On 27.01.2015 22:09, Skye Bender-deMoll wrote:
Dear R devel,
Is libcurl support required to run R.devel, or is it optional?
I'm compiling R.devel on an older Debian machine that only has libcurl
version 7.21.0
The R news file says
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Sun, 25 Jan 2015
CHANGES IN R-devel NEW FEATURES
Op
In R, there's readline(), which is great because you can prompt the user, e.g.
ans <- readline("Would you like to install Pandoc? [y/N]: ")
without having to worry the message is intercepted by
capture.output(), sink() or similar (which is used by dynamic report
generators among other things)
Why do you need this? The sink system is often specifically needed to
capture such messages and display them to the user, for example in an
embedded environment. Many applications would not work when you bypass
the stdout/stderr set by the system. For example tools like knitr or
rapache need to cap
On Sun, Feb 1, 2015 at 1:39 PM, Jeroen Ooms wrote:
> Why do you need this? The sink system is often specifically needed to
> capture such messages and display them to the user, for example in an
> embedded environment. Many applications would not work when you bypass
> the stdout/stderr set by the
The windows replacement is
R-library-grDevices-libs-winCairo_20150122.zip
in
http://sourceforge.net/projects/outmodedbonsai/files/R/
The cairo replacements are just two bundles, windows or OS X - containing
replacements for R 2.15.3, 3.0.3 and 3.1.2. You just extract the relevant one
for your R v
I've implemented the proposed changes in R-devel. Minimally tested, so
please try it. It should delegate to r/cbind2 when there is at least one S4
argument and S3 dispatch fails (so you'll probably want to add an S3 method
for your class to introduce a conflict, otherwise it will dispatch to
cbind.
Dear Uwe, CRAN.
We test against R.devel trunk nightly. I just re-ran R CMD check again
with R Under development (unstable) (2015-01-31 r67686), and now I just
get the message:
"Checking URLs requires 'libcurl' support in the R build"
without the list of errors for every single URL. So seem
