Re: [Rd] Installing a Tcl/Tk Extension on OSX

2010-09-02 Thread Adrian Waddell
Thanks, that works actually out of the box from a fresh OSX 10.6 installation. So no ActiveTcl is needed. This is great! Greetings, Adrian On 09/02/2010 05:01 AM, Philippe Grosjean wrote: > This is relatively simple if you can find the packages you need in the > default Tcl/Tk install on the Ma

[Rd] S4 Method Signatures

2010-09-02 Thread Dario Strbenac
Hello, If the signature of a method defines which generic it implements then I'm confused about why this minimal example I invented won't work : setGeneric("myFun", function(rs, ...){standardGeneric("myFun")}) setGeneric("myFun", function(cs, ...){standardGeneric("myFun")}) setMethod("myFun", "

Re: [Rd] Assignment of individual values to data frame columns: intentional or unintentional behavior?

2010-09-02 Thread Peter Ehlers
On 2010-08-05 12:14, Ulrike Grömping wrote: Gabor Grothendieck schrieb: On Thu, Aug 5, 2010 at 12:24 PM, Ulrike Grömping wrote: Dear developeRs, I have just discovered a strange feature when assigning some values to columns of a data frame: The column is matched by partial matching (as docu

[Rd] CMD check: checking data for non-ASCII characters is very time consuming

2010-09-02 Thread Vincent Carey
Checking data for non-ASCII characters takes a very long time for packages with substantial data components. Could the check be done manually by the developer, and a switch introduced to optionally skip this during check? __ R-devel@r-project.org mailing

Re: [Rd] Installing a Tcl/Tk Extension on OSX

2010-09-02 Thread Philippe Grosjean
This is relatively simple if you can find the packages you need in the default Tcl/Tk install on the Mac (/System/Library/Tcl) and if these packages are compatibles with the X11 Tcl/Tk used by R. This should be fine for packages containing no compiled code. For the others, you should check firs