Re: [Rd] CRAN: How to list a non-Sweave doc under "Vignettes:" on package page?

2011-11-07 Thread Hadley Wickham
> How CRAN behaves and how the help package system behaves may be two > different problems.  My question is specifically on how CRAN works. > > To have inst/doc/ documents to be listed on the package's help page, > you can add an inst/doc/index.html file, cf. Section 'Writing package > vignettes' i

Re: [Rd] CRAN: How to list a non-Sweave doc under "Vignettes:" on package page?

2011-11-07 Thread Berwin A Turlach
G'day Henrik, On Sun, 6 Nov 2011 16:41:22 -0800 Henrik Bengtsson wrote: > is it possible to have non-Sweave vignettes(*) in inst/doc/ be listed > under 'Downloads' on CRAN package pages? As far as I know, only by a little trick. Create an Sweave based vignette that uses the pdfpages package

Re: [Rd] Efficiency of factor objects

2011-11-07 Thread Stavros Macrakis
Matthew, Yes, the case I am thinking of is a 1-column key; sorry for the overgeneralization. I haven't thought much about the multi-column key case. -s On Mon, Nov 7, 2011 at 12:48, Matthew Dowle wrote: > Stavros Macrakis alum.mit.edu> writes: > > > > data.table certainly has some us

Re: [Rd] CRAN: How to list a non-Sweave doc under "Vignettes:" on package page?

2011-11-07 Thread Michael Friendly
On 11/6/2011 7:41 PM, Henrik Bengtsson wrote: Hi, is it possible to have non-Sweave vignettes(*) in inst/doc/ be listed under 'Downloads' on CRAN package pages? For instance, in my R.rsp package I have a inst/doc/report.pdf (part of the source *.tar.gz) that is not detected/listed. The PDF is

Re: [Rd] Efficiency of factor objects

2011-11-07 Thread Milan Bouchet-Valat
Le dimanche 06 novembre 2011 à 19:00 -0500, Stavros Macrakis a écrit : > Milan, Jeff, Patrick, > > > Thank you for your comments and suggestions. > > > Milan, > > > This is far from a "completely theoretical problem". I am performing > text analytics on a corpus of about 2m documents. There

Re: [Rd] Efficiency of factor objects

2011-11-07 Thread Matthew Dowle
Stavros Macrakis alum.mit.edu> writes: > > data.table certainly has some useful mechanisms, and I've been > experimenting with it as an implementation mechanism, though it's not a > drop-in substitute for factors. Also, though it is efficient for set > operations between small sets and large set

Re: [Rd] Accessing ENVSXP and CLOSXP while processing parsed R code

2011-11-07 Thread Duncan Murdoch
On 11-11-07 5:24 AM, Rob Anderson wrote: Hello Guys, Following up my earlier mail where I am trying to write an alternative front-end for R, I had a question about accessing the closures and environments in R code. Here's the function taken and modified a little from "*Lexical Scope and Stati

[Rd] Accessing ENVSXP and CLOSXP while processing parsed R code

2011-11-07 Thread Rob Anderson
Hello Guys, Following up my earlier mail where I am trying to write an alternative front-end for R, I had a question about accessing the closures and environments in R code. Here's the function taken and modified a little from "*Lexical Scope and Statistical Computing*" ===