Re: [Rd] ASCIIfy() - a proposal for package:tools

2014-04-17 Thread Arni Magnusson
Thanks Duncan, for considering ASCIIfy. I understand your reasoning. This is a recurring pattern - I propose functions for core R, and Greg catches them from freefall :) I'm delighted with ASCIIfy being hosted in gtools. The R and Rd should be ready as is. Cheers, Arni ___

Re: [Rd] ASCIIfy() - a proposal for package:tools

2014-04-17 Thread Duncan Murdoch
On 17/04/2014 12:47 PM, Gregory R. Warnes wrote: Hi Arni, I’ll be glad to drop ASCIIfy into gtools. Let me know if this OK. Thanks, that sounds like a great solution if Arni doesn't want his own package. Duncan Murdoch -Greg On Apr 17, 2014, at 9:46 AM, Duncan Murdoch wrote: > Nobody

Re: [Rd] ASCIIfy() - a proposal for package:tools

2014-04-17 Thread Gregory R. Warnes
Hi Arni, I’ll be glad to drop ASCIIfy into gtools. Let me know if this OK. -Greg On Apr 17, 2014, at 9:46 AM, Duncan Murdoch wrote: > Nobody else has replied to this, so I will. It's very unlikely that we would > incorporate this function into base R. For one thing, the tools package is >

Re: [Rd] ASCIIfy() - a proposal for package:tools

2014-04-17 Thread Duncan Murdoch
Nobody else has replied to this, so I will. It's very unlikely that we would incorporate this function into base R. For one thing, the tools package is intended to be tools used by R, not by users. R doesn't need this function, so it doesn't belong in tools. (Some other functions in tools l

[Rd] ASCIIfy() - a proposal for package:tools

2014-04-15 Thread Arni Magnusson
Hi all, I would like to propose the attached function ASCIIfy() to be added to the 'tools' package. Non-ASCII characters in character vectors can be problematic for R packages, but sometimes they cannot be avoided. To make packages portable and build without 'R CMD check' warnings, my soluti