Re: [Rd] R (development) changes in arith, logic, relop with (0-extent) arrays

2016-09-07 Thread Oliver Keyes
+1. Very grateful; more consistency is always great :) On Wednesday, 7 September 2016, robin hankin wrote: > Martin > > I'd like to make a comment; I think that R's behaviour on 'edge' cases like > this is an important thing and it's great that you are working on it. > >

Re: [Rd] Fwd: Re: RSiteSearch, sos, rdocumentation.org, ...?

2016-09-07 Thread Jonathan Baron
Don't do anything yet. I may have found the problem by accident. I tried to use the computer from something else, and it was being drastically slowed down by some leftover processes, which turned out to be xlhtml. That is something that converts Excel files. Apparently, some excel files got into

Re: [Rd] R (development) changes in arith, logic, relop with (0-extent) arrays

2016-09-07 Thread robin hankin
Martin I'd like to make a comment; I think that R's behaviour on 'edge' cases like this is an important thing and it's great that you are working on it. I make heavy use of zero-extent arrays, chiefly because the dimnames are an efficient and logical way to keep track of certain types of

Re: [Rd] Fwd: Re: RSiteSearch, sos, rdocumentation.org, ...?

2016-09-07 Thread Jonathan Baron
Spencer, Thanks for the quick reply. I am open to someone who knows Perl getting an account on my site and trying to get it working. It will probably involve fixing more than one thing, as mknmz depends on some perl modules that also generate errors. My main contribution is figuring out how to

Re: [Rd] R (development) changes in arith, logic, relop with (0-extent) arrays

2016-09-07 Thread Martin Maechler
> Martin Maechler > on Wed, 7 Sep 2016 11:49:11 +0200 writes: > Martin Maechler > on Tue, 6 Sep 2016 22:26:31 +0200 writes: >> Yesterday, changes to R's development version were committed, relating >> to

[Rd] Fwd: Re: RSiteSearch, sos, rdocumentation.org, ...?

2016-09-07 Thread Spencer Graves
Hello, All: Jonathan Baron is "giving up" maintaining the RSiteSearch database. This breaks three things: (1) The R Site Search web service that Baron has maintained. (2) The RSiteSearch function in the utils package. (3) The sos package, for which I'm the maintainer and

Re: [Rd] Building R under Linux - library dependencies

2016-09-07 Thread Dirk Eddelbuettel
On 7 September 2016 at 20:50, Paweł Piątkowski wrote: | > | Is there a way to overcome this problem? Precompiled versions of R can be installed on various system configurations, so I guess that there should be a way to compile it in a version-agnostic manner. | > | > Yes, for example by | > |

Re: [Rd] Building R under Linux - library dependencies

2016-09-07 Thread Paweł Piątkowski
> > Docker R containers are north of 250 MB. I have checked experimentally that > > you can trim R down to 16 MB (!) and you'll still be able to execute it > > (though with warnings). That *is* quite a difference, especially when > > deploying small applications.   > ... I would guesstimate the

Re: [Rd] Building R under Linux - library dependencies

2016-09-07 Thread elijah wright
On Wed, Sep 7, 2016 at 1:50 PM, Paweł Piątkowski wrote: > > | Is there a way to overcome this problem? Precompiled versions of R can > be installed on various system configurations, so I guess that there should > be a way to compile it in a version-agnostic manner. > > > > Yes,

Re: [Rd] Building R under Linux - library dependencies

2016-09-07 Thread Paweł Piątkowski
> | Is there a way to overcome this problem? Precompiled versions of R can be > installed on various system configurations, so I guess that there should be a > way to compile it in a version-agnostic manner. > > Yes, for example by > > -- using a Docker container which is portable across OSs

Re: [Rd] Building R under Linux - library dependencies

2016-09-07 Thread Dirk Eddelbuettel
On 7 September 2016 at 17:27, Paweł Piątkowski wrote: | Hello and apologies if this doesn't belong here. | | I'm trying to build a "portable" version of R - "portable" means that it could be easily moved to another location or machine simply by copying it. However, I encountered a problem when

[Rd] Building R under Linux - library dependencies

2016-09-07 Thread Paweł Piątkowski
Hello and apologies if this doesn't belong here. I'm trying to build a "portable" version of R - "portable" means that it could be easily moved to another location or machine simply by copying it. However, I encountered a problem when running it elsewhere: it seems that versions of dynamic

Re: [Rd] R (development) changes in arith, logic relop with 0-extent arrays

2016-09-07 Thread Therneau, Terry M., Ph.D.
On 09/07/2016 05:00 AM, r-devel-requ...@r-project.org wrote: I've been slightly surprised (or even "frustrated") by the empty reaction on our R-devel list to this post. I would have expected some critique, may be even some praise, ... in any case some sign people are "thinking along" (as we

Re: [Rd] R (development) changes in arith, logic, relop with (0-extent) arrays

2016-09-07 Thread Martin Maechler
> Martin Maechler > on Tue, 6 Sep 2016 22:26:31 +0200 writes: > Yesterday, changes to R's development version were committed, relating > to arithmetic, logic ('&' and '|') and > comparison/relational ('<', '==') binary operators > which in