Re: [Rd] Namespaces and S4 Generics

2014-07-11 Thread John Chambers
Roger, Are you implying that your current code works differently under R-devel than with the current release? Nothing I'm aware of would suggest that. With or without setGeneric() (in either version but the single-argument is cleaner), a generic function for image() is created in your package'

[Rd] proposed change of check message when VIgnetteBuilder package is not declared as a dependency

2014-07-11 Thread Dan Tenenbaum
Hi, I notice in R-3.1.1, if a package specifies a VignetteBuilder (such as knitr) in its DESCRIPTION file, but does not also depend on the specified package (in either Depends, Imports, or Suggests), that R CMD check will say: * checking package dependencies ... ERROR VignetteBuilder package no

Re: [Rd] grouping list of objects in the help system

2014-07-11 Thread Adrian Dușa
On Fri, Jul 11, 2014 at 10:01 PM, Duncan Murdoch wrote: > On 11/07/2014 12:11 PM, Adrian Dușa wrote: >> [...] > > You have a little bit of control of the order of topics in the PDF reference > manual (e.g. see the lattice package), but the HTML help page is produced by > R, not by you, and is pres

Re: [Rd] grouping list of objects in the help system

2014-07-11 Thread Gábor Csárdi
Depending on what you want, you might be interested in the staticdocs package: https://github.com/hadley/staticdocs If you want to build your own HTML docs, and put it online somewhere, then it could be good enough for you. Gabor On Fri, Jul 11, 2014 at 12:11 PM, Adrian Dușa wrote: > Dear list,

Re: [Rd] grouping list of objects in the help system

2014-07-11 Thread Duncan Murdoch
On 11/07/2014 12:11 PM, Adrian Dușa wrote: Dear list, I've noticed for some packages the Index file in the help system has a single list of objects (arranged alphabetically), while for other packages this list is offered separately by letters... presumably when the number of help objects is high

[Rd] Namespaces and S4 Generics

2014-07-11 Thread Roger Koenker
I've installed R-devel R Under development (unstable) (2014-07-09 r66111) Platform: x86_64-apple-darwin13.1.0 (64-bit) and am trying to resolve some problems that I am seeing with my SparseM package. In prior versions I explicitly had: setGeneric("image", function(x, ...) standardGeneric("imag

[Rd] grouping list of objects in the help system

2014-07-11 Thread Adrian Dușa
Dear list, I've noticed for some packages the Index file in the help system has a single list of objects (arranged alphabetically), while for other packages this list is offered separately by letters... presumably when the number of help objects is high. Is there a way to manually split the help

Re: [Rd] reserving a package name

2014-07-11 Thread Uwe Ligges
On 11.07.2014 13:35, Spencer Graves wrote: On 7/11/2014 1:48 AM, Adrian Dușa wrote: On Fri, Jul 11, 2014 at 1:59 AM, Uwe Ligges wrote: On 10.07.2014 23:46, Adrian Dușa wrote: Dear All, [...] Well, you cannot reserve a package name. Actually you can choose any legal name. The story is diff

Re: [Rd] reserving a package name

2014-07-11 Thread Prof Brian Ripley
On 11/07/2014 12:35, Spencer Graves wrote: On 7/11/2014 1:48 AM, Adrian Dușa wrote: On Fri, Jul 11, 2014 at 1:59 AM, Uwe Ligges wrote: On 10.07.2014 23:46, Adrian Dușa wrote: Dear All, [...] Well, you cannot reserve a package name. Actually you can choose any legal name. The story is differ

Re: [Rd] reserving a package name

2014-07-11 Thread Spencer Graves
On 7/11/2014 1:48 AM, Adrian Dușa wrote: On Fri, Jul 11, 2014 at 1:59 AM, Uwe Ligges wrote: On 10.07.2014 23:46, Adrian Dușa wrote: Dear All, [...] Well, you cannot reserve a package name. Actually you can choose any legal name. The story is different if you want to submit it to BioConductor

Re: [Rd] reserving a package name

2014-07-11 Thread Adrian Dușa
On Fri, Jul 11, 2014 at 1:59 AM, Uwe Ligges wrote: > On 10.07.2014 23:46, Adrian Dușa wrote: >> Dear All, >> [...] > > Well, you cannot reserve a package name. Actually you can choose any legal > name. > > The story is different if you want to submit it to BioConductor or CRAN, then > the name m

[Rd] checking whether 'INDEX' is up-to-date ... NO

2014-07-11 Thread Sven E. Templer
Dear List, does the warning "checking whether 'INDEX' is up-to-date ... NO" while building a package appear due to missing definitions of functions that are in the NAMESPACE but not INDEX file? Do there also exist other causes (for this warning)? Thank you, Sven.

Re: [Rd] blas test problem

2014-07-11 Thread lejeczek
On 10/07/14 06:45, Prof Brian Ripley wrote: On 09/07/2014 17:17, lejeczek wrote: I wonder if anyone amongst developers had a chance to try ACML. Yes, and documented its use in the R manual over many years. AMD's implementation when R is supposed to use it seems to fail the test similarly,