[Rd] Packages for R-CRAN (organizing aspects)
Hello, I have some ideas for packages that I want to provide on R-CRAN. One package alreads is working, but I have some warnings in when compiling. Also I don't know if the libraries in use are only working on Unix/Linux. So I have some general questions: - If I'm not sure if the code would also work on windows (needing some ceratain libraries or tools), would it be better to mark it as Unix-like only? Would other people, who are interested in using the package on Windows, then look for the other issues? (I'm just interested in providing the functionality, and I don't use Windows, so compatibility would not be my main goal, if it's using certain libraries; but if the code is not relying on certain libs or tools I of course write code ANSI-conform, so that it *should* compile on windows too.) I mean: I just want to have the work for Unix/Linux, but in general like the platform-independent approach. I just have no interest, looking at the windows side too much. Are there people from R-CRAN team, who help at that point to make things available on many platforms? - I have in mind packages for reading a lot of different files / fileformat. How to name them? it would be consequent to name them read.fileformat but I'm not sure if this naming style is reserved for OO-methods only, and that topic I will learn later in detail, so that at the moment I just would provide the raw functionality. Maybe the name of the reading function should then better be named readfilefomat or fileformatread ? - There are a lot of different fileformats that I want to read in. Would it be better to make for each format one different package, or rather put them all together as a package Readmisc? For example the following formats I have in mind: - jpeg (libjpeg62) = already working, I want to clean up the code and documentation soon and then provide on R-CRAN - bvh (maybe (f)lex or yacc or pcre) = want to start this soon - apachelogfile /maybe using pcre) = starting date not planned - some other formats also - Other package ideas: rolling application (which uses R's built in types, not like zoo() using special types) Can you give me some general advice on how to organize this best, so that it also fits into the R / R-CRAN philosophy?! Ciao, Oliver __ R-devel@r-project.org mailing list https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-devel
Re: [Rd] Packages for R-CRAN (organizing aspects)
On Tue, Jun 7, 2011 at 9:03 AM, oliver oli...@first.in-berlin.de wrote: Hello, I have some ideas for packages that I want to provide on R-CRAN. One package alreads is working, but I have some warnings in when compiling. Also I don't know if the libraries in use are only working on Unix/Linux. So I have some general questions: - If I'm not sure if the code would also work on windows (needing some ceratain libraries or tools), would it be better to mark it as Unix-like only? Would other people, who are interested in using the package on Windows, then look for the other issues? (I'm just interested in providing the functionality, and I don't use Windows, so compatibility would not be my main goal, if it's using certain libraries; but if the code is not relying on certain libs or tools I of course write code ANSI-conform, so that it *should* compile on windows too.) I mean: I just want to have the work for Unix/Linux, but in general like the platform-independent approach. I just have no interest, looking at the windows side too much. Are there people from R-CRAN team, who help at that point to make things available on many platforms? - I have in mind packages for reading a lot of different files / fileformat. How to name them? it would be consequent to name them read.fileformat but I'm not sure if this naming style is reserved for OO-methods only, and that topic I will learn later in detail, so that at the moment I just would provide the raw functionality. Maybe the name of the reading function should then better be named readfilefomat or fileformatread ? - There are a lot of different fileformats that I want to read in. Would it be better to make for each format one different package, or rather put them all together as a package Readmisc? For example the following formats I have in mind: - jpeg (libjpeg62) = already working, I want to clean up the code and documentation soon and then provide on R-CRAN Note existence of read.jpeg in the rimage package, read.gif in the caTools package and readPNG in the png package. - bvh (maybe (f)lex or yacc or pcre) = want to start this soon - apachelogfile /maybe using pcre) = starting date not planned - some other formats also - Other package ideas: rolling application (which uses R's built in types, not like zoo() using special types) rollapply and related functions in the development version of zoo do work with ordinary vectors and matrices: # install development version of zoo install.packages(zoo, repos = http://r-forge.r-project.org;) library(zoo) rollmean(1:10, 2) [1] 1.5 2.5 3.5 4.5 5.5 6.5 7.5 8.5 9.5 rollapply(1:10, 2, sum) [1] 3 5 7 9 11 13 15 17 19 rollmean(1:10, 2) [1] 1.5 2.5 3.5 4.5 5.5 6.5 7.5 8.5 9.5 rollapply(cbind(a = 1:10, b = 11:20), 3, sum) a b [1,] 6 36 [2,] 9 39 [3,] 12 42 [4,] 15 45 [5,] 18 48 [6,] 21 51 [7,] 24 54 [8,] 27 57 -- Statistics Software Consulting GKX Group, GKX Associates Inc. tel: 1-877-GKX-GROUP email: ggrothendieck at gmail.com __ R-devel@r-project.org mailing list https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-devel
