Re: [Rd] Post CGI forms with built-in R function?

2006-07-20 Thread Mike Schaffer
Thanks Duncan. I figured there was some limit. Your suggestion to check out the httpRequest code has me headed in the right direction, but I am having problems with the data returned from the socketConnection. Some of the returned data appears to improperly decoded. I don't know if I've

Re: [Rd] [R] Continuation and parse

2006-07-20 Thread Prof Brian Ripley
The issue here is that the current expression is still there and protected if there is a parse problem. So you need one more unprotect. This does not give a problem in source() (the only internal use) as it throws an error in those cases. (It also uses a different branch of the code with n

[Rd] DESCRIPTION and PACKAGES files.

2006-07-20 Thread Allen S. Rout
Greetings; I'm working on translating the heirarchy of R packages into the Gentoo Ebuild environment, currently working from a 2.3.1 install. There are several data which it would be nice to see provided alongside the existing output of available.packages; at the moment I think I'm going to have

Re: [Rd] DESCRIPTION and PACKAGES files.

2006-07-20 Thread Prof Brian Ripley
On Thu, 20 Jul 2006, Allen S. Rout wrote: Greetings; I'm working on translating the heirarchy of R packages into the Gentoo Ebuild environment, currently working from a 2.3.1 install. There are several data which it would be nice to see provided alongside the existing output of

Re: [Rd] How do I modify an exported function in a locked environment?

2006-07-20 Thread Gabor Grothendieck
As others have mentioned its not really a good idea to modify the namespace of a package and writing a wrapper as Duncan suggested is much preferable. An intermediate approach that is not as good as the wrapper but better than modifying the namespace is to copy the objects of interest to your

Re: [Rd] DESCRIPTION and PACKAGES files.

2006-07-20 Thread Seth Falcon
[EMAIL PROTECTED] (Allen S. Rout) writes: Prof Brian Ripley [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: And that is the reason: everyone who downloads pays the price for unneeded fields in that file. It was a deliberate decision to minimize download times, which are already substantial for people on a