Re: [Rd] Minimal build of R ...

2013-05-03 Thread Gabriel Becker
On Fri, May 3, 2013 at 10:52 AM, Simon Urbanek wrote: > > On May 3, 2013, at 12:52 PM, Gabriel Becker wrote: > > > On Fri, May 3, 2013 at 9:13 AM, Jony Hudson > wrote: > > ... I guess I think of my thing as an experiment in just how much can be > done purely in the web client. There are some adva

Re: [Rd] Licence change

2013-05-03 Thread Duncan Murdoch
On 03/05/2013 2:29 PM, peter dalgaard wrote: On May 3, 2013, at 18:42 , Duncan Murdoch wrote: >> >> " one practical problem with requiring GPL >=3 is that it is not GPL-2 >> compatible" > > It may mean that one of your users won't be able to use the package, for example if something else that t

Re: [Rd] Licence change

2013-05-03 Thread peter dalgaard
On May 3, 2013, at 18:42 , Duncan Murdoch wrote: >> >> " one practical problem with requiring GPL >=3 is that it is not GPL-2 >> compatible" > > It may mean that one of your users won't be able to use the package, for > example if something else that they need requires GPL-2 licensing. Actual

Re: [Rd] Minimal build of R ...

2013-05-03 Thread Simon Urbanek
On May 3, 2013, at 12:52 PM, Gabriel Becker wrote: > On Fri, May 3, 2013 at 9:13 AM, Jony Hudson > wrote: > ... I guess I think of my thing as an experiment in just how much can be done > purely in the web client. There are some advantages to pure client-side (rich > interactivity, no need fo

Re: [Rd] Licence change

2013-05-03 Thread Duncan Murdoch
On 03/05/2013 11:31 AM, Mauricio Zambrano-Bigiarini wrote: On 03/05/13 16:56, Simon Urbanek wrote: > > On May 3, 2013, at 10:34 AM, Mauricio Zambrano-Bigiarini wrote: > >> Dear list, >> >> For the maintainer of a given package, is it possible to change the licence of a it from GPL >= 2 to GPL >=

Re: [Rd] Licence change

2013-05-03 Thread mauricio zambrano
Thank you very much for all the feedback. I will think about carefully. All the best, Mauricio -- = Linux user #454569 -- Ubuntu user #17469 = "If you torture any data set long enough, it will confess anything!" (Murray L

Re: [Rd] Please check link for R-patched.tar.gz

2013-05-03 Thread Uwe Ligges
On 02.05.2013 21:01, John Minter wrote: I have been trying to build R-patched from source using the link ftp://ftp.stat.math.ethz.ch/Software/R/R-patched.tar.gz Which the file list says is linked to R-patched_2013-05-01.tar.gz but what I download by both wget and curl (with -R -O --ssl ) is d

Re: [Rd] Package update for old version of R

2013-05-03 Thread Uwe Ligges
On 03.05.2013 16:47, peter dalgaard wrote: On May 3, 2013, at 14:55 , Eilidh Troup wrote: Hi, Is is possible to create a release of a package against an older version of R? I would like to release a new version of the package I maintain, but have some errors when I test it against R 3.0.0

Re: [Rd] Minimal build of R ...

2013-05-03 Thread Simon Urbanek
On May 3, 2013, at 11:21 AM, Jony Hudson wrote: > Hi All, > > thanks for the replies. Very helpful to know that it will run with just base. > Looks like the best bet, at least to get started, is to not use the usual > build-process, but to come up with a simple build-script for just the core.

Re: [Rd] Minimal build of R ...

2013-05-03 Thread Gabriel Becker
On Fri, May 3, 2013 at 9:13 AM, Jony Hudson wrote: > ... I guess I think of my thing as an experiment in just how much can be > done purely in the web client. There are some advantages to pure > client-side (rich interactivity, no need for a server, ubiquity) which make > it interesting, > I comp

Re: [Rd] Minimal build of R ...

2013-05-03 Thread Jony Hudson
Hi Gabriel, yes, packages obviously contain all the good stuff, but need to start somewhere! The ipython notebook project is very impressive, and I've been keeping a close eye on it, although I started out on monkeycruncher long before I was aware of it (I make slow progress). I guess I think

Re: [Rd] Minimal build of R ...

2013-05-03 Thread Gabriel Becker
Jony, I would caution that while R will run with just base, you won't be able to do much of anything with it. All the statistical analysis and graphing functions reside in additional packages. So practically speaking you'll need the workarounds Simon mentioned involving an alternative to dyn.load

Re: [Rd] Licence change

2013-05-03 Thread Mauricio Zambrano-Bigiarini
On 03/05/13 16:56, Simon Urbanek wrote: On May 3, 2013, at 10:34 AM, Mauricio Zambrano-Bigiarini wrote: Dear list, For the maintainer of a given package, is it possible to change the licence of a it from GPL >= 2 to GPL >= 3 ? In general the maintainer has no such rights. However, if the

Re: [Rd] Minimal build of R ...

2013-05-03 Thread Jony Hudson
Hi All, thanks for the replies. Very helpful to know that it will run with just base. Looks like the best bet, at least to get started, is to not use the usual build-process, but to come up with a simple build-script for just the core. Ultimately, the build script has to be different anyway, a

Re: [Rd] Licence change

2013-05-03 Thread Simon Urbanek
On May 3, 2013, at 10:34 AM, Mauricio Zambrano-Bigiarini wrote: > Dear list, > > For the maintainer of a given package, is it possible to change the licence > of a it from GPL >= 2 to GPL >= 3 ? > In general the maintainer has no such rights. However, if the maintainer is also the author and

Re: [Rd] Licence change

2013-05-03 Thread Duncan Murdoch
On 03/05/2013 10:34 AM, Mauricio Zambrano-Bigiarini wrote: Dear list, For the maintainer of a given package, is it possible to change the licence of a it from GPL >= 2 to GPL >= 3 ? Are you the author and copyright holder of everything in the package? If so, then I think the answer is yes.

