[Rd] Wrong bug ID & URL in Daily News about R-devel/NEWS

2016-01-03 Thread Ben Marwick
I was browsing some recent R news at http://developer.r-project.org/blosxom.cgi/R-devel/NEWS/2016/01/03#n2016-01-03 And reading this item: "tapply() has been made considerably more efficient without changing functionality, thanks to proposals from Peter Haverty and Suharto Anggono. (PR#16488)"

[Rd] suggestion to fix packageDescription() for Windows users

2017-06-17 Thread Ben Marwick
Recently I was trying to cite a package where the authors have ä and ø in their names. I found that on Windows the citation() function did not return the authors' names at all, but on Linux there was no problem (sessionInfos at the bottom): On Windows, no author names are returned: #-

Re: [Rd] suggestion to fix packageDescription() for Windows users

2017-06-17 Thread Ben Marwick
information has been auto-generated from the #' package DESCRIPTION file and may need manual editing, see #' ‘help("citation")’. Where do we go from here? I do want to use the Chinese locale with R on Windows (and perhaps others do too), so switching the locale isn't a fix.

Re: [Rd] suggestion to fix packageDescription() for Windows users

2017-06-17 Thread Ben Marwick
Thanks very much, I see your bug report here: https://bugs.r-project.org/bugzilla3/show_bug.cgi?id=17291 On 18/06/2017 2:26 AM, Duncan Murdoch wrote: On 17/06/2017 9:13 AM, Ben Marwick wrote: Hi Duncan, Thanks for your reply. Yes, it does seem to be specific to the CTYPE setting to Chinese on

[Rd] suggestion: mention how to format DOIs in "Writing R Extensions"

2017-06-29 Thread Ben Marwick
Hi Everyone, I recently has some problems formatting DOIs correctly in a pkg submitted to CRAN. Kurt kindly informed me that in the man pages they must be \{doi:XXX} (noted in https://cran.r-project.org/doc/manuals/r-release/R-exts.html#User_002ddefined-macros) and in the DESCRIPTION they mus

[Rd] missing `=` in man page for files2

2017-07-22 Thread Ben Marwick
Hi everyone, In the example code at the bottom of this page, https://stat.ethz.ch/R-manual/R-devel/library/base/html/files2.html, there is a missing `=`. That page has: f <- list.files(".", all.files = TRUE, full.names = TRUE, recursive TRUE) but it should be: f <- list.files(".", all.file

Re: [Rd] missing `=` in man page for files2

2017-07-22 Thread Ben Marwick
Thanks! On 22/07/2017 4:08 PM, Duncan Murdoch wrote: On 22/07/2017 8:19 AM, Ben Marwick wrote: Hi everyone, In the example code at the bottom of this page, https://stat.ethz.ch/R-manual/R-devel/library/base/html/files2.html, there is a missing `=`. That page has: f <- list.fi