Re: [R-pkg-devel] recursive dependencies and install.packages()

2015-08-19 Thread John Fox
-devel [mailto:r-package-devel-boun...@r-project.org] On Behalf Of John Fox Sent: Wednesday, August 19, 2015 3:16 PM To: r-package-devel@r-project.org Subject: [R-pkg-devel] recursive dependencies and install.packages() Dear list members, I'm pretty sure (from memory) that this was discussed

[R-pkg-devel] recursive dependencies and install.packages()

2015-08-19 Thread John Fox
, John --- John Fox, Professor McMaster University Hamilton, Ontario, Canada http://socserv.socsci.mcmaster.ca/jfox/ __ R-package-devel@r-project.org mailing list https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-package

Re: [R-pkg-devel] invalid 'envir' argument note from R-devel

2015-07-13 Thread John Fox
Dear Duncan, -Original Message- From: Duncan Murdoch [mailto:murdoch.dun...@gmail.com] Sent: July-13-15 7:01 PM To: John Fox; 'peter dalgaard' Cc: r-package-devel@r-project.org Subject: Re: [R-pkg-devel] invalid 'envir' argument note from R-devel It happened in r68597. In my

Re: [R-pkg-devel] is R CMD build --compact-vignettes working as expected?

2020-10-08 Thread John Fox
nothing.  I don't know what quality CRAN uses, but for me setting the environment variable GS_QUALITY=screen made a big difference. Duncan Murdoch On 08/10/2020 11:10 a.m., John Fox wrote: Dear Ben, Actually, what I used was --compact-vignettes="both", with qpdf and gs installed o

Re: [R-pkg-devel] is R CMD build --compact-vignettes working as expected?

2020-10-08 Thread John Fox
K reduction. But Ben's example met those criteria.  When I trick it into accepting the compaction, it does put the compacted PDF into the tarball. Duncan Murdoch On 07/10/2020 6:03 p.m., John Fox wrote: Dear Ben, On 2020-10-07 5:26 p.m., Ben Bolker wrote:      I hope so too. The (annoying) workar

Re: [R-pkg-devel] is R CMD build --compact-vignettes working as expected?

2020-10-07 Thread John Fox
Dear Ben, I was hoping that someone would pick up on this problem, because I've experienced the same issue of --compact-vignettes apparently ignored, e.g., with the Rcmdr package under R 4.0.2 on both macOS and Windows. Best, John John Fox, Professor Emeritus McMaster University Hamilton

Re: [R-pkg-devel] is R CMD build --compact-vignettes working as expected?

2020-10-07 Thread John Fox
that it would be nice to avoid them. After all, what is the --compact-vignettes argument for? Best, John   cheers    Ben On 10/7/20 4:10 PM, John Fox wrote: Dear Ben, I was hoping that someone would pick up on this problem, because I've experienced the same issue of --compact-vignettes

[R-pkg-devel] R CMD check "unable to verify current time"

2020-08-27 Thread John Fox
tml>. Both packages that I was checking are close to CRAN releases and so I'd like to know whether I can disregard the note. Any help would be appreciated. John -- John Fox, Professor Emeritus McMaster University Hamilton, Ontario, Canada web: https://socialsciences.mcmaster.c

Re: [R-pkg-devel] R CMD check "unable to verify current time"

2020-08-27 Thread John Fox
; it appears to want etc/UTC instead.  The second one is offline. Duncan Murdoch If both of those fail, you'll get the message you saw. On 27/08/2020 1:23 p.m., John Fox wrote: Dear r-package-devel list members, I got the following note when checking two different packages today --as-cran, both under R

Re: [R-pkg-devel] R CMD check "unable to verify current time"

2020-08-27 Thread John Fox
com> *From:* R-package-devel on behalf of John Fox *Sent:* Thursday, August 27, 2020 11:39 AM *To:* Duncan Murdoch ; r-package-devel@r-project.org *Subject:* Re: [R-pkg-devel] R CMD check "unable to verify current tim

Re: [R-pkg-devel] CRAN packages suggesting other packages but not using them conditionally

