Re: [Rd] improved methods error

2012-12-20 Thread Martin Maechler
> Martin Morgan > on Thu, 20 Dec 2012 18:11:07 -0800 writes: > While trying to install a package, I received this error > ** preparing package for lazy loading > Error in matchSignature(signature, fdef, where) : > more elements in the method signature (2) than in the g

[Rd] improved methods error

2012-12-20 Thread Martin Morgan
While trying to install a package, I received this error ** preparing package for lazy loading Error in matchSignature(signature, fdef, where) : more elements in the method signature (2) than in the generic signature (1) A more helpful variant is Error in matchSignature(signature, fdef, wher

Re: [Rd] read.csv reads more rows than indicated by wc -l

2012-12-20 Thread Matthew Dowle
Ben, Somewhere on my wish/TO DO list is for someone to rewrite read.table for better robustness *and* efficiency ... Wish granted. New in data.table 1.8.7 : = New function fread(), a fast and friendly file reader. * header, skip, nrows, sep and colClasses are all auto detected. * inte

[Rd] How to make an /configure file executable on Windows/NTFS?

2012-12-20 Thread Henrik Bengtsson
Hi, in my package, I've got a 'configure' file in the root, e.g. aroma.affymetrix/configure. (I've also got a configure.win, which works just fine on Windows). This file must be executable (has a proper file mode) for 'R CMD INSTALL'/install.packages() to work, otherwise one gets: * installing *s

Re: [Rd] Suggestion: 'method' slot for format.ftable()

2012-12-20 Thread Martin Maechler
> Marius Hofert > on Mon, 17 Dec 2012 11:39:03 +0100 writes: > Dear R-developers, I would like to suggest a 'method' slot > for format.ftable() (see an adjusted 'format.ftable()' > below, taken from the source of R-2.15.2). > At the moment, format.ftable() contains se