Re: [Rd] CRAN package with dependencies on Bioconductor

2011-06-10 Thread Prof Brian Ripley
Note that until May 8 graph was a CRAN packge and the current version 
was 1.30.0.  So of course CRAN binary packages built between April 26 
and May 8 were built against the current CRAN version of graph, for 
any version of R.


On Fri, 10 Jun 2011, Martin Morgan wrote:


On 06/10/2011 05:46 PM, Kornelius Rohmeyer wrote:

Dear Martin,

thanks for your response.


The superclass graphBase is introduced in graph 1.30. In my
understanding the problem is that our package gMCP is build on CRAN
for R 2.12 with the package graph in version 1.30. Unfortunately
biocLite installs graph_1.28.0.zip for R 2.12.


biocLite is returning the correct package -- graph 1.28.0. graph 1.30 did
not come in to existence until the most recent release, 2011-04-13,
approximately when R-2.13 became the current release version.

CRAN is building packages with the current release, R-2.13, for which
biocLite and install.packages both (correctly) return graph 1.30.


I doubt this, i.e. CRAN is also still building packages for R 2.12 -
and is using graph 1.30 for this as far as I understand it (instead of
1.28).


I'm not intimately familiar with CRAN's build system, so perhaps I mis-spoke; 
Bioconductor packages are versioned in synchrony with R releases. If your 
package requires graph >= 1.30, specify that in the DESCRIPTION. If your 
users want features introduced when your package requires graph >= 1.30, 
direct them to use R >= 2.13.


Martin


Are there ways to make dependencies on Bioconductor less complicated?


Use the current version of R.


So you agree that it is impossible to give a reasonable instruction
install such binary packages for older versions of R like the four
month old R 2.12? (Reasonable means without manual installation of
packages in the correct versions - where the correct versions have to
be found out by the maintainer.)

Best regards, Kornelius.



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Re: [Rd] CRAN package with dependencies on Bioconductor

2011-06-10 Thread Kornelius Rohmeyer
2011/6/11 Duncan Murdoch :
> On 11-06-10 7:04 PM, Kornelius Rohmeyer wrote:
>> Dear all,
>>
>> for a CRAN-package that depends on another Bioconductor-package I find
>> two things annoying and would like to know whether there are some
>> workarounds:
>>
>> 1) Is there some inevitable problem that install.packages does not
>> install uninstalled packages (on which the specified package depends)
>> also from Bioconductor (in the correct version)?
>>
>> 2) In my understanding (please correct me if I'm wrong!) CRAN uses
>> bioconductor packages in another version than biocLite would install.
>> For example:
>>
>> Our package gMCP depends on the package graph that has recently
>> switched to the bioconductor repositories. But even the following
>> commands will fail (i.e. install incompatible versions) for R 2.12
>> under Windows (and most likely MacOS):
>>
>> source("http://www.bioconductor.org/biocLite.R";)
>> biocLite("graph")
>> install.packages("gMCP")
>>
>> This results in errors like the following:
>>
>>> BonferroniHolmGraph(2)
>>
>> Error in validObject(.Object) :
>>   invalid class "graphMCP" object: superclass "graphBase" not defined
>> in the environment of the object's class
>>
>> The superclass graphBase is introduced in graph 1.30. In my
>> understanding the problem is that our package gMCP is build on CRAN
>> for R 2.12 with the package graph in version 1.30. Unfortunately
>> biocLite installs graph_1.28.0.zip for R 2.12.
>>
>> Are there ways to make dependencies on Bioconductor less complicated?
>
> Users of your package are likely to have issues; make sure you document that
> they need to include the Bioconductor repository as well as CRAN.
>
> You can specify a version in a dependency (or a version range).  I don't
> know if BioC will make old versions available in binary formats, but they
> will probably make source versions available.
>
> Duncan Murdoch
>

Dear Duncan,

the main problem is not addressed by specifying a certain version (or
at least I do not see how), since it's not the case that the package
requires certain versions. The problem is that the default binary
packages of the CRAN package and the Bioconductor package it depends
on are incompatible for R 2.12, since CRAN uses a different version of
the Bioconductor package for building. (For the source packages of
course no problem exists.) Btw. is there a way to find out which
versions of the dependent packages were used for building a certain
binary package? (I guess in the moment, that CRAN uses always the
newest available source packages.)
These kind of incompatibilities are extremely hard to track for the
package developer. So if there is not a way to install the correct
corresponding compatible binary packages from CRAN and Bioconductor,
may I suggest that CRAN uses the same versions of dependent
Bioconductor packages for the build of binary packages as Bioconductor
is providing in binary form by default for the respective R versions?

Or am totally on the wrong track?

Thank you very much and best regards, Kornelius.

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Re: [Rd] CRAN package with dependencies on Bioconductor

2011-06-10 Thread Kornelius Rohmeyer
2011/6/11 Martin Morgan :
> On 06/10/2011 05:46 PM, Kornelius Rohmeyer wrote:
>>
>> Dear Martin,
>>
>> thanks for your response.
>>
 The superclass graphBase is introduced in graph 1.30. In my
 understanding the problem is that our package gMCP is build on CRAN
 for R 2.12 with the package graph in version 1.30. Unfortunately
 biocLite installs graph_1.28.0.zip for R 2.12.
>>>
>>> biocLite is returning the correct package -- graph 1.28.0. graph 1.30 did
>>> not come in to existence until the most recent release, 2011-04-13,
>>> approximately when R-2.13 became the current release version.
>>>
>>> CRAN is building packages with the current release, R-2.13, for which
>>> biocLite and install.packages both (correctly) return graph 1.30.
>>
>> I doubt this, i.e. CRAN is also still building packages for R 2.12 -
>> and is using graph 1.30 for this as far as I understand it (instead of
>> 1.28).
>
> I'm not intimately familiar with CRAN's build system, so perhaps I
> mis-spoke; Bioconductor packages are versioned in synchrony with R releases.
> If your package requires graph >= 1.30, specify that in the DESCRIPTION. If
> your users want features introduced when your package requires graph >=
> 1.30, direct them to use R >= 2.13.

I understand this. But my package does not require graph >= 1.30.
(And if I install the source packages everything is always fine.)
The problem is again that R 2.12 installs graph 1.28
but the CRAN packages for R 2.12 are build for graph 1.30.
So the default binary packages are incompatible for R 2.12.

Best regards, Kornelius.

>
> Martin
>
 Are there ways to make dependencies on Bioconductor less complicated?
>>>
>>> Use the current version of R.
>>
>> So you agree that it is impossible to give a reasonable instruction
>> install such binary packages for older versions of R like the four
>> month old R 2.12? (Reasonable means without manual installation of
>> packages in the correct versions - where the correct versions have to
>> be found out by the maintainer.)
>>
>> Best regards, Kornelius.
>
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Re: [Rd] CRAN package with dependencies on Bioconductor

2011-06-10 Thread Martin Morgan

On 06/10/2011 05:46 PM, Kornelius Rohmeyer wrote:

Dear Martin,

thanks for your response.


