[Rd] 'tcltk' crashes related to event-loops (PR#14187)

2010-01-16 Thread landronimirc
--0016e6d464cff5d753047d482362 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 I am experiencing some regular crashes on Debian Linux, 32- and 64-bit, involving 'tcltk' and 'cairoDevice' or 'RGtk2'. They make it very difficult to use tcltk interfaces (Rcmdr) and GTK+ ones (rattle, playwith, etc.) in the

Re: [Rd] optional package dependency

2010-01-16 Thread Seth Falcon
On 1/15/10 7:51 AM, Uwe Ligges wrote: > the Windows checks for CRAN run with that setting, i.e. > > _R_CHECK_FORCE_SUGGESTS_=false > > Hence the multicore issue mentioned below actually does not exist. I did not know that the Windows checks for CRAN used this setting. My concern was initiated b

Re: [Rd] optional package dependency

2010-01-16 Thread Seth Falcon
On 1/15/10 7:47 AM, Simon Urbanek wrote: > > On Jan 15, 2010, at 10:22 , Seth Falcon wrote: >> I believe another option is: >> >> pkg <- "somePkg" >> pkgAvail <- require(pkg, character.only = TRUE) >> if (pkgAvail) >> ... >> else >> ... >> > > That is not an option - that is the

[Rd] "Too many raster images" in devPS.c

2010-01-16 Thread Wolfgang Huber
Hi, I am finding the recently added [1] functionality of embedding raster images into plots on R devices very useful! Thanks to Paul Murrell and others for providing that. I noted that in https://svn.r-project.org/R/trunk/src/library/grDevices/src/devPS.c a macro is defined: #define MAX_RASTE

Re: [Rd] optional package dependency

2010-01-16 Thread Ross Boylan
On Sat, 2010-01-16 at 07:49 -0800, Seth Falcon wrote: > Package authors > should be responsible enough to test their codes with and without > optional features. It seems unlikely most package authors will have access to a full range of platform types. Ross _

[Rd] 'tcltk' freezes related to event-loops (PR#14188)

2010-01-16 Thread landronimirc
This report is related to the bug `'tcltk' crashes related to event-loops' PR#14187 [1]. The difference to that bug is an inversion of the command sequence. [1] http://bugs.r-project.org/cgi-bin/R/incoming?id=14187;user=guest With the following sequence I get sporadic freezes of tcltk. require(cai

Re: [Rd] optional package dependency

2010-01-16 Thread Dirk Eddelbuettel
On 16 January 2010 at 10:53, Ross Boylan wrote: | On Sat, 2010-01-16 at 07:49 -0800, Seth Falcon wrote: | > Package authors | > should be responsible enough to test their codes with and without | > optional features. | It seems unlikely most package authors will have access to a full range | of pl