Re: [Rd] Package update for old version of R

2013-05-03 Thread peter dalgaard
On May 3, 2013, at 14:55 , Eilidh Troup wrote: > Hi, > > Is is possible to create a release of a package against an older version of > R? I would like to release a new version of the package I maintain, but have > some errors when I test it against R 3.0.0. Would CRAN accept a new release > t

[Rd] Package update for old version of R

2013-05-03 Thread Eilidh Troup
Hi, Is is possible to create a release of a package against an older version of R? I would like to release a new version of the package I maintain, but have some errors when I test it against R 3.0.0. Would CRAN accept a new release that works with R 2.15.3 but not R 3.0.0? Thanks, Eilidh Trou

[Rd] Licence change

2013-05-03 Thread Mauricio Zambrano-Bigiarini
Dear list, For the maintainer of a given package, is it possible to change the licence of a it from GPL >= 2 to GPL >= 3 ? Thanks in advance, Mauricio Zambrano-Bigiarini, Ph.D -- = Water Resources Unit Institute for Environment and Sustainabili

Re: [Rd] Latex errors (build on windows)

2013-05-03 Thread Duncan Murdoch
On 03/05/2013 9:12 AM, Knut Krueger wrote: Am 03.05.2013 13:03, schrieb Duncan Murdoch: > > You should install MikTeX, from www.miktex.org. I think it will put > itself on your path, but if it does not, you need to make sure the > miktex/bin directory is on your path. > Thank you, it worked firs

Re: [Rd] submiting a package [was]Latex errors (build on windows)

2013-05-03 Thread Knut Krueger
Am 03.05.2013 16:05, schrieb Duncan Murdoch: On 03/05/2013 9:35 AM, Knut Krueger wrote: > Percent signs are comment markers in .Rd files, so if you want to keep > one, you need to escape it by preceding it with a backslash. > I know but it was a copy and paste error ... I fixed it just in this

Re: [Rd] Latex errors (build on windows)

2013-05-03 Thread Duncan Murdoch
On 03/05/2013 9:35 AM, Knut Krueger wrote: > Percent signs are comment markers in .Rd files, so if you want to keep > one, you need to escape it by preceding it with a backslash. > I know but it was a copy and paste error ... I fixed it just in this way. > Duncan Murdoch > by the way, what's the

Re: [Rd] Latex errors (build on windows)

2013-05-03 Thread Knut Krueger
Percent signs are comment markers in .Rd files, so if you want to keep one, you need to escape it by preceding it with a backslash. I know but it was a copy and paste error ... I fixed it just in this way. Duncan Murdoch by the way, what's the next step to get the files on an mirror .. if

Re: [Rd] Latex errors (build on windows)

2013-05-03 Thread Knut Krueger
Am 03.05.2013 09:58, schrieb R. Michael Weylandt: Can you post the offending package? I solved the problem all is fine now, thanks __ R-devel@r-project.org mailing list https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-devel

Re: [Rd] loading of unwanted namespace

2013-05-03 Thread Terry Therneau
Martin, Your suggestion below did the trick. The issue was obvious once this pointed me to the correct bit of code. Thanks much. Terry T. begin included text --- trace(loadNamespace, quote(if (package == "survival") recover())) will break into ?recover when survival is being loaded

Re: [Rd] Latex errors (build on windows)

2013-05-03 Thread Knut Krueger
Am 03.05.2013 13:03, schrieb Duncan Murdoch: You should install MikTeX, from www.miktex.org. I think it will put itself on your path, but if it does not, you need to make sure the miktex/bin directory is on your path. Thank you, it worked first with a strange error message: File ended whi

Re: [Rd] Latex errors (build on windows)

2013-05-03 Thread Duncan Murdoch
On 13-05-03 3:46 AM, Knut Krueger wrote: Where can I found hepl about latex errors: the R CMD check tells me less, but: * checking PDF version of manual ... WARNING LaTeX errors when creating PDF version. This typically indicates Rd problems. * checking PDF version of manual without hyperrefs or

Re: [Rd] Latex errors (build on windows)

2013-05-03 Thread Knut Krueger
Am 03.05.2013 09:58, schrieb R. Michael Weylandt: Can you post the offending package? http://rrepository.konstanze-krueger.de/src/contrib/Dominance_0.9.5.tar.gz Knut __ R-devel@r-project.org mailing list https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-devel

Re: [Rd] Latex errors (build on windows)

2013-05-03 Thread R. Michael Weylandt
Can you post the offending package? On Fri, May 3, 2013 at 8:46 AM, Knut Krueger wrote: > Where can I found hepl about latex errors: > > the R CMD check tells me less, but: > * checking PDF version of manual ... WARNING > LaTeX errors when creating PDF version. > This typically indicates Rd probl

[Rd] Latex errors (build on windows)

2013-05-03 Thread Knut Krueger
Where can I found hepl about latex errors: the R CMD check tells me less, but: * checking PDF version of manual ... WARNING LaTeX errors when creating PDF version. This typically indicates Rd problems. * checking PDF version of manual without hyperrefs or index ... ERROR Re-running with no redire