Re: [Rd] http://r.research.att.com/ (daily R binaries for OSX) seems to be down

2013-10-08 Thread Marc Schwartz
On Oct 8, 2013, at 2:45 PM, Henrik Bengtsson wrote: > It appears that http://r.research.att.com/, which provides "daily > builds of the R GUI, R-patched and R-devel" for OSX, is down (at least > since yesterday). I didn't find any contact information in online web > caches, so I'm posting here

[Rd] http://r.research.att.com/ (daily R binaries for OSX) seems to be down

2013-10-08 Thread Henrik Bengtsson
It appears that http://r.research.att.com/, which provides "daily builds of the R GUI, R-patched and R-devel" for OSX, is down (at least since yesterday). I didn't find any contact information in online web caches, so I'm posting here in case the maintainer is listening. /Henrik

Re: [Rd] "Failed to locate the 'texi2pdf' output file"

2013-10-08 Thread Dan Tenenbaum
Just thought I would mention that the issue below (and in https://stat.ethz.ch/pipermail/r-devel/2013-April/066318.html) is still not resolved. It hasn't been a big problem, but it potentially could be, if a critical package were to have this error on release day, then all its dependencies woul

Re: [Rd] Allow semantic versioning for packages

2013-10-08 Thread Gábor Csárdi
On Tue, Oct 8, 2013 at 11:14 AM, Simon Urbanek wrote: [...] > > That's not what it means in R - the number after the dash *is* the patch > level. The point is that the semantics of the dash are different in the two > standards and so is the interpretation of the components. That's why I said > ear

Re: [Rd] Allow semantic versioning for packages

2013-10-08 Thread Simon Urbanek
On Oct 7, 2013, at 7:35 PM, Gábor Csárdi wrote: > On Mon, Oct 7, 2013 at 6:32 PM, Simon Urbanek > wrote: > On Oct 5, 2013, at 9:19 PM, Gábor Csárdi wrote: > [...] > e.g. quoting the spec: "Build metadata SHOULD be ignored when determining > version precedence." > > Indeed, although 'SHOULD'

Re: [Rd] graphics:persp - suggestion

2013-10-08 Thread Duncan Murdoch
On 13-10-08 1:48 AM, Christoph Häni wrote: Dear Devels, I'm not sure if I'm going the right way by mailing to this list. I have two suggestions regarding the persp function from the graphics package: 1. In the documentation of the persp function, it is said, that the "col" argument will ignore

Re: [Rd] graphics:persp - suggestion

2013-10-08 Thread Duncan Murdoch
On 13-10-08 1:48 AM, Christoph Häni wrote: Dear Devels, I'm not sure if I'm going the right way by mailing to this list. I have two suggestions regarding the persp function from the graphics package: 1. In the documentation of the persp function, it is said, that the "col" argument will ignore

[Rd] graphics:persp - suggestion

2013-10-08 Thread Christoph Häni
Dear Devels, I'm not sure if I'm going the right way by mailing to this list. I have two suggestions regarding the persp function from the graphics package: 1. In the documentation of the persp function, it is said, that the "col" argument will ignore transparent colors. However, this is not true