Re: [R-pkg-devel] RFC: an interface to manage use of parallelism in packages

2023-11-03 Thread Vladimir Dergachev
On Wed, 25 Oct 2023, Ivan Krylov wrote: Summary: at the end of this message is a link to an R package implementing an interface for managing the use of execution units in R packages. As a package maintainer, would you agree to use something like this? Does it look sufficiently reasonable to

[R-pkg-devel] PkgA imports PkgB, and PkgB suggests PkgA?

2023-11-03 Thread Shu Fai Cheung
Hi All, I vaguely recall that, on CRAN, if PkgA imports PkgB, then PkgB cannot import PkgA. (Please correct me if I am wrong.) How about this? PkgA imports PkgB (because PkgA has some helper functions for using PkgB) PkgB suggests PkgA (because some vignettes or examples in PkgB use those

Re: [R-pkg-devel] [r-package-devel] Win.Metafile and package check - "Found the platform-specific device:"

2023-11-03 Thread Vladimir Dergachev
On Fri, 3 Nov 2023, wayne.w.jo...@shell.com wrote: Dear R-Package-Devel, As part of GWSDAT package (https://github.com/waynegitshell/GWSDAT) we support the option to output plots to a WMF (https://r-graphics.org/recipe-output-vector-wmf) format if, and only if, the user is on Windows.

Re: [R-pkg-devel] Rmarkdown fails if (quote) r (space) is used

2023-11-03 Thread J C Nash
Yes. An initial space does the trick. Thanks. J On 2023-11-03 11:48, Serguei Sokol wrote: Le 03/11/2023 à 15:54, J C Nash a écrit : I've spent a couple of hours with an Rmarkdown document where I was describing some spherical coordinates made up of a radius r and some angles. I wanted to fix

Re: [R-pkg-devel] Rmarkdown fails if (quote) r (space) is used

2023-11-03 Thread Serguei Sokol
Le 03/11/2023 à 15:54, J C Nash a écrit : I've spent a couple of hours with an Rmarkdown document where I was describing some spherical coordinates made up of a radius r and some angles. I wanted to fix the radius at 1. In my Rmarkdown text I wrote    Thus we have `r = 1` ... To avoid a

Re: [R-pkg-devel] Rmarkdown fails if (quote) r (space) is used

2023-11-03 Thread Jeff Newmiller via R-package-devel
A code chunk does always begin with a triple backtick at the beginning of a line. The term for what you encountered is "inline code" used to embed computed results into the markdown text as though you had typed them directly. Check out

[R-pkg-devel] Rmarkdown fails if (quote) r (space) is used

2023-11-03 Thread J C Nash
I've spent a couple of hours with an Rmarkdown document where I was describing some spherical coordinates made up of a radius r and some angles. I wanted to fix the radius at 1. In my Rmarkdown text I wrote Thus we have `r = 1` ... This caused failure to render with "unexpected =". I was

[R-pkg-devel] [r-package-devel] Win.Metafile and package check - "Found the platform-specific device:"

2023-11-03 Thread Wayne.W.Jones
Dear R-Package-Devel, As part of GWSDAT package (https://github.com/waynegitshell/GWSDAT) we support the option to output plots to a WMF (https://r-graphics.org/recipe-output-vector-wmf) format if, and only if, the user is on Windows. However, when I run the package checks on here it

Re: [R-pkg-devel] Package bioOED has been removed from CRAN just for personal reasons

2023-11-03 Thread Vladimir Dergachev
On Wed, 1 Nov 2023, David Hugh-Jones wrote: Aside from the package question, surely the other issue here is that Prof Ripley’s email is extraordinarily rude. Any paid employee would be sacked for that. I appreciate R and CRAN are volunteer-run organisations, but I don’t think that should be

Re: [R-pkg-devel] Package bioOED has been removed from CRAN just for personal reasons

2023-11-03 Thread David Hugh-Jones
Guys, Martin, I am very sorry you spent all that time. I am sceptical that this is a correct interpretation of the law, given what I see on Twitter daily, and I would not take a university as an authority on this. But that is neither here nor there – if I made you waste your time, that's my bad

Re: [R-pkg-devel] Package bioOED has been removed from CRAN just for personal reasons

2023-11-03 Thread Martin Maechler
Dear R-package-devel readers *and* notably writers, In Europe there are (diverse) laws about privacy etc, and those, (and/or some politeness) do not allow free citing of private e-mail communications in public nor ad hominem remarks in such public communication. For this reason, I (as mailing