Re: [Rd] broken link to new features in R-devel: no NEWS file

2010-07-21 Thread friedrich . leisch
>> Prof Brian Ripley >> on Wed, 21 Jul 2010 07:27:58 +0100 (BST) writes: > > > Please report problems with websites to the webmaster: no > > one else can handle them. I believe that for CRAN the > > appropriate address is cran-ad...@r-project.org. > > In addition, please l

Re: [Rd] How to set up an own package repository

2010-09-17 Thread Friedrich Leisch
/inst/doc/createReposHtml.pdf The scripts for CRAN are also in R but very specific for CRANs needs ... Best, Fritz -- --- Prof. Dr. Friedrich Leisch Institut für Statistik Tel: (+49 89) 2180 3165 Lu

Re: [Rd] My retraced version of R logo in SVG

2010-10-15 Thread friedrich . leisch
Dear Tobias, thanks a lot, this looks very nice. I just exported it to PDF and can zoom in and out with great results. I think we should replace the current logo with bitmaps (where necessary) of your version and would the be able to use vector versions wherever possible. Great work & really appr

Re: [Rd] Vignette Questions

2010-11-17 Thread friedrich . leisch
> Dear List, > > I recently stumbled over the possibility and need to specifiy > % \VignetteDepends{} > in my vignettes. I did not know about this, and I notice that it is not > mentioned in the R-extensions manual section "Writing package vignettes". > [...] Very strange, both Kurt Hornik and mys

Re: [Rd] embed Sweave driver in .Rnw file

2010-12-14 Thread Friedrich Leisch
> On Tue, 14 Dec 2010 12:40:04 +0100, > Romain Francois (RF) wrote: > Hello, > Sweave lets you use alternative drivers through the driver argument, and > several packages take advantage of that and define custom Sweave driver > for various purposes. Most of them are listed on the

Re: [Rd] Set up new CRAN mirror; but have questions before finalizing.

2011-02-18 Thread Friedrich Leisch
> On Fri, 18 Feb 2011 22:00:28 -0600, > Paul Johnson (PJ) wrote: > Hi, everybody > I have an account on Dreamhost.com and when I renewed it recently, > their message said my usage of storage and bandwidth had been > reasonably low. In an idle moment about 3 weeks ago, I followed yo

Re: [Rd] Conditional "Suggests"

2011-04-12 Thread Friedrich Leisch
> On Mon, 11 Apr 2011 13:30:24 -0700, > Geoff Jentry (GJ) wrote: > On Mon, 11 Apr 2011, Hadley Wickham wrote: >>> To me this reads as being in the wheelhouse of what 'Suggests' is supposed >>> to imply, as per the R Extensions manual.  The problem here is that if PkgB >>> is put d

Re: [Rd] Sweave tokens not in column 1: enhancement request

2011-04-20 Thread Friedrich Leisch
> On Tue, 19 Apr 2011 13:59:44 -0700 (PDT), > David Epstein (DE) wrote: > When I re-use a code chunk in Sweave, together with keep.source=TRUE, I would > like to follow usual programming conventions in which the amount of white > space on the left indicates logical structure. It see

Re: [Rd] Creating XML document extremely slow

2012-02-15 Thread Friedrich Leisch
> On Fri, 10 Feb 2012 13:18:38 +0100, > Titus von der Malsburg (TvdM) wrote: > Hi list, > I'm using the package XML to create a simple XML document. > Unfortunately constructing the XML tree is extremely slow. My code > (see below) adds only about 100 nodes per second on an Intel

Re: [Rd] French Toulouse CRAN mirror always down

2012-09-28 Thread Friedrich . Leisch
> On Fri, 28 Sep 2012 09:37:39 +0200, > Milan Bouchet-Valat (MB) wrote: > Hi! > One of the three French CRAN mirrors, cran.cict.fr (Toulouse) seems to > be down most of the time, and at least really not reliable. It has > currently been down for 28 days (!) [1], and I know that ove

Re: [Rd] [Bioc-devel] Sweave windows style path (was Re: texmf error on 7 packages on devel winXP build nodes)

2006-08-28 Thread Friedrich Leisch
> On Sun, 27 Aug 2006 07:45:00 -0700, > Martin Morgan (MM) wrote: > [A build system misconfiguration at Bioconductor lead to a discussion > about whether \usepackage{Sweave} should be included in .Rnw > documents. Leaving this line out causes a problem on Windows, as > indicated be

