Re: [Rd] Making iconv portable?

2014-12-15 Thread Milan Bouchet-Valat
Le lundi 15 décembre 2014 à 13:49 -0500, Simon Urbanek a écrit : > On Dec 15, 2014, at 1:37 PM, Spencer Graves > wrote: > > > > > >> On Dec 15, 2014, at 10:13 AM, Simon Urbanek > >> wrote: > >> > >>> > >>> On Dec 15, 2014, at 12:21 PM, Kurt Hornik wrote: > >>> > Spencer Graves wr

[Rd] Building R on Windows: mkdir of Rtools creates directories with read-only permissions [WEIRD]

2014-12-15 Thread C
With reference to the issue first reported by Henrik Bengtsson (see https://stat.ethz.ch/pipermail/r-devel/2014-January/068184.html), I would like to report that I am experiencing the very same problem when building R 3.1.2 on Windows platform. Fortunately, the same workaround devised by Henrik wor

Re: [Rd] Making iconv portable?

2014-12-15 Thread Simon Urbanek
On Dec 15, 2014, at 1:37 PM, Spencer Graves wrote: > > >> On Dec 15, 2014, at 10:13 AM, Simon Urbanek >> wrote: >> >>> >>> On Dec 15, 2014, at 12:21 PM, Kurt Hornik wrote: >>> Spencer Graves writes: >>> Hello, All: What would it take to make “iconv” portable? >

Re: [Rd] Making iconv portable?

2014-12-15 Thread Spencer Graves
> On Dec 15, 2014, at 10:13 AM, Simon Urbanek > wrote: > >> >> On Dec 15, 2014, at 12:21 PM, Kurt Hornik wrote: >> >>> Spencer Graves writes: >> >>> Hello, All: >>> What would it take to make “iconv” portable? >> >> >>> I ask, because I want to convert accented charact

Re: [Rd] Making iconv portable?

2014-12-15 Thread Simon Urbanek
> On Dec 15, 2014, at 12:21 PM, Kurt Hornik wrote: > >> Spencer Graves writes: > >> Hello, All: >>What would it take to make “iconv” portable? > > >>I ask, because I want to convert accented characters to >>vanilla ASCII, thereby converting, e.g., ‘Raúl’ to “Ra

Re: [Rd] Making iconv portable?

2014-12-15 Thread Kurt Hornik
> Spencer Graves writes: > Hello, All: > What would it take to make “iconv” portable? > I ask, because I want to convert accented characters to > vanilla ASCII, thereby converting, e.g., ‘Raúl’ to “Raul”, and > Milan Bouchet-Valet suggested on R-help that

[Rd] Making iconv portable?

2014-12-15 Thread Spencer Graves
Hello, All: What would it take to make “iconv” portable? I ask, because I want to convert accented characters to vanilla ASCII, thereby converting, e.g., ‘Raúl’ to “Raul”, and Milan Bouchet-Valet suggested on R-help that I use 'iconv(x, “", "ASCII//TRANSLIT”)’. This

Re: [Rd] Significant memory leak when using XML on Windows

2014-12-15 Thread Janko Thyson
@Jeroen: nope, seems like the problem unfortunately persists: require("XML") getTaskMemoryByPid <- function( pid = Sys.getpid() ) { cmd <- sprintf("tasklist /FI \"pid eq %s\" /FO csv", pid) mem <- read.csv(text=shell(cmd, intern = TRUE), stringsAsFactors=FALSE)[,5] mem <- as.numeric(gsub("

Re: [Rd] Significant memory leak when using XML on Windows

2014-12-15 Thread Janko Thyson
Sorry guys, didn't see your responses before sending mine. Thanks jeroen!! I'll test your version today and get back to you. Gesendet von meinem Smartphone Am 15.12.2014 12:12 schrieb "Janko Thyson" : > Thanks a lot for answering. Before I get into it, please note that > everything below bears t

Re: [Rd] Significant memory leak when using XML on Windows

2014-12-15 Thread Janko Thyson
Sorry guys, didn't see your responses before sending mine. Thanks jeroen!! I'll test your version today and get back to you. Gesendet von meinem Smartphone Am 15.12.2014 12:12 schrieb "Janko Thyson" : > Thanks a lot for answering. Before I get into it, please note that > everything below bears t

Re: [Rd] Significant memory leak when using XML on Windows

2014-12-15 Thread Janko Thyson
Thanks a lot for answering. Before I get into it, please note that everything below bears the big capture "Thanks for trying to help me at all". 1) Yeah, those examples - quite hard to satisfy everyone's needs ;-) While the one side complained that my past examples regarding this issue were not in