Re: We need a global decision about R data in binary format, and stick to it.

2013-08-16 Thread Darren Salt
I demand that Lisandro Damián Nicanor Pérez Meyer may or may not have written... On Monday 05 August 2013 17:48:27 Paul Wise wrote: On Mon, Aug 5, 2013 at 4:28 PM, Sune Vuorela wrote: What about svg files that are converted into png's and then manually adjusted? I'd say the source is the

Re: We need a global decision about R data in binary format, and stick to it.

2013-08-13 Thread Lisandro Damián Nicanor Pérez Meyer
On Monday 05 August 2013 17:48:27 Paul Wise wrote: On Mon, Aug 5, 2013 at 4:28 PM, Sune Vuorela wrote: What about svg files that are converted into png's and then manually adjusted? I'd say the source is the combination of the SVG files plus the adjusted PNGs. I guess you are thinking

Re: We need a global decision about R data in binary format, and stick to it.

2013-08-06 Thread Thorsten Glaser
Ian Jackson ijackson at chiark.greenend.org.uk writes: Jeremy Stanley writes (Re: We need a global decision about R data in binary format, and stick to it.): interpreted strongly. For example I have a program which relies on a fairly large set of correlative data requiring hours of

Re: We need a global decision about R data in binary format, and stick to it.

2013-08-06 Thread Andreas Tille
On Mon, Aug 05, 2013 at 05:44:16PM -0700, Don Armstrong wrote: My last question is, given the answers to the previous questions, what do we do with the R packages that are already in the archive and also contain data that is editable as is but do have an original source, who will do it,

Re: We need a global decision about R data in binary format, and stick to it.

2013-08-05 Thread Ian Jackson
Paul Tagliamonte writes (Re: We need a global decision about R data in binary format, and stick to it.): On Mon, Aug 05, 2013 at 09:57:35AM +0900, Charles Plessy wrote: it is the common practice in upstream R packages to store data in binary objects. Those objects can be modified with R,

Re: We need a global decision about R data in binary format, and stick to it.

2013-08-05 Thread Paul Tagliamonte
On Mon, Aug 05, 2013 at 02:13:15PM +0100, Ian Jackson wrote: We need to separate these two issues. Aye. IMVHO, this is the same as how we should treat images (I mean, for any data format, not just this one case of a pickled object) - if the image was a photo, clearly the .jpg or .png or

Re: We need a global decision about R data in binary format, and stick to it.

2013-08-05 Thread Bastien ROUCARIES
Le 5 août 2013 15:42, Paul Tagliamonte paul...@debian.org a écrit : On Mon, Aug 05, 2013 at 02:13:15PM +0100, Ian Jackson wrote: We need to separate these two issues. Aye. IMVHO, this is the same as how we should treat images (I mean, for any data format, not just this one case of a

Re: We need a global decision about R data in binary format, and stick to it.

2013-08-05 Thread Ian Jackson
Bastien ROUCARIES writes (Re: We need a global decision about R data in binary format, and stick to it.): Le 5 août 2013 15:42, Paul Tagliamonte paul...@debian.org a écrit : IMVHO, this is the same as how we should treat images (I mean, for any data format, not just this one case of a

Re: We need a global decision about R data in binary format, and stick to it.

2013-08-05 Thread Sune Vuorela
On 2013-08-05, Paul Tagliamonte paul...@debian.org wrote: IMVHO, this is the same as how we should treat images (I mean, for any data format, not just this one case of a pickled object) - if the image was a photo, clearly the .jpg or .png or whatever we get is the best way to communicate this

Re: We need a global decision about R data in binary format, and stick to it.

2013-08-05 Thread Jeremy Stanley
On 2013-08-05 14:13:15 +0100 (+0100), Ian Jackson wrote: [...] The other is the assertion that this particular case involves a generated data table. If this is the case then the source package needs to contain the source code which generates the table - and, really, it should regenerate the

Re: We need a global decision about R data in binary format, and stick to it.

2013-08-05 Thread Ian Jackson
Jeremy Stanley writes (Re: We need a global decision about R data in binary format, and stick to it.): No argument on the first, but the second sets a bad precedent if interpreted strongly. For example I have a program which relies on a fairly large set of correlative data requiring hours of

Re: We need a global decision about R data in binary format, and stick to it.

2013-08-05 Thread Paul Wise
On Mon, Aug 5, 2013 at 4:28 PM, Sune Vuorela wrote: What about svg files that are converted into png's and then manually adjusted? I'd say the source is the combination of the SVG files plus the adjusted PNGs. I guess you are thinking of a particular case here? What is the reason for manually

Re: We need a global decision about R data in binary format, and stick to it.

2013-08-05 Thread Jeremy Stanley
On 2013-08-05 16:41:13 +0100 (+0100), Ian Jackson wrote: [...] There should IMO be a standard way to request a source package to do from-scratch rebuilds for this kind of thing, for QA purposes. I absolutely agree. If there were a standard make target or envvar for this purpose I would gladly

Re: We need a global decision about R data in binary format, and stick to it.

2013-08-05 Thread Tollef Fog Heen
]] Ian Jackson Bastien ROUCARIES writes (Re: We need a global decision about R data in binary format, and stick to it.): Le 5 août 2013 15:42, Paul Tagliamonte paul...@debian.org a écrit : IMVHO, this is the same as how we should treat images (I mean, for any data format, not just

Re: We need a global decision about R data in binary format, and stick to it.

2013-08-05 Thread Don Armstrong
On Mon, 05 Aug 2013, Ian Jackson wrote: The other is the assertion that this particular case involves a generated data table. If this is the case then the source package needs to contain the source code which generates the table - and, really, it should regenerate the table during the build.

Re: [Debian-med-packaging] We need a global decision about R data in binary format, and stick to it.

2013-08-05 Thread Charles Plessy
Hi Joerg and Paul, thank you for your prompt answers and thank for everybody's contribution. I would like to focus my questions on R binary objects that represent data that was not entirely computer-generated (that is, for which the source code can not be summarised by a mathematical formula and

Re: [Debian-med-packaging] We need a global decision about R data in binary format, and stick to it.

2013-08-05 Thread Don Armstrong
On Tue, 06 Aug 2013, Charles Plessy wrote: My first question is: to what extent do we need to verify that the object can be regenerated. - The starting point is a source package with a R binary object. - With this starting point only, it may be impossible to know if it has a source or

We need a global decision about R data in binary format, and stick to it.

2013-08-04 Thread Charles Plessy
Le Mon, Aug 05, 2013 at 12:37:17AM +, Paul Richards Tagliamonte a écrit : Hi maintainer, sysdata.rda appears to be in your source, which is a dataset compressed into pickled R objects. Can you assure me of one of two things: 1. that this data is *not* used anywhere in the binary

Re: We need a global decision about R data in binary format, and stick to it.

2013-08-04 Thread Paul Tagliamonte
On Mon, Aug 05, 2013 at 09:57:35AM +0900, Charles Plessy wrote: Dear Paul and everybody, it is the common practice in upstream R packages to store data in binary objects. Those objects can be modified with R, and exported into various formats. The Debian archive if full of them. This is