Re: [Rd] Depends/Imports/Suggest/Enhence

2012-11-06 Thread Allen S. Rout
. Unless you want to CHECK the package. In that case, you'll need Suggests, too. - Allen S. Rout __ R-devel@r-project.org mailing list https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-devel

Re: [Rd] Depends/Imports/Suggest/Enhence

2012-11-06 Thread Allen S. Rout
discuss this further? It seems counterintuitive to me. I'd expect every package which my package code calls to be a dependency. We're short of vocabulary for the true pedants here, because I could see the vignettes being described as something my package calls, but I don't mean that. - Allen S

Re: [Rd] RFC: 'igraph' package update and backward compatibility

2011-10-24 Thread Allen S. Rout
of work to be done before you move to the new version, but you could give yourself permission to rev it every.. what; year? Two? ggplot2012? :) - Allen S. Rout __ R-devel@r-project.org mailing list https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-devel

Re: [Rd] dependencies on system packages

2011-02-09 Thread Allen S. Rout
to a growing taxonomy of Depends-[system]: - Allen S. Rout __ R-devel@r-project.org mailing list https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-devel

[Rd] Patch submission (whoops).

2010-04-23 Thread Allen S. Rout
Greetings, and apologies for the braino leading to my first posting to the general list. I'm reposting here, and changing how I attached the files; they were hard to work with in the other post. There's a coalescing group which is working to imitate Dirk's fine translation of CRAN to APT, in

Re: [Rd] optional package dependency (enhances)

2010-01-20 Thread Allen S. Rout
graph, run CHECK with R_CHECK_FORCE_SUGGESTS=true. Then the affected packages are checked. Perhaps this can be noted with a signature. Whew! - Allen S. Rout __ R-devel@r-project.org mailing list https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r

[Rd] Collision between difftime and ggplot2.

2009-09-25 Thread Allen S. Rout
nuisance. - Allen S. Rout __ R-devel@r-project.org mailing list https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-devel

Re: [Rd] Dependencies of packages' CHECK....

2009-09-09 Thread Allen S. Rout
, if there is some utility available from it. But I've got a reputation as an overengineer, so.. In any case, I agree that the earlier check doesn't add anything except possible satisfaction by the binary-package maintainers. - Allen S. Rout __ R-devel@r

Re: [Rd] Dependencies of packages' CHECK....

2009-09-04 Thread Allen S. Rout
On Sep 2, 2009, at 2:53 , Allen S. Rout wrote: I'm working to automate the building of RPM packages for CRAN c. In the process, I'm trying to get a sense of the correct dependencies. [...] In other words, to check properly, I need to treat Suggests and Imports as Depends. [...] So

[Rd] Dependencies of packages' CHECK....

2009-09-02 Thread Allen S. Rout
was the initial itch I was trying to scratch, 'Depends' only on R. But if I have to recursively expand according to these 'build requires', I need 63 packages. And more painfully, I have to leave CRAN and go grok Bioconductor. Yow. So: does this seem silly, or is that just The Way It is? - Allen S

[Rd] FIFO on windows, redux

2009-08-11 Thread Allen S. Rout
://article.gmane.org/gmane.comp.lang.r.devel/4458/match=fifo+windows My apologies for not just installing a windows box and trying it; I don't own any licenses at the moment, and I kind of like it that way. :) It seemed like a doc clarification was in order, whichever way it went. - Allen S

Re: [Rd] + for character method...

2006-08-27 Thread Allen S. Rout
) or Fortran (which I just discovered today uses //). PERL ( . is concatenation ) would come just behind C and maybe Java in that list. However, that doesn't materially damage So it seems to me that defining addition of strings to be concatenation is a reasonably widespread convention. - Allen S

Re: [Rd] not a typo in list.Rd

2006-08-18 Thread Allen S. Rout
/browse/iff http://webster.com/dictionary/iff I'd figure if we can use it in Scrabble(tm), we can use it in technical documentation. - Allen S. Rout __ R-devel@r-project.org mailing list https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-devel

Re: [Rd] how to include a windows dll in a package

2006-08-16 Thread Allen S. Rout
. - Allen S. Rout __ R-devel@r-project.org mailing list https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-devel

Re: [Rd] SystemRequirements (was DESCRIPTION and PACKAGES files )

2006-08-11 Thread Allen S. Rout
be gentle if I've done dumb stuff. Thank you for your time and consideration. - Allen S. Rout __ R-devel@r-project.org mailing list https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-devel

[Rd] SystemRequirements (was DESCRIPTION and PACKAGES files )

2006-07-24 Thread Allen S. Rout
opinion on how that field ought to look? If the Gods of R think that automated parsing of SystemRequirements is unimportant, I'll have to maintain them by hand. - Allen S. Rout __ R-devel@r-project.org mailing list https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r

[Rd] DESCRIPTION and PACKAGES files.

2006-07-20 Thread Allen S. Rout
to add the extra data to PACKAGES, the current implementation would work, and I could just run my hacked version and get at what I wanted. But I know of at least one other package-heirarchy maintainer who might like this, and subsuming it in the base function would be nice. - Allen S. Rout

Re: [Rd] advice on arguments

2006-06-30 Thread Allen S. Rout
to me. - Allen S. Rout __ R-devel@r-project.org mailing list https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-devel

Re: [Rd] advice on arguments

2006-06-30 Thread Allen S. Rout
On Fri, 30 Jun 2006 16:03:29 -0400, Duncan Murdoch [EMAIL PROTECTED] said: I think there are mixed feelings about whether it is a feature or a misfeature, but it's a very old property of the S language. Oh well, understood. :) - Allen S. Rout

[Rd] An offer: R packages in Gentoo Land?

2006-06-29 Thread Allen S. Rout
of cycle already conventional? This might be a Fine Manual question, but the Writing R Extensions doc doesn't mention it. - Allen S. Rout __ R-devel@r-project.org mailing list https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-devel