Re: [Rd] Detecting development environment

2011-06-13 Thread Hadley Wickham
>> Is there a straight-forward, cross-platform way of determining if a >> user has all the tools needed to develop R packages (i.e. gcc etc)? >> It doesn't need to be 100%, but should give a rough idea.  One idea I >> had was simply to see if system("R CMD install --help") worked. >> > > That's not

[Rd] Participation Requested: Survey about Open-Source Software Development

2011-06-13 Thread Jeffrey Carver
Hi, Drs. Jeffrey Carver, Rosanna Guadagno, Debra McCallum, and Mr. Amiangshu Bosu, University of Alabama, and Dr. Lorin Hochstein, University of Southern California, are conducting a survey of open-source software developers. This survey seeks to understand how developers on distributed, virtual

Re: [Rd] Detecting development environment

2011-06-13 Thread Ted Byers
One option would be to use autoconf and automake, and related tools. That is exactly what they're designed for, in the simplest case. In more advanced cases, I have seen them used to verify not only the existance of selected tools and libraries, but also whether or not the implementation of selec

Re: [Rd] Detecting development environment

2011-06-13 Thread Simon Urbanek
On Jun 13, 2011, at 10:21 AM, Hadley Wickham wrote: > Hi all, > > Is there a straight-forward, cross-platform way of determining if a > user has all the tools needed to develop R packages (i.e. gcc etc)? > It doesn't need to be 100%, but should give a rough idea. One idea I > had was simply to

Re: [Rd] Detecting development environment

2011-06-13 Thread Mike Marchywka
> From: had...@rice.edu > Date: Mon, 13 Jun 2011 09:21:07 -0500 > To: r-devel@r-project.org > Subject: [Rd] Detecting development environment > > Hi all, > > Is there a straight-forward, cross-platform way of determining if a > user has all the tools nee

[Rd] Detecting development environment

2011-06-13 Thread Hadley Wickham
Hi all, Is there a straight-forward, cross-platform way of determining if a user has all the tools needed to develop R packages (i.e. gcc etc)? It doesn't need to be 100%, but should give a rough idea. One idea I had was simply to see if system("R CMD install --help") worked. Hadley -- Assista

Re: [Rd] tag \href not recognised in rd doc

2011-06-13 Thread Patrick Giraudoux
Back from the field, I have been capable to update to R 2.13.0 today. \href is well recognised with this version and package check run OK. Best, Patrick Le 06/06/2011 10:59, Duncan Murdoch a écrit : On 11-06-06 12:41 AM, Patrick Giraudoux wrote: Le 05/06/2011 22:30, Duncan Murdoch a écri