[Rd] R_SVN_REVISION breakage on current R trunk.

2012-10-31 Thread Hin-Tak Leung
Hi, src/unix/Rscript.c on R trunk stopped building with a compiler error of unknown not defined/declared on line 160-ish, where R_SVN_REVISION is , on my system. I see trunk r60972, trunk r60975 changes R_SVN_REVISION to a number - if it can be found, from being a string. The thing is, I

Re: [Rd] Retrieving data from aspx pages

2012-10-31 Thread Paul Gilbert
I must be really dense, I know RCurl provides a POST capability, but I don't see how this allows interaction. Suppose the example actually worked, which it does not. (Unfortunately many of the examples in RCurl seem to be marked \dontrun{} or disabled with some if() condition.) When you post

[Rd] file.symlink() creates zero-size file/link on Windows 7/NTFS/admin

2012-10-31 Thread Henrik Bengtsson
With R 2.15.2 patched (2012-10-29 r61044) and R devel (2012-10-29r61044) on **Windows 7 w/ NTFS ** running in admin mode, I get: EXAMPLE: cat(Hello world, file=foo.txt) file.exists(foo-lnk.txt) [1] FALSE res - file.symlink(from=foo.txt, to=foo-lnk.txt) warnings() NULL res [1] TRUE

Re: [Rd] Class generator functions for reference classes

2012-10-31 Thread John Chambers
The values returned by setRefClass(), getRefClass() now (rev. 61058) have class refObjectGenerator as they do in 2.15.2, for the sake of back compatibility. This is only a reversion of the class name. The behavior of such objects as generator functions with additional reference methods

[Rd] Incomplete list of default fields in man page for available.packages()

2012-10-31 Thread Hervé Pagès
Hi, Found in available.packages man page: Value: A matrix with one row per package, row names the package names and column names ‘Package’, ‘Version’, ‘Priority’, ‘Depends’, ‘Imports’, ‘LinkingTo’, ‘Suggests’, ‘Enhances’, ‘OS_type’, ‘License’, ‘File’ and ‘Repository’.