Re: [R] fUtilities removed -- use fBasics
David Winsemius dwinsem...@comcast.net on Fri, 13 Jan 2012 13:52:57 -0500 writes: On Jan 13, 2012, at 12:33 PM, Dominic Comtois wrote: When setting up my new machine, I had the surprise to see that Package 'fUtilities' was removed from the CRAN repository. https://stat.ethz.ch/pipermail/rmetrics-core/2012-January/000554.html https://stat.ethz.ch/pipermail/rmetrics-core/2011-November/000549.html indeed. thank you David (and Google, I presume ..) This is problematic for my work. I use many of its functions, and it will complicate things a lot if other programmers want to use my previous code in the future. Plus, nowhere can I find the justification for its removal. For a longer time, the Rmetrics management had planned to deprecate fUtilities (and fSeries and fCalendar), basically refactoring the functionality ``approximately'' along the lines of old package replacement pkgs --- fUtilities fBasics fSeries timeSeries fCalendar timeDate but clearly not a 1:1 replacement, but a refactoring as said above. fBasics, indeed 'Depends' on both timeSeries and timeDate, so I think it is safe to say that you should replace fUtilities by fBasics everywhere ... and things should work... Yes, the communication about these plans where not put out the way they should have; and indeed the deprecation would not have necessarily meant that the package be dropped without proper notice. One excuse has been the lack of resources and health on the side of Rmetrics. Disclaimer: I am one of rmetrics-c...@r-project.org, as having been an active co-maintainer of some parts of the Rmetrics collection, but I have not been part of the management nor the foundation. Martin Maechler, ETH Zurich You need to send your questions to the maintainers. They apparently did not respond to the requests to fix the errors. Thanks for any info on this You should perhaps subscribe to the list that is established for discussion on this and related packages. -- David Winsemius, MD West Hartford, CT __ R-help@r-project.org mailing list https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-help PLEASE do read the posting guide http://www.R-project.org/posting-guide.html and provide commented, minimal, self-contained, reproducible code. __ R-help@r-project.org mailing list https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-help PLEASE do read the posting guide http://www.R-project.org/posting-guide.html and provide commented, minimal, self-contained, reproducible code.
Re: [R] fUtilities removed -- use fBasics
Thank you for your prompt and useful replies. I will be using fBasics from now on. Regards, Dominic Comtois, Montréal -Message d'origine- De : Martin Maechler [mailto:maech...@stat.math.ethz.ch] Envoyé : 14 janvier 2012 06:39 À : David Winsemius Cc : Dominic Comtois; r-help@r-project.org; rmetrics-c...@r-project.org Objet : Re: [R] fUtilities removed -- use fBasics David Winsemius dwinsem...@comcast.net on Fri, 13 Jan 2012 13:52:57 -0500 writes: On Jan 13, 2012, at 12:33 PM, Dominic Comtois wrote: When setting up my new machine, I had the surprise to see that Package 'fUtilities' was removed from the CRAN repository. https://stat.ethz.ch/pipermail/rmetrics-core/2012-January/000554.html https://stat.ethz.ch/pipermail/rmetrics-core/2011-November/000549.html indeed. thank you David (and Google, I presume ..) This is problematic for my work. I use many of its functions, and it will complicate things a lot if other programmers want to use my previous code in the future. Plus, nowhere can I find the justification for its removal. For a longer time, the Rmetrics management had planned to deprecate fUtilities (and fSeries and fCalendar), basically refactoring the functionality ``approximately'' along the lines of old package replacement pkgs --- fUtilities fBasics fSeries timeSeries fCalendar timeDate but clearly not a 1:1 replacement, but a refactoring as said above. fBasics, indeed 'Depends' on both timeSeries and timeDate, so I think it is safe to say that you should replace fUtilities by fBasics everywhere ... and things should work... Yes, the communication about these plans where not put out the way they should have; and indeed the deprecation would not have necessarily meant that the package be dropped without proper notice. One excuse has been the lack of resources and health on the side of Rmetrics. Disclaimer: I am one of rmetrics-c...@r-project.org, as having been an active co-maintainer of some parts of the Rmetrics collection, but I have not been part of the management nor the foundation. Martin Maechler, ETH Zurich You need to send your questions to the maintainers. They apparently did not respond to the requests to fix the errors. Thanks for any info on this You should perhaps subscribe to the list that is established for discussion on this and related packages. -- David Winsemius, MD West Hartford, CT __ R-help@r-project.org mailing list https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-help PLEASE do read the posting guide http://www.R-project.org/posting-guide.html and provide commented, minimal, self-contained, reproducible code. __ R-help@r-project.org mailing list https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-help PLEASE do read the posting guide http://www.R-project.org/posting-guide.html and provide commented, minimal, self-contained, reproducible code.
[R] fUtilities removed
When setting up my new machine, I had the surprise to see that Package 'fUtilities' was removed from the CRAN repository. This is problematic for my work. I use many of its functions, and it will complicate things a lot if other programmers want to use my previous code in the future. Plus, nowhere can I find the justification for its removal. Thanks for any info on this [[alternative HTML version deleted]] __ R-help@r-project.org mailing list https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-help PLEASE do read the posting guide http://www.R-project.org/posting-guide.html and provide commented, minimal, self-contained, reproducible code.
Re: [R] fUtilities removed
On Jan 13, 2012, at 12:33 PM, Dominic Comtois wrote: When setting up my new machine, I had the surprise to see that Package 'fUtilities' was removed from the CRAN repository. https://stat.ethz.ch/pipermail/rmetrics-core/2012-January/000554.html https://stat.ethz.ch/pipermail/rmetrics-core/2011-November/000549.html This is problematic for my work. I use many of its functions, and it will complicate things a lot if other programmers want to use my previous code in the future. Plus, nowhere can I find the justification for its removal. You need to send your questions to the maintainers. They apparently did not respond to the requests to fix the errors. Thanks for any info on this You should perhaps subscribe to the list that is established for discussion on this and related packages. -- David Winsemius, MD West Hartford, CT __ R-help@r-project.org mailing list https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-help PLEASE do read the posting guide http://www.R-project.org/posting-guide.html and provide commented, minimal, self-contained, reproducible code.