The superclass graphBase is introduced in graph 1.30. In my
understanding the problem is that our package gMCP is build on CRAN
for R 2.12 with the package graph in version 1.30. Unfortunately
biocLite installs graph_1.28.0.zip for R 2.12.


biocLite is returning the correct package -- graph 1.28.0. graph 1.30 did
not come in to existence until the most recent release, 2011-04-13,
approximately when R-2.13 became the current release version.

CRAN is building packages with the current release, R-2.13, for which
biocLite and install.packages both (correctly) return graph 1.30.


I doubt this, i.e. CRAN is also still building packages for R 2.12 -
and is using graph 1.30 for this as far as I understand it (instead of
1.28).


I'm not intimately familiar with CRAN's build system, so perhaps I 
mis-spoke; Bioconductor packages are versioned in synchrony with R 
releases. If your package requires graph >= 1.30, specify that in the 
DESCRIPTION. If your users want features introduced when your package 
requires graph >= 1.30, direct them to use R >= 2.13.


Martin


Are there ways to make dependencies on Bioconductor less complicated?


Use the current version of R.


So you agree that it is impossible to give a reasonable instruction
install such binary packages for older versions of R like the four
month old R 2.12? (Reasonable means without manual installation of
packages in the correct versions - where the correct versions have to
be found out by the maintainer.)

Best regards, Kornelius.



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Re: [Rd] CRAN package with dependencies on Bioconductor

2011-06-10 Thread Kornelius Rohmeyer
Dear Martin,

thanks for your response.

>> The superclass graphBase is introduced in graph 1.30. In my
>> understanding the problem is that our package gMCP is build on CRAN
>> for R 2.12 with the package graph in version 1.30. Unfortunately
>> biocLite installs graph_1.28.0.zip for R 2.12.
>
> biocLite is returning the correct package -- graph 1.28.0. graph 1.30 did
> not come in to existence until the most recent release, 2011-04-13,
> approximately when R-2.13 became the current release version.
>
> CRAN is building packages with the current release, R-2.13, for which
> biocLite and install.packages both (correctly) return graph 1.30.

I doubt this, i.e. CRAN is also still building packages for R 2.12 -
and is using graph 1.30 for this as far as I understand it (instead of
1.28).

>> Are there ways to make dependencies on Bioconductor less complicated?
>
> Use the current version of R.

So you agree that it is impossible to give a reasonable instruction to
install such binary packages for older versions of R like the four
month old R 2.12? (Reasonable means without manual installation of
packages in the correct versions - where the correct versions have to
be found out by the maintainer.)

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Re: [Rd] CRAN package with dependencies on Bioconductor

2011-06-10 Thread Duncan Murdoch

On 11-06-10 7:04 PM, Kornelius Rohmeyer wrote:

I'm sorry for sending a wrongly formated mail before. This is the missing text:

Dear all,

for a CRAN-package that depends on another Bioconductor-package I find
two things annoying and would like to know whether there are some
workarounds:

1) Is there some inevitable problem that install.packages does not
install uninstalled packages (on which the specified package depends)
also from Bioconductor (in the correct version)?

2) In my understanding (please correct me if I'm wrong!) CRAN uses
bioconductor packages in another version than biocLite would install.
For example:

Our package gMCP depends on the package graph that has recently
switched to the bioconductor repositories. But even the following
commands will fail (i.e. install incompatible versions) for R 2.12
under Windows (and most likely MacOS):

source("http://www.bioconductor.org/biocLite.R";)
biocLite("graph")
install.packages("gMCP")

This results in errors like the following:


BonferroniHolmGraph(2)

Error in validObject(.Object) :
   invalid class "graphMCP" object: superclass "graphBase" not defined
in the environment of the object's class

The superclass graphBase is introduced in graph 1.30. In my
understanding the problem is that our package gMCP is build on CRAN
for R 2.12 with the package graph in version 1.30. Unfortunately
biocLite installs graph_1.28.0.zip for R 2.12.

Are there ways to make dependencies on Bioconductor less complicated?


Users of your package are likely to have issues; make sure you document 
that they need to include the Bioconductor repository as well as CRAN.


You can specify a version in a dependency (or a version range).  I don't 
know if BioC will make old versions available in binary formats, but 
they will probably make source versions available.


Duncan Murdoch

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Re: [Rd] CRAN package with dependencies on Bioconductor

2011-06-10 Thread Martin Morgan

On 06/10/2011 04:04 PM, Kornelius Rohmeyer wrote:

I'm sorry for sending a wrongly formated mail before. This is the missing text:

Dear all,

for a CRAN-package that depends on another Bioconductor-package I find
two things annoying and would like to know whether there are some
workarounds:

1) Is there some inevitable problem that install.packages does not
install uninstalled packages (on which the specified package depends)
also from Bioconductor (in the correct version)?


I don't understand what you are asking; a previously installed but then 
uninstalled package will not influence the ability of R to reinstall it.



2) In my understanding (please correct me if I'm wrong!) CRAN uses
bioconductor packages in another version than biocLite would install.
For example:


Usually, if you

  setRepositories()

and choose BioCsoft, then you will have chosen the correct (i.e., 'same 
as biocLite') bioc repository for your version of R (this can be 
scripted by inspecting


  read.table(file.path(R.home("etc"), "repositories"),
 header=TRUE, sep="\t")

and using appropriate row indexes as the 'ind' argument to setRepositories).


Our package gMCP depends on the package graph that has recently
switched to the bioconductor repositories. But even the following
commands will fail (i.e. install incompatible versions) for R 2.12
under Windows (and most likely MacOS):

source("http://www.bioconductor.org/biocLite.R";)
biocLite("graph")
install.packages("gMCP")



This results in errors like the following:


BonferroniHolmGraph(2)

Error in validObject(.Object) :
   invalid class "graphMCP" object: superclass "graphBase" not defined
in the environment of the object's class

The superclass graphBase is introduced in graph 1.30. In my
understanding the problem is that our package gMCP is build on CRAN
for R 2.12 with the package graph in version 1.30. Unfortunately
biocLite installs graph_1.28.0.zip for R 2.12.


biocLite is returning the correct package -- graph 1.28.0. graph 1.30 
did not come in to existence until the most recent release, 2011-04-13, 
approximately when R-2.13 became the current release version.


CRAN is building packages with the current release, R-2.13, for which 
biocLite and install.packages both (correctly) return graph 1.30.



Are there ways to make dependencies on Bioconductor less complicated?


Use the current version of R.

FWIW, part of the motivation for hosting graph only on Bioconductor 
(previously it was dual-hosted) is to simplify version problems -- prior 
to the change, the CRAN version was several releases out of date!


Martin



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Re: [Rd] CRAN package with dependencies on Bioconductor

2011-06-10 Thread Kornelius Rohmeyer
I'm sorry for sending a wrongly formated mail before. This is the missing text:

Dear all,

for a CRAN-package that depends on another Bioconductor-package I find
two things annoying and would like to know whether there are some
workarounds:

1) Is there some inevitable problem that install.packages does not
install uninstalled packages (on which the specified package depends)
also from Bioconductor (in the correct version)?

