On Sat, Dec 18, 2004 at 02:10:10PM -0500, Gabor Grothendieck wrote: > > I now have the package built in a chroot -- but at the price of setting > > 'LazyLoad: no' in DESCRIPTION. > > > > I do not quite understand why that is needed. Can someone else help? I can > > provide the following pointers for its-1.0.4 > > > > I have had problems on Windows in which I had to pay the > same price and it turned out that by using forward slashes > rather than backslashes in pathnames my R CMD ... line I > circumvented it. Now this obviously is not your problem but > it shows that such a workaround can represent unexpected > causes.
Indeed. > > * The file 'DESCRIPTION' has the Depends on methods, stats and Hmisc. Under > > Debian Hmisc and acepack get properly loaded as needed to build this. > > > > * A file 'install.R' still exists from the older version. I reckon it can > > be removed, but it doesn't seem to matter either way. > > > > * The file 'NAMESPACE' is there, it contains import(), export(), > > exportClass() and exportMetods() directives. > > > > * The file R/itspkg.r has > > .onLoad <- function(lib, pkg) require(methods) > > [...] > > as.its.zoo <- function(x) { > > stopifnot(require(its)) > > index <- attr(x, "index") > > stopifnot(inherits(index, "POSIXct")) > > attr(x, "index") <- NULL > > its(unclass(x), index) > > } > > The as.its.zoo function was originally part of the 'zoo' > package. It was moved to 'its' since it seemed to make > more sense there. The 'require(its)' line was needed when it > was part of 'zoo' but now that it is part of 'its' I think > it can be eliminated. Check if that has any effect. I had commented that out earlier in the week during my first attempts at building the package. > > > and I have the feeling that these may interfere with the LazyLoad > > directive. But I just don't understand how something can work in > > session with a controlling terminal, but fail in the chroot'ed batch > > built. > > > > Comments would be highly welcome. But please speak very slowly when it comes > > to S4 and LazyLoading matters. > > There is an article on Lazy Loading in R News you may wish > to read. Yes, I have planned to reread it. Thanks for the feedback. Dirk -- If you don't go with R now, you will someday. -- David Kane on r-sig-finance, 30 Nov 2004 ______________________________________________ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-devel