Re: [Rd] 'CanMakeUseOf' field

2006-08-30 Thread friedrich . leisch
> On 8/29/2006 4:13 PM, Paul Gilbert wrote: >> >> Duncan Murdoch wrote: [...] > > This doesn't address the problem of someone who hasn't got the package > installed yet, though perhaps CRAN could put a version of that man page > (or all of them) online for browsing. Unfortunately this hasn't > h

Re: [Rd] 'CanMakeUseOf' field

2006-08-30 Thread friedrich . leisch
> Duncan Murdoch <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: >> I think we need an option to R CMD check rather than a new field in the >> DESCRIPTION. Currently a package could be mentioned for any of these >> reasons: >> >> 1. To make functions, examples or vignettes work >> 2. To allow optional functionality

Re: [Rd] 'CanMakeUseOf' field

2006-08-30 Thread friedrich . leisch
> On 8/30/2006 3:21 AM, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: >>> On 8/29/2006 4:13 PM, Paul Gilbert wrote: Duncan Murdoch wrote: >> >> [...] >> >>> This doesn't address the problem of someone who hasn't got the package >>> installed yet, though perhaps CRAN could put a version of that man page >>> (or all

Re: [Rd] 'CanMakeUseOf' field

2006-08-30 Thread friedrich . leisch
>>>>>> "FrL" == friedrich leisch <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >>>>>> on Wed, 30 Aug 2006 09:34:13 +0200 (MEST) writes: > > >> Duncan Murdoch <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > >>> I think we need an option to R CMD

Re: [Rd] R-Project logo in SVG format

2006-08-31 Thread friedrich . leisch
> Hi, > > I'm looking for a version of the R-Project logo in SVG format. I've found > the bitmapped versions, > http://developer.r-project.org/Logo/ > > but would prefer a scalable version as it usually looks better when > printed. > > Where may I find one? After you created one and submitt

Re: [Rd] R-Project logo in SVG format

2006-09-04 Thread Friedrich Leisch
> On Thu, 31 Aug 2006 16:55:38 +0100, > Barry Rowlingson (BR) wrote: > [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: >> After you created one and submitted it to us probably at the same place as >> the bitmaps. In the meantime it will have to suffice that you use all we >> have, and that are the bitmap

Re: [Rd] R-Project logo in SVG format

2006-09-04 Thread Friedrich Leisch
> On Fri, 1 Sep 2006 08:56:03 -0700, > Don MacQueen (DM) wrote: > I have a file named Rlogo-5.svg, created by > downloading Rlogo-5.png, opening it with Adobe > Illustrator, Saving as SVG. > I didn't tinker with any of Illustrator's options > with regard to how, exactly, to sa

Re: [Rd] R Citation through time

2006-09-12 Thread Friedrich Leisch
> On Tue, 12 Sep 2006 07:53:52 +0200, > Gregor Gorjanc (GG) wrote: > Hello! > I keep my local bib file and up to now I had entry > @Manual{R:2003, > title = {R: A Language and Environment for Statistical Computing}, > author = {{R Development Core Team}}, > organ

Re: [Rd] R Citation through time

2006-09-13 Thread Friedrich Leisch
> On Tue, 12 Sep 2006 21:22:13 +0300 (EEST), > Ioannis Dimakos (ID) wrote: > Forgive me for being naive, > but I have not seen any reference where the ISBN was required. The apa > style that I use does not require the ISBN. It is not required for most citation *styles*. The main re

Re: [Rd] Sweave processes \Sexpr in commented LaTeX source (2.3.1patched and 2.4.0)

2006-09-19 Thread Friedrich Leisch
> On Tue, 19 Sep 2006 19:14:39 -0500, > Marc Schwartz (MS) wrote: > Hi all, > On FC5, using: > Version 2.3.1 Patched (2006-08-06 r38829) > and today's > R version 2.4.0 alpha (2006-09-19 r39397) > with the following .Rnw file: > \documentclass[10pt]{article} > \be

Re: [Rd] Sweave processes \Sexpr in commented LaTeX source (2.3.1patched and 2.4.0)

2006-09-21 Thread Friedrich Leisch
> On Wed, 20 Sep 2006 10:07:26 -0700, > Seth Falcon (SF) wrote: > "Antonio, Fabio Di Narzo" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: >> 2006/9/20, Seth Falcon <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: >>> Peter Dalgaard <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: >>> > ..not to mention TeX comments inside Sexpr (e.g. %*%...). Skip

