[Rd] Unexpected behaviour initializing S4 class

2009-09-01 Thread Krunoslav Sever
Hello all! I am not sure if this is known or even intended, but please consider the following simple example code: # set up a simple S4 class with single slot setClass("b", representation = representation(x = "numeric")) # provide initialize method setMethod("initialize", signature(.Object

Re: [Rd] Unexpected behaviour initializing S4 class

2009-09-01 Thread Martin Morgan
Hi Kruno -- Krunoslav Sever wrote: > Hello all! > > I am not sure if this is known or even intended, but please consider the > following simple example code: > > # set up a simple S4 class with single slot > setClass("b", representation = representation(x = "numeric")) > > # provide initialize

[Rd] R devel repository tarball naming issue

2009-09-01 Thread ml-it-r-devel
Hi, we noticed that since some time after Aug 24th the daily snapshots provided on ftp://ftp.stat.math.ethz.ch/Software/R/ no longer have their default tarball file name but dropped the date stamp, i.e. R-devel_.tar.bz2 Same for R-patched snapshots. Could one of the maintainers please take a

[Rd] Including a binary Python Interpreter into a binary R-package for MS Windows

2009-09-01 Thread gvsteen
2009/8/30 Uwe Ligges : [snip] > Guido van Steen wrote: [snip] >> Something that interests me too: What about R's policy with respect to >> including binary files? I saw that developers should include a file [snip] > Please do not include binary files and carefully watch for licenses of those > file

Re: [Rd] Including a binary Python Interpreter into a binary R-package for MS Windows

2009-09-01 Thread Gabor Grothendieck
On Tue, Sep 1, 2009 at 5:41 PM, wrote: > 2009/8/30 Uwe Ligges : > [snip] >> Guido van Steen wrote: > [snip] >>> Something that interests me too: What about R's policy with respect to >>> including binary files? I saw that developers should include a file > [snip] >> Please do not include binary fi

Re: [Rd] Including a binary Python Interpreter into a binary R-package for MS Windows

2009-09-01 Thread gvsteen
Hi Gabor, Thank you very much! That is an excelent idea! I had not thought about Jython at all. Moreover, I always had the impression that the latest Jython distribution was based on Python 2.2. But I just saw that they upgraded to 2.5 a few months ago. This is quite fortunate because both "

[Rd] Installing rJava RJDBC bad interpreter: Permission denied

2009-09-01 Thread Matias Silva
Trying to install the above two packages via the "install.packages("package_name")" command and the "R CMD INSTALL file.tar.gz". I receive the following error either way "sh: ./configure: /bin/sh: bad interpreter: Permission denied". I have tried to chmod and chown permissions and also ran dos2u

[Rd] License of Port3 library for R

2009-09-01 Thread Pin Tian Ng
I developed some code that called subroutines from the Port3 Library (http://www-out.bell-labs.com/project/PORT/). I¹m thinking about making it available as an R package. But I¹m not sure if their NON-EXCLUSIVE SOURCE CODE LICENSE AGREEMENT ( http://www-out.bell-labs.com/topic/swdist/licens

[Rd] Dependencies of packages' CHECK....

2009-09-01 Thread Allen S. Rout
I'm working to automate the building of RPM packages for CRAN &c. In the process, I'm trying to get a sense of the correct dependencies. It's my sense that R CMD CHECK is the Right Way to check to see if a package is built properly. But according to Writing R Extensions, I could reasonably ex