Re: [Rd] Error message library()

2011-10-26 Thread Simon Urbanek
On Oct 26, 2011, at 4:06 PM, Hadley Wickham wrote: >> Please, no! We don't want to enter the realm of the computer assuming it >> knows what you want to do (which is becoming too common nowadays, >> unfortunately, making the interaction more and more annoying). For some >> users this error sim

Re: [Rd] Error message library()

2011-10-26 Thread Hadley Wickham
> Please, no! We don't want to enter the realm of the computer assuming it > knows what you want to do (which is becoming too common nowadays, > unfortunately, making the interaction more and more annoying). For some users > this error simply means that they mistyped the package name, so fetchin

Re: [Rd] Error message library()

2011-10-26 Thread Kevin Wright
Thierry, I agree with you and think that computers _should_ help users. When R tells me a package does not exist, it is almost never because I typed an incorrect package name. Almost always it is because: (1) I am using an old script with a new version of R and have not yet installed a package.

Re: [Rd] Error message library()

2011-10-26 Thread Simon Urbanek
On Oct 26, 2011, at 1:05 PM, Milan Bouchet-Valat wrote: > Le mercredi 26 octobre 2011 à 12:34 -0400, Simon Urbanek a écrit : >> Please, no! We don't want to enter the realm of the computer assuming >> it knows what you want to do (which is becoming too common nowadays, >> unfortunately, making th

Re: [Rd] Error message library()

2011-10-26 Thread Milan Bouchet-Valat
Le mercredi 26 octobre 2011 à 12:34 -0400, Simon Urbanek a écrit : > Please, no! We don't want to enter the realm of the computer assuming > it knows what you want to do (which is becoming too common nowadays, > unfortunately, making the interaction more and more annoying). For > some users this er

Re: [Rd] Error message library()

2011-10-26 Thread Simon Urbanek
On Oct 26, 2011, at 6:49 AM, Milan Bouchet-Valat wrote: > Le mercredi 26 octobre 2011 à 09:46 +, ONKELINX, Thierry a écrit : >> Dear all, >> >> When one tries to load a non-installed package you get the error: >> >> Error in library(xyz) : there is no package called 'xyz' >> >> I noticed

Re: [Rd] Error message library()

2011-10-26 Thread Milan Bouchet-Valat
Le mercredi 26 octobre 2011 à 09:46 +, ONKELINX, Thierry a écrit : > Dear all, > > When one tries to load a non-installed package you get the error: > > Error in library(xyz) : there is no package called 'xyz' > > I noticed on several occasions that this puzzles beginners. Therefore > I sug

Re: [Rd] typo in hcl.Rd

2011-10-26 Thread Duncan Murdoch
On 26/10/2011 10:49 AM, Manuel López-Ibáñez wrote: This doesn't seem important enough to create a bug report. Apply to http://svn.r-project.org/R/trunk/src/library/grDevices/man/hcl.Rd Thanks, will do. Duncan Murdoch __ R-devel@r-project.org maili

[Rd] typo in hcl.Rd

2011-10-26 Thread Manuel López-Ibáñez
This doesn't seem important enough to create a bug report. Apply to http://svn.r-project.org/R/trunk/src/library/grDevices/man/hcl.Rd Cheers, Manuel. --- hcl.Rd 2011-06-20 03:51:45.0 +0200 +++ hcl.Rd-fixed 2011-10-26 16:45:44.197152229 +0200 @@ -99,7 +99,7 @@ csphd(hcl(h = c(

[Rd] Error message library()

2011-10-26 Thread ONKELINX, Thierry
Dear all, When one tries to load a non-installed package you get the error: Error in library(xyz) : there is no package called 'xyz' I noticed on several occasions that this puzzles beginners. Therefore I suggest to change the error description in: Error in library(xyz) : there is no package

Re: [Rd] strsplit convert data

2011-10-26 Thread Martin Maechler
> Joris Meys > on Tue, 25 Oct 2011 15:26:10 +0200 writes: > This is a question for R-Help, not for R-devel by all > means. You're lucky to get an answer, but please use the > right channels in the future. Yes indeed! {@ others: do not help in such cases; R-devel is *not

Re: [Rd] R CMD build - will reset the timestamps of all files in a package

2011-10-26 Thread Martin Maechler
> Valentin Todorov > on Tue, 25 Oct 2011 14:34:21 -0700 writes: > After half a year of silence on this issue I would dare > ask again: is this intended, why and how can I avoid it? > Best regards, Valentin > ... I wonder why (R version 2.13.0 and after) the command