Re: [Rd] Where to put sgml file

2006-10-09 Thread Friedrich Leisch
> On Mon, 9 Oct 2006 11:46:51 -0400, > Gabor Grothendieck (GG) wrote: > I have a package that will have an sgml file. One of the demos in ./demo > will use it. Where should I put it? > I tried putting it in ./demo but it did not survive the build so > currently I put it in ./ins

Re: [Rd] Wishlist: Sweave: allow line breaks after forward slashes (PR#9443)

2007-01-11 Thread Friedrich Leisch
> On Thu, 11 Jan 2007 15:07:00 +0100 (CET), > ahenningsen (a) wrote: > Full_Name: Arne Henningsen > Version: 2.4.0 > OS: Linux > Submission from: (NULL) (134.245.140.242) > Sweave does not allow line breaks after forward slashes ("/"). This might lead > to a long "substring

Re: [Rd] Wishlist: Sweave: allow line breaks after forward slashes (PR#9444)

2007-01-11 Thread friedrich . leisch
> On Thu, 11 Jan 2007 15:07:00 +0100 (CET), > ahenningsen (a) wrote: > Full_Name: Arne Henningsen > Version: 2.4.0 > OS: Linux > Submission from: (NULL) (134.245.140.242) > Sweave does not allow line breaks after forward slashes ("/"). This might lead > to a long "substring

Re: [Rd] [OT] old news on the home page

2007-01-17 Thread Friedrich Leisch
ased on 2006-10-03." > and can't find any citation of the 2.4.1 release of the last 18 december. Thanks a lot for the hint, fixed in SVN (will automatically go online later today). Best, Fritz -- ------- Prof. Dr. Fr

Re: [Rd] bug in Stangle(split=TRUE)

2007-04-12 Thread Friedrich Leisch
>>>>> On Sat, 07 Apr 2007 07:56:40 -0400, >>>>> Roger Peng (RP) wrote: > [I originally emailed this to Friedrich Leisch but got no response Sorry, was on easter vacation and have not fully suceeded to go through all mails in my inbox yet. > and I >

Re: [Rd] R CMD build fails with try(stop()) in vignette

2007-04-12 Thread Friedrich Leisch
> On Wed, 11 Apr 2007 17:28:31 -0500 (CDT), > Luke Tierney (LT) wrote: > It would appear that printing the error message to stderr() is what is > causing the build to fail; replace > try(stop('err')) > with > cat('Error in try(stop("err")) : err\n', file = stderr())

Re: [Rd] R CMD build fails with try(stop()) in vignette

2007-04-12 Thread Friedrich Leisch
>>>>> On Thu, 12 Apr 2007 07:35:28 -0500 (CDT), >>>>> Luke Tierney (LT) wrote: > On Thu, 12 Apr 2007, Friedrich Leisch wrote: >>>>>>> On Wed, 11 Apr 2007 17:28:31 -0500 (CDT), >>>>>>> Luke Tierney (LT) wrote: >

Re: [Rd] dendrogram definition

2007-04-23 Thread Friedrich Leisch
> On Fri, 20 Apr 2007 14:46:33 -0700, > Deepayan Sarkar (DS) wrote: > Hi, > I'm trying to create a "grob" representing a dendrogram object (for > use as a legend with lattice), and I have a question regarding how a > "dendrogram" should be interpreted. Are they by definition binary

Re: [Rd] RFC: allow packages to advertise vignettes on Windows

2007-05-15 Thread Friedrich Leisch
> On Mon, 14 May 2007 20:58:11 -0400, > Duncan Murdoch (DM) wrote: > [ ... GUI stuff deleted ] I'm of course very much in favor of adding vignettes automatically to the GUI. > By the way, another way to expose vignettes is to have them > automatically added to the package hel

Re: [Rd] HTML vignette browser

2007-06-04 Thread Friedrich Leisch
> On Fri, 1 Jun 2007 16:22:18 -0700, > Deepayan Sarkar (DS) wrote: > Hi, > this is tangentially related to the recent discussion on vignettes. > vignette() currently produces a listing of available vignettes, but > these are not clickable. Since R has a browseURL() function, it see

