Re: [Rd] secure password token management method in R

2011-12-18 Thread Paul Gilbert
One way this is often done is to have this information in a file that only the owner can read. For example, mysql uses a file .my.cnf (in Windows it may have a different name). The code then just reads the information from the file. To guard against user carelessness, I think mysql will not

Re: [Rd] secure password token management method in R

2011-12-18 Thread Barry Rowlingson
On Sun, Dec 18, 2011 at 1:28 AM, Paul Gilbert pgilbert...@gmail.com wrote: One way this is often done is to have this information in a file that only the owner can read. For example, mysql uses a file .my.cnf (in Windows it may have a different name). The code then just reads the information

Re: [Rd] S4 NAMESPACE method imports and exports do not include (promoted?) generics

2011-12-18 Thread John Chambers
On 12/17/11 6:02 AM, Michael Lawrence wrote: I guess what it boils down to is whether it makes sense for PkgB to have exportMethods(unique) when PkgB does not export(unique) or have PkgA in Depends. And whether it makes sense for PkgC to have importMethodsFrom(PkgB, unique) without

Re: [Rd] secure password token management method in R

2011-12-18 Thread Simon Urbanek
Barry, that's a great idea. I have created a package that allows you to read/write passwords to user's keychain: http://www.rforge.net/keychain So far it uses the Security framework so you'll need a Mac, it but I'm about to add a generic fall-back system (encrypted file on-disk) and possibly

Re: [Rd] secure password token management method in R

2011-12-18 Thread Dirk Eddelbuettel
On 18 December 2011 at 16:16, Simon Urbanek wrote: | Barry, | | that's a great idea. I have created a package that allows you to read/write passwords to user's keychain: | | http://www.rforge.net/keychain | | So far it uses the Security framework so you'll need a Mac, it but I'm about to add

Re: [Rd] rowsum

2011-12-18 Thread Thomas Lumley
On Wed, Mar 30, 2011 at 1:56 AM, Terry Therneau thern...@mayo.edu wrote:     with the entirely different rowSums, but it has been around     for a long time.)    A lot longer than rowSums ...     Bill Dunlap     Spotfire, TIBCO Software    ---      This made me smile.  The rowsums function

Re: [Rd] R package BibTex entries: looking for a more general solution

2011-12-18 Thread Renaud Gaujoux
Hi, I actually adapted and integrated this feature into Achim's -- nice -- function (posted on r-help). Romain included it a couple of weeks ago into the bibtex package as function write.bib, and submitted the update to CRAN, but some NOTEs in the check delayed its availability on CRAN. You