[Rd] Renviron settings for Linux Distributions: please tell me R Core's advice

2010-06-04 Thread Paul Johnson
Dear R-devel: i have noticed a little wrinkle in R packaging for RPM systems and have communicated with the package maintainer at RedHat Tom Callaway (see far below). Here is the question: Where does R Core Team want packagers to fiddle around with R library paths? Currently, the RPM Spec file

Re: [Rd] named empty list

2010-06-04 Thread Hervé Pagès
Thanks Martin. H. Martin Maechler wrote: "HP" == Hervé Pagès on Thu, 03 Jun 2010 13:25:10 -0700 writes: HP> Hi, HP> I just realized that a named empty list is displayed the same HP> way as an empty list: >> list(aa=2:5)[0] HP> list() >> list() HP> list()

[Rd] Win-builder etc. offline

2010-06-04 Thread Uwe Ligges
Dear developers, the Maths building at TU Dortmund university has a scheduled power outage during this weekend which means the win-builder service (usually available from http://win-builder.r-project.org/) as well as Windows binary package building for CRAN will be offline from roughly now unt

Re: [Rd] Argument recycling in substring()

2010-06-04 Thread William Dunlap
> -Original Message- > From: r-devel-boun...@r-project.org > [mailto:r-devel-boun...@r-project.org] On Behalf Of Martin Maechler > Sent: Friday, June 04, 2010 2:46 AM > To: Hervé Pagès > Cc: r-de...@stat.math.ethz.ch > Subject: Re: [Rd] Argument recycling in substring() > > > "HP" ==

[Rd] Suggested change to build.pl

2010-06-04 Thread Dominick Samperi
Under Linux the cleanup script (if it exists) is run at the end, before the package archive is created, and this prevents intermediate files that are no longer needed from being written to the archive. Unfortunately, this does not happen under Windows when there is a cleanup.win. That is, cleanup.

Re: [Rd] Argument recycling in substring()

2010-06-04 Thread Hadley Wickham
> According to its man page substring() "expands (its) arguments > cyclically to the length of the longest _provided_ none are of > zero length". > > So, as expected, I get an error here: > >  > substring("abcd", first=2L, last=integer(0)) >  Error in substring("abcd", first = 2L, last = integer(0)

Re: [Rd] Argument recycling in substring()

2010-06-04 Thread peter dalgaard
On Jun 4, 2010, at 12:10 PM, Deepayan Sarkar wrote: > 2010/6/4 Martin Maechler : >>> "HP" == Hervé Pagès >>> on Thu, 03 Jun 2010 17:53:33 -0700 writes: >> >>HP> Hi, >>HP> According to its man page substring() "expands (its) arguments >>HP> cyclically to the length of the

Re: [Rd] Argument recycling in substring()

2010-06-04 Thread Deepayan Sarkar
2010/6/4 Martin Maechler : >> "HP" == Hervé Pagès >>     on Thu, 03 Jun 2010 17:53:33 -0700 writes: > >    HP> Hi, >    HP> According to its man page substring() "expands (its) arguments >    HP> cyclically to the length of the longest _provided_ none are of >    HP> zero length". > >    H

Re: [Rd] Argument recycling in substring()

2010-06-04 Thread Martin Maechler
> "HP" == Hervé Pagès > on Thu, 03 Jun 2010 17:53:33 -0700 writes: HP> Hi, HP> According to its man page substring() "expands (its) arguments HP> cyclically to the length of the longest _provided_ none are of HP> zero length". HP> So, as expected, I get an error h

Re: [Rd] named empty list

2010-06-04 Thread Martin Maechler
> "HP" == Hervé Pagès > on Thu, 03 Jun 2010 13:25:10 -0700 writes: HP> Hi, HP> I just realized that a named empty list is displayed the same HP> way as an empty list: >> list(aa=2:5)[0] HP> list() >> list() HP> list() HP> For empty atomic vectors, the