Re: [Rd] How to modify the start-up message

2012-01-16 Thread Duncan Murdoch
On 12-01-16 2:30 PM, Ron Michael wrote: Actually this is a paid package and developer was reluctant to distribute the source. Therefore I was exploring whether I could do something by myself. If you use closed source packages, be careful that you are not violating some part of the license tha

Re: [Rd] How to modify the start-up message

2012-01-16 Thread Joshua Wiley
Hi Ron, If all you want changed is the message, this seems like a cosmetic issue. If that is true, something like this may work where you just send the unwanted messages to a temporary file and print your own: require2 <- function(x) { junk <- file(file.path(tempdir(), "junk.txt"), open = "wt"

Re: [Rd] How to modify the start-up message

2012-01-16 Thread Ron Michael
Actually this is a paid package and developer was reluctant to distribute the source. Therefore I was exploring whether I could do something by myself. So you are talking about some tools. Are those tools available somewhere over Net, or if it is not still available, is there any plan in any fut

Re: [Rd] How to modify the start-up message

2012-01-16 Thread Uwe Ligges
On 16.01.2012 12:20, Ron Michael wrote: Thanks Uwe for you reply. However you used 'should' which brings some confusion to me! Did you mean that, **it is never possible** to modify those message given I only have windows binary? Actually, it may be possible (and I am not sure without readin

Re: [Rd] How to modify the start-up message

2012-01-16 Thread Ron Michael
Thanks Uwe for you reply. However you used 'should' which brings some confusion to me! Did you mean that, **it is never possible** to modify those message given I only have windows binary?   Thanks, - Original Message - From: Uwe Ligges To: Ron Michael Cc: "r-devel@r-project.org" Sen

Re: [Rd] package DESCRIPTION file and CRAN Task View entries?

2012-01-16 Thread Gavin Simpson
Apologies - it was a very busy week. What you are seeing is CRAN sugar, processing the task views to identify packages in the views. There is nothing that you as a packager can do to get you package in a task view other than email the maintainer with a request and brief description of the package'