Re: [Rd] file.rename(): Guaranteed to be complete or not at all?

2011-03-01 Thread Prof Brian Ripley
As the help says: This is subject to the limitations of the OS's corresponding system call: E.g. on Fedora 14 'man 2 rename' says, inter alia, 'If newpath already exists it will be atomically replaced (subject to a few conditions; see ERRORS below), so that there is no point at which

Re: [Rd] changes in recent R-devel revisions?

2011-03-01 Thread Prof Brian Ripley
On Tue, 1 Mar 2011, Martin Morgan wrote: On 03/01/2011 03:19 PM, Benilton Carvalho wrote: Hi, I have a BioC infra-structure package that works fine (I can build, check and load it successfully) on revision r53950. The very same package fails on r54591 with the error below: Error in loadNamesp

[Rd] file.rename(): Guaranteed to be complete or not at all?

2011-03-01 Thread Henrik Bengtsson
Hi, assume I have an existing file 'pathname' and I want to rename it to 'pathnameN' (which does not exist). I use: res <- file.rename(pathname, pathnameN); Is it guaranteed that: (1) if res == TRUE, the file now have name 'pathnameN' and there is no file with name 'pathname'? (2) if res == FA

Re: [Rd] changes in recent R-devel revisions?

2011-03-01 Thread Martin Morgan
On 03/01/2011 03:19 PM, Benilton Carvalho wrote: > Hi, > > I have a BioC infra-structure package that works fine (I can build, > check and load it successfully) on revision r53950. The very same > package fails on r54591 with the error below: > > Error in loadNamespace(package, c(which.lib.loc, l

Re: [Rd] vignette typesetting issue

2011-03-01 Thread Dirk Eddelbuettel
On 2 March 2011 at 12:10, robin hankin wrote: | Hi | | I am preparing a vignette, and I am finding that LaTeX ties (that is, | the tilde symbol, "~", used to tell LaTeX not to make a newline | in the output), are appearing as actual tildes. This is not desired behaviour | for me. Thus the PDF i

[Rd] changes in recent R-devel revisions?

2011-03-01 Thread Benilton Carvalho
Hi, I have a BioC infra-structure package that works fine (I can build, check and load it successfully) on revision r53950. The very same package fails on r54591 with the error below: Error in loadNamespace(package, c(which.lib.loc, lib.loc), keep.source = keep.source) : cyclic name space depen

[Rd] vignette typesetting issue

2011-03-01 Thread robin hankin
Hi I am preparing a vignette, and I am finding that LaTeX ties (that is, the tilde symbol, "~", used to tell LaTeX not to make a newline in the output), are appearing as actual tildes. This is not desired behaviour for me. Thus the PDF includes things like this: ". . . taken directly from~Oakl