[Rd] please apply my patches

2016-05-16 Thread frederik
Dear R Devel, Sorry for sending so many emails, but I haven't heard that anyone is working on the patches I created. A few weeks ago I wanted to do something to contribute to R because I use it a lot. I picked the most annoying bugs I could find, and created two of the simplest patches I could cr

[Rd] meaning of 'Depends: R (> 3.0.2)'

2016-05-16 Thread William Dunlap via R-devel
In knitr-1.13 the DESCRIPTION file's Depends line uses a ">" instead of the usual ">=". Depends: R (> 3.0.2) I don't see the strict greater than in Writing R Extensions. Does it really mean that 3.0.2 is not suitable and that whatever version comes after it is? Bill Dunlap TIBCO Software wdunla

Re: [Rd] R external pointer and GPU memory leak problem

2016-05-16 Thread Simon Urbanek
Yuan, AFAICS things are all working as designed. If everything gets collected properly after a gc() then your finalizers are correct. You have to remember that R relies on garbage collection the release memory so only when R requires more memory it will run a garbage collection. The problem wit

Re: [Rd] R external pointer and GPU memory leak problem

2016-05-16 Thread Charles Determan
Hi Yuan, I think this is likely more appropriate for the r-sig-hpc mailing list. However, regarding you design and comment about R's 'current' GPU package (I don't what you consider this, gputools?) I think you should look at two other packages. I believe the gmatrix ( https://cran.r-project.org/