[Rd] ACM license link broken

2016-10-24 Thread Ben Bolker
The URL listed under https://svn.r-project.org/R/trunk/share/licenses/license.db for the ACM license, http://www.acm.org/publications/policies/softwarecrnotice , gives a 404 error. I think this should be replaced by https://www.acm.org/publications/policies/software-copyright-notice ? For wha

[Rd] typo or stale info in qr man

2016-10-24 Thread Wojciech Musial (Voitek)
man for `qr` says that the function uses LINPACK's DQRDC, while it in fact uses DQRDC2. ``` The QR decomposition of the matrix as computed by LINPACK or LAPACK. The components in the returned value correspond directly to the values returned by DQRDC/DGEQP3/ZGEQP3 ``` _

Re: [Rd] improve 'package not installed' load errors?

2016-10-24 Thread Duncan Murdoch
On 24/10/2016 1:51 PM, Kevin Ushey wrote: Hi R-devel, One of the more common issues that new R users see, and become stumped by, is error messages during package load of the form: > library(ggplot2) Error in loadNamespace(j <- i[[1L]], c(lib.loc, .libPaths()), versionCheck = vI[[j]]) : there

Re: [Rd] improve 'package not installed' load errors?

2016-10-24 Thread Fox, John
Dear Kevin, As others have mentioned, it's my sense that this kind of error has become more frequent -- at least I see students who encounter these errors more frequently. I agree that a less cryptic error message might help. Best, John -- John Fox, Professo

[Rd] improve 'package not installed' load errors?

2016-10-24 Thread Kevin Ushey
Hi R-devel, One of the more common issues that new R users see, and become stumped by, is error messages during package load of the form: > library(ggplot2) Error in loadNamespace(j <- i[[1L]], c(lib.loc, .libPaths()), versionCheck = vI[[j]]) : there is no package called 'Rcpp' Error: package o