Re: [Rd] Possible To Enable Building R With Cairo But Without X11 Dependencies?

2018-07-25 Thread Dirk Eddelbuettel
On 25 July 2018 at 21:04, Stephen Marsh wrote: | So the Homebrew community dropped support for --with-cairo which is a shame | because --without-x --with-cairo is an important combination for any | environment that might need to generate graphics without X11 (or related) | dependencies (macOS, he

[Rd] Possible To Enable Building R With Cairo But Without X11 Dependencies?

2018-07-25 Thread Stephen Marsh
Hello, So the Homebrew community dropped support for --with-cairo which is a shame because --without-x --with-cairo is an important combination for any environment that might need to generate graphics without X11 (or related) dependencies (macOS, headless linux servers). This rejected GitHub PR c

[Rd] Possible bug: R --slave --interactive stdin echo on Linux when stdin is a fifo

2018-07-25 Thread Gábor Csárdi
I am trying to control a background R session, connected via a fifo / named pipe. The problem is, R --slave --interactive does not echo the input on stdout on macOS and Windows, but it does echo it on Linux. This is very unfortunate, because there is no easy way to separate the input and the stdou

Re: [Rd] Library lib.loc Option Ignored for Dependencies

2018-07-25 Thread Dario Strbenac
Good day, Indeed, the setting of .libPaths() would avoid the error shown by the example. But, it seems unintuitive that R tries to load a package from one directory and its dependencies from another if the dependency is present in the same library as the package being loaded by the user's libra

Re: [Rd] Library lib.loc Option Ignored for Dependencies

2018-07-25 Thread Benjamin Tyner
On 07/25/2018 04:28 AM, Uwe Ligges wrote: Not sure if this is a bug: where is it documented that this works not as above (which is what I would expect)? The documentation doesn't say one way or the other. But the fact remains that base:::.getRequiredPackages2, when provided a non-null lib.lo

Re: [Rd] Library lib.loc Option Ignored for Dependencies

2018-07-25 Thread Uwe Ligges
On 25.07.2018 04:00, Dario Strbenac wrote: Good day, A self-contained example which reproduces the problem is packagesFolder <- tempdir() latestFolder <- file.path(packagesFolder, "latest") dir.create(latestFolder) devtools::create(file.path(latestFolder, "statistics"), description = list(V

Re: [Rd] Library lib.loc Option Ignored for Dependencies

2018-07-25 Thread Uwe Ligges
On 24.07.2018 23:37, Benjamin Tyner wrote: On 07/24/2018 07:50 AM, Martin Maechler wrote: Benjamin Tyner on Sat, 21 Jul 2018 13:42:43 -0400 writes: > Not sure whether it is the same issue as was raised here: > https://stat.ethz.ch/pipermail/r-devel/2010-October/058729.html