Re: [Rd] Accessing functions from a package

2010-05-25 Thread Simon Urbanek
On May 24, 2010, at 2:59 PM, Peter Holt wrote: Hi All, I created a .R file with source code that accesses functions from a R package (example, fTrading). I then run the created application in two different configurations: 1. I started a R session, and then ran the application using

[Rd] warning from install.packages()

2010-05-25 Thread Ben Bolker
Just curious: is there a particular reason why install.packages() gives a warning in normal use when 'lib' is not specified (e.g. argument 'lib' is missing: using '/usr/local/lib/R/site-library' )? It would seem to me that this is normal behavior as documented ( If missing, defaults to the

[Rd] R without dynamic libraries: anyone working on this?

2010-05-25 Thread Alexander Bertram
Hi all, I'm building R for a context where I can't load dynamic libraries. I've configured the build appropriately but from what I can tell it's not currently supported: there are compile errors here and there and the mechanism for looking up base symbols (CFunTab in Rdynload.c??) seems to have

Re: [Rd] warning from install.packages()

2010-05-25 Thread Jari Oksanen
On 25/05/10 23:25 PM, Ben Bolker bol...@ufl.edu wrote: Just curious: is there a particular reason why install.packages() gives a warning in normal use when 'lib' is not specified (e.g. argument 'lib' is missing: using '/usr/local/lib/R/site-library' )? It would seem to me that this is

[Rd] SVN vs DVCS

2010-05-25 Thread Felix Andrews
Hi, Just wondering whether anyone had thought about moving the R sources to a distributed version control system such as Bazaar, Git or Mercurial. These new generation systems make it easier to work on feature branches, allow working offline, are very fast, etc. Some projects that have moved to

Re: [Rd] SVN vs DVCS

2010-05-25 Thread Felix Andrews
On second thoughts it is really none of my business how the R sources are managed. But I would encourage package developers and/or r-forge maintainers to consider these systems. Regards -Felix On 26 May 2010 10:29, Felix Andrews fe...@nfrac.org wrote: Hi, Just wondering whether anyone had