2) In my understanding (please correct me if I'm wrong!) CRAN uses
bioconductor packages in another version than biocLite would install.
For example:

Our package gMCP depends on the package graph that has recently
switched to the bioconductor repositories. But even the following
commands will fail (i.e. install incompatible versions) for R 2.12
under Windows (and most likely MacOS):

source("http://www.bioconductor.org/biocLite.R";)
biocLite("graph")
install.packages("gMCP")

This results in errors like the following:

> BonferroniHolmGraph(2)
Error in validObject(.Object) :
  invalid class "graphMCP" object: superclass "graphBase" not defined
in the environment of the object's class

The superclass graphBase is introduced in graph 1.30. In my
understanding the problem is that our package gMCP is build on CRAN
for R 2.12 with the package graph in version 1.30. Unfortunately
biocLite installs graph_1.28.0.zip for R 2.12.

Are there ways to make dependencies on Bioconductor less complicated?

Thanks and best regards, Kornelius

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[Rd] CRAN package with dependencies on Bioconductor

2011-06-10 Thread Kornelius Rohmeyer
Dear all,

for a CRAN-package that depends on another Bioconductor-package I find two
things annoying and would like to know whether there are some workarounds:

1) Is there some inevitable problem that install.packages does not install
uninstalled packages (on which the specified package depends) also from
Bioconductor (in the correct version)?

2) In my understanding (please correct me if I'm wrong!) CRAN uses
bioconductor packages in another version than biocLite would install. For
example:

Our package gMCP depends on the package graph that has recently switched to
the bioconductor repositories. But even the following commands will fail
(i.e. install incompatible versions) for R 2.12 under Windows (and most
likely MacOS):

source("http://www.bioconductor.org/biocLite.R";)
biocLite("graph")
install.packages("gMCP")

This results in errors like the following:

> BonferroniHolmGraph(2)
Error in validObject(.Object) :
  invalid class "graphMCP" object: superclass "graphBase" not defined in the
environment of the object's class

The superclass graphBase is introduced in graph 1.30. In my understanding
the problem is that our package gMCP is build on CRAN for R 2.12 with the
package graph in version 1.30. Unfortunately biocLite installs
graph_1.28.0.zip for R 2.12.

Are there ways to make dependencies on Bioconductor less complicated?

Thanks and best regards, Kornelius

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Re: [Rd] How to add a welcome message in Package development?

2011-06-10 Thread Dirk Eddelbuettel

On 10 June 2011 at 16:04, Simon Urbanek wrote:
| On Jun 10, 2011, at 3:36 PM, Dirk Eddelbuettel wrote:
| > | That said, you can simply use cat() in .First.lib (if your packages has 
no namespace) or .onAttach or .onLoad (if your packages has a namespace).
| > 
| > No, not cat() --- please use   packageStartupMessage()   as that can 
actually 
| > be suppressed easily.
| > 
| 
| Thanks, very, very good point -- that many package authors did not get (I 
actually checked a few packages before replying and they all use cat() ... eek).

Yup :)  I have over the years contacted a few fellow package authors to get
this changes.  

Lots to do still.  Maybe R CMD check should look into .onLoad() et al?

Dirk

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Re: [Rd] How to add a welcome message in Package development?

2011-06-10 Thread Simon Urbanek

On Jun 10, 2011, at 3:36 PM, Dirk Eddelbuettel wrote:

> 
> On 10 June 2011 at 15:10, Simon Urbanek wrote:
> | 
> | On Jun 10, 2011, at 2:54 PM, Nipesh Bajaj wrote:
> | 
> | > Dear all, it is my first post in R-devel list, and hope that this is
> | > the right place to ask question related to package development.
> | > 
> | > I have created my first package in Windows through the usual route.
> | > Now I want to add some ***Welcome message*** as soon as user loads my
> | > package into their R console, using library() function. However I
> | > could not figure out where and how should I add this functionality in
> | > entire package development procedure, and the "Writing R Exts"
> | > document also seem to be mum on this issue.
> | > 
> | 
> | Personally, I find "welcome messages" extremely annoying, because if you 
> load a dependency chain of 20 packages and each has something silly to say, 
> you get pages of completely useless output (since you can't read all of them 
> anyway) that tend to interfere with automated scripts. Also anything people 
> tend to say in those is pertinent only once (when the user first sees the 
> message) so the message is pointless most of the time that it's shown. But 
> that's just my opinion.
> | 
> | That said, you can simply use cat() in .First.lib (if your packages has no 
> namespace) or .onAttach or .onLoad (if your packages has a namespace).
> 
> No, not cat() --- please use   packageStartupMessage()   as that can actually 
> be suppressed easily.
> 

Thanks, very, very good point -- that many package authors did not get (I 
actually checked a few packages before replying and they all use cat() ... eek).

Thanks,
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Re: [Rd] How to add a welcome message in Package development?

2011-06-10 Thread William Dunlap
I agree with Simon that package startup messages
are often annoying and not often helpful.  However,
I think they should be generated with
   packageStartupMessage("your message")
instead of
   cat("your message\n")
The former may be suppressed by wrapping the call to
library() with suppressPackageStartupMessages(), just
as messages generated by message("your message") may
be suppressed with suppressMessages().

You can suppress cat()'s output with capture.output()
but you may throw out things that should be seen.

E.g., if a package with a NAMESPACE file contains
the following .onXXX functions
  % more testPkgWithNamespace/R/zzz.R
  .onAttach <- function(...) {
  cat("message from .onAttach via cat\n")
  message("message from .onAttach via message")
  packageStartupMessage("message from .onAttach via
packageStartupMessage\n")
  }
  .onLoad <- function(...) {
  cat("message from .onLoad via cat\n")
  message("message from .onLoad via message")
  packageStartupMessage("message from .onLoad via
packageStartupMessage\n")
  }
we get:
  > library(testPkgWithNamespace, lib.loc="Rlib")
  message from .onLoad via cat
  message from .onLoad via message
  message from .onLoad via packageStartupMessage
  message from .onAttach via cat
  message from .onAttach via message
  message from .onAttach via packageStartupMessage
  >
  > detach("package:testPkgWithNamespace", unload=TRUE)
  > suppressMessages(library(testPkgWithNamespace, lib.loc="Rlib"))
  message from .onLoad via cat
  message from .onAttach via cat
  >
  > detach("package:testPkgWithNamespace", unload=TRUE)
  > suppressPackageStartupMessages(library(testPkgWithNamespace,
lib.loc="Rlib"))
  message from .onLoad via cat
  message from .onLoad via message
  message from .onAttach via cat
  message from .onAttach via message

