Re: [Rd] FastR

2014-02-12 Thread Michael Haupt
Dear all, at UseR! 2013, the FastR project was announced by Tomas Kalibera, Petr Maj, and Jan Vitek. FastR is an implementation of the R programming language in Java using AST interpretation and specialisation for improved performance. Since, the implementation has been extended to support JIT

[Rd] path.package() versus system.file() for locating installed package folders

2014-02-12 Thread Marc Schwartz
Hi all, For several years, I have used path.package() to get the path to Perl scripts contained within WriteXLS. I have a request to change this to using system.file(), which would provide the ability to utilize WriteXLS functionality, without having to load the package, which path.package() r

Re: [Rd] path.package() versus system.file() for locating installed package folders

2014-02-12 Thread Prof Brian Ripley
On 12/02/2014 16:28, Marc Schwartz wrote: Hi all, For several years, I have used path.package() to get the path to Perl scripts contained within WriteXLS. I have a request to change this to using system.file(), which would provide the ability to utilize WriteXLS functionality, without having

Re: [Rd] path.package() versus system.file() for locating installed package folders

2014-02-12 Thread Marc Schwartz
On Feb 12, 2014, at 11:05 AM, Prof Brian Ripley wrote: > On 12/02/2014 16:28, Marc Schwartz wrote: >> Hi all, >> >> For several years, I have used path.package() to get the path to Perl >> scripts contained within WriteXLS. >> >> I have a request to change this to using system.file(), which w

Re: [Rd] $new cannot be accessed when running from Rscript and methods package is not loaded

2014-02-12 Thread Winston Chang
On Tue, Feb 11, 2014 at 3:27 PM, Simon Urbanek wrote: > > I suspect the problem could be classified as bug in methods which doesn't > behave correctly if not attached. I didn't look into details, but there used > to be a technical problem in R C API where you could not pass the right > environm