Re: [Rd] Depends/Imports/Suggest/Enhence

2012-11-06 Thread Allen S. Rout
being described as something "my package calls", but I don't mean that. - Allen S. Rout __ R-devel@r-project.org mailing list https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-devel

Re: [Rd] Depends/Imports/Suggest/Enhence

2012-11-06 Thread Allen S. Rout
Enhence: foo4 > > No, you only need foo1 and foo2. The other two are optional. Unless you want to CHECK the package. In that case, you'll need Suggests, too. - Allen S. Rout __ R-devel@r-project.org mailing list https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-devel

Re: [Rd] RFC: 'igraph' package update and backward compatibility

2011-10-24 Thread Allen S. Rout
large hump of work to be done before you move to the new version, but you could give yourself permission to rev it every.. what; year? Two? ggplot2012? :) - Allen S. Rout __ R-devel@r-project.org mailing list https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-devel

Re: [Rd] dependencies on system packages

2011-02-09 Thread Allen S. Rout
" and extdepstring2depstring(src,systype="unknown") yields the default. I think this would be preferable to a growing taxonomy of Depends-[system]: - Allen S. Rout __ R-devel@r-project.org mailing list https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-devel

[Rd] Patch submission (whoops).

2010-04-23 Thread Allen S. Rout
Greetings, and apologies for the braino leading to my first posting to the general list. I'm reposting here, and changing how I attached the files; they were hard to work with in the other post. There's a coalescing group which is working to imitate Dirk's fine translation of CRAN to APT, in

Re: [Rd] optional package dependency (enhances)

2010-01-20 Thread Allen S. Rout
e borders connecting R to [distribution in question] can easily repackage R software, then the utility of R to the world will increase. I think this would be a good thing. I understand that it's not a big priority for that fraction of R-devel who lives amongst their garde

Re: [Rd] optional package dependency (enhances)

2010-01-20 Thread Allen S. Rout
ncy graph'. 4) Install all the packages in the broad dependency graph. 5) for each package in the broad graph, run CHECK with R_CHECK_FORCE_SUGGESTS=true. Then the affected packages are "checked". Perhaps this can be noted with a signature. Whew! - Allen S. Rout __ R-devel@r-project.org mailing list https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-devel

[Rd] Collision between difftime and ggplot2.

2009-09-25 Thread Allen S. Rout
nuisance. - Allen S. Rout __ R-devel@r-project.org mailing list https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-devel

Re: [Rd] Dependencies of packages' CHECK....

2009-09-09 Thread Allen S. Rout
ility available from it. But I've got a reputation as an overengineer, so.. In any case, I agree that the earlier check doesn't add anything except possible satisfaction by the binary-package maintainers. - Allen S. Rout __ R-devel@r-proje

Re: [Rd] Dependencies of packages' CHECK....

2009-09-04 Thread Allen S. Rout
> On Sep 2, 2009, at 2:53 , Allen S. Rout wrote: > >> I'm working to automate the building of RPM packages for CRAN &c. >> In the process, I'm trying to get a sense of the correct >> dependencies. >> >> [...] >> >> In other words,

[Rd] Dependencies of packages' CHECK....

2009-09-01 Thread Allen S. Rout
es. :) ggplot2, which was the initial itch I was trying to scratch, 'Depends' only on R. But if I have to recursively expand according to these 'build requires', I need 63 packages. And more painfully, I have to leave CRAN and go grok Bioconductor. Yow. So: does this seem s

[Rd] FIFO on windows, redux

2009-08-11 Thread Allen S. Rout
like it that way. :) It seemed like a doc clarification was in order, whichever way it went. - Allen S. Rout __ R-devel@r-project.org mailing list https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-devel

Re: [Rd] "+" for character method...

2006-08-27 Thread Allen S. Rout
to be > concatenation is a reasonably widespread convention. - Allen S. Rout __ R-devel@r-project.org mailing list https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-devel

Re: [Rd] not a typo in list.Rd

2006-08-18 Thread Allen S. Rout
y. http://dictionary.reference.com/browse/iff http://webster.com/dictionary/iff I'd figure if we can use it in Scrabble(tm), we can use it in technical documentation. - Allen S. Rout __ R-devel@r-project.org mailing list https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-devel

Re: [Rd] how to include a windows dll in a package

2006-08-16 Thread Allen S. Rout
esponsibility to distribute it yourself. - Allen S. Rout __ R-devel@r-project.org mailing list https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-devel

Re: [Rd] SystemRequirements (was DESCRIPTION and PACKAGES files )

2006-08-11 Thread Allen S. Rout
instring, systype = "", debug=FALSE) and some tests. It's my first attempt at an R package, and it passed check on my box, so please be gentle if I've done dumb stuff. Thank you for your time and consideration. - Allen S. Rout __ R-devel@r-project.org mailing list https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-devel

[Rd] SystemRequirements (was DESCRIPTION and PACKAGES files )

2006-07-24 Thread Allen S. Rout
r formatting to a few authors, (i.e. the packages I happen to use right now) but I wonder if there is any central philosophical opinion on how that field ought to look? If the Gods of R think that automated parsing of SystemRequirements is unimportant, I'll have to maintain them by han

Re: [Rd] DESCRIPTION and PACKAGES files.

2006-07-20 Thread Allen S. Rout
that meets the definition of "not well recieved" ;) Thanks for your time. - Allen S. Rout __ R-devel@r-project.org mailing list https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-devel

[Rd] DESCRIPTION and PACKAGES files.

2006-07-20 Thread Allen S. Rout
one other package-heirarchy maintainer who might like this, and subsuming it in the base function would be nice. - Allen S. Rout __ R-devel@r-project.org mailing list https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-devel

Re: [Rd] advice on arguments

2006-06-30 Thread Allen S. Rout
>> On Fri, 30 Jun 2006 16:03:29 -0400, Duncan Murdoch <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said: > I think there are mixed feelings about whether it is a feature or a > misfeature, but it's a very old property of the S language. Oh well, understoo

Re: [Rd] advice on arguments

2006-06-30 Thread Allen S. Rout
a, dat, data, etc... sounds miserable to me. - Allen S. Rout __ R-devel@r-project.org mailing list https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-devel

[Rd] An offer: R packages in Gentoo Land?

2006-06-28 Thread Allen S. Rout
le/stable/deprecated sort of cycle already conventional? This might be a Fine Manual question, but the Writing R Extensions doc doesn't mention it. - Allen S. Rout __ R-devel@r-project.org mailing list https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-devel