Bill Dunlap
Spotfire, TIBCO Software
wdunlap tibco.com  

> -Original Message-
> From: r-devel-boun...@r-project.org 
> [mailto:r-devel-boun...@r-project.org] On Behalf Of Simon Urbanek
> Sent: Friday, June 10, 2011 12:10 PM
> To: Nipesh Bajaj
> Cc: r-devel@r-project.org
> Subject: Re: [Rd] How to add a welcome message in Package development?
> 
> 
> On Jun 10, 2011, at 2:54 PM, Nipesh Bajaj wrote:
> 
> > Dear all, it is my first post in R-devel list, and hope that this is
> > the right place to ask question related to package development.
> > 
> > I have created my first package in Windows through the usual route.
> > Now I want to add some ***Welcome message*** as soon as 
> user loads my
> > package into their R console, using library() function. However I
> > could not figure out where and how should I add this 
> functionality in
> > entire package development procedure, and the "Writing R Exts"
> > document also seem to be mum on this issue.
> > 
> 
> Personally, I find "welcome messages" extremely annoying, 
> because if you load a dependency chain of 20 packages and 
> each has something silly to say, you get pages of completely 
> useless output (since you can't read all of them anyway) that 
> tend to interfere with automated scripts. Also anything 
> people tend to say in those is pertinent only once (when the 
> user first sees the message) so the message is pointless most 
> of the time that it's shown. But that's just my opinion.
> 
> That said, you can simply use cat() in .First.lib (if your 
> packages has no namespace) or .onAttach or .onLoad (if your 
> packages has a namespace).
> 
> Cheers,
> Simon
> 
> 
> > Can somebody help me how to add this functionality in the 
> development
> > route of package. I believe this is possible as in many existing
> > packages that functionality is present.
> > 
> > Thanks,
> > 
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Re: [Rd] How to add a welcome message in Package development?

2011-06-10 Thread Dirk Eddelbuettel

On 10 June 2011 at 15:10, Simon Urbanek wrote:
| 
| On Jun 10, 2011, at 2:54 PM, Nipesh Bajaj wrote:
| 
| > Dear all, it is my first post in R-devel list, and hope that this is
| > the right place to ask question related to package development.
| > 
| > I have created my first package in Windows through the usual route.
| > Now I want to add some ***Welcome message*** as soon as user loads my
| > package into their R console, using library() function. However I
| > could not figure out where and how should I add this functionality in
| > entire package development procedure, and the "Writing R Exts"
| > document also seem to be mum on this issue.
| > 
| 
| Personally, I find "welcome messages" extremely annoying, because if you load 
a dependency chain of 20 packages and each has something silly to say, you get 
pages of completely useless output (since you can't read all of them anyway) 
that tend to interfere with automated scripts. Also anything people tend to say 
in those is pertinent only once (when the user first sees the message) so the 
message is pointless most of the time that it's shown. But that's just my 
opinion.
| 
| That said, you can simply use cat() in .First.lib (if your packages has no 
namespace) or .onAttach or .onLoad (if your packages has a namespace).

No, not cat() --- please use   packageStartupMessage()   as that can actually 
be suppressed easily.

Dirk, who also finds them annoying

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Re: [Rd] How to add a welcome message in Package development?

2011-06-10 Thread Simon Urbanek

On Jun 10, 2011, at 2:54 PM, Nipesh Bajaj wrote:

> Dear all, it is my first post in R-devel list, and hope that this is
> the right place to ask question related to package development.
> 
> I have created my first package in Windows through the usual route.
> Now I want to add some ***Welcome message*** as soon as user loads my
> package into their R console, using library() function. However I
> could not figure out where and how should I add this functionality in
> entire package development procedure, and the "Writing R Exts"
> document also seem to be mum on this issue.
> 

Personally, I find "welcome messages" extremely annoying, because if you load a 
dependency chain of 20 packages and each has something silly to say, you get 
pages of completely useless output (since you can't read all of them anyway) 
that tend to interfere with automated scripts. Also anything people tend to say 
in those is pertinent only once (when the user first sees the message) so the 
message is pointless most of the time that it's shown. But that's just my 
opinion.

That said, you can simply use cat() in .First.lib (if your packages has no 
namespace) or .onAttach or .onLoad (if your packages has a namespace).

Cheers,
Simon


> Can somebody help me how to add this functionality in the development
> route of package. I believe this is possible as in many existing
> packages that functionality is present.
> 
> Thanks,
> 
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[Rd] How to add a welcome message in Package development?

2011-06-10 Thread Nipesh Bajaj
Dear all, it is my first post in R-devel list, and hope that this is
the right place to ask question related to package development.

I have created my first package in Windows through the usual route.
Now I want to add some ***Welcome message*** as soon as user loads my
package into their R console, using library() function. However I
could not figure out where and how should I add this functionality in
entire package development procedure, and the "Writing R Exts"
document also seem to be mum on this issue.

Can somebody help me how to add this functionality in the development
route of package. I believe this is possible as in many existing
packages that functionality is present.

Thanks,

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Re: [Rd] Require of gWidgetsRGtk2 fails: RGtk2.dll can't be found, but it's there

2011-06-10 Thread Janko Thyson

Okay, at least some positive result today (language issue ;-))

Thanks for trying. Seems like GTK2 and me are not meant to be ...

Regards,
Janko

On 10.06.2011 14:36, Prof Brian Ripley wrote:
It is a Microsoft error message, so your Windows is translating it, 
not R.  It does say 'The specified module' in English Windows, without 
saying who specified the module (but it does often produce a popup 
naming the module).


I've no better idea what your problem is: the @ReadMe instructions 
work for me, Uwe on winbuilder and in our teaching lab (and the advice 
in RGtk2 does not).


On Fri, 10 Jun 2011, Janko Thyson wrote:


On 10.06.2011 13:18, Prof Brian Ripley wrote:
  On Fri, 10 Jun 2011, Janko Thyson wrote:

Dear list,

I've been trying to get gWidgets/gWidgetsRGtk2 to run
every other month for a while, but somehow I simply can't
figure out what's going wrong.


  Your subject line indicates your confusion.  It does not say
  RGtk2.dll cannot be found (at least, the English version of the
  message does not say so).

  What it means is that RGtk2.dll or one of the DLLs it depends on
  cannot be found.  See the instructions at
  http://cran.r-project.org/bin/windows/contrib/2.13/@ReadMe

  It is Microsoft's error message, not ours.


Thanks for your answer. I followed the advice in the readme file and 
installed


http://ftp.gnome.org/pub/gnome/binaries/win32/gtk+/2.22/gtk+-bundle_2.22.0-201010 


16_win32.zip
Previously I made sure that all other previously installed GTK+ runtime
environments were removed and that the windows PATH reflects the 
correct path to
the "new" GTK+ files. I also made sure I started a new R session 
before trying
'require(gWidgetsRGtk2)' again. Yet, the same error. More precisely, 
a dialog box
pops up asking me to install GTK+ or not. That's what's confusing me 
as well: the

package's recommendation with respect to the version of an GTK+ runtime
environment is somewhat out-of-sync with the advice in the readme, 
even though it

the version is fairly recent (2011-04-30)

Sorry for the german part in the error message, but I wasn't able to 
get it all
to English (tried language = en in Rconsole file, setting up a 
Renviron.site with
LANGUAGE=en, setting Sys.setenv("LANGUAGE"="en") and 
Sys.setenv("LC_ALL"="en") to

no avail; not a good R day today ;-)). I freely translated it for you:

Loading required package: gWidgetsRGtk2
Loading required package: gWidgets
Error in inDL(x, as.logical(local), as.logical(now), ...) :
 unable to load shared object
'R:/Apps/R/R-2.13.0/library/RGtk2/libs/i386/RGtk2.dll':
 LoadLibrary failure:  the specified module could not be found.

