Re: [Rd] organisation of packages & CRAN

2014-11-09 Thread Spencer Graves
Hi, Gábor: On 11/9/2014 7:58 PM, Gábor Csárdi wrote: A little more details about the metacran search, to show how it (imo) solves a different problem than sos, rseek, RSiteSearch, or rdocumentation.org. 1. The most important difference is that it searches for _packages_. The results are packag

Re: [Rd] organisation of packages & CRAN

2014-11-09 Thread Gábor Csárdi
A little more details about the metacran search, to show how it (imo) solves a different problem than sos, rseek, RSiteSearch, or rdocumentation.org. 1. The most important difference is that it searches for _packages_. The results are packages, not functions, vignettes, etc. E.g. if you want to fi

Re: [Rd] organisation of packages & CRAN

2014-11-09 Thread Spencer Graves
On 11/9/2014 4:50 PM, Ben Bolker wrote: Spencer Graves prodsyse.com> writes: Might it be appropriate to add "http://metacran.github.io/search"; and the "sos" package to the official list of R search capabilities at "www.r-project.org/search.html"? [Disclaimer: I'm the lead author of

Re: [Rd] organisation of packages & CRAN

2014-11-09 Thread Ben Bolker
Spencer Graves prodsyse.com> writes: > >Might it be appropriate to add "http://metacran.github.io/search"; > and the "sos" package to the official list of R search capabilities at > "www.r-project.org/search.html"? [Disclaimer: I'm the lead author of > "sos".] > >Best Wishe

Re: [Rd] organisation of packages & CRAN

2014-11-09 Thread Michael Lawrence
On Sun, Nov 9, 2014 at 8:24 AM, Steven Sagaert wrote: > Hi, > I’ve been using R on and off for a couple of years. I think R is pretty > great but one thing I’d like to see improved is the way packages are > organised. Instead of CRAN being a long list of packages having a short & > usually uninte

Re: [Rd] organisation of packages & CRAN

2014-11-09 Thread Spencer Graves
Might it be appropriate to add "http://metacran.github.io/search"; and the "sos" package to the official list of R search capabilities at "www.r-project.org/search.html"? [Disclaimer: I'm the lead author of "sos".] Best Wishes, Spencer Graves On 11/9/2014 11:06 AM, Gábor

Re: [Rd] organisation of packages & CRAN

2014-11-09 Thread Ben Bolker
I"ve never looked to see if it differs among mirrors. I believe this is just an internal log file that is produced according to the default Apache (?) webserver configs on a Debian system -- I always assumed it was generated separately for different servers, but it could indeed be just a copy of

Re: [Rd] organisation of packages & CRAN

2014-11-09 Thread Ben Bolker
On Sun, Nov 9, 2014 at 4:37 PM, Duncan Murdoch wrote: > Hi Ben. I agree with most of your points and questions, but just wanted > to nitpick one little point, inline below: > You're right -- I was being sloppy, that's worth clarifying. I think I originally meant to write "R core/the CRAN tea

Re: [Rd] organisation of packages & CRAN

2014-11-09 Thread Gábor Csárdi
On Sun, Nov 9, 2014 at 3:26 PM, Ben Bolker wrote: [...] > * download information _is_ available, unofficially, from some > mirrors other than the RStudio mirror: see > http://www.rpubs.com/bbolker/3750 You mean the report_cran.html file? According to my quick check it is indeed available on some

Re: [Rd] organisation of packages & CRAN

2014-11-09 Thread Duncan Murdoch
Hi Ben. I agree with most of your points and questions, but just wanted to nitpick one little point, inline below: On 09/11/2014, 3:26 PM, Ben Bolker wrote: > Gábor Csárdi gmail.com> writes: > >> >> Hi, >> >> I think much of this is simply impossible to do. CRAN packages are >> written and main

Re: [Rd] organisation of packages & CRAN

2014-11-09 Thread Ben Bolker
Gábor Csárdi gmail.com> writes: > > Hi, > > I think much of this is simply impossible to do. CRAN packages are > written and maintained by thousands of people, how are you planning to > convince them to reorganize their packages? Or even just rename them? > This obviously won't happen. > > Btw

Re: [Rd] organisation of packages & CRAN

2014-11-09 Thread Gábor Csárdi
Hi, I think much of this is simply impossible to do. CRAN packages are written and maintained by thousands of people, how are you planning to convince them to reorganize their packages? Or even just rename them? This obviously won't happen. Btw. did you see 'CRAN Task Views'? That is one organiza

[Rd] organisation of packages & CRAN

2014-11-09 Thread Steven Sagaert
Hi, I’ve been using R on and off for a couple of years. I think R is pretty great but one thing I’d like to see improved is the way packages are organised. Instead of CRAN being a long list of packages having a short & usually unintelligible name I ‘d like to see packages organised in a hierarch

[Rd] R CMD CHECK --run-donttest ignored

2014-11-09 Thread Francois Rousset
Dear R developers, As far as I can see R CMD CHECK --run-donttest does not test the \donttest examples. By contrast, --run-dontrun appears to run the \dontrun examples as expected. I have prepared a minimal package archive for illustrating this bug, which I can send to anyone interested (but I