Re: [Rd] Perhaps a stupid question about clipboards....

2007-01-11 Thread Byron Ellis
On 1/11/07, Martin Maechler <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Byron> Why is the clipboard accessed through file() and not, > Byron> say, a clipboard() connection? Is there a good reason > Byron> for this or is it simply historical? > > Why use a new function name for just one special case? >

[Rd] Miniscule patch to internet.c

2007-01-11 Thread Jeffrey Horner
Looks like a benign copy-paste issue. This is in R_newurl, and I doubt anyone would miss that one byte, though. Index: src/modules/internet/internet.c === --- src/modules/internet/internet.c (revision 40446) +++ src/modules/inter

[Rd] cross tools (was Re: wine and build difference between R.2.4.0 and R 2.4.1 windows binaries?)

2007-01-11 Thread Hin-Tak Leung
Prof Brian Ripley wrote: > On Thu, 11 Jan 2007, Hin-Tak Leung wrote: >> >> BTW, I am also cross-compiling some R packages with the cross tools >> provided by Prof Ripley. Presumably it means that I need to hack away >> the bundled mingw stuff in the cross-tool and replaced them with the >> newer

Re: [Rd] Wishlist: Sweave: allow line breaks after forward slashes (PR#9445)

2007-01-11 Thread murdoch
On 1/11/2007 9:07 AM, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Full_Name: Arne Henningsen > Version: 2.4.0 > OS: Linux > Submission from: (NULL) (134.245.140.242) > > > Sweave does not allow line breaks after forward slashes ("/"). This might lead > to a long "substring" of a command that cannot be wrapped. He

Re: [Rd] Wishlist: Sweave: allow line breaks after forward slashes (PR#9443)

2007-01-11 Thread Duncan Murdoch
On 1/11/2007 9:07 AM, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Full_Name: Arne Henningsen > Version: 2.4.0 > OS: Linux > Submission from: (NULL) (134.245.140.242) > > > Sweave does not allow line breaks after forward slashes ("/"). This might lead > to a long "substring" of a command that cannot be wrapped. He

Re: [Rd] Wishlist: Sweave: allow line breaks after forward slashes (PR#9444)

2007-01-11 Thread friedrich . leisch
> On Thu, 11 Jan 2007 15:07:00 +0100 (CET), > ahenningsen (a) wrote: > Full_Name: Arne Henningsen > Version: 2.4.0 > OS: Linux > Submission from: (NULL) (134.245.140.242) > Sweave does not allow line breaks after forward slashes ("/"). This might lead > to a long "substring

Re: [Rd] wine and build difference between R.2.4.0 and R 2.4.1 windows binaries?

2007-01-11 Thread Hin-Tak Leung
Duncan Murdoch wrote: > On 1/11/2007 6:52 AM, Hin-Tak Leung wrote: >> Duncan Murdoch wrote: >>> On 1/10/2007 2:29 PM, Hin-Tak Leung wrote: Does anybody (most probably the core team) know if there is any difference in how the official 2.4.0 and 2.4.1 binaries are built? Prob

Re: [Rd] Wishlist: Sweave: allow line breaks after forward slashes (PR#9443)

2007-01-11 Thread Friedrich Leisch
> On Thu, 11 Jan 2007 15:07:00 +0100 (CET), > ahenningsen (a) wrote: > Full_Name: Arne Henningsen > Version: 2.4.0 > OS: Linux > Submission from: (NULL) (134.245.140.242) > Sweave does not allow line breaks after forward slashes ("/"). This might lead > to a long "substring

[Rd] Wishlist: Sweave: allow line breaks after forward slashes (PR#9443)

2007-01-11 Thread ahenningsen
Full_Name: Arne Henningsen Version: 2.4.0 OS: Linux Submission from: (NULL) (134.245.140.242) Sweave does not allow line breaks after forward slashes ("/"). This might lead to a long "substring" of a command that cannot be wrapped. Hence, Sweave either keeps this long "substring" in the current l

Re: [Rd] wine and build difference between R.2.4.0 and R 2.4.1 windows binaries?

2007-01-11 Thread Prof Brian Ripley
On Thu, 11 Jan 2007, Hin-Tak Leung wrote: > Duncan Murdoch wrote: >> On 1/10/2007 2:29 PM, Hin-Tak Leung wrote: >>> Does anybody (most probably the core team) know if there is >>> any difference in how the official 2.4.0 and 2.4.1 binaries are >>> built? >>> >>> Problem is, 2.4.0 loads with the w

Re: [Rd] wine and build difference between R.2.4.0 and R 2.4.1 windows binaries?

2007-01-11 Thread Duncan Murdoch
On 1/11/2007 6:52 AM, Hin-Tak Leung wrote: > Duncan Murdoch wrote: >> On 1/10/2007 2:29 PM, Hin-Tak Leung wrote: >>> Does anybody (most probably the core team) know if there is >>> any difference in how the official 2.4.0 and 2.4.1 binaries are >>> built? >>> >>> Problem is, 2.4.0 loads with the wi

Re: [Rd] wine and build difference between R.2.4.0 and R 2.4.1 windows binaries?

2007-01-11 Thread Hin-Tak Leung
Duncan Murdoch wrote: > On 1/10/2007 2:29 PM, Hin-Tak Leung wrote: >> Does anybody (most probably the core team) know if there is >> any difference in how the official 2.4.0 and 2.4.1 binaries are >> built? >> >> Problem is, 2.4.0 loads with the wine (I tried a few recent >> versions, and also used

Re: [Rd] Installation on CYGWIN Failed (PR#9442)

2007-01-11 Thread ripley
CYGWIN is not a supported system, so why have you filed a bug report on a help request? This is a volunteer project, and we need users of minority platforms to support the developers, not v.v. You could have sought help on the R-devel list, and save the developers needless work. One reason it

Re: [Rd] Perhaps a stupid question about clipboards....

2007-01-11 Thread Prof Brian Ripley
On Wed, 10 Jan 2007, Byron Ellis wrote: > I have a stupid question. Why is the clipboard accessed through file() > and not, say, a clipboard() connection? Is there a good reason for > this or is it simply historical? You can in most uses replace file("clipboard") by "clipboard". In fact internal

Re: [Rd] Perhaps a stupid question about clipboards....

2007-01-11 Thread Martin Maechler
> "Byron" == Byron Ellis <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > on Wed, 10 Jan 2007 21:25:45 -0800 writes: Byron> I have a stupid question. not stupid. Byron> Why is the clipboard accessed through file() and not, Byron> say, a clipboard() connection? Is there a good reason Byron> for