Re: [Rd] R CMD INSTALL and file permission settings

2013-06-15 Thread Andreas Leha
Simon Urbanek writes: > On Jun 14, 2013, at 4:35 PM, Dirk Eddelbuettel wrote: > >> >> On 14 June 2013 at 16:17, Simon Urbanek wrote: >> | I think it would be better to have a bit more sane handling of >> | this. The decision is rarely at the install time of the package -- >> | e.g. did you adjus

Re: [Rd] R CMD INSTALL and file permission settings

2013-06-08 Thread Andreas Leha
Hi all, Dirk Eddelbuettel writes: > Summary: > > The directory /usr/local/lib/R/site-library can be used for site-wide > multi-user installations of R. > > This is even the default on Debian and Ubuntu (following a suggestion by > Kurt and Fritz a decade ago over beers -- what could

Re: [Rd] strange value in .Last.value

2013-06-05 Thread Andreas Leha
Hi Winston, Winston Chang writes: > This is the result of the withVisible() function, which is called by > source(). This should illustrate what it does: > >> withVisible(1+1) > $value > [1] 2 > > $visible > [1] TRUE > > >> withVisible(invisible(1+1)) > $value > [1] 2 > > $visible > [1] FALSE >

[Rd] strange value in .Last.value

2013-06-04 Thread Andreas Leha
Hi all, the .Last.value sometimes contains a strange $visible FALSE value. This poses problems when using R with ESS (and ess-developer-mode) from within org-mode. >From http://permalink.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.ess.general/7299: --8<---cut here---start->8--- H

Re: [Rd] Depreciating partial matching

2013-03-21 Thread Andreas Leha
Terry Therneau writes: > On 03/21/2013 10:00 AM, Simon Urbanek wrote: I would think that the ability to hit the Tab key to trigger name >> completion in your R GUI makes partial matching almost useless. The >> avantage of interactive completion in the GUI is that you immediately