Re: [Rd] some problems reported in 00check.log

2010-09-23 Thread carol white
True. A markup command won't be enough to do the job. A function is needed to count the character number (based on the font and size) and if it is greater than the width of the page (based on A4 format or US letter), it will split the line. Now another question regarding the code in the

Re: [Rd] OT: Reason/history behind ## notation for comments?

2010-09-23 Thread Martin Maechler
LG == Laurent Gatto laurent.ga...@gmail.com on Wed, 22 Sep 2010 08:33:20 +0100 writes: LG For what concerns emacs users, the number of '#' has LG different effects on the position of the comment. From LG the ESS manual: 'By default, comments beginning with LG ‘###’ are

Re: [Rd] some problems reported in 00check.log

2010-09-23 Thread Uwe Ligges
On 23.09.2010 09:20, carol white wrote: True. A markup command won't be enough to do the job. A function is needed to count the character number (based on the font and size) and if it is greater than the width of the page (based on A4 format or US letter), it will split the line. Now

[Rd] R CMD Rprof --help suggestion

2010-09-23 Thread Hiroyuki Kawakatsu
Hi, From reading ?Rprof, I checked R CMD Rprof --help and learned that there are options to specify the min % to print. This is currently (R-devel r52975) displayed with the --help option as --min%total minimum % to print for 'by total' --min%selfminimum % to print for

[Rd] strange behaviour of callNextMethod in S4 methods

2010-09-23 Thread Harold PETITHOMME
Hello, I experienced a strange behaviour of callNextMethod when used in either initialize or any other S4 function method definition. Help says callNextMethod calls the next inherited method for the current function from where it is called with the same actual (non missing) arguments. This is

Re: [Rd] some problems reported in 00check.log

2010-09-23 Thread carol white
I used the 2.10.0 version --- On Thu, 9/23/10, Uwe Ligges lig...@statistik.tu-dortmund.de wrote: From: Uwe Ligges lig...@statistik.tu-dortmund.de Subject: Re: [Rd] some problems reported in 00check.log To: carol white wht_...@yahoo.com Cc: Prof Brian Ripley rip...@stats.ox.ac.uk,

Re: [Rd] some problems reported in 00check.log

2010-09-23 Thread Uwe Ligges
On 23.09.2010 18:16, carol white wrote: I used the 2.10.0 version My apologies, I actually meant R = 2.10.0 and hence it is not a surprise. Best, Uwe Ligges --- On Thu, 9/23/10, Uwe Liggeslig...@statistik.tu-dortmund.de wrote: From: Uwe Liggeslig...@statistik.tu-dortmund.de Subject:

[Rd] Behavior of R CMD build and library() w.r.t. setGeneric-like functions

2010-09-23 Thread Rowe, Brian - Eqty NY
Hello developeRs, Apologies in advance for a rather long email, but to describe the problem, I need to step through many details. I have been working on a new dispatching system (futile.paradigm on CRAN) based on functional programming concepts that is an alternative to S3 and S4 dispatching. I