Failed to load RGtk2 dynamic library, attempting to install it.
Learn more about GTK+ at http://www.gtk.org
If the package still does not load, please ensure that GTK+ is 
installed and that

it is on your PATH environment variable
IN ANY CASE, RESTART R BEFORE TRYING TO LOAD THE PACKAGE AGAIN
Error : .onAttach failed in attachNamespace() for 'gWidgetsRGtk2', 
details:

 call: .Call(name, ..., PACKAGE = PACKAGE)
 error: C symbol name "S_gtk_icon_factory_new" not in DLL for package 
"RGtk2"


Do you have any other idea what I might be doing wrong?

Regards,
Janko



I tried several distributions of the GTK runtime
environment for Windows

(http://downloads.sourceforge.net/gladewin32/gtk-2.12.9-win32-1.exe
as described in the package's 
vignette,http://ftp.gnome.org/pub/gnome/binaries/win32/gtk+/2.22/gtk+-bundle_2.22.1-20101

227_win32.zip)

I also included GTK in my Windows PATH.

Yet, when I run 'require(gWidgetsRGtk2)', R complains
that the RGtk2.dll can't be found/loaded (see below). But
this file definitely exists. I'm running R-2.13.0 from a
USB Device but made sure that args 'destdir' and 'lib'
are set propperly in 'install.packages'.

Loading required package: gWidgetsRGtk2
Loading required package: gWidgets
Error in inDL(x, as.logical(local), as.logical(now), ...)
:
 unable to load shared object
'R:/Apps/R/R-2.13.0/library/RGtk2/libs/i386/RGtk2.dll':
 LoadLibrary failure:  Das angegebene Modul wurde nicht
gefunden.

Failed to load RGtk2 dynamic library, attempting to
install it.
Learn more about GTK+ at http://www.gtk.org
If the package still does not load, please ensure that
GTK+ is installed and that it is on your PATH environment
variable
IN ANY CASE, RESTART R BEFORE TRYING TO LOAD THE PACKAGE
AGAIN
Error : .onAttach failed in attachNamespace() for
'gWidgetsRGtk2', details:
 call: .Call(name, ..., PACKAGE = PACKAGE)
 error: C symbol name "S_gtk_icon_factory_new" 

Re: [Rd] Require of gWidgetsRGtk2 fails: RGtk2.dll can't be found, but it's there

2011-06-10 Thread Janko Thyson

On 10.06.2011 14:40, Gabor Grothendieck wrote:

On Fri, Jun 10, 2011 at 8:31 AM, Janko Thyson
  wrote:

On 10.06.2011 13:00, Gabor Grothendieck wrote:

On Fri, Jun 10, 2011 at 6:04 AM, Janko Thyson
  wrote:

Dear list,

I've been trying to get gWidgets/gWidgetsRGtk2 to run every other month for
a while, but somehow I simply can't figure out what's going wrong.

1. Use the automatically installed GTk2, not some other version.

Thanks for answering. I didn't even know there GTk2 already ships with R.
Prof. Brian Ripley linked me to the readme file with recommendations with
respect to an GTK2 distribution to use:

"What it means is that RGtk2.dll or one of the DLLs it depends on cannot be
found.  See the instructions at
http://cran.r-project.org/bin/windows/contrib/2.13/@ReadMe "

2. Note that the automatically installed one will be at
...\GTk2-runtime\bin and that will be put at the *end* of your PATH.
Change it so that its at the beginning of your PATH to be sure its not
picking up something else.

My R distribution does not seem to have such a directory (standard windows
R-2.13.0 installer from CRAN)
How do I manage to have this ...\GTk2-runtime\bin directory available?

#1 is referring to the fact that when you run RGTk2 it will ask you if
you want it to install GTk2.  Say yes and let it install that version
to be sure you are using the right one.  If you install it yourself
manually instead you could very easily install the wrong version.

The only problem with the automatic installation is that it puts the
GTk2 dll's at the end of your PATH so you can't be sure that something
else on your path (such as graphviz which has its own potentially
conflicting dll's) won't interfere.  To fix that change the PATH so
that GTk2 is at the beginning (or at least before anything else that
could interere).

Hm, I did install GTK2 via the automatic installation now (choosing to 
put the DLLs in the /bin directory). The problem is, that R keeps asking 
me to repeat this step (the dialog box) every time I try to load (in new 
R sessions) either RGTk2 or gWidgetsRGtk2 displaying the same error:


Loading required package: gWidgetsRGtk2
Loading required package: gWidgets
Error in inDL(x, as.logical(local), as.logical(now), ...) :
  unable to load shared object 
'R:/Apps/R/R-2.13.0/library/RGtk2/libs/i386/RGtk2.dll':

  LoadLibrary failure:  The specified module could not be found.

Failed to load RGtk2 dynamic library, attempting to install it.
Learn more about GTK+ at http://www.gtk.org
If the package still does not load, please ensure that GTK+ is installed 
and that it is on your PATH environment variable

IN ANY CASE, RESTART R BEFORE TRYING TO LOAD THE PACKAGE AGAIN
Error : .onAttach failed in attachNamespace() for 'gWidgetsRGtk2', details:
  call: .Call(name, ..., PACKAGE = PACKAGE)
  error: C symbol name "S_gtk_icon_factory_new" not in DLL for package 
"RGtk2"


I also tried it on a different machine running Windows 7 and R-2.13.0.

:-/

Do you have any other idea?
Thanks a lot,
Janko


Thanks a lot,
Janko

3. If you are changing the path through the control panel and starting
R from the command line note that your new path won't be picked up in
old command line sessions so start a new command line session to start
R.

4. When you start a new R session double check that the automatically
installed ...\GTk2-runtime\bin is at the beginning of your path:

  strsplit(Sys.getenv("PATH"), ";")[[1]]




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Re: [Rd] Require of gWidgetsRGtk2 fails: RGtk2.dll can't be found, but it's there

2011-06-10 Thread Gabor Grothendieck
On Fri, Jun 10, 2011 at 8:31 AM, Janko Thyson
 wrote:
> On 10.06.2011 13:00, Gabor Grothendieck wrote:
>
> On Fri, Jun 10, 2011 at 6:04 AM, Janko Thyson
>  wrote:
>
> Dear list,
>
> I've been trying to get gWidgets/gWidgetsRGtk2 to run every other month for
> a while, but somehow I simply can't figure out what's going wrong.
>
> 1. Use the automatically installed GTk2, not some other version.
>
> Thanks for answering. I didn't even know there GTk2 already ships with R.
> Prof. Brian Ripley linked me to the readme file with recommendations with
> respect to an GTK2 distribution to use:
>
> "What it means is that RGtk2.dll or one of the DLLs it depends on cannot be
> found.  See the instructions at
> http://cran.r-project.org/bin/windows/contrib/2.13/@ReadMe "
>
> 2. Note that the automatically installed one will be at
> ...\GTk2-runtime\bin and that will be put at the *end* of your PATH.
> Change it so that its at the beginning of your PATH to be sure its not
> picking up something else.
>
> My R distribution does not seem to have such a directory (standard windows
> R-2.13.0 installer from CRAN)
> How do I manage to have this ...\GTk2-runtime\bin directory available?

