Re: [Rd] Lightweight 'package' idea.

2010-01-20 Thread Keith Jewell
Following up on my own post of 13th, Someone pointed out that I was MS Windows dependent. I've tried to correct that, but I'm in a Windows only environment so I can't check. I've also tried to make a few other improvements. The result is below. No guarantees or warranties of any kind, but

Re: [Rd] Lightweight 'package' idea.

2010-01-20 Thread hadley wickham
On Fri, Aug 21, 2009 at 6:03 AM, Barry Rowlingson b.rowling...@lancaster.ac.uk wrote: I'm often wanting to develop functions whilst manipulating data. But I don't want to end up with a .RData full of functions and data. It might be that I have functions that are re-usable but not worth

Re: [Rd] optional package dependency (enhances)

2010-01-20 Thread Allen S. Rout
Ross Boylan r...@biostat.ucsf.edu writes: On Fri, 2010-01-15 at 10:48 +, Benilton Carvalho wrote: How about using: Enhances: Rmpi This unique local bestiary of dependencies is quite inconvenient for anyone trying to connect R with any other system of package management. Below, I've

Re: [Rd] optional package dependency (enhances)

2010-01-20 Thread Uwe Ligges
On 20.01.2010 20:11, Allen S. Rout wrote: Ross Boylanr...@biostat.ucsf.edu writes: On Fri, 2010-01-15 at 10:48 +, Benilton Carvalho wrote: How about using: Enhances: Rmpi This unique local bestiary of dependencies is quite inconvenient for anyone trying to connect R with any other

[Rd] R CMD INSTALL configure.args and CC customization

2010-01-20 Thread Paul Johnson
Hi, everybody. I hope the new year is treating you well. In a Rocks Cluster Linux system (that's Centos 5.2 based), I have built R-2.10 and it runs well. While fiddling with MPI libraries and R packages, I've noticed a few little wrinkles. This comes as no surprise to the veteran R

Re: [Rd] optional package dependency (enhances)

2010-01-20 Thread Dirk Eddelbuettel
A working system exists at http://debian.cran.r-project.org with automated builds (ie automated resolutions of both built-time and run-time dependencies) of over 2000 packages for both 64-bit Linux (amd64) and 32-bit Linux (i386) of the Debian 'testing' distribution. Charles and I

[Rd] showMethods

2010-01-20 Thread Kasper Daniel Hansen
There seems to be some unanticipated things happening with showMethods (as far as I can see, it is caused by getGenerics), for packages that have namespaces and has unexported methods. Example: library(Matrix) showMethods(class = dsyMatrix) output (with a fair amount removed): Function