[Rd] suggestion for "sets" tools upgrade

2014-02-06 Thread Carl Witthoft
First, let me apologize in advance if this is the wrong place to submit a suggestion for a change to functions in the base-R package. It never really occurred to me that I'd have an idea worthy of such a change. My idea is to provide an upgrade to all the "sets" tools (intersect, union, setdi

Re: [Rd] suggestion for "sets" tools upgrade

2014-02-06 Thread R. Michael Weylandt
On Thu, Feb 6, 2014 at 8:31 PM, Carl Witthoft wrote: > First, let me apologize in advance if this is the wrong place to submit a > suggestion for a change to functions in the base-R package. It never really > occurred to me that I'd have an idea worthy of such a change. > > My idea is to provide

[Rd] suggested addition to 'install.packages' help file

2014-02-06 Thread Patrick Burns
I suggest that there be an additional sentence in the explanation for the 'repos' argument in the help file for 'install.packages': If the repository is on a local drive, then the string should begin with \code{file:}, e.g., \code{"file:J:/Rrepos"}. Perhaps I'm missing some subtlety, but it mak

Re: [Rd] C headers

2014-02-06 Thread Göran Broström
I went through this pain two days ago, but I managed both building R from source and my own packages by following Brian Ripley excellent (as always) pointers on the r-sig-mac mailing list (around october 2013). Look there, and ask further questions on that list. Göran Broström On 02/06/2014 0

Re: [Rd] C headers

2014-02-06 Thread Prof Brian Ripley
This is an R-sig-mac issue, so Cc:ed there. I have seen this after an upgrade to Mavericks: you have a partial installation of the pre-Mavericks Xcode Command Line Tools after the upgrade (which removed some of it). See the current R-admin manual for how to use the CRAN binary of R 3.0.2 wit

[Rd] C headers

2014-02-06 Thread Adrian Dușa
Dear list, Just upgraded to MacOS Mavericks, fresh install of R 3.0.2 and trying to install a previous version of my QCA package (the most recent one source file, which passed the R CMD check --as-cran with R 3.0.1) I seem to have some difficulties in the C code, apparently it doesn't find some h