On Wed, Feb 10, 2010 at 3:06 PM, Barry Rowlingson
b.rowling...@lancaster.ac.uk wrote:
But I agree that writing a saveable options package is the first step
- then making that a default in R is the second so people don't have
to edit profiles and R packages and applications can expect an API
On 12/02/2010 3:50 AM, Barry Rowlingson wrote:
On Wed, Feb 10, 2010 at 3:06 PM, Barry Rowlingson
b.rowling...@lancaster.ac.uk wrote:
But I agree that writing a saveable options package is the first step
- then making that a default in R is the second so people don't have
to edit profiles and
On Feb 12, 2010, at 3:50 , Barry Rowlingson wrote:
On Wed, Feb 10, 2010 at 3:06 PM, Barry Rowlingson
b.rowling...@lancaster.ac.uk wrote:
But I agree that writing a saveable options package is the first
step
- then making that a default in R is the second so people don't have
to edit
FYI,
a while ago I was looking into the problem with generic settings
files. I didn't find an omnibus/perfect solution, but have a look at
the Settings class in the R.utils package (R/Settings.R in the source
code). It tries to deal with automatic loading and saving of settings
(robust
On 12 February 2010 at 09:22, Simon Urbanek wrote:
| On Feb 12, 2010, at 3:50 , Barry Rowlingson wrote:
|
| On Wed, Feb 10, 2010 at 3:06 PM, Barry Rowlingson
| b.rowling...@lancaster.ac.uk wrote:
|
| But I agree that writing a saveable options package is the first
| step
| - then making
On Fri, Feb 12, 2010 at 2:22 PM, Simon Urbanek
simon.urba...@r-project.org wrote:
This is getting OT, but, please, no XML. It's entirely useless in this
context IMHO (as it is in others, but that's another story) and we already
have reliable support for storing R objects (more than one in
On 12/02/2010 10:33 AM, Barry Rowlingson wrote:
On Fri, Feb 12, 2010 at 2:22 PM, Simon Urbanek
simon.urba...@r-project.org wrote:
This is getting OT, but, please, no XML. It's entirely useless in this
context IMHO (as it is in others, but that's another story) and we already
have reliable
Currently when R starts up it can be configured by a file of
environment variable specifications and a file of R code. This makes
programmatic modification of startup configuration tricky.
Case in point: I start R, do install.packages(foo), and up pops the
'choose a CRAN mirror' dialog. I'd like
Barry Rowlingson wrote:
Currently when R starts up it can be configured by a file of
environment variable specifications and a file of R code. This makes
programmatic modification of startup configuration tricky.
Case in point: I start R, do install.packages(foo), and up pops the
'choose a CRAN
On Wed, Feb 10, 2010 at 11:44 AM, Duncan Murdoch murd...@stats.uwo.ca wrote:
When I read the ?Startup man page, I find it is too complicated already; I
don't want to add another kind of file to read. (Would we have separate
user and site versions of this new file? When would it be handled?)
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