#1 is referring to the fact that when you run RGTk2 it will ask you if
you want it to install GTk2.  Say yes and let it install that version
to be sure you are using the right one.  If you install it yourself
manually instead you could very easily install the wrong version.

The only problem with the automatic installation is that it puts the
GTk2 dll's at the end of your PATH so you can't be sure that something
else on your path (such as graphviz which has its own potentially
conflicting dll's) won't interfere.  To fix that change the PATH so
that GTk2 is at the beginning (or at least before anything else that
could interere).

>
> Thanks a lot,
> Janko
>
> 3. If you are changing the path through the control panel and starting
> R from the command line note that your new path won't be picked up in
> old command line sessions so start a new command line session to start
> R.
>
> 4. When you start a new R session double check that the automatically
> installed ...\GTk2-runtime\bin is at the beginning of your path:
>
>  strsplit(Sys.getenv("PATH"), ";")[[1]]
>
>
>
>
> --
> 
>
> Janko Thyson
> janko.thy...@googlemail.com
>
> Jesuitenstraße 3
> D-85049 Ingolstadt
>
> Mobile: +49 (0)176 83294257
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Re: [Rd] Require of gWidgetsRGtk2 fails: RGtk2.dll can't be found, but it's there

2011-06-10 Thread Prof Brian Ripley
It is a Microsoft error message, so your Windows is translating it, 
not R.  It does say 'The specified module' in English Windows, without 
saying who specified the module (but it does often produce a popup 
naming the module).


I've no better idea what your problem is: the @ReadMe instructions 
work for me, Uwe on winbuilder and in our teaching lab (and the advice 
in RGtk2 does not).


On Fri, 10 Jun 2011, Janko Thyson wrote:


On 10.06.2011 13:18, Prof Brian Ripley wrote:
  On Fri, 10 Jun 2011, Janko Thyson wrote:

Dear list,

I've been trying to get gWidgets/gWidgetsRGtk2 to run
every other month for a while, but somehow I simply can't
figure out what's going wrong.


  Your subject line indicates your confusion.  It does not say
  RGtk2.dll cannot be found (at least, the English version of the
  message does not say so).

  What it means is that RGtk2.dll or one of the DLLs it depends on
  cannot be found.  See the instructions at
  http://cran.r-project.org/bin/windows/contrib/2.13/@ReadMe

  It is Microsoft's error message, not ours.


Thanks for your answer. I followed the advice in the readme file and installed

http://ftp.gnome.org/pub/gnome/binaries/win32/gtk+/2.22/gtk+-bundle_2.22.0-201010
16_win32.zip
Previously I made sure that all other previously installed GTK+ runtime
environments were removed and that the windows PATH reflects the correct path to
the "new" GTK+ files. I also made sure I started a new R session before trying
'require(gWidgetsRGtk2)' again. Yet, the same error. More precisely, a dialog 
box
pops up asking me to install GTK+ or not. That's what's confusing me as well: 
the
package's recommendation with respect to the version of an GTK+ runtime
environment is somewhat out-of-sync with the advice in the readme, even though 
it
the version is fairly recent (2011-04-30)

Sorry for the german part in the error message, but I wasn't able to get it all
to English (tried language = en in Rconsole file, setting up a Renviron.site 
with
LANGUAGE=en, setting Sys.setenv("LANGUAGE"="en") and Sys.setenv("LC_ALL"="en") 
to
no avail; not a good R day today ;-)). I freely translated it for you:

Loading required package: gWidgetsRGtk2
Loading required package: gWidgets
Error in inDL(x, as.logical(local), as.logical(now), ...) :
 unable to load shared object
'R:/Apps/R/R-2.13.0/library/RGtk2/libs/i386/RGtk2.dll':
 LoadLibrary failure:  the specified module could not be found.

Failed to load RGtk2 dynamic library, attempting to install it.
Learn more about GTK+ at http://www.gtk.org
If the package still does not load, please ensure that GTK+ is installed and 
that
it is on your PATH environment variable
IN ANY CASE, RESTART R BEFORE TRYING TO LOAD THE PACKAGE AGAIN
Error : .onAttach failed in attachNamespace() for 'gWidgetsRGtk2', details:
 call: .Call(name, ..., PACKAGE = PACKAGE)
 error: C symbol name "S_gtk_icon_factory_new" not in DLL for package "RGtk2"

Do you have any other idea what I might be doing wrong?

Regards,
Janko



I tried several distributions of the GTK runtime
environment for Windows
(http://downloads.sourceforge.net/gladewin32/gtk-2.12.9-win32-1.exe
as described in the package's 
vignette,http://ftp.gnome.org/pub/gnome/binaries/win32/gtk+/2.22/gtk+-bundle_2.22.1-20101
227_win32.zip)

I also included GTK in my Windows PATH.

Yet, when I run 'require(gWidgetsRGtk2)', R complains
that the RGtk2.dll can't be found/loaded (see below). But
this file definitely exists. I'm running R-2.13.0 from a
USB Device but made sure that args 'destdir' and 'lib'
are set propperly in 'install.packages'.

Loading required package: gWidgetsRGtk2
Loading required package: gWidgets
Error in inDL(x, as.logical(local), as.logical(now), ...)
:
 unable to load shared object
'R:/Apps/R/R-2.13.0/library/RGtk2/libs/i386/RGtk2.dll':
 LoadLibrary failure:  Das angegebene Modul wurde nicht
gefunden.

Failed to load RGtk2 dynamic library, attempting to
install it.
Learn more about GTK+ at http://www.gtk.org
If the package still does not load, please ensure that
GTK+ is installed and that it is on your PATH environment
variable
IN ANY CASE, RESTART R BEFORE TRYING TO LOAD THE PACKAGE
AGAIN
Error : .onAttach failed in attachNamespace() for
'gWidgetsRGtk2', details:
 call: .Call(name, ..., PACKAGE = PACKAGE)
 error: C symbol name "S_gtk_icon_factory_new" not in DLL
for package "RGtk2"

Best regards,
Janko

R version 2.13.0 (2011-04-13)
Platform: i386-pc-mingw32/i386 (32-bit)

locale:

Re: [Rd] Require of gWidgetsRGtk2 fails: RGtk2.dll can't be found, but it's there

2011-06-10 Thread Janko Thyson
On 10.06.2011 13:00, Gabor Grothendieck wrote:
> On Fri, Jun 10, 2011 at 6:04 AM, Janko Thyson
>   wrote:
>> Dear list,
>>
>> I've been trying to get gWidgets/gWidgetsRGtk2 to run every other month for
>> a while, but somehow I simply can't figure out what's going wrong.
>>
> 1. Use the automatically installed GTk2, not some other version.
Thanks for answering. I didn't even know there GTk2 already ships with 
R. Prof. Brian Ripley linked me to the readme file with recommendations 
with respect to an GTK2 distribution to use:

"What it means is that RGtk2.dll or one of the DLLs it depends on cannot 
be found.  See the instructions at
http://cran.r-project.org/bin/windows/contrib/2.13/@ReadMe "

> 2. Note that the automatically installed one will be at
> ...\GTk2-runtime\bin and that will be put at the *end* of your PATH.
> Change it so that its at the beginning of your PATH to be sure its not
> picking up something else.

