[Rd] Minor typo in optim.Rd (in details section)

2006-02-23 Thread Pfaff, Bernhard Dr.
Dear R-Core member, I spotted the following minor typo in: https://svn.r-project.org/R/trunk/src/library/stats/man/optim.Rd currently: == \details{ [...]Conjugate gradient methods will generally be more fragile that the BFGS method, [...] } Should read: \details{

Re: [Rd] Minor typo in optim.Rd (in details section)

2006-02-23 Thread Prof Brian Ripley
Fixed, thanks. On Thu, 23 Feb 2006, Pfaff, Bernhard Dr. wrote: Dear R-Core member, I spotted the following minor typo in: https://svn.r-project.org/R/trunk/src/library/stats/man/optim.Rd currently: == \details{ [...]Conjugate gradient methods will generally be more fragile

[Rd] Problem during make with the devel version R-2.3.0 under Sun OS

2006-02-23 Thread Simon Penel
Hello R users and developers, I had a problem when I tried to install the last version of R-devel. I know that this R version is an unstable version and that this problem may be irrelevant. I am maintaining a R package thus I check if this package can be installed with the development

Re: [Rd] Spurious output white line in R script (PR#8631)

2006-02-23 Thread Thomas Lumley
On Thu, 23 Feb 2006, Prof Brian Ripley wrote: On Wed, 22 Feb 2006, Fran?ois Pinard wrote: [...] So, I was not expecting R, running with that option activated, to volunteer white lines. :-) But Simon said `with the documentation'. Not doing what you expected is not a bug. Can you please

Re: [Rd] Spurious output white line in R script (PR#8631)

2006-02-23 Thread Prof Brian Ripley
On Thu, 23 Feb 2006, Thomas Lumley wrote: On Thu, 23 Feb 2006, Prof Brian Ripley wrote: On Wed, 22 Feb 2006, François Pinard wrote: [...] So, I was not expecting R, running with that option activated, to volunteer white lines. :-) But Simon said `with the documentation'. Not doing what

[Rd] Links to non-vignette documentation

2006-02-23 Thread hadley wickham
Section 1.4 of Writing R Extensions says: In addition to the help files in Rd format, R packages allow the inclusion of documents in arbitrary other formats. The standard location for these is subdirectory inst/doc of a source package, the contents will be copied to subdirectory doc when the

[Rd] rnorm returning NA's (PR#8635)

2006-02-23 Thread jjmcnutt
Full_Name: Josh McNutt Version: 2.2.1 OS: Win XP Submission from: (NULL) (192.88.209.232) which(is.na(rnorm(2000))) [1] 15242377 which(is.na(rnorm(1000))) [1] 3692029 which(is.na(rnorm(4000))) [1] 5560337 5938719 3322 which(is.na(rnorm(5000))) [1] 25231754 42397181

Re: [Rd] Spurious output white line in R script (PR#8631)

2006-02-23 Thread Thomas Lumley
On Thu, 23 Feb 2006, Simon Urbanek wrote: On Feb 23, 2006, at 11:14 AM, Thomas Lumley wrote: On Thu, 23 Feb 2006, Prof Brian Ripley wrote: On Wed, 22 Feb 2006, François Pinard wrote: [...] So, I was not expecting R, running with that option activated, to volunteer white lines. :-) But

Re: [Rd] Links to non-vignette documentation

2006-02-23 Thread Duncan Murdoch
On 2/23/2006 11:53 AM, hadley wickham wrote: Section 1.4 of Writing R Extensions says: In addition to the help files in Rd format, R packages allow the inclusion of documents in arbitrary other formats. The standard location for these is subdirectory inst/doc of a source package, the

Re: [Rd] Tiny documentation error for ?options (PR#8633)

2006-02-23 Thread François Pinard
[Brian Ripley] This is already corrected in the the development version of R: Good, thanks! P.S. - More generally, huge thanks to all developers of this impressive R system. I have an idea of the constant courage and long dedication it takes for reaching the usability and maturity R already

Re: [Rd] Utilizing the internet module

2006-02-23 Thread Prof Brian Ripley
On Thu, 23 Feb 2006, Jeffrey Horner wrote: Hello all, I'd like to utilize the R_Sock* functions from R_ext/R-ftp-http.h in my R package. The intent is to use these in conjunction with R_serialize() to store R objects in a remote data store. I'm aware that version 2.2.1 of Writing R

Re: [Rd] Links to non-vignette documentation

2006-02-23 Thread Prof Brian Ripley
On Thu, 23 Feb 2006, Duncan Murdoch wrote: On 2/23/2006 11:53 AM, hadley wickham wrote: Section 1.4 of Writing R Extensions says: In addition to the help files in Rd format, R packages allow the inclusion of documents in arbitrary other formats. The standard location for these is

Re: [Rd] rnorm returning NA's (PR#8635)

