Re: [R-pkg-devel] tryCatch defensive programming guidance

2017-03-01 Thread Martin Maechler
> Berry Boessenkool > on Wed, 1 Mar 2017 14:52:10 + writes: > Hi Glenn, > Better late than never: > couldn't you simply use try? > result <- try( log("a") ) > The printing is horrible: people will think an error > occured

Re: [Rd] stats::median

2017-03-01 Thread Martin Maechler
> Martin Maechler > on Mon, 27 Feb 2017 10:42:19 +0100 writes: > Rob J Hyndman > on Wed, 15 Feb 2017 21:48:56 +1100 writes: >> The generic stats::median method is defined as median <- >> function (x, na.rm =

[Bioc-devel] User has issue with importing a BigWig file with rtracklayer despite having a recent openssl and latest R packages

2017-03-01 Thread Leonardo Collado Torres
Hi, I'm trying to figure out what is going wrong in https://support.bioconductor.org/p/93182/. Mustafa is using recount to load a bigwig file from the web. The code in recount relies on some code in derfinder, and the actual importing is done by rtracklayer::import(). >From looking at the R

Re: [Rd] Test suite failures in R-devel_2017-02-25_r72256

2017-03-01 Thread Peter Simons
Hi Martin, > Is it necessary to also run the 'make check' part in that restricted > environment? Or could that ('checking") not get more priviledges? in NixOS, there is no way to run any kind of build process in an environment that has network access. On one hand, that is a security

Re: [Rd] Test suite failures in R-rc_2017-02-28_r72286.tar.gz

2017-03-01 Thread Peter Simons
Hi Brian, > R-devel (your subject line) is not a pre-release of R 3.3.3: it is 'R > Under development' for what is planned as R 3.4.0. Pre-release > tarballs for 3.3.3 are things like R-rc_2017-02-26_r72260.tar.gz (and > were previously labelled R-beta). I did not realize this distinction

Re: [R-pkg-devel] .bib file in vignette not found during R CMD check

2017-03-01 Thread Duncan Murdoch
On 01/03/2017 2:17 AM, Henrik Bengtsson wrote: On Tue, Feb 28, 2017 at 2:47 PM, Duncan Murdoch wrote: On 28/02/2017 5:17 PM, Patrick Schratz wrote: Thanks Duncan, that was the problem! Although the Rbuildignore entry pointed to the main dir No, it contains