Re: [Rd] Constructor/extractor.

2014-03-05 Thread Hervé Pagès
Hi Rolf, Barry, On 03/04/2014 08:08 AM, Barry Rowlingson wrote: On Tue, Mar 4, 2014 at 1:47 AM, Rolf Turner wrote: Questions: == (2) Even if there are no such functions, is there anything intrinsically *wrong* with having a function possessing this somewhat schizophrenic nature?

Re: [Rd] forking a CRAN project

2014-03-05 Thread Therneau, Terry M., Ph.D.
Micheal, Keep in mind that the author of the package can give you a copy under any conditions that they choose, they are not bound by the GPL. Simply send you code from their own source which is "upstream" of the GPL copy. (The copy out on CRAN propogates strictly via GPL however). You coul

Re: [Rd] Sweave provides a misleading error when vignette engine not fully specified

2014-03-05 Thread Duncan Murdoch
On 05/03/2014 11:38 AM, Martin Morgan wrote: Trying to Stangle / Sweave a file $ cat vignette.Rnw %\VignetteEngine{knitr} \documentclass{article} \begin{document} \end{document} results in a misleading error message: ~/tmp$ R CMD Stangle vignette.Rnw Error: Vignette engine package not specifie

[Rd] Sweave provides a misleading error when vignette engine not fully specified

2014-03-05 Thread Martin Morgan
Trying to Stangle / Sweave a file $ cat vignette.Rnw %\VignetteEngine{knitr} \documentclass{article} \begin{document} \end{document} results in a misleading error message: ~/tmp$ R CMD Stangle vignette.Rnw Error: Vignette engine package not specified Execution halted when what is missing is th

[Rd] [PATCH] Code coverage support proof of concept

2014-03-05 Thread Karl Forner
Hello, I submit a patch for review that implements code coverage tracing in the R interpreter. It records the lines that are actually executed and their associated frequency for which srcref information is available. I perfectly understands that this patch will not make its way inside R as it is,

Re: [Rd] How to import S3 method

2014-03-05 Thread Michael Weylandt
On Mar 4, 2014, at 10:21, "Wang, Zhu" wrote: > Dear Helpers, > > I wanted to import an S3 method from package glmnet to my own R package. > Specifically, I tried the following: > > plot.glmreg=function(x, xvar=c("norm","lambda","dev"),label=FALSE,shade=TRUE, > ...) UseMethod("glmnet") > >

[Rd] How to import S3 method

2014-03-05 Thread Wang, Zhu
Dear Helpers, I wanted to import an S3 method from package glmnet to my own R package. Specifically, I tried the following: plot.glmreg=function(x, xvar=c("norm","lambda","dev"),label=FALSE,shade=TRUE, ...) UseMethod("glmnet") I got the following message when installing my package: Error : ob

[Rd] [GSoC student proposal] Implementation of Modified Weibull-G Family Distribution in R

2014-03-05 Thread Dr M Aleem
Dear Brian and R team, I am Dr. Aleem and I want to participate as a student in GSoC 2014 in the development of R. I have extensive experience in Statistical research and development and I am a student of advanced statistics applications. I strongly believe that the inclusion of Modified Weibull-G