My R distribution does not seem to have such a directory (standard 
windows R-2.13.0 installer from CRAN)
How do I manage to have this ...\GTk2-runtime\bin directory available?

Thanks a lot,
Janko
> 3. If you are changing the path through the control panel and starting
> R from the command line note that your new path won't be picked up in
> old command line sessions so start a new command line session to start
> R.
>
> 4. When you start a new R session double check that the automatically
> installed ...\GTk2-runtime\bin is at the beginning of your path:
>
>   strsplit(Sys.getenv("PATH"), ";")[[1]]
>
>


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Re: [Rd] Require of gWidgetsRGtk2 fails: RGtk2.dll can't be found, but it's there

2011-06-10 Thread Janko Thyson
On 10.06.2011 13:18, Prof Brian Ripley wrote:
> On Fri, 10 Jun 2011, Janko Thyson wrote:
>
>> Dear list,
>>
>> I've been trying to get gWidgets/gWidgetsRGtk2 to run every other 
>> month for a while, but somehow I simply can't figure out what's going 
>> wrong.
>
> Your subject line indicates your confusion.  It does not say RGtk2.dll 
> cannot be found (at least, the English version of the message does not 
> say so).
>
> What it means is that RGtk2.dll or one of the DLLs it depends on 
> cannot be found.  See the instructions at
> http://cran.r-project.org/bin/windows/contrib/2.13/@ReadMe
>
> It is Microsoft's error message, not ours.

Thanks for your answer. I followed the advice in the readme file and 
installed

http://ftp.gnome.org/pub/gnome/binaries/win32/gtk+/2.22/gtk+-bundle_2.22.0-20101016_win32.zip

Previously I made sure that all other previously installed GTK+ runtime 
environments were removed and that the windows PATH reflects the correct 
path to the "new" GTK+ files. I also made sure I started a new R session 
before trying 'require(gWidgetsRGtk2)' again. Yet, the same error. More 
precisely, a dialog box pops up asking me to install GTK+ or not. That's 
what's confusing me as well: the package's recommendation with respect 
to the version of an GTK+ runtime environment is somewhat out-of-sync 
with the advice in the readme, even though it the version is fairly 
recent (2011-04-30)

Sorry for the german part in the error message, but I wasn't able to get 
it all to English (tried language = en in Rconsole file, setting up a 
Renviron.site with LANGUAGE=en, setting Sys.setenv("LANGUAGE"="en") and 
Sys.setenv("LC_ALL"="en") to no avail; not a good R day today ;-)). I 
freely translated it for you:

Loading required package: gWidgetsRGtk2
Loading required package: gWidgets
Error in inDL(x, as.logical(local), as.logical(now), ...) :
  unable to load shared object 
'R:/Apps/R/R-2.13.0/library/RGtk2/libs/i386/RGtk2.dll':
  LoadLibrary failure:  the specified module could not be found.

Failed to load RGtk2 dynamic library, attempting to install it.
Learn more about GTK+ at http://www.gtk.org
If the package still does not load, please ensure that GTK+ is installed 
and that it is on your PATH environment variable
IN ANY CASE, RESTART R BEFORE TRYING TO LOAD THE PACKAGE AGAIN
Error : .onAttach failed in attachNamespace() for 'gWidgetsRGtk2', details:
  call: .Call(name, ..., PACKAGE = PACKAGE)
  error: C symbol name "S_gtk_icon_factory_new" not in DLL for package 
"RGtk2"

Do you have any other idea what I might be doing wrong?

Regards,
Janko

>
>>
>> I tried several distributions of the GTK runtime environment for 
>> Windows 
>> (http://downloads.sourceforge.net/gladewin32/gtk-2.12.9-win32-1.exe 
>> as described in the package's vignette, 
>> http://ftp.gnome.org/pub/gnome/binaries/win32/gtk+/2.22/gtk+-bundle_2.22.1-20101227_win32.zip)
>>
>> I also included GTK in my Windows PATH.
>>
>> Yet, when I run 'require(gWidgetsRGtk2)', R complains that the 
>> RGtk2.dll can't be found/loaded (see below). But this file definitely 
>> exists. I'm running R-2.13.0 from a USB Device but made sure that 
>> args 'destdir' and 'lib' are set propperly in 'install.packages'.
>>
>> Loading required package: gWidgetsRGtk2
>> Loading required package: gWidgets
>> Error in inDL(x, as.logical(local), as.logical(now), ...) :
>>  unable to load shared object 
>> 'R:/Apps/R/R-2.13.0/library/RGtk2/libs/i386/RGtk2.dll':
>>  LoadLibrary failure:  Das angegebene Modul wurde nicht gefunden.
>>
>> Failed to load RGtk2 dynamic library, attempting to install it.
>> Learn more about GTK+ at http://www.gtk.org
>> If the package still does not load, please ensure that GTK+ is 
>> installed and that it is on your PATH environment variable
>> IN ANY CASE, RESTART R BEFORE TRYING TO LOAD THE PACKAGE AGAIN
>> Error : .onAttach failed in attachNamespace() for 'gWidgetsRGtk2', 
>> details:
>>  call: .Call(name, ..., PACKAGE = PACKAGE)
>>  error: C symbol name "S_gtk_icon_factory_new" not in DLL for package 
>> "RGtk2"
>>
>> Best regards,
>> Janko
>>
>> R version 2.13.0 (2011-04-13)
>> Platform: i386-pc-mingw32/i386 (32-bit)
>>
>> locale:
>> [1] LC_COLLATE=German_Germany.1252  LC_CTYPE=German_Germany.1252
>> [3] LC_MONETARY=German_Germany.1252 LC_NUMERIC=C
>> [5] LC_TIME=German_Germany.1252
>>
>> attached base packages:
>> [1] stats graphics  grDevices utils datasets  methods   base
>>
>> other attached packages:
>> [1] gWidgets_0.0-44
>>
>> loaded via a namespace (and not attached):
>> [1] gWidgetsRGtk2_0.0-74 RGtk2_2.20.12tools_2.13.0
>>>
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Re: [Rd] Data package questions

2011-06-10 Thread Claudia Beleites

Dear Paul,


In process of creating data package from an existing one.
The current package has both raw data files and the associated
RData objects created from them. Currently, the data subdirectory
is 1.5Mb and the extdata is 5.4Mb.

Never having created a data package before, how is this best
done? Should the data package contain only the raw data, or
the RData objects too (tightly coupled)? If the later, what
(if anything) is added to the DESCRIPTION meta-information
to denote the dependency? Should both packages suggest each
other?


I have one data set that I ship as a few principal components and 
reconstruct it by a function. The result is then assigned to the 
exported variable by delayedAssign.


That way, you'd need to ship the raw data only, but can provide a 
ready-to-use R object as well.


For my example data, I don't ship the raw data as it is too big (30 MB 
toy example is really unpolite on CRAN), but I provide it at r-forge and 
give the link on the help page and in the vignette.


Claudia

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Re: [Rd] Require of gWidgetsRGtk2 fails: RGtk2.dll can't be found, but it's there

2011-06-10 Thread Prof Brian Ripley

On Fri, 10 Jun 2011, Janko Thyson wrote:


Dear list,

I've been trying to get gWidgets/gWidgetsRGtk2 to run every other month for a 
while, but somehow I simply can't figure out what's going wrong.


