[Rd] Writing R Extensions: clarification/modification request

2014-03-18 Thread Thell Fowler
Hello R-core developers, The upcoming release of R-3.1.0 is exciting, especially the support structure changes for c++11! But, just the other day I encountered an issue with the package creation tools within Rcpp and Dirk referred me to 'Writing R Extensions' [footnote 13] along with the comment

[Rd] "Writing R Extensions": bad example with CAR / CDR as lvalues (PR#11054)

2008-03-30 Thread sanders
Full_Name: Simon Anders Version: 2.6.2 OS: Ubuntu Linux Submission from: (NULL) (86.22.75.91) This is a rather minor "documentation bug", certainly not at all urgent. The manual "Writing R extensions" explains in section 5.10 ("Evaluating R expressions from C") how to use the eval function. Wit

Re: [Rd] Writing R Extensions manual?

2006-11-23 Thread Spencer Graves
Dear Hadley: Thanks very much. Clearly I looked at TFM but failed to properly parse it. Thanks again. Spencer Graves hadley wickham wrote: > It's very particular: > >> Malformed Depends or Suggests or Imports or Enhances field. >> Offending entries: >> R (>=2.4.0) >> Entries must be names o

Re: [Rd] Writing R Extensions manual?

2006-11-23 Thread hadley wickham
It's very particular: > Malformed Depends or Suggests or Imports or Enhances field. > Offending entries: > R (>=2.4.0) > Entries must be names of packages optionally followed by '<=' or '>=', > white space, and a valid version number in parentheses. ^^^ You need a space after >= Had

[Rd] Writing R Extensions manual?

2006-11-23 Thread Spencer Graves
I got an error message apparently from copying a line in the "Writing R Extensions" manual. Specifically, the sample "DESCRIPTION" file includes the following: Depends: R (>= 1.8.0), nlme When I ran "R CMD check", I got the following message in "00install.out": installing R.css

Re: [Rd] Writing R-extensions

2005-09-05 Thread Luke Tierney
On Mon, 5 Sep 2005, Berwin A Turlach wrote: > G'day Luke, > >> "LT" == Luke Tierney <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > >>> On Sat, 27 Aug 2005, Berwin A Turlach wrote: > >>>> 3) The final sentence in the section on `Registering S3 >>>> methods' is: >>>> >>>> Any methods for a ge

Re: [Rd] Writing R-extensions

2005-09-04 Thread Berwin A Turlach
G'day Luke, > "LT" == Luke Tierney <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: >> On Sat, 27 Aug 2005, Berwin A Turlach wrote: >>> 3) The final sentence in the section on `Registering S3 >>> methods' is: >>> >>> Any methods for a generic defined in a package that does not >>> use a

Re: [Rd] Writing R-extensions

2005-09-04 Thread Luke Tierney
On Sat, 27 Aug 2005, Prof Brian Ripley wrote: > On Sat, 27 Aug 2005, Berwin A Turlach wrote: ... >> 3) The final sentence in the section on `Registering S3 methods' is: >> >>Any methods for a generic defined in a package that does not >>use a name space should be exported, and

Re: [Rd] Writing R-extensions

2005-08-27 Thread Prof Brian Ripley
On Sat, 27 Aug 2005, Berwin A Turlach wrote: > G'day all, > > After reading through "Writing R Extensions", Version 2.1.1 > (2005-06-20), I thought the the following points might need > clarifications or corrections. (I checked that these comments also > hold for "Writing R Extensions", Version 2

Re: [Rd] Writing R-extensions

2005-08-27 Thread Prof Brian Ripley
On Sat, 27 Aug 2005, Berwin A Turlach wrote: > G'day all, > > After reading through "Writing R Extensions", Version 2.1.1 > (2005-06-20), I thought the the following points might need > clarifications or corrections. (I checked that these comments also > hold for "Writing R Extensions", Version 2

[Rd] Writing R-extensions

2005-08-27 Thread Berwin A Turlach
G'day all, After reading through "Writing R Extensions", Version 2.1.1 (2005-06-20), I thought the the following points might need clarifications or corrections. (I checked that these comments also hold for "Writing R Extensions", Version 2.2.0.) 1) When I ran "package.skeleton" recently, I noti