Re: [Rd] italic font on cairo devices in R 3.4

2017-07-11 Thread Paul Murrell
Hi Do you have the 'fonts-texgyre' (Debian) package installed? If not, does installing that help? Paul On 07/07/17 20:30, Ilia Kats wrote: [cross-post from R-help] Hi all, I have the following problem: Since R 3.4.0, italic fonts rendered on Cairo devices appear pixelated. Here's a minimal

Re: [Rd] write.csv

2017-07-11 Thread Nathan Sosnovske via R-devel
Two thoughts: 1) Will the new server that you are setting up with Server 2016 eventually host build and test? If so, this could at least run on that. 2) CreateVirtualDisk and OpenVirtualDisk are C functions that are available in Windows 7 and Server 2008 R2. So these are options that we could us

Re: [Rd] Background session with R

2017-07-11 Thread Norm Matloff
My Rdsm package will do what you want, https://cran.r-project.org/web/packages/Rdsm/index.html Norm Matloff > Message: 4 > Date: Mon, 10 Jul 2017 17:12:57 + > From: "Stravs, Michael" > To: "r-devel@r-project.org" > Cc: "shiny-disc...@googlegroups.com" > Subject: [Rd] Background session w

Re: [Rd] Solaris SPARC testbed

2017-07-11 Thread Prof Brian Ripley
On 11/07/2017 16:48, Avraham Adler wrote: I've looked at some package testing results and I'm not seeing Solaris SPARC. Has that test-bed been deprecated for package testing? Are you talking about CRAN's check results? The Sparc hardware used for CRAN died during an unplanned power outage, an

[Rd] Solaris SPARC testbed

2017-07-11 Thread Avraham Adler
I've looked at some package testing results and I'm not seeing Solaris SPARC. Has that test-bed been deprecated for package testing? Thanks, Avi __ R-devel@r-project.org mailing list https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-devel

Re: [Rd] write.csv

2017-07-11 Thread Uwe Ligges
This is a bit difficult: R binaries (both for R base and R packages) are still built with Windows Server 2008 and my desktop machine is Windows 7, hence at least currently such a check would not get executed on the machines R core / CRAN use ... Best, Uwe On 11.07.2017 00:59, Nathan Sosnovs