Re: [Rd] tzone DB lawsuit Implications for R-project?

2011-10-28 Thread Prof Brian Ripley
To put this nest-poking to rest, see http://www.iana.org/time-zones On Fri, 7 Oct 2011, Prof Brian Ripley wrote: Not as yet. Many much bigger users than us (almost all Unix-alike OSes, Java, Tcl, MySQL, PostgreSQL, Oracle, ...) have more resources to investigate. Note that we only use the

Re: [Rd] Error message library()

2011-10-28 Thread Renaud Gaujoux
"BTW: an ever more intuitive solution (IMHO) would be to auto-complete package names in library( ... Deepayan?;) That is non-intrusive and in line with the general use of R." (Simon) This is indeed a long wanted feature and to my surprise it actually already exists!!! (seems that Deepayan did

Re: [Rd] tzone DB lawsuit Implications for R-project?

2011-10-28 Thread Joris Meys
And an article with some extra information on it: http://www.usatoday.com/tech/news/story/2011-10-16/time-zone-database-ICANN/50793890/1 On Fri, Oct 28, 2011 at 12:12 PM, Prof Brian Ripley wrote: > To put this nest-poking to rest, see > http://www.iana.org/time-zones > > > On Fri, 7 Oct 2011, Pr

[Rd] Output multiline verbatim in Rd files with \Sexpr in PDF manual

2011-10-28 Thread Renaud Gaujoux
Hi, I want to output some generated text in verbatim in a Rd file, but do not succeed in getting it render well in all versions (text, html and pdf). I tried something like: \Sexpr[results=verbatim, stage=render]{cat("line\nnext line")} I use Rdconv to render each version of the man page. Thi

[Rd] R CMD check and error in an \Sexpr in an Rd file

2011-10-28 Thread Renaud Gaujoux
Hi, another Rd related issue I encountered is that if an error occurs in an \Sexpr in an Rd file, then on get the following error: * checking for portable compilation flags in Makevars ... OK * checking for portable use of $(BLAS_LIBS) and $(LAPACK_LIBS) ... OK * checking examples ... ERROR Er

Re: [Rd] Output multiline verbatim in Rd files with \Sexpr in PDF manual

2011-10-28 Thread Duncan Murdoch
On 28/10/2011 10:36 AM, Renaud Gaujoux wrote: Hi, I want to output some generated text in verbatim in a Rd file, but do not succeed in getting it render well in all versions (text, html and pdf). I tried something like: \Sexpr[results=verbatim, stage=render]{cat("line\nnext line")} I use Rdcon

Re: [Rd] R CMD check and error in an \Sexpr in an Rd file

2011-10-28 Thread Duncan Murdoch
On 28/10/2011 10:49 AM, Renaud Gaujoux wrote: Hi, another Rd related issue I encountered is that if an error occurs in an \Sexpr in an Rd file, then on get the following error: * checking for portable compilation flags in Makevars ... OK * checking for portable use of $(BLAS_LIBS) and $(LAPACK_

Re: [Rd] Error message library()

2011-10-28 Thread Simon Urbanek
On Oct 28, 2011, at 6:49 AM, Renaud Gaujoux wrote: > "BTW: an ever more intuitive solution (IMHO) would be to auto-complete > package names in library( ... Deepayan?;) That is non-intrusive and in line > with the general use of R." (Simon) > > This is indeed a long wanted feature and to my su

Re: [Rd] R CMD check and error in an \Sexpr in an Rd file

2011-10-28 Thread Duncan Murdoch
On 28/10/2011 10:53 AM, Duncan Murdoch wrote: On 28/10/2011 10:49 AM, Renaud Gaujoux wrote: > Hi, > > another Rd related issue I encountered is that if an error occurs in an > \Sexpr in an Rd file, then on get the following error: > > * checking for portable compilation flags in Makevars ...

Re: [Rd] Error message library()

2011-10-28 Thread Gabor Grothendieck
On Fri, Oct 28, 2011 at 6:49 AM, Renaud Gaujoux wrote: > "BTW: an ever more intuitive solution (IMHO) would be to auto-complete > package names in library( ... Deepayan?;)  That is non-intrusive and in line > with the general use of R." (Simon) > > This is indeed a long wanted feature and to my su

Re: [Rd] Error message library()

2011-10-28 Thread David Winsemius
On Oct 28, 2011, at 12:02 PM, Gabor Grothendieck wrote: On Fri, Oct 28, 2011 at 6:49 AM, Renaud Gaujoux wrote: "BTW: an ever more intuitive solution (IMHO) would be to auto- complete package names in library( ... Deepayan?;) That is non-intrusive and in line with the general use of R." (S

Re: [Rd] Sweave, cairo_pdf, CJK, ghostscript

2011-10-28 Thread Hin-Tak Leung
Reading ?RWeaveLatex more carefully, I worked out that the outcome I want could be achieved without patching R, by having this towards the beginning: <>= cairo <- function(name, width, height, ...) grDevices::cairo_pdf(file = paste(name, "pdf", sep = "."), width = width