[Rd] Appetite for eliminating dependency on Perl

2019-08-09 Thread Ken Williams
Preamble: I am in no way opposed to Perl in general - I love Perl and probably always will. R currently has Perl as both a build-time and run-time dependency. This adds about 200 Mb, give or take, to the required environment size (as measured in CentOS - looks like it might be a bit smaller in Ub

Re: [Rd] Doc patch for Sys.time and system.time

2012-12-27 Thread Ken Williams
Duncan noticed that either the sending server (Gmail - shouldn't be the case) or receiving server stripped out the attachment. Here it is again, inline. -Ken === >From 99766dd8f16804ecddc73f6169be3e42b916b8fa Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Ken Williams Date:

[Rd] Doc patch for Sys.time and system.time

2012-12-27 Thread Ken Williams
Here’s a patch that adds ‘seealso’ entries to Sys.time and system.time docs, to help people who forget what the distinction is between them. Patch was made against https://svn.r-project.org/R/trunk@61454 . -Ken __ R-devel@r-project.org mailing list htt

[Rd] data.frame() args in transform()

2012-10-29 Thread Ken Williams
appended to \code{_data}. + + \code{transform.data.frame} also accepts the additional named + arguments that the \code{data.frame} function accepts, + e.g. \code{stringsAsFactors}. } \value{ The modified value of \code{_data}. -

Re: [Rd] [patch] giving library() a 'version' argument

2012-04-13 Thread Ken Williams
a doc patch but it'll take a few days, I'm traveling. --- Ken Williams, Senior Research Scientist Applied Mathematics Group, WindLogics Inc. CONFIDENTIALITY NOTICE: This e-mail message is for the s...{{dropped:7}} __ R-devel@r-project.org mailing list https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-devel

Re: [Rd] [patch] giving library() a 'version' argument

2012-04-12 Thread Ken Williams
> -Original Message- > From: Roebuck,Paul L [mailto:proeb...@mdanderson.org] > Sent: Thursday, April 12, 2012 1:03 PM > To: R-devel > Cc: Ken Williams > Subject: Re: [Rd] [patch] giving library() a 'version' argument > > On 4/12/12 10:11 AM, Ken William

Re: [Rd] [patch] giving library() a 'version' argument

2012-04-12 Thread Ken Williams
> -Original Message- > From: Duncan Murdoch [mailto:murdoch.dun...@gmail.com] > Sent: Thursday, April 12, 2012 12:27 PM > To: Ken Williams > Cc: r-devel@r-project.org > Subject: Re: [Rd] [patch] giving library() a 'version' argument > > I haven

Re: [Rd] [patch] giving library() a 'version' argument

2012-04-12 Thread Ken Williams
> -Original Message- > From: Duncan Murdoch [mailto:murdoch.dun...@gmail.com] > Sent: Thursday, April 12, 2012 7:22 AM > To: Ken Williams > Cc: r-devel@r-project.org > Subject: Re: [Rd] [patch] giving library() a 'version' argument > > On 12-

Re: [Rd] [patch] giving library() a 'version' argument

2012-04-12 Thread Ken Williams
> -Original Message- > From: Prof Brian Ripley [mailto:rip...@stats.ox.ac.uk] > Sent: Thursday, April 12, 2012 7:54 AM > To: Duncan Murdoch > Cc: Ken Williams; r-devel@r-project.org > Subject: Re: [Rd] [patch] giving library() a 'version' argument > &

Re: [Rd] [patch] giving library() a 'version' argument

2012-04-11 Thread Ken Williams
Apparently the patch file got eaten. Let me try again with a .txt extension. -Ken > -Original Message- > From: Ken Williams > Sent: Wednesday, April 11, 2012 10:28 AM > To: r-devel@r-project.org > Subject: [patch] giving library() a 'version' argument > >

[Rd] [patch] giving library() a 'version' argument

2012-04-11 Thread Ken Williams
se let me know if anything's amiss, or of course if there are reservations about the approach. Thanks. -- Ken Williams, Senior Research Scientist WindLogics http://windlogics.com CONFIDENTIALITY NOTICE: This e-mail message is for the sole use of the intended recipient(s) and may con

Re: [Rd] Bug filed on unzip() function

2010-12-24 Thread Ken Williams
On Thu, Dec 23, 2010 at 11:22 PM, Marc Schwartz wrote: > Also, I don't know what the typical response time has been on Bugzilla once > a bug report is filed. Perhaps something could be noted there so that bug > reporters might have some expectation that a comment/reply might be > forthcoming withi

[Rd] Bug filed on unzip() function

2010-12-21 Thread Ken Williams
Hi, A few days ago I filed a bug report on the unzip() function: https://bugs.r-project.org/bugzilla3/show_bug.cgi?id=14462 I haven't gotten any comments yet, so I thought I'd ask for comments here. I also see on the description of R-devel that the list "also receives all (filtered, i.e. non-