Re: [R-pkg-devel] [FORGED] Mysterious NOTE when checking package

2019-06-03 Thread Rolf Turner
On 3/06/19 3:39 PM, Christian Martin Hennig wrote: Dear list members, checking my updated version of prabclus with R-devel --as-cran I get a mysterious note: "* checking DESCRIPTION meta-information ... NOTE Checking should be performed on sources prepared by �R CMD build�." (No further

Re: [Rd] Offer zip builds

2019-06-03 Thread Duncan Murdoch
On 01/06/2019 11:02 p.m., Steven Penny wrote: If you go here: https://cran.cnr.berkeley.edu/bin/windows/base you see EXE installers for Windows. This contrasts with other programming languages that offer both an executable installer and ZIP files that can be extracted and run. For example Go:

Re: [Rd] Offer zip builds

2019-06-03 Thread Marc Schwartz via R-devel
> On Jun 3, 2019, at 6:31 PM, Steven Penny wrote: > > On Mon, Jun 3, 2019 at 4:11 PM Marc Schwartz wrote: >> I have not tried it, but if that is the case here, you may be able to use the >> normal R binary installer, but adjust the default install options when >> prompted, allowing you to

[R-pkg-devel] Mysterious NOTE when checking package

2019-06-03 Thread Christian Martin Hennig
Dear list members, checking my updated version of prabclus with R-devel --as-cran I get a mysterious note: "* checking DESCRIPTION meta-information ... NOTE Checking should be performed on sources prepared by �R CMD build�." (No further information is given on that one in 00check.log.) But

Re: [Rd] Offer zip builds

2019-06-03 Thread Marc Schwartz via R-devel
> On Jun 3, 2019, at 4:40 PM, Abby Spurdle wrote: > >> If you go here: >> https://cran.cnr.berkeley.edu/bin/windows/base >> you see EXE installers for Windows. This contrasts with other programming >> languages that offer both an executable installer and ZIP files that can > be >> extracted

Re: [Rd] Offer zip builds

2019-06-03 Thread Abby Spurdle
> If you go here: > https://cran.cnr.berkeley.edu/bin/windows/base > you see EXE installers for Windows. This contrasts with other programming > languages that offer both an executable installer and ZIP files that can be > extracted and run Are you suggesting that R should do the same? If so, I

Re: [Rd] stopifnot

2019-06-03 Thread Martin Maechler
> Suharto Anggono Suharto Anggono > on Thu, 30 May 2019 14:45:22 + writes: > Suharto Anggono Suharto Anggono > on Thu, 30 May 2019 14:45:22 + writes: > Here is a patch to function 'stopifnot' that adds 'evaluated' argument and makes 'exprs' argument in

Re: [Rd] Possible bug in formatC

2019-06-03 Thread Martin Maechler
> Randy Cragun > on Thu, 30 May 2019 00:26:38 -0400 writes: > I do not know if this is a bug or a case of improper > documentation. The documentation for formatC() implies > that the difference between the options format="f" and > format="g" is that with "g",

Re: [Rd] rgl install for R 3.7

2019-06-03 Thread Koenker, Roger W
Many thanks, I couldn’t find the right way to convince R that freetype was installed in /opt/X11 but installing it from http://mac.r-project.org/libs/ into /usr/local worked immediately without any change in my Makevars file. Roger Koenker r.koen...@ucl.ac.uk

[Rd] Offer zip builds

2019-06-03 Thread Steven Penny
If you go here: https://cran.cnr.berkeley.edu/bin/windows/base you see EXE installers for Windows. This contrasts with other programming languages that offer both an executable installer and ZIP files that can be extracted and run. For example Go: https://golang.org/dl and Nim: