tagPOS. I have installed the packages

Re: [Rd] how to document stuff most users don't want to see

2009-10-06 Thread Seth Falcon
Writing good documentation is hard. I can appreciate the desire to find technological solutions that improve documentation. However, the benefit of a help system that allows for varying degrees of verbosity is very likely to be overshadowed by the additional complexity imposed on the help

Re: [Rd] how to document stuff most users don't want to see

2009-10-06 Thread spencerg
I write *.Rd files primarily because it helps me think through what I want the software to do AND because the \examples provide any degree of unit testing I feel I need to create trustworth software (to quote Chambers). The fact that I can then share the resulting package with others is a