[Rd] why is class externalptr considered recursive?

2011-01-13 Thread William Dunlap
I have a function to search through R code and look for certain language constructs. It uses the idiom if (is.recursive(object)) { object <- as.list(object) for(element in object) { Recall(element) # recurse further into object } } and I was surprised tha

Re: [Rd] as.environment.list provides inconsistent results under torture

2011-01-13 Thread luke-tierney
The fixes are committed as 53967. luke On Wed, 12 Jan 2011, luke-tier...@uiowa.edu wrote: On Tue, 11 Jan 2011, Simon Urbanek wrote: On Jan 11, 2011, at 6:55 PM, wrote: No. Lots of internal functions expect their callers to protect their arguments, for efficiency reasons. eval is calle

Re: [Rd] Access R Help Content From R

2011-01-13 Thread Hadley Wickham
You might want to take a look at the helpr package, https://github.com/hadley/helpr, which provides a lot of functions that do exactly that. The key idea is to use tools::parse_Rd to parse the Rd files into R data structures. Hadley On Wed, Jan 12, 2011 at 11:23 AM, Roebuck,Paul L wrote: > Have

Re: [Rd] Commenting conventions

2011-01-13 Thread Erik Iverson
dhi...@sonic.net wrote: This might be a dumb question, but I couldn't figure out how to find the answer: why is it that comments in R documentation files (i.e. in examples) typically start with a double hash (##) instead of a single hash? See the second paragraph in section 7.5 for the likely

[Rd] Commenting conventions

2011-01-13 Thread dhinds
This might be a dumb question, but I couldn't figure out how to find the answer: why is it that comments in R documentation files (i.e. in examples) typically start with a double hash (##) instead of a single hash? -- Dave __ R-devel@r-project.org maili

Re: [Rd] Fw: problem reported in 00check.log-package not found-cont.

2011-01-13 Thread carol white
Yes, the packages are already installed and their path is given correctly I have noticed that if I run the R version lower ( < 2.10.0) than the version with which the packages were installed (2.10.0) I don't get such error message. But if I run the equal or greater version (>= 2.10.0), I get the

Re: [Rd] Access R Help Content From R

2011-01-13 Thread Georgi Boshnakov
I have a small package with some functions for this, it can be downloaded from http://www.maths.manchester.ac.uk/~gb/Rpackages/index.html There is a nice package (fgui) which provides an easy way to make gui-style functions (using tcl//tk). It seems that it has not been updated for the new

Re: [Rd] Fw: problem reported in 00check.log-package not found-cont.

2011-01-13 Thread Prof Brian Ripley
We simply don't have a reproducible example, nor the 'at a minimum' information required by the posting guide. Is prodlim installed? Is it in the library tree you set as R_LIBS? Note the following from 'Writing R Extensions': Note: R CMD check and R CMD build run R with --vanilla, so none o

[Rd] Fw: problem reported in 00check.log-package not found-cont.

2011-01-13 Thread carol white
Sorry, forgot to specified that I get this message error when running R CMD check my_pkg_name - Forwarded Message From: carol white To: r-devel@r-project.org Sent: Wed, January 12, 2011 10:08:13 PM Subject: [Rd] problem reported in 00check.log-package not found I set setenv R_LIBS