Re: [Rd] S4 and Namespaces problems {was "error message from lmer"}

2007-07-18 Thread Prof Brian Ripley
On Wed, 18 Jul 2007, Robert Gentleman wrote: > Hi, > > Martin Maechler wrote: >> Here is a reproducible example for the Bug that both Sebastian >> and Dale Barr found. >> >> As Brian mentioned in an another thread, >> the problem is in the interaction of Namespaces and S4 generics >> and which S4

Re: [Rd] (PR#9796) write.dcf/read.dcf cycle converts missing entry

2007-07-18 Thread Bill Dunlap
On Wed, 18 Jul 2007 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > I am seeing some problems here, for example when all the fields are > missing, or all the fields in a row are missing. I've fixes for those, > and will commit to R-devel shortly. write.dcf() is also used by print.packageDesription() so this change a

[Rd] possible bug R CMD check: No space(s) allowed after \VignetteDepends{}

2007-07-18 Thread Ferdinand Alimadhi
R CMD check gives an error when a vignette entry %\VignetteDepends{} has any extra space at the end. Maybe this is by design, but I found it confusing. Changing the function "vignetteMetaRE" in tools package could solve the problem. I.e. vignetteMetaRE <- function(tag) paste("[[:space:]]*%+[[

[Rd] Saving R graphics as various file types.

2007-07-18 Thread Barry Rowlingson
I'm using R called via Rpy from Python running from Quantum GIS. Put simply, I'm developing a GUI wrapper round some R plotting functions. What I want to do is offer the user a 'Save Plot As...' option. The problem is divining what sort of output files R can copy a graphics device into.

Re: [Rd] S4 and Namespaces problems {was "error message from lmer"}

2007-07-18 Thread Robert Gentleman
Hi, Martin Maechler wrote: > Here is a reproducible example for the Bug that both Sebastian > and Dale Barr found. > > As Brian mentioned in an another thread, > the problem is in the interaction of Namespaces and S4 generics > and which S4 generic should keep which methods. > > We know there ar

[Rd] S4 and Namespaces problems {was "error message from lmer"}

2007-07-18 Thread Martin Maechler
Here is a reproducible example for the Bug that both Sebastian and Dale Barr found. As Brian mentioned in an another thread, the problem is in the interaction of Namespaces and S4 generics and which S4 generic should keep which methods. We know there are workarounds, but till now they seem either

Re: [Rd] S4 coerce

2007-07-18 Thread Paul Gilbert
This may be a better example of what I am now thinking is probably a bug in S4 dispatch: > require("RMySQL") # or require("RSQLite") Loading required package: RMySQL Loading required package: DBI [1] TRUE > m <- dbDriver("MySQL") # or m <- dbDriver("SQLite") > con <- dbConnect(m, dbname="te

Re: [Rd] (PR#9796) write.dcf/read.dcf cycle converts missing entry

2007-07-18 Thread ripley
BIll, Thanks. I am seeing some problems here, for example when all the fields are missing, or all the fields in a row are missing. I've fixes for those, and will commit to R-devel shortly. On Tue, 17 Jul 2007, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Full_Name: Bill Dunlap > Version: 2.5.0 > OS: Red Hat E