[Rd] R-Project build system: DESTDIR support

2006-02-25 Thread Claudio Fontana
Hello, I am writing you about the GNU R-Project, as part of by effort to help GNU projects provide a better, more consistent build system. Currently, your project does not support the DESTDIR variable in generated Makefiles (marked as optional in the GNU coding policies, make and automake manual)

Re: [Rd] Links to non-vignette documentation

2006-02-25 Thread Berwin A Turlach
G'day all, > "HW" == hadley wickham <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: >> There aren't any immediate plans to change help(package=XXX), but I >> think in the long run, if package?XXX receives wider support than it has >> now, it would make sense to make that change. HW> When was this

Re: [Rd] Rcpp, best method for linking to

2006-02-25 Thread Prof Brian Ripley
On Fri, 24 Feb 2006, Dirk Eddelbuettel wrote: > On 24 February 2006 at 15:00, Andrew Garbutt wrote: > | Sorry, that's not quite what I was asking. I was asking more of a "best > | practice" kind of question. My own C++ codes compile fine and are > | accessible to R with some great #define magic.

Re: [Rd] R-Project build system: DESTDIR support

2006-02-25 Thread Dirk Eddelbuettel
Hi Claudio, On 25 February 2006 at 03:11, Claudio Fontana wrote: | Hello, | | I am writing you about the GNU R-Project, | as part of by effort to help GNU projects provide a better, more | consistent build system. | | Currently, your project does not support the DESTDIR variable in | generated

[Rd] Rcpp -> RcppTemplate package with L-GPL

2006-02-25 Thread Dominick Samperi
The R package previously named Rcpp has been renamed to RcppTemplate (version 1.4), and it is on its way to CRAN. This is clearer because now RcppTemplate is an R package, RcppExample is a sample R function, and Rcpp is a C++ class library. The new package contains the Rcpp class library released

Re: [Rd] Rcpp, best method for linking to

2006-02-25 Thread Dirk Eddelbuettel
Brian, On 25 February 2006 at 10:07, Prof Brian Ripley wrote: | > I may be misunderstanding you but here it goes: if you are using Rcpp as a | > means to get to R, you still end up linking with R itself. It is my | > understanding that this implies the GPL -- or a suitable GPL-compatible | > lic