Re: [Rd] Compressing data for package builds

2012-08-16 Thread steven mosher
" R CMD build is how you preferably should be creating your package tar ball, so you simply add the --resave-data argument to your already existing R CMD build call which creates the tar ball from your source directory. So can you elaborate on "doesn't do anything I can see"? In what sense? No outp

Re: [Rd] Compressing data for package builds

2012-08-16 Thread Simon Urbanek
On Aug 16, 2012, at 5:08 PM, steven mosher wrote: > Hi, > > I have two .rda files that I need to include in a package. I've placed > them both in a data directory > after save() the are around 150Kb each. > > When I try to check the package I get the following warning > > Warning: large

[Rd] Compressing data for package builds

2012-08-16 Thread steven mosher
Hi, I have two .rda files that I need to include in a package. I've placed them both in a data directory after save() the are around 150Kb each. When I try to check the package I get the following warning Warning: large data file(s) saved inefficiently: size ASCII compres

Re: [Rd] chown, chgrp?

2012-08-16 Thread Prof Brian Ripley
On 15/08/2012 18:38, peter dalgaard wrote: On Aug 15, 2012, at 17:56 , Barry Rowlingson wrote: On Wed, Aug 15, 2012 at 2:47 PM, Simon Urbanek wrote: ... and moreover with the increasing adoption of ACL on unix and non-existence of uid/gid on Windows this is more an archaic curiosity so I

Re: [Rd] Build from Source fails on Loading required package Matrix

2012-08-16 Thread Dan Murphy
Uwe: Thanks to your gentle nudge I reread the manual and learned that your preferred version of tar is installed by Rtools. After a little glitch and a July 2 R-help post about a missing file in the tarball, I was able to build the patched version of 2.15.1. The work y'all do is beyond words. In c