Re: [Rd] Maintainer NOTE in R CMD Check

2014-03-09 Thread Uwe Ligges
On 09.03.2014 06:29, Michael Sumner wrote: I believe it's just a flag to notify that the author string has changed. You might need to send a confirmation email that yes you did mean to change, it is just a double check for both ends. I changed my email for a package once for some reason and mad

Re: [Rd] 2 bugs in R's grDevices, and fixes.

2014-03-09 Thread Hin-Tak Leung
Since R 3.0.3 is just around the corner and the problem is still there, here is a repost from around the new year. Hin-Tak Leung wrote: Just before the holiday, I asked the freetype developers what is the context of these two comments about freetype in the code of R's grDevices: === R/src/

[Rd] Bundling vendor library inside a package

2014-03-09 Thread John Laing
If I have a vendor library (say libvendor.so) that I want my package to link to, what is the "right way" to bundle that inside my package? My ideal outcome would be that the package can be installed from tarball without having to worry about installing anything to /usr/lib or tweaking some systemwi

[Rd] AIX 7.1 and R build problems

2014-03-09 Thread Mike Beddo
Has anyone managed to build R-3.0.2 from source on AIX 7.1 using gcc 4.2.0. The configure script finishes with: ... checking whether wctrans exists and is declared... no checking whether iswblank exists and is declared... no checking whether wctype exists and is declared... no checking whether

Re: [Rd] Bundling vendor library inside a package

2014-03-09 Thread Dirk Eddelbuettel
On 6 March 2014 at 10:56, John Laing wrote: | If I have a vendor library (say libvendor.so) that I want my package to | link to, what is the "right way" to bundle that inside my package? My ideal | outcome would be that the package can be installed from tarball without | having to worry about inst