Re: [Rd] Updated Windows toolchain

2012-01-18 Thread Dan Tenenbaum
Hi Uwe, 2012/1/18 Uwe Ligges : > > > On 18.01.2012 01:09, Dan Tenenbaum wrote: >> >> Hello, >> >> On Mon, Jan 9, 2012 at 12:28 AM, Prof Brian Ripley >>  wrote: >>> >>> CRAN Windows binary packages built for R-devel are now online, and Uwe's >>> winbuilder has gained the ability to check source pa

Re: [Rd] png cairo device problems on Mac 10.6.8

2012-01-18 Thread Steven McKinney
> -Original Message- > From: Simon Urbanek [mailto:simon.urba...@r-project.org] > Sent: January-18-12 3:10 PM > To: Steven McKinney > Cc: R-devel@r-project.org > Subject: Re: [Rd] png cairo device problems on Mac 10.6.8 > > > On Jan 18, 2012, at 5:22 PM, Steven McKinney wrote: > > > >

Re: [Rd] use of UTF-8 \uxxxx escape sequences in function arguments

2012-01-18 Thread peter dalgaard
On Jan 18, 2012, at 23:54 , Thomas Zumbrunn wrote: > plain("Zürich") ## works > plain("Z\u00BCrich") ## fails > escaped("Zürich") ## fails > escaped("Z\u00BCrich") ## works Using the correct UTF-8 code helps quite a bit: U+00BC ¼ c2 bc VULGAR FRACTION ONE QUARTER U+00FC ü

Re: [Rd] png cairo device problems on Mac 10.6.8

2012-01-18 Thread Simon Urbanek
On Jan 18, 2012, at 5:22 PM, Steven McKinney wrote: > > Hi all, > > I have been having problems generating png files on a Mac running OS X > 10.6.8. > > Here's a simple example > >> png("foo.png", type = "cairo"); plot(1:10); dev.off(); > null device > 1 > libpng warning: Applica

[Rd] use of UTF-8 \uxxxx escape sequences in function arguments

2012-01-18 Thread Thomas Zumbrunn
While preparing a function that contained non-ASCII characters for inclusion into a package, I replaced all non-ASCII characters with UTF-8 escape sequences (using \u) in order to make the package portable (and adhere to "R CMD check"). What I didn't expect: when one uses UTF-8 escape sequen

[Rd] png cairo device problems on Mac 10.6.8

2012-01-18 Thread Steven McKinney
Hi all, I have been having problems generating png files on a Mac running OS X 10.6.8. Here's a simple example > png("foo.png", type = "cairo"); plot(1:10); dev.off(); null device 1 libpng warning: Application built with libpng-1.2.26 but running with 1.5.2 The resultant file is o

Re: [Rd] Updated Windows toolchain

2012-01-18 Thread Duncan Murdoch
On 12-01-17 7:09 PM, Dan Tenenbaum wrote: Hello, On Mon, Jan 9, 2012 at 12:28 AM, Prof Brian Ripley wrote: CRAN Windows binary packages built for R-devel are now online, and Uwe's winbuilder has gained the ability to check source packages under R-devel. Windows check results are available fr

Re: [Rd] how to check all CRAN dependencies for my package, before submitting

2012-01-18 Thread Uwe Ligges
On 18.01.2012 09:28, Edzer Pebesma wrote: Suppose I'm author of a package on which quite a few other packages depend. When I submit to CRAN, I run R CMD check on it, Kurt does that too, and if things work out fine, it is accepted. When one or more of the packages that depend on it break because

[Rd] how to check all CRAN dependencies for my package, before submitting

2012-01-18 Thread Edzer Pebesma
Suppose I'm author of a package on which quite a few other packages depend. When I submit to CRAN, I run R CMD check on it, Kurt does that too, and if things work out fine, it is accepted. When one or more of the packages that depend on it break because of my changes, however, hell breaks loose. I

Re: [Rd] Updated Windows toolchain

2012-01-18 Thread Uwe Ligges
On 18.01.2012 01:09, Dan Tenenbaum wrote: Hello, On Mon, Jan 9, 2012 at 12:28 AM, Prof Brian Ripley wrote: CRAN Windows binary packages built for R-devel are now online, and Uwe's winbuilder has gained the ability to check source packages under R-devel. Windows check results are available