[Rd] Withdrawal of package Rigroup-0.84.0 from CRAN

2013-04-21 Thread Kevin Hendricks
Hi Brian and Uwe, Given my package passes all checks but I have received no further responses since your initial reply, I assume you are no longer interested in the package Rigroup-0.84.0. Your concerns about my chosen license being too vague GPL | LGPL is in direct contradiction to what your

Re: [Rd] how to control the environment of a formula

2013-04-21 Thread Thomas Alexander Gerds
thanks. yes, I was considering to use as.character(f) but your solution 2 is much better -- did not know ' was a R function as well. just checked: model.frame does not get confused and this will be used to evaluate formula by all functions in my packages. however, there could be related problems

Re: [Rd] R 3.0, Rtools3.0,l Windows7 64-bit, and permission agony

2013-04-21 Thread Hadley Wickham
The problem is that if you don't just use the PC for running R but use it to run other programs too then any program and that utilizes Windows batch scripts making use of find.exe or sort.exe likely won't work if Rtools is on your path. The fact that devtools, batchfiles and Rcpp have

Re: [Rd] R 3.0, Rtools3.0,l Windows7 64-bit, and permission agony

2013-04-21 Thread Gabor Grothendieck
On Sun, Apr 21, 2013 at 8:18 AM, Hadley Wickham h.wick...@gmail.com wrote: The problem is that if you don't just use the PC for running R but use it to run other programs too then any program and that utilizes Windows batch scripts making use of find.exe or sort.exe likely won't work if Rtools

Re: [Rd] R 3.0, Rtools3.0,l Windows7 64-bit, and permission agony

2013-04-21 Thread Hadley Wickham
Because it can conflict with other Windows software unless you add a layer over it. What other popular software that runs on Windows has these problems? I can't think of any. The closest I can come up with was that for a short time after git was ported to Windows it would change the font

Re: [Rd] R 3.0, Rtools3.0,l Windows7 64-bit, and permission agony

2013-04-21 Thread Gabor Grothendieck
On Sun, Apr 21, 2013 at 9:49 AM, Hadley Wickham h.wick...@gmail.com wrote: Because it can conflict with other Windows software unless you add a layer over it. What other popular software that runs on Windows has these problems? I can't think of any. The closest I can come up with was that

Re: [Rd] R 3.0, Rtools3.0,l Windows7 64-bit, and permission agony

2013-04-21 Thread Hadley Wickham
Because it can conflict with other Windows software unless you add a layer over it. What other popular software that runs on Windows has these problems? I can't think of any. The closest I can come up with was that for a short time after git was ported to Windows it would change the font

[Rd] vignettes: problems with PDF compaction

2013-04-21 Thread Michael Friendly
[Env: OS: Win Xp; R 2.15.2; IDE: eclipse/StatET] Each time I update my heplots package, I get warnings from R CMD check on R-Forge, * checking sizes of PDF files under ‘inst/doc’ ... WARNING ‘gs+qpdf’ made some significant size reductions: compacted ‘HE-examples.pdf’ from 739Kb to 366Kb

Re: [Rd] vignettes: problems with PDF compaction

2013-04-21 Thread Uwe Ligges
On 21.04.2013 19:28, Michael Friendly wrote: [Env: OS: Win Xp; R 2.15.2; IDE: eclipse/StatET] Each time I update my heplots package, I get warnings from R CMD check on R-Forge, * checking sizes of PDF files under ‘inst/doc’ ... WARNING ‘gs+qpdf’ made some significant size reductions:

Re: [Rd] R 3.0, Rtools3.0,l Windows7 64-bit, and permission agony

2013-04-21 Thread Prof J C Nash (U30A)
While as a Linux user who has not so far been banished to Winland I have not experienced this problem, it seems to be the type of issue where a how to, for example, on the R Wiki, would be helpful. Moreover, surely this is a name conflict on different platforms, so possibly a list of these

Re: [Rd] R 3.0, Rtools3.0,l Windows7 64-bit, and permission agony

2013-04-21 Thread Gabor Grothendieck
On Sun, Apr 21, 2013 at 12:57 PM, Hadley Wickham h.wick...@gmail.com wrote: Because it can conflict with other Windows software unless you add a layer over it. What other popular software that runs on Windows has these problems? I can't think of any. The closest I can come up with was that

Re: [Rd] vignettes: problems with PDF compaction

2013-04-21 Thread Michael Friendly
On 4/21/2013 1:47 PM, Uwe Ligges wrote: Since vignettes are re-built from sources and then installed into inst/doc, I don't see why PDF compaction cannot be run as part of the build process. That is, if R CMD check --as-cran detects a problem, shouldn't there be some option for R CMD build

Re: [Rd] R 3.0, Rtools3.0,l Windows7 64-bit, and permission agony

2013-04-21 Thread Henrik Bengtsson
I (as well) keep a specific Rsetup.bat file for launching Windows cmd.exe with the proper PATH etc setup for build R packages etc. It's only after this thread I gave it a second thought; you can indeed temporarily set the PATH via ~/.Rprofile or ~/.Renviron, which *are* processed at the very

Re: [Rd] R 3.0, Rtools3.0,l Windows7 64-bit, and permission agony

2013-04-21 Thread Hadley Wickham
PS. Hadley, is this what you meant when you wrote Better solutions (e.g. Rstudio and devtools) temporarily set the path on when you're calling R CMD *., or those approaches are only when you call 'R CMD' from the R prompt? I believe the latter, but I just want to make sure I didn't miss

Re: [Rd] R 3.0, Rtools3.0,l Windows7 64-bit, and permission agony

2013-04-21 Thread Gabor Grothendieck
On Sun, Apr 21, 2013 at 6:17 PM, Henrik Bengtsson h...@biostat.ucsf.edu wrote: I (as well) keep a specific Rsetup.bat file for launching Windows cmd.exe with the proper PATH etc setup for build R packages etc. It's only after this thread I gave it a second thought; you can indeed temporarily

Re: [Rd] R 3.0, Rtools3.0,l Windows7 64-bit, and permission agony

2013-04-21 Thread steven mosher
Well, color me confused as heck. I've upgraded to R 3.0 so that I can bring my packages up to date, but the instructions surrounding Rtools30 are not a model of clarity. On Sun, Apr 21, 2013 at 4:04 PM, Gabor Grothendieck ggrothendi...@gmail.com wrote: On Sun, Apr 21, 2013 at 6:17 PM, Henrik

Re: [Rd] R 3.0, Rtools3.0,l Windows7 64-bit, and permission agony

2013-04-21 Thread Kevin Coombes
Here's the short answer: Whatever you used to do should still work. I started this thread, not knowing that it was going to get sucked into a whirlpool on the fringes of an operating system religious war. My sincerest apologies to everyone who has gotten confused as a consequence. I only

Re: [Bioc-devel] DESeq2 and miscTranformsation(s)

2013-04-21 Thread Steve Lianoglou
Hi Michael, On Sat, Apr 20, 2013 at 12:18 AM, Michael Love michaelisaiahl...@gmail.com wrote: hi Steve, Thanks. Can you send a minimal example of the error? I can provide an alternate formula without error: dds - makeExampleDESeqDataSet() design(dds) - formula(~ condition) rld -

Re: [Bioc-devel] package download statistics

2013-04-21 Thread Steffen Neumann
Hi Robert, On Fri, 2013-04-19 at 11:51 -0400, Robert M. Flight wrote: ... The reason is alt-metrics. I thought it would be cool to have a little R package that takes a supplied Bioconductor package name, and compares its download statistics to the download statistics for all the other