Re: [Rd] Brainstorm: Alpha and Beta testing of R versions

2005-11-05 Thread Henrik Bengtsson
Andrew Robinson wrote: >Hi Martin, > >On Fri, Nov 04, 2005 at 09:58:47AM +0100, Martin Maechler wrote: > > >>[Mainly for R-foundation members; but kept in public for general >> brainstorming...] >> >> > >I'll take up the invitation to brainstorm. > >As a user of R for a number of years, I'd

[Rd] Brainstorm: Alpha and Beta testing of R versions

2005-11-05 Thread Andrew Robinson
Hi Martin, On Fri, Nov 04, 2005 at 09:58:47AM +0100, Martin Maechler wrote: > [Mainly for R-foundation members; but kept in public for general > brainstorming...] I'll take up the invitation to brainstorm. As a user of R for a number of years, I'd really like to perform some useful service. I

Re: [Rd] clarification of library/require semantics

2005-11-05 Thread Seth Falcon
On 4 Nov 2005, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > I set my standard libraries in R_LIBS, so when I use lib.loc it is > for experimental things. So I would neither want the .libPaths > changed nor be affected if they were. With the current semantics, if one is testing a _collection_ of experimental packa

Re: [Rd] How to make install DESTDIR=

2005-11-05 Thread Dirk Eddelbuettel
On 5 November 2005 at 22:52, R S Ananda Murthy wrote: | I tried to do make install DESTDIR=$PKGDIR. But this does not work. What | is the alternative? I need to do this to create Slackware package. I think you want make prefix=$PKGDIR install as the documentation in R-admin states rath

[Rd] How to make install DESTDIR=

2005-11-05 Thread R S Ananda Murthy
Hello, I tried to do make install DESTDIR=$PKGDIR. But this does not work. What is the alternative? I need to do this to create Slackware package. Thanks for your help, Anand __ R-devel@r-project.org mailing list https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo

[Rd] read.fwf; bug reports 8226 & 8236 (PR#8284)

2005-11-05 Thread rolf
It seems to me that the bug dealt with in bug reports 8226 and 8236 is still not fixed. I obtained the revised version of read.fwf from the latest R-patched and tried try.it <- read.fwf("junk",w,header=TRUE,as.is=TRUE) This gave the error Error in read.table(file = FILE, header = header