[Rd] socketSelect(..., timeout): non-integer timeouts in (0, 2) (?) equal infinite timeout on Linux - weird

There's something weird going on for certain non-integer values of argument 'timeout' to base::socketSelect(). For such values, there is no timeout and you effectively end up with an infinite timeout. I can reproduce this on R 3.3.1 on Ubuntu 16.04 and RedHat 6.6, but not on Windows (via Linux

Re: [R-pkg-devel] R Packages Never Finish Check

> On 30 Sep 2016, at 18:52 , Duncan Murdoch wrote: > > On 30/09/2016 12:24 PM, Ortega, Cameron wrote: >> Hi, >> >> When I attempt to run Check on any package, the "checking installed package >> size..." Check never finishes. This is across multiple versions of R and

Re: [Bioc-devel] package review help

On 09/30/2016 11:44 PM, Robert M. Flight wrote: Regarding Cytoscape, at least, I know RCytoscape and categoryCompare use active Cytoscape sessions during vignette builds, but the build maintainers need to know about it. I also don't know if the review builds would have access to that. Yes,

Re: [Bioc-devel] package review help

On 09/30/2016 09:53 PM, Vincent Carey wrote: i would have comments on StarTrek. if you would like me to be reviewer of that i can do it. a query on policy how do you propose to handle needlessly repeated code? It can be very helpful to indicate sub-optimal approaches to coding to the