[Rd] documentation cross references under R 2.10.0dev for Windows

2009-09-27 Thread Gordon K Smyth
Rcmd check under R 2.10.0dev for Windows seems to be issuing a number of spurious warning messages about Rd cross-references. The following warning messages appear when checking the latest (non-public) version of the Bioconductor package limma. They appear only under Windows, not Unix or Mac.

Re: [Rd] Windows Laptop specification query

2009-09-27 Thread Sean O'Riordain
Good morning Keith, Have a look at http://cran.r-project.org/bin/windows/base/rw-FAQ.html#There-seems-to-be-a-limit-on-the-memory-it-uses_0021 The short answer is that "it depends"... a) memory is limited under windows b) R is essentially a serial program - HOWEVER it depends what you're actually

[Rd] Windows Laptop specification query

2009-09-27 Thread Keith Satterley
I've read some postings back in 2002/2006 about running R on multiple core CPUs. The answer was basically separate processes work fine, but parallelization needs to be implemented using snow/rmpi. Are the answers still the same? I ask because we are about to order a laptop running Windows for

Re: [Rd] build time dependency

2009-09-27 Thread Uwe Ligges
Romain Francois wrote: Hello, Is there such thing as a build time dependency between packages : package B needs package A so that it can build, but once built it lives without it. Do you mean at a) "R CMD build" time or at b) "R CMD INSTALL" time? For a), you probably do not need to decla

Re: [Rd] xaxs disactivated when asp=1 in plots (PR#13971)

2009-09-27 Thread Uwe Ligges
Not a bug, see ?plot.window that tells us: asp: If asp is a finite positive value then the window is set up so that one data unit in the x direction is equal in length to asp * one data unit in the y direction. Note that in this case, par("usr") is no longer determined by, e.g., par("xaxs"),

Re: [Rd] mboost_1.1-3 blackboost_fit (PR#13972)

2009-09-27 Thread Uwe Ligges
Please read the FAQs about submitting bug reports. Bugs in contributed packages must not go to the R-bugs repository but to the corresponding package maintainer, CCing in this case (I do not confirmed that it is a bug). Best, Uwe Ligges bulls...@mail.ru wrote: Full_Name: Ivan the Terrible

[Rd] puzzle with drawDetails for a class derived from a gTree

2009-09-27 Thread baptiste auguie
Dear all, I've tried all sorts of variations discussed in "R graphics" by Paul Murrell, but I still can't understand how to write a drawDetails method for a class derived from a gTree. Below is a minimal, dummy example where two strings are plotted in two separate viewports. I require the creation