Re: [Rd] Revision of shell.exec?

2011-09-19 Thread Prof Brian Ripley
On Wed, 14 Sep 2011, Simon Urbanek wrote: On Sep 14, 2011, at 11:08 AM, Brian Oney wrote: Hi Steve, a quick look at "browseURL" will tell you that indeed "system" or "shell.exec" (on a windows platform) is used to open up a URL. The "open " part of the proposed function was written to work

[Rd] FW: [Q] Package NS Hook Lint NOTE (unanswered)

2011-09-19 Thread Roebuck,Paul L
Still have a question about the following NOTEs appearing on CRAN checks: > .onLoad calls: > require(methods) > > Package startup functions should not change the search path. > See section ŒGood practice¹ in ?.onAttach. For years, I have had the following in my S4-requiring packages. ##---

[Rd] using R as SHELL in gnu make

2011-09-19 Thread Cook, Malcolm
I am intrigued by the possibility of using R as the SHELL in a (Gnu) makefile (instead of /bin/sh). (c.f. http://www.gnu.org/software/make/manual/make.html#Choosing-the-Shell) Well, rather, I would like the makefile's SHELL to be a command which communicated with an R process. The makefile ta

[Rd] "could not find function" after import

2011-09-19 Thread Stephanie M. Gogarten
I am trying to build a package (GWASTools, submitted to Bioconductor) that uses the "sandwich" package. I have references to "sandwich" in DESCRIPTION: Imports: methods, DBI, RSQLite, sandwich, survival, DNAcopy and NAMESPACE: import(sandwich) In the code itself is a call to vcovHC: Vhat <- v

Re: [Rd] "could not find function" after import

2011-09-19 Thread Duncan Murdoch
On 11-09-19 4:48 PM, Stephanie M. Gogarten wrote: I am trying to build a package (GWASTools, submitted to Bioconductor) that uses the "sandwich" package. I have references to "sandwich" in DESCRIPTION: Imports: methods, DBI, RSQLite, sandwich, survival, DNAcopy and NAMESPACE: import(sandwich)