Re: [Rd] R 2.8->2.9 change that breaks some upgrade scenarios

2009-07-18 Thread Hin-Tak Leung
--- On Fri, 17/7/09, Martin Maechler wrote: > > "HL" == Hin-Tak Leung > > on Mon, 6 Jul 2009 15:23:07 -0700 (PDT) writes: > > HL> I finally got round to look at a > little problem I have - most of the time when I use R I > would be using snpMatrix (now part of bioconductor, I wr

Re: [Rd] R 2.8->2.9 change that breaks some upgrade scenarios

2009-07-18 Thread Hin-Tak Leung
--- On Fri, 17/7/09, Martin Maechler wrote: > R 2.9.x  uses  R code instead of the previous perl code for > INSTALL. That's the explanation for the difference. > > I agree that it would be quite useful if they supported features > as you mention, and we (R-core) will be very willing to accept >

Re: [Rd] R 2.8->2.9 change that breaks some upgrade scenarios

2009-07-17 Thread Martin Maechler
> "HL" == Hin-Tak Leung > on Mon, 6 Jul 2009 15:23:07 -0700 (PDT) writes: HL> I finally got round to look at a little problem I have - most of the time when I use R I would be using snpMatrix (now part of bioconductor, I wrote a substantial part of), so I had $HOME/.Rprofile to

[Rd] R 2.8->2.9 change that breaks some upgrade scenarios

2009-07-06 Thread Hin-Tak Leung
I finally got round to look at a little problem I have - most of the time when I use R I would be using snpMatrix (now part of bioconductor, I wrote a substantial part of), so I had $HOME/.Rprofile to save some typing. Upgrading, switching versions used to work fine with R 2.8 then it broke wit