Re: [Rd] HTML vignette browser

2007-06-05 Thread Friedrich Leisch
>>>>> On Mon, 04 Jun 2007 11:52:51 -0700, >>>>> Robert Gentleman (RG) wrote: > Deepayan Sarkar wrote: >> On 6/4/07, Seth Falcon <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >>> Friedrich Leisch <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: >>&

Re: [Rd] step() in sink() and Sweave()

2007-06-13 Thread Friedrich Leisch
ke sink or Sweave to solve this problem. We have already scheduled discussions for a workshop which we both attend in 3 weeks. Sorry for not replying to the original email. Best, Fritz -- --- Prof. Dr. Friedrich Leisch Institut für Statistik

Re: [Rd] NEWS file (was faqs)

2007-11-16 Thread friedrich . leisch
> On Fri, 16 Nov 2007 10:20:36 + (GMT), > Prof Brian Ripley (PBR) wrote: > On Thu, 15 Nov 2007, Simon Urbanek wrote: >> >> On Nov 15, 2007, at 10:53 AM, Duncan Murdoch wrote: >> >>> On 11/15/2007 9:57 AM, Simon Urbanek wrote: On Nov 14, 2007, at 11:55 PM, Gabor Groth

Re: [Rd] RFC: Ability to suppress 'locale' from sessionInfo

2009-04-22 Thread Friedrich Leisch
> On Tue, 21 Apr 2009 21:16:59 -0500, > Kevin W (KW) wrote: > The printing of the locale information from sessionInfo is not very tidy. > Using toLatex(sessionInfo) pretty much guarantees "badness" from breaking > the margin boundary (though my version of TeX no longer reports such

Re: [Rd] RFC: Ability to suppress 'locale' from sessionInfo

2009-04-23 Thread Friedrich Leisch
> On Wed, 22 Apr 2009 12:49:05 -0700, > Kasper Daniel Hansen (KDH) wrote: > This is a better way, it does two things > a) enclose the itemize environment in a flushleft environment - this > gives us much better line breaks for the verb. > b) does a replace of ";" with ";| \verb|"

Re: [Rd] Closed-source non-free ParallelR ?

2009-04-23 Thread Friedrich Leisch
in quite different time zones, hence discussions by email take some time. Best regards, Fritz Leisch -- ------- Prof. Dr. Friedrich Leisch Institut für Statistik Tel: (+49 89) 2180 3165 Ludwig-Maximilians-Unive

Re: [Rd] link to latest package announcements

2009-04-29 Thread Friedrich Leisch
> On Wed, 29 Apr 2009 10:24:53 -0400, > Max Kuhn (MK) wrote: > I wasn't sure where to send this... > On the "What's New" section of the homepage, the "Latest" package link > points towards >https://stat.ethz.ch/pipermail/r-packages/2008/date.html#end > It should probably po

Re: [Rd] different results on linux and windows

2009-05-14 Thread Friedrich Leisch
API is documented in "Writing R Extensions". The advantage in using R's RNG is that the user can change it, e.g., to take care of streams for parallel processing on clusters etc Best, Fritz -- --- Prof. Dr. Fri

Re: [Rd] improving ?RweaveLatex

2009-08-26 Thread Friedrich Leisch
> On Sat, 22 Aug 2009 16:51:31 -0500, > Marc Schwartz (MS) wrote: > > On Aug 22, 2009, at 4:30 PM, Marc Schwartz wrote: >> >> I have some proposed modifications to RweaveLatex.Rd which I include >> here as a patch against the R-devel version of the file from svn. I >> hav

Re: [Rd] Suggestion: Allow packages to add additional information to sessionInfo()

2009-09-04 Thread Friedrich Leisch
> On Thu, 3 Sep 2009 11:10:31 -0700, > Henrik Bengtsson (HB) wrote: > On Thu, Sep 3, 2009 at 10:38 AM, Kevin R. > Coombes wrote: >> [1] I agree that sessionInfo() can be taken further. >> [2] I even more strongly agree that it would be a bad idea to allow packages >> to add feat

Re: [Rd] R CMD check: Error in .C

2009-10-27 Thread Friedrich Leisch
CE file, everything else is done automatically for you (no need for the above zzz.R). Best, Fritz -- ------- Prof. Dr. Friedrich Leisch Institut für Statistik Tel: (+49 89) 2180 3165 Ludwig-Maximilians-Unive

