Re: [Rd] system()/system2() using short paths of commands on Windows?

2023-10-31 Thread Yihui Xie
Okay, thanks everyone for the clear explanations! Now I understand it much better. Before I wrote to r-devel, I guessed it was probably a problem on TeX Live's side rather than R, therefore I also reported it to them and I'm still waiting for a response. If they cannot fix it, and R's system() has

[Rd] warnings() in R-devel: inherits from "warnings" - summary(warnings())

2023-10-31 Thread Martin Maechler
A few minutes ago, I have committed (svn rev 85445) to R-devel {R's development source code, https://svn.r-project.org/R/trunk/} a change with NEWS entry * warnings() now always inherits from "warnings" as documented, newly also in the case of no warnings, where it previously ret

Re: [Rd] dim<-() changed in R-devel; no longer removing "dimnames" when doing dim(x) <- dim(x)

2023-10-31 Thread Martin Maechler
> Hervé Pagès > on Mon, 30 Oct 2023 17:17:47 -0700 writes: > Hi Martin, Henrik, I actually like this change. > Makes a lot of sense IMO that dim(x) <- dim(x) be a no-op, > or, more generally, that foo(x) <- foo(x) be a no-op for > any setter/getter combo. yes. For m

Re: [Rd] About FlexiBLAS in the R-admin docs

2023-10-31 Thread Iñaki Ucar
On Tue, 24 Oct 2023 at 12:53, Tomas Kalibera wrote: > > The output of session info is based on that flexiblas is used and on > what flexiblas tells R is the backend it uses. R does not attempt to > check that optimized LAPACK functions from the backend really end up > called via flexiblas, and I d

Re: [Rd] system()/system2() using short paths of commands on Windows?

2023-10-31 Thread Tomas Kalibera
On 10/30/23 21:36, Yihui Xie wrote: > I have read about "system() not using a shell on Windows" on the help > page many times before but never understood what it means technically. > Please forgive my ignorance. I still do not understand it, but thanks > a lot for the explanation anyway! As the do

[Rd] R 4.3.2 is released

2023-10-31 Thread Peter Dalgaard via R-devel
The build system rolled up R-4.3.2.tar.gz (codename "Eye Holes") this morning. This is a minor update, with a few bug fixes. The list below details the changes in this release. You can get the source code from https://cran.r-project.org/src/base/R-4/R-4.3.2.tar.gz or wait for it to be mirrore

Re: [Rd] system()/system2() using short paths of commands on Windows?

2023-10-31 Thread Duncan Murdoch
On 31/10/2023 4:32 a.m., Tomas Kalibera wrote: On 10/30/23 19:07, Yihui Xie wrote: Sure. I'm not sure if it's possible to make it easier to reproduce, but for now the example would require installing TinyTeX (via tinytex::install_tinytex(), which can be later uninstalled cleanly via tinytex::un

Re: [Rd] system()/system2() using short paths of commands on Windows?

2023-10-31 Thread Ivan Krylov
On Mon, 30 Oct 2023 15:36:50 -0500 Yihui Xie wrote: > I have read about "system() not using a shell on Windows" on the help > page many times before but never understood what it means technically. This means resolving the path to the executable, then calling CreateProcess() to launch that execut

Re: [Rd] system()/system2() using short paths of commands on Windows?

2023-10-31 Thread Tomas Kalibera
On 10/30/23 19:07, Yihui Xie wrote: > Sure. I'm not sure if it's possible to make it easier to reproduce, > but for now the example would require installing TinyTeX (via > tinytex::install_tinytex(), which can be later uninstalled cleanly via > tinytex::uninstall_tinytex() after you finish the