2006-02-23 Thread Duncan Murdoch
On 2/23/2006 1:04 PM, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Full_Name: Josh McNutt Version: 2.2.1 OS: Win XP Submission from: (NULL) (192.88.209.232) which(is.na(rnorm(2000))) [1] 15242377 which(is.na(rnorm(1000))) [1] 3692029 which(is.na(rnorm(4000))) [1] 5560337 5938719

Re: [Rd] Links to non-vignette documentation

2006-02-23 Thread hadley wickham
Is there anyway to have my pdf documentation listed under vignettes other than making it a sweave file? No, a vignette is regarded as an Sweave file. It would be useful if there was a mechanism to allow arbitrary pdf files to be included as vignettes. There are many other ways to include R

Re: [Rd] Links to non-vignette documentation

2006-02-23 Thread Prof Brian Ripley
On Thu, 23 Feb 2006, hadley wickham wrote: Is there anyway to have my pdf documentation listed under vignettes other than making it a sweave file? No, a vignette is regarded as an Sweave file. It would be useful if there was a mechanism to allow arbitrary pdf files to be included as

Re: [Rd] Problem during make with the devel version R-2.3.0 under Sun OS

2006-02-23 Thread Prof Brian Ripley
This is a compiler error (generating invalid assembler), not an R error. What compiler version is this? I have no problem compiling the current R-devel (37422) on Solaris with gcc-3.4.5 or gcc-4.0.2 (and using the Sun assembler as you are). I have seen problems with plot3d with earlier

Re: [Rd] Links to non-vignette documentation

2006-02-23 Thread hadley wickham
I think you need to define `vignette'. I understand the usage to mean an Sweave file. There are ways to include other PDF files, and you can write your own index file. R can't do that for you as it cannot read PDF (it can read Sweave). How can I write an index file with a pointer to my

Re: [Rd] Links to non-vignette documentation

2006-02-23 Thread Prof Brian Ripley
On Thu, 23 Feb 2006, hadley wickham wrote: I think you need to define `vignette'. I understand the usage to mean an Sweave file. There are ways to include other PDF files, and you can write your own index file. R can't do that for you as it cannot read PDF (it can read Sweave). How can I

Re: [Rd] Links to non-vignette documentation

2006-02-23 Thread Duncan Murdoch
On 2/23/2006 4:23 PM, hadley wickham wrote: I think you need to define `vignette'. I understand the usage to mean an Sweave file. There are ways to include other PDF files, and you can write your own index file. R can't do that for you as it cannot read PDF (it can read Sweave). How can

Re: [Rd] Links to non-vignette documentation

2006-02-23 Thread hadley wickham
We were referring to an HTML index file. If you want to have a reference from your package man page (foo-package.Rd) or some other man page, you can use \url{../doc/my.pdf} and the link will work in HTML versions of help, and won't be too misleading in other versions (especially if you

Re: [Rd] Utilizing the internet module

2006-02-23 Thread Jeffrey Horner
Prof Brian Ripley wrote: On Thu, 23 Feb 2006, Jeffrey Horner wrote: Hello all, I'd like to utilize the R_Sock* functions from R_ext/R-ftp-http.h in my R package. The intent is to use these in conjunction with R_serialize() to store R objects in a remote data store. I'm aware that version

Re: [Rd] Spurious output white line in R script (PR#8631)

2006-02-23 Thread François Pinard
[Brian Ripley] [François Pinard] Within the output resulting of command man R, one reads: --slave Make R run as quietly as possible So, I was not expecting R, running with that option activated, to volunteer white lines. :-) Can you please point us to documentation which

Re: [Rd] Spurious output white line in R script (PR#8631)

2006-02-23 Thread François Pinard
[François Pinard, clarifying himself] Adding a newline when --slave has not been selected, and whenever the output is connected to a tty, is also wise, regardless if termination is effected through q() or through hitting end-of-file. Just to make sure I'm not misinterpreted, the and of the

Re: [Rd] Links to non-vignette documentation

2006-02-23 Thread Duncan Murdoch
On 2/23/2006 5:49 PM, hadley wickham wrote: We were referring to an HTML index file. If you want to have a reference from your package man page (foo-package.Rd) or some other man page, you can use \url{../doc/my.pdf} and the link will work in HTML versions of help, and won't be too misleading

Re: [Rd] Links to non-vignette documentation

2006-02-23 Thread Gabor Grothendieck
I haven't followed this whole thread but note that if your package is called mypkg then you can create an .Rd file called mypkg-package.Rd which will be called up when the user issues: package?mypkg and that can contain links to whatever you are interested in. Try library(dyn) package?dyn for

Re: [Rd] Utilizing the internet module

2006-02-23 Thread Prof Brian Ripley
On Thu, 23 Feb 2006, Jeffrey Horner wrote: Prof Brian Ripley wrote: On Thu, 23 Feb 2006, Jeffrey Horner wrote: Hello all, I'd like to utilize the R_Sock* functions from R_ext/R-ftp-http.h in my R package. The intent is to use these in conjunction with R_serialize() to store R objects