Re: [Rd] Recent and upcoming changes to R-devel

2011-07-07 Thread Hervé Pagès
Hi, On 11-07-04 05:08 AM, Prof Brian Ripley wrote: There was an R-core meeting the week before last, and various planned changes will appear in R-devel over the next few weeks. These are changes planned for R 2.14.0 scheduled for Oct 31. As we are sick of people referring to R-devel as '2.14' o

Re: [Rd] Suggestions for R-devel / R-help digest format

2011-07-07 Thread Saravanan
Thanks Steve and Brian ! Probably, I will create a gmail account for mailing lists and let it take care of the threading. Regards, Saravanan On 07/07/2011 12:02 PM, Brian G. Peterson wrote: On Thu, 2011-07-07 at 11:44 -0500, Saravanan wrote: Hello, I am passive reader of both R-devel and R

Re: [Rd] Suggestions for R-devel / R-help digest format

2011-07-07 Thread Brian G. Peterson
On Thu, 2011-07-07 at 11:44 -0500, Saravanan wrote: > Hello, > > I am passive reader of both R-devel and R-help mailing lists. I am > sending the following comments to r-devel as it seemed more suitable. I > am aware that this list uses GNU mailman for the list management. I have > my options s

Re: [Rd] Suggestions for R-devel / R-help digest format

2011-07-07 Thread Steve Lianoglou
Hi, On Thu, Jul 7, 2011 at 12:44 PM, Saravanan wrote: > Hello, > > I am passive reader of both R-devel and R-help mailing lists. I am sending > the following comments to r-devel as it seemed more suitable. I am aware > that this list uses GNU mailman for the list management. I have my options > s

[Rd] Suggestions for R-devel / R-help digest format

2011-07-07 Thread Saravanan
Hello, I am passive reader of both R-devel and R-help mailing lists. I am sending the following comments to r-devel as it seemed more suitable. I am aware that this list uses GNU mailman for the list management. I have my options set that it sends a email digest. One thing I find is that the

Re: [Rd] Vignette pdfs missing from zip file after Rcmd build --binary call

2011-07-07 Thread Simon Urbanek
On Jul 7, 2011, at 3:39 AM, Eli Holmes wrote: > Hi, > > I have been building R packages for awhile on Windows, and I recently > upgraded R and all required package creation tools to 2.13.0. I > understand that there have been changes in that the R CMD build > command no longer alters the source

[Rd] Vignette pdfs missing from zip file after Rcmd build --binary call

2011-07-07 Thread Eli Holmes
Hi, I have been building R packages for awhile on Windows, and I recently upgraded R and all required package creation tools to 2.13.0. I understand that there have been changes in that the R CMD build command no longer alters the source directory, cf comments in http://tolstoy.newcastle.edu.au/R

Re: [Rd] Recent and upcoming changes to R-devel

2011-07-07 Thread Duncan Murdoch
On 07/07/2011 3:38 AM, mark.braving...@csiro.au wrote: Thank you Duncan for those reassurances. I still have a couple of questions, as below, but there was definitely some good news for me in your replies: - IIUC , the "source" attribute will still be available for everything, provided R_KEE

[Rd] Developing with Namespaces (was: Recent and upcoming changes to R-devel)

2011-07-07 Thread Mark.Bravington
Hi Kasper FWIW, the package development and maintenance support in 'mvbutils' makes it trivial to work with namespaced packages, even at the earliest stages of development. It's completely easy to add and remove functions to/from the namespace (and the exported visible bit) while the package is

Re: [Rd] Recent and upcoming changes to R-devel

2011-07-07 Thread Mark.Bravington
Thank you Duncan for those reassurances. I still have a couple of questions, as below, but there was definitely some good news for me in your replies: - IIUC , the "source" attribute will still be available for everything, provided R_KEEP_PKG_SOURCE=yes (I am not so worried about srcrefs) -