[Rd] Creating a reference manual during R CMD build

2012-04-13 Thread Dan Tenenbaum
I'd like to have a way to create reference manuals during R CMD build (and have them go in the build/ directory of the resulting package tarball), whether or not any of my Rd files have \Sexpr macros in them. It seems like there are a couple of ways to suppress the building of manuals during R CMD

Re: [Rd] [patch] giving library() a 'version' argument

2012-04-13 Thread Ken Williams
From: Martin Maechler [maech...@stat.math.ethz.ch] > Indeed nowadays, packageDescription() *) *does* > use the correct package version, by inspecting the "path" > attribute of the package, in the same way as > searchpaths() Yeah, that's what

Re: [Rd] R-2.15.0 and Exporting Methods Converted To S4 Generic

2012-04-13 Thread Martin Morgan
On 04/13/2012 01:40 AM, Uwe Ligges wrote: You have to export the new generic as well. that's not correct. Uwe Ligges On 12.04.2012 20:41, Roebuck,Paul L wrote: Late to the show on this release, unfortunately. One of our production packages no longer builds under R-2.15.0 with the followin

[Rd] Reference Class import() behaviour

2012-04-13 Thread Simon Potter
Dear All, In a project I've been working on we've been using Reference Classes and grid extensively. However, something that I have come across is that when using the import() method on refclass objects, it does not work as expected with grid grobs and viewports. I have prepared test cases that i

Re: [Rd] [patch] giving library() a 'version' argument

2012-04-13 Thread Martin Maechler
> Roebuck,Paul L > on Thu, 12 Apr 2012 14:17:45 -0500 writes: > On 4/12/12 1:56 PM, "Ken Williams" wrote: >> On April 12, 2012 1:48 PM, Paul Roebuck wrote: >> >>> Not sure I follow you here. The packageVersion() method is >>> essentially a shortcut to packageDesc

Re: [Rd] R-2.15.0 and Exporting Methods Converted To S4 Generic

2012-04-13 Thread Uwe Ligges
You have to export the new generic as well. Uwe Ligges On 12.04.2012 20:41, Roebuck,Paul L wrote: Late to the show on this release, unfortunately. One of our production packages no longer builds under R-2.15.0 with the following message. ** testing if installed package can be loaded Error: Fu