2020-12-12 Thread John Fox
lps, John John Fox, Professor Emeritus McMaster University Hamilton, Ontario, Canada web: https://socialsciences.mcmaster.ca/jfox/ On 2020-12-12 1:40 p.m., Michael L Friendly wrote: Thanks, Dirk Just to clarify-- In my packages, candisc, heplots, vcdExtra I have mostly 2D graphic methods, b

Re: [R-pkg-devel] Suppressing long-running vignette code in CRAN submission

2023-10-17 Thread John Fox
Hello Dirk, Thank you (and Kevin and John) for addressing my questions. No one directly answered my first question, however, which was whether the approach that I suggested would work. I guess that the implication is that it won't, but it would be nice to confirm that before I try something

Re: [R-pkg-devel] roxygen style documentation for data sets

2023-09-21 Thread John Fox
Hi Michael, I'm no license expert either, but I too believe that while a GPL-licensed package can incorporate MIT-licensed code, an MIT-licensed package can't incorporate GPL-licensed code. One solution, I think, would be to put your use_data_doc() in a separate GPL-licensed package, which

Re: [R-pkg-devel] Suppressing long-running vignette code in CRAN submission

2023-10-17 Thread John Fox
On 18/10/2023, at 3:02 AM, John Fox wrote: | > | > Hello Dirk, | > | > Thank you (and Kevin and John) for addressing my questions. | > | > No one directly answered my first question, however, which was whether the approach that I suggested would work. I guess that the implication

Re: [R-pkg-devel] Suppressing long-running vignette code in CRAN submission

2023-10-17 Thread John Fox
, On 17 October 2023 at 10:02, John Fox wrote: | Hello Dirk, | | Thank you (and Kevin and John) for addressing my questions. | | No one directly answered my first question, however, which was whether | the approach that I suggested would work. I guess that the implication | is that it won't

Re: [R-pkg-devel] Suppressing long-running vignette code in CRAN submission

2023-10-17 Thread John Fox
, Oct 17, 2023 at 12:45 PM John Fox wrote: Hello Dirk, Thank you for the additional information. As you suggest, what you did to distribute pre-built PDF vignettes is quite similar to what R.rsp does, except that the latter also supports pre-built HTML vignettes, which is what I'd prefer

Re: [R-pkg-devel] Suppressing long-running vignette code in CRAN submission

2023-10-17 Thread John Fox
Hello Duncan, On 2023-10-17 4:43 p.m., Duncan Murdoch wrote: Caution: External email. On 17/10/2023 4:21 p.m., John Fox wrote: Hello Simon, On 2023-10-17 3:51 p.m., Simon Urbanek wrote: Caution: External email. John, the short answer is it won't work (it defeats the purpose of vignettes

Re: [R-pkg-devel] Suppressing long-running vignette code in CRAN submission

2023-10-17 Thread John Fox
vignettes if they declared. I assume that we'd declare the long-running vignette in our submission note to CRAN. Maybe that's better than pre-building the HTML vignettes in the package. Best, John Cheers, Simon On 18/10/2023, at 3:02 AM, John Fox wrote: Hello Dirk, Thank you

Re: [R-pkg-devel] Suppressing long-running vignette code in CRAN submission

2023-10-18 Thread John Fox
uot; in the post) to make sure the "real" source files are ignored when building the vignettes. Perhaps this is also a feasible solution for long running vignettes? Regards, Shu Fai On Wed, Oct 18, 2023 at 6:51 AM John Fox wrote: Dear John, Unless I'm mistaken, the *installation* ti

Re: [R-pkg-devel] Advice on elegant way to alias function name

2022-09-02 Thread John Fox
d a couple of roxygen tags: #' @export #' @rdname myfn thefn <- myfn Hadley __ R-package-devel@r-project.org mailing list https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-package-devel -- John Fox, Professor Emeritus McMaster University Hamilto

Re: [R-pkg-devel] Strange behaviour of function called from within a function

2022-08-13 Thread John Fox
is off-base. Best, John On 2022-08-13 9:41 a.m., J C Nash wrote: Thanks to John Fox and Noah Greifer. Both their approaches resolved my immediate problem. That is, to provide a summary of the fix of my example code, tw <- function(formula, data, start, control, trace, weights) {   firstc