Re: [Rd] R 3.0, Rtools3.0,l Windows7 64-bit, and permission agony

2013-04-21 Thread Kevin Coombes
Here's the short answer: Whatever you used to do should still work. I started this thread, not knowing that it was going to get sucked into a whirlpool on the fringes of an operating system religious war. My sincerest apologies to everyone who has gotten confused as a consequence. I only ra

Re: [Rd] R 3.0, Rtools3.0,l Windows7 64-bit, and permission agony

2013-04-21 Thread steven mosher
Well, color me confused as heck. I've upgraded to R 3.0 so that I can bring my packages up to date, but the instructions surrounding Rtools30 are not a model of clarity. On Sun, Apr 21, 2013 at 4:04 PM, Gabor Grothendieck wrote: > On Sun, Apr 21, 2013 at 6:17 PM, Henrik Bengtsson > wrote: > >

Re: [Rd] R 3.0, Rtools3.0,l Windows7 64-bit, and permission agony

2013-04-21 Thread Gabor Grothendieck
On Sun, Apr 21, 2013 at 6:17 PM, Henrik Bengtsson wrote: > I (as well) keep a specific Rsetup.bat file for launching Windows > cmd.exe with the proper PATH etc setup for build R packages etc. It's > only after this thread I gave it a second thought; you can indeed > temporarily set the PATH via ~

Re: [Rd] R 3.0, Rtools3.0,l Windows7 64-bit, and permission agony

2013-04-21 Thread Hadley Wickham
> PS. Hadley, is this what you meant when you wrote "Better solutions > (e.g. Rstudio and devtools) temporarily set the path on when you're > calling R CMD *.", or those approaches are only when you call 'R CMD' > from the R prompt? I believe the latter, but I just want to make sure > I didn't mis

Re: [Rd] R 3.0, Rtools3.0,l Windows7 64-bit, and permission agony

2013-04-21 Thread Henrik Bengtsson
I (as well) keep a specific Rsetup.bat file for launching Windows cmd.exe with the proper PATH etc setup for build R packages etc. It's only after this thread I gave it a second thought; you can indeed temporarily set the PATH via ~/.Rprofile or ~/.Renviron, which *are* processed at the very begin

Re: [Rd] vignettes: problems with PDF compaction

2013-04-21 Thread Michael Friendly
On 4/21/2013 1:47 PM, Uwe Ligges wrote: >> Since vignettes are re-built from sources and then installed into >> inst/doc, I don't see why >> PDF compaction cannot be run as part of the build process. That is, if >> R CMD check --as-cran detects a problem, shouldn't there be some >> option for >> R

Re: [Rd] R 3.0, Rtools3.0,l Windows7 64-bit, and permission agony

2013-04-21 Thread Gabor Grothendieck
On Sun, Apr 21, 2013 at 1:48 PM, Prof J C Nash (U30A) wrote: > > While as a Linux user who has not so far been banished to Winland I have not > experienced this problem, it seems to be the type of issue where a "how to", > for example, on the R Wiki, would be helpful. Moreover, surely this is a >

Re: [Rd] R 3.0, Rtools3.0,l Windows7 64-bit, and permission agony

2013-04-21 Thread Gabor Grothendieck
On Sun, Apr 21, 2013 at 12:57 PM, Hadley Wickham wrote: Because it can conflict with other Windows software unless you add a layer over it. What other popular software that runs on Windows has these problems? I can't think of any. The closest I can come up with was that for

Re: [Rd] R 3.0, Rtools3.0,l Windows7 64-bit, and permission agony

2013-04-21 Thread Prof J C Nash (U30A)
While as a Linux user who has not so far been banished to Winland I have not experienced this problem, it seems to be the type of issue where a "how to", for example, on the R Wiki, would be helpful. Moreover, surely this is a name conflict on different platforms, so possibly a list of these

Re: [Rd] vignettes: problems with PDF compaction

2013-04-21 Thread Uwe Ligges
On 21.04.2013 19:28, Michael Friendly wrote: [Env: OS: Win Xp; R 2.15.2; IDE: eclipse/StatET] Each time I update my heplots package, I get warnings from R CMD check on R-Forge, * checking sizes of PDF files under ‘inst/doc’ ... WARNING ‘gs+qpdf’ made some significant size reductions:

[Rd] vignettes: problems with PDF compaction

2013-04-21 Thread Michael Friendly
[Env: OS: Win Xp; R 2.15.2; IDE: eclipse/StatET] Each time I update my heplots package, I get warnings from R CMD check on R-Forge, * checking sizes of PDF files under ‘inst/doc’ ... WARNING ‘gs+qpdf’ made some significant size reductions: compacted ‘HE-examples.pdf’ from 739Kb to 366Kb

Re: [Rd] R 3.0, Rtools3.0,l Windows7 64-bit, and permission agony

2013-04-21 Thread Hadley Wickham
>>> Because it can conflict with other Windows software unless you add a >>> layer over it. What other popular software that runs on Windows has >>> these problems? I can't think of any. The closest I can come up with >>> was that for a short time after git was ported to Windows it would >>> cha

Re: [Rd] R 3.0, Rtools3.0,l Windows7 64-bit, and permission agony

2013-04-21 Thread Gabor Grothendieck
On Sun, Apr 21, 2013 at 9:49 AM, Hadley Wickham wrote: >> Because it can conflict with other Windows software unless you add a >> layer over it. What other popular software that runs on Windows has >> these problems? I can't think of any. The closest I can come up with >> was that for a short t

Re: [Rd] R 3.0, Rtools3.0,l Windows7 64-bit, and permission agony

2013-04-21 Thread Hadley Wickham
> Because it can conflict with other Windows software unless you add a > layer over it. What other popular software that runs on Windows has > these problems? I can't think of any. The closest I can come up with > was that for a short time after git was ported to Windows it would > change the fo

Re: [Rd] R 3.0, Rtools3.0,l Windows7 64-bit, and permission agony

2013-04-21 Thread Gabor Grothendieck
On Sun, Apr 21, 2013 at 8:18 AM, Hadley Wickham wrote: >> The problem is that if you don't just use the PC for running R but use >> it to run other programs too then any program and that utilizes >> Windows batch scripts making use of find.exe or sort.exe likely won't >> work if Rtools is on your

Re: [Rd] R 3.0, Rtools3.0,l Windows7 64-bit, and permission agony

2013-04-21 Thread Hadley Wickham
> The problem is that if you don't just use the PC for running R but use > it to run other programs too then any program and that utilizes > Windows batch scripts making use of find.exe or sort.exe likely won't > work if Rtools is on your path. > > The fact that devtools, batchfiles and Rcpp have w