Re: [Rd] Packages for R-CRAN (organizing aspects)
On Tue, Jun 07, 2011 at 10:30:12AM -0400, Gabor Grothendieck wrote: On Tue, Jun 7, 2011 at 9:03 AM, oliver oli...@first.in-berlin.de wrote: Hello, I have some ideas for packages that I want to provide on R-CRAN. One package alreads is working, but I have some warnings in when compiling. Also I don't know if the libraries in use are only working on Unix/Linux. So I have some general questions: - If I'm not sure if the code would also work on windows (needing some ceratain libraries or tools), would it be better to mark it as Unix-like only? Would other people, who are interested in using the package on Windows, then look for the other issues? (I'm just interested in providing the functionality, and I don't use Windows, so compatibility would not be my main goal, if it's using certain libraries; but if the code is not relying on certain libs or tools I of course write code ANSI-conform, so that it *should* compile on windows too.) I mean: I just want to have the work for Unix/Linux, but in general like the platform-independent approach. I just have no interest, looking at the windows side too much. Are there people from R-CRAN team, who help at that point to make things available on many platforms? - I have in mind packages for reading a lot of different files / fileformat. How to name them? it would be consequent to name them read.fileformat but I'm not sure if this naming style is reserved for OO-methods only, and that topic I will learn later in detail, so that at the moment I just would provide the raw functionality. Maybe the name of the reading function should then better be named readfilefomat or fileformatread ? - There are a lot of different fileformats that I want to read in. Would it be better to make for each format one different package, or rather put them all together as a package Readmisc? For example the following formats I have in mind: - jpeg (libjpeg62) = already working, I want to clean up the code and documentation soon and then provide on R-CRAN Note existence of read.jpeg in the rimage package, read.gif in the caTools package and readPNG in the png package. read.jpeg in rimage does not give me a matrix like I would extpect in R, for further working with the data. It gives me an imagmatrix, which's value I can't access directly. I only have a data structure that is closed to the functionality that the rimage module provides. Maybe I have overseen something, but how would I plot a histogram of R, G and B values and the according grayvalue's histogram? With my libjpeg reader it would be: library(libjpeg) pic - readjpeg( picfilename ) par(mfrof=c(4,1)) hist( pic$r, breaks = 256, col=red) hist( pic$g, breaks = 256, col=green) hist( pic$b, breaks = 256, col=blue) hist( pic$bw, breaks = 256) How would that be possible with rimage? read.gif in caTools is giving back a matrix, and hence it's a fine function. caTools btw. offers a lot of very interesting functions. :-) readPNG of png package is agood hint, I didn't knew that. - bvh (maybe (f)lex or yacc or pcre) = want to start this soon - apachelogfile /maybe using pcre) = starting date not planned - some other formats also - Other package ideas: rolling application (which uses R's built in types, not like zoo() using special types) rollapply and related functions in the development version of zoo do work with ordinary vectors and matrices: Ah the it's a new feature, which is not offered in the packages I can install with install.packages and the default settings for this. I had to use as.zoo() around my data to use rollapply from zoo-package. # install development version of zoo install.packages(zoo, repos = http://r-forge.r-project.org;) Aha. OK, thanks. What about the documentation. if I look for it on r-cran, but the module is form r-forge there will be a mismatch. library(zoo) rollmean(1:10, 2) [1] 1.5 2.5 3.5 4.5 5.5 6.5 7.5 8.5 9.5 rollapply(1:10, 2, sum) [1] 3 5 7 9 11 13 15 17 19 rollmean(1:10, 2) [1] 1.5 2.5 3.5 4.5 5.5 6.5 7.5 8.5 9.5 rollapply(cbind(a = 1:10, b = 11:20), 3, sum) Yes, with that version it works. :-) Ciao, Oliver __ R-devel@r-project.org mailing list https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-devel
Re: [Rd] Packages for R-CRAN (organizing aspects)
On Tue, Jun 7, 2011 at 12:00 PM, oliver oli...@first.in-berlin.de wrote: What about the documentation. if I look for it on r-cran, but the module is form r-forge there will be a mismatch. ?, vignette(...) and library(help=...) will give help that corresponds to the package you installed. -- Statistics Software Consulting GKX Group, GKX Associates Inc. tel: 1-877-GKX-GROUP email: ggrothendieck at gmail.com __ R-devel@r-project.org mailing list https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-devel
