Re: [Rd] package installation needs the file utility on Unix

2019-03-08 Thread Tomas Kalibera
Well, this only applies to source installs of packages that have some files with the special extension, so on systems where a compiler toolchain needs to be installed, so the image cannot be really tiny, anyway. But ok, I've made stage install use "file" only when it is available. When it isn't

Re: [Rd] package installation needs the file utility on Unix

2019-03-08 Thread Gábor Csárdi
Thanks! Good point about the compiler toolchain.on Alpine Linux, which tends to be small, gcc can be less than 100MB, so still might matter a bit Gabor On Fri, Mar 8, 2019 at 1:44 PM Tomas Kalibera wrote: > > Well, this only applies to source installs of packages that have some > files w

[Rd] Ellipsis and dot-dot-number [Re: Dots are not fixed by make.names()]

2019-03-08 Thread Kirill Müller
Hi In addition to the inconsistency in make.names(), the text in ?Reserved seems incomplete: "Reserved words outside quotes are always parsed to be references to the objects linked to in the ‘Description’, and hence they are not allowed as syntactic names (see make.names). They **are** allo

[Rd] POSIXlt$zone and $gmtoff questions

2019-03-08 Thread William Dunlap via R-devel
I've been searching for patterns in why some POSIXlt objects have the zone and gmtoff components and some don't and why gmtoff is sometimes NA when the zone is known. Is there a pattern or is it just that the additional fields and workarounds were added in an ad hoc way? E.g., as.POSIXlt adds th