Re: [Rd] Checking package help file examples

2008-07-18 Thread Arne Henningsen
On Friday 18 July 2008 02:19:14, Bill Dunlap wrote: I am trying to figure out the sanctioned way for 'R CMD check pkg' to make sure that the examples in help files give the expected results. Writing R Extensions says that check runs the help file examples (which INSTALL extracts from

Re: [Rd] symbolic linking to library files

2008-07-18 Thread Kasper Daniel Hansen
I agree with the other poster's advice to just give guru permission to write to the R library folder. But the thing you want is the following. Create a directory somewhere that guru has write permission, for example ~guru/library (although I guess I would recommend somewhere else than

[Rd] Windows: adding R/bin folder to the PATH variable

2008-07-18 Thread Gorjanc Gregor
Hi! Under Windows R is installed, but its bin folder is not added to the system PATH variable. I know that this is handled properly under *nix like systems and I wonder, why this is not the default also for the MS Windows? I guess that for most users a shortcut on the desktop or anywhere else is

Re: [Rd] Windows: adding R/bin folder to the PATH variable

2008-07-18 Thread Prof Brian Ripley
On Fri, 18 Jul 2008, Gorjanc Gregor wrote: Hi! Under Windows R is installed, but its bin folder is not added to the system PATH variable. I know that this is handled properly under *nix like systems and I wonder, why this is not the default also for the MS Windows? I guess that for most

Re: [Rd] Windows: adding R/bin folder to the PATH variable

2008-07-18 Thread Gorjanc Gregor
Under Windows R is installed, but its bin folder is not added to the system PATH variable. I know that this is handled properly under *nix like systems and I wonder, why this is not the default also for the MS Windows? I guess that for most users a shortcut on the desktop or anywhere else is

Re: [Rd] Windows: adding R/bin folder to the PATH variable

2008-07-18 Thread Gabor Grothendieck
On Fri, Jul 18, 2008 at 4:18 AM, Prof Brian Ripley [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Fri, 18 Jul 2008, Gorjanc Gregor wrote: Hi! Under Windows R is installed, but its bin folder is not added to the system PATH variable. I know that this is handled properly under *nix like systems and I wonder,

[Rd] AIX 5.3 --enable-R-shlib --with-x ---with-iconv make error with R-2.7.0 and R-2.7.1

2008-07-18 Thread Fán Lóng
Hi guys, I am trying to compile a 64bit version of R 2.7.0 on AIX 5.3. And I am running into some troubles. I also try the latest version 2.7.1 and get the very similar errors. The machine info: --- $uname -srvp AIX 3 5 powerpc -- My configuration is

Re: [Rd] experinental revision of the 'snow' package

2008-07-18 Thread Markus Schmidberger
Hello Luke, at our windows cluster everything is working very well. We have 8 nodes, WindowsServer2003 and mpich2 (1.0.7). Attached a small testcode and sessionInfo() I did some bigger tests using my afyPara package. There were no problems. There was an other discussion at the Rd list.

Re: [Rd] AIX 5.3 --enable-R-shlib --with-x ---with-iconv make error with R-2.7.0 and R-2.7.1

2008-07-18 Thread Fán Lóng
Build success! I just use the files out here: http://prs.ism.ac.jp/~nakama/AIX/changefiles to patch my R-2.7.0 and add export OBJECT_MODE=64 to my configure parameter. It works. Thank you very much for your help, Ei-ji. 2008/7/17 Fán Lóng [EMAIL PROTECTED]: Thank you, Ei-ji. I haven't tried

Re: [Rd] Checking package help file examples

2008-07-18 Thread Bill Dunlap
On Fri, 18 Jul 2008, Arne Henningsen wrote: On Friday 18 July 2008 02:19:14, Bill Dunlap wrote: I am trying to figure out the sanctioned way for 'R CMD check pkg' to make sure that the examples in help files give the expected results. Writing R Extensions says that check runs the help

[Rd] symbolic linking libs | thanks!

2008-07-18 Thread egc
Several good suggestions were sent my way - much appreciated. In my experience, any solution to a problem that gives a user write access to anything other than their own /home directories is a disaster waiting to happen (spoken as someone who has burned in past doing otherwise). So, I'll pursue

Re: [Rd] symbolic linking libs | thanks!

2008-07-18 Thread Latchezar (Lucho) Dimitrov
Just for the records - I suggested write access or even ownership to /lib.../Blaster dir only, _Blaster only_ that is. As for the disaster having a guru user is the largest disaster ;-) Also think twice before giving read access to guru's home dir to everybody and trice before giving guru