Your subject line indicates your confusion.  It does not say RGtk2.dll 
cannot be found (at least, the English version of the message does not 
say so).


What it means is that RGtk2.dll or one of the DLLs it depends on 
cannot be found.  See the instructions at

http://cran.r-project.org/bin/windows/contrib/2.13/@ReadMe

It is Microsoft's error message, not ours.



I tried several distributions of the GTK runtime environment for Windows 
(http://downloads.sourceforge.net/gladewin32/gtk-2.12.9-win32-1.exe as 
described in the package's vignette, 
http://ftp.gnome.org/pub/gnome/binaries/win32/gtk+/2.22/gtk+-bundle_2.22.1-20101227_win32.zip)


I also included GTK in my Windows PATH.

Yet, when I run 'require(gWidgetsRGtk2)', R complains that the RGtk2.dll 
can't be found/loaded (see below). But this file definitely exists. I'm 
running R-2.13.0 from a USB Device but made sure that args 'destdir' and 
'lib' are set propperly in 'install.packages'.


Loading required package: gWidgetsRGtk2
Loading required package: gWidgets
Error in inDL(x, as.logical(local), as.logical(now), ...) :
 unable to load shared object 
'R:/Apps/R/R-2.13.0/library/RGtk2/libs/i386/RGtk2.dll':

 LoadLibrary failure:  Das angegebene Modul wurde nicht gefunden.

Failed to load RGtk2 dynamic library, attempting to install it.
Learn more about GTK+ at http://www.gtk.org
If the package still does not load, please ensure that GTK+ is installed and 
that it is on your PATH environment variable

IN ANY CASE, RESTART R BEFORE TRYING TO LOAD THE PACKAGE AGAIN
Error : .onAttach failed in attachNamespace() for 'gWidgetsRGtk2', details:
 call: .Call(name, ..., PACKAGE = PACKAGE)
 error: C symbol name "S_gtk_icon_factory_new" not in DLL for package 
"RGtk2"


Best regards,
Janko

R version 2.13.0 (2011-04-13)
Platform: i386-pc-mingw32/i386 (32-bit)

locale:
[1] LC_COLLATE=German_Germany.1252  LC_CTYPE=German_Germany.1252
[3] LC_MONETARY=German_Germany.1252 LC_NUMERIC=C
[5] LC_TIME=German_Germany.1252

attached base packages:
[1] stats graphics  grDevices utils datasets  methods   base

other attached packages:
[1] gWidgets_0.0-44

loaded via a namespace (and not attached):
[1] gWidgetsRGtk2_0.0-74 RGtk2_2.20.12tools_2.13.0




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Re: [Rd] Require of gWidgetsRGtk2 fails: RGtk2.dll can't be found, but it's there

2011-06-10 Thread Gabor Grothendieck
On Fri, Jun 10, 2011 at 6:04 AM, Janko Thyson
 wrote:
> Dear list,
>
> I've been trying to get gWidgets/gWidgetsRGtk2 to run every other month for
> a while, but somehow I simply can't figure out what's going wrong.
>

1. Use the automatically installed GTk2, not some other version.

2. Note that the automatically installed one will be at
...\GTk2-runtime\bin and that will be put at the *end* of your PATH.
Change it so that its at the beginning of your PATH to be sure its not
picking up something else.

3. If you are changing the path through the control panel and starting
R from the command line note that your new path won't be picked up in
old command line sessions so start a new command line session to start
R.

4. When you start a new R session double check that the automatically
installed ...\GTk2-runtime\bin is at the beginning of your path:

 strsplit(Sys.getenv("PATH"), ";")[[1]]


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[Rd] Require of gWidgetsRGtk2 fails: RGtk2.dll can't be found, but it's there

2011-06-10 Thread Janko Thyson

Dear list,

I've been trying to get gWidgets/gWidgetsRGtk2 to run every other month 
for a while, but somehow I simply can't figure out what's going wrong.


I tried several distributions of the GTK runtime environment for Windows 
(http://downloads.sourceforge.net/gladewin32/gtk-2.12.9-win32-1.exe as 
described in the package's vignette, 
http://ftp.gnome.org/pub/gnome/binaries/win32/gtk+/2.22/gtk+-bundle_2.22.1-20101227_win32.zip)


I also included GTK in my Windows PATH.

Yet, when I run 'require(gWidgetsRGtk2)', R complains that the RGtk2.dll 
can't be found/loaded (see below). But this file definitely exists. I'm 
running R-2.13.0 from a USB Device but made sure that args 'destdir' and 
'lib' are set propperly in 'install.packages'.


Loading required package: gWidgetsRGtk2
Loading required package: gWidgets
Error in inDL(x, as.logical(local), as.logical(now), ...) :
  unable to load shared object 
'R:/Apps/R/R-2.13.0/library/RGtk2/libs/i386/RGtk2.dll':

  LoadLibrary failure:  Das angegebene Modul wurde nicht gefunden.

Failed to load RGtk2 dynamic library, attempting to install it.
Learn more about GTK+ at http://www.gtk.org
If the package still does not load, please ensure that GTK+ is installed 
and that it is on your PATH environment variable

IN ANY CASE, RESTART R BEFORE TRYING TO LOAD THE PACKAGE AGAIN
Error : .onAttach failed in attachNamespace() for 'gWidgetsRGtk2', details:
  call: .Call(name, ..., PACKAGE = PACKAGE)
  error: C symbol name "S_gtk_icon_factory_new" not in DLL for package 
"RGtk2"


Best regards,
Janko

R version 2.13.0 (2011-04-13)
Platform: i386-pc-mingw32/i386 (32-bit)

locale:
[1] LC_COLLATE=German_Germany.1252  LC_CTYPE=German_Germany.1252
[3] LC_MONETARY=German_Germany.1252 LC_NUMERIC=C
[5] LC_TIME=German_Germany.1252

attached base packages:
[1] stats graphics  grDevices utils datasets  methods   base

other attached packages:
[1] gWidgets_0.0-44

loaded via a namespace (and not attached):
[1] gWidgetsRGtk2_0.0-74 RGtk2_2.20.12tools_2.13.0
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[Rd] Reference Classes, Generator Object

2011-06-10 Thread soeren . vogel
Hello, I am working with a reference class:

Foo <- setRefClass("Bar",
  fields = list( a = "numeric"),
  methods = list( baz = function( xa ) a <<- xa )
)
x <- Foo$new()
x$baz(2)
x$a
y <- new("Bar")
y$baz(4)
y$a

But that might be confusing, since new(Foo) does not work and neither does 
Bar$new() (which is both clear to me but -- maybe -- not to the user). So my 
idea was to:

Bar <- setRefClass("Bar",
  fields = list( a = "numeric"),
  methods = list( baz = function( xa ) a <<- xa )
)
x <- Bar$new()
x$baz(2)
x$a
y <- new("Bar")
y$baz(4)
y$a

However, this is not the way it is usually done (e.g., with Rcpp modules), why 
not? Thanks, Sören

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