Re: [Rd] R's internal tar ignores files in sub-directories

2014-09-30 Thread Harris A. Jaffee
Sounds like a bug to me, at least in documentation. I would say that it ignores them by accident. I doubt that skipping files is intended. The problem appears to be that the 'files' argument to tar() becomes the 'path' argument to list.files(), and the spec for 'path' is not a whole lot more ill

Re: [Rd] last user argument missing from Rscript --verbose

2014-09-21 Thread Harris A. Jaffee
R command. On Sep 20, 2014, at 4:39 PM, Martin Maechler wrote: > > On Fri, Sep 19, 2014 at 5:26 PM, Harris A. Jaffee wrote: > I must have searched the archives badly! > > I did not suggest that, exactly. My hack was a little more complicated, > trying to honor what seemed

[Rd] last user argument missing from Rscript --verbose

2014-09-18 Thread Harris A. Jaffee
The loop that echoes the arguments almost always stops too soon. It apparently does that to avoid echoing the "--args" (that had been inserted) when there are no user arguments. However, when there are user arguments, the next element of the 'av' array is the last argument and usually not "--a

[Rd] capturing value of C or Fortran function

2006-12-13 Thread Harris A. Jaffee
Re: src/main/dotcode.c:do_dotCode() The value, if there is one, of a function called by .C or .Fortran is not captured, so one needs a wrapper. To avoid that, the user would have to declare that there is a value, specify its type, and supply an R variable to hold the value. Presumably, all of th