Re: [Rd] Removing cran mirrors

2009-11-03 Thread Friedrich Leisch
> On Tue, 3 Nov 2009 09:46:11 -0600, > Hadley Wickham (HW) wrote: >> Fritz does that from time to time. Note that this is always rather >> cumbersome: trying to contact maintainers whose addresses do not exist any >> more and so on. > I'd be more draconian - if the mirror doesn'

Re: [Rd] Suggestion for the reproducibility of R home page figure

2009-11-21 Thread Friedrich Leisch
Thanks a lot, fixed. Best, Fritz > On Fri, 20 Nov 2009 19:53:31 +0100, > Jean lobry (Jl) wrote: > Dear R-devel, > googling for the single letter R yields R-home page as the firt hit, > which is extremly nice. > By clicking on the figure you get the code of the "Winner of the R

Re: [Rd] Flexclust barchart issue when mcol=NULL

2009-12-16 Thread Friedrich Leisch
> On Wed, 16 Dec 2009 07:05:11 +0100 (CET), > christopher a hane (cah) wrote: > Full_Name: Chris Hane > Version: 2.10.1 > OS: Windows > Submission from: (NULL) (198.203.181.181) > When using barchart in the flexcust package, setting mcol=NULL to avoid the > lollipops causes a

Re: [Rd] wiki down?

2010-01-14 Thread Friedrich Leisch
> unanswered recent post. > Is it known? Philippe Grosjean maintains the Wiki, in CC. Best, Fritz -- ------- Prof. Dr. Friedrich Leisch Institut für Statistik Tel: (+49 89) 2180 3165 Ludwig-Maxi

Re: [Rd] [SoC] R and Google Summer of Code 2010: Call for Proposals

2010-02-24 Thread Friedrich Leisch
> On Tue, 23 Feb 2010 22:27:46 -0600, > Dirk Eddelbuettel (DE) wrote: > On 23 February 2010 at 22:06, hadley wickham wrote: > | > So let us all start now by proposing some ideas for 2010.  It may make sense > | > to centralize and standardize this on wiki.r-project.org but until we

Re: [Rd] [R] Sweave: Variables in code chunk headers

2007-12-03 Thread friedrich . leisch
> On Sun, 02 Dec 2007 19:41:04 +, > Michael Hoffman (MH) wrote: > Duncan Murdoch wrote: >> I put together a clunky way to handle that for a presentation last week; >> it may be enough for you. >> >> I leave the Sweave options at their defaults, but I have code chunks >>

[Rd] Google summer of Code

2008-03-18 Thread friedrich . leisch
As you may have noticed from a previous email the R Foundation has been accepted as a mentoring organization for the Google Summer of Code 2008, see http://code.google.com/soc/2008/ for general information and http://www.r-project.org/SoC08/index.html for our ideas page (which is still evol

Re: [Rd] Google summer of Code

2008-03-18 Thread friedrich . leisch
>> The R Foundation has not acted as a mentoring organization before, >> so everything is a little bit experimental for us . . . > > Is R-devel an appropriate place for GSoC communication, Fritz? My > message specific to Roxygen went unanswered.* Sorry for that, I already asked Manuel (one of my

Re: [Rd] [rd] sage <--> r integration

2008-04-18 Thread Friedrich . Leisch
somebody has to be disappointed. But allmost all of R got created without any external funding, so I don't see why this should be stop for the project. It won't be me doing it, but I would be very excited to see it happen! Best, Fritz -- --

Re: [Rd] k means

2008-05-13 Thread friedrich . leisch
in the paper describing in detail what needs to be done. Hope this helps, Fritz Leisch -- ------- Prof. Dr. Friedrich Leisch Institut für Statistik Tel: (+49 89) 2180 3165 Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität

Re: [Rd] k means

2008-05-19 Thread friedrich . leisch
centNA) R> kcca(x=data,k=2,family=km) kcca object of family ??distNA?? call: kcca(x = data, k = 2, family = km) cluster sizes: 1 2 5 3 Hope this helps, Fritz -- --- Prof. Dr. Friedrich Leisch Institut für Statist

Re: [Rd] Checking package vignettes: WARNING

2008-07-16 Thread friedrich . leisch
linux-gnu >> >Kubuntu 8.04 >> > In whiche locale are you running? On Debian Linux with de_AT.UTF-8 everything is fine for me. Of course you also need something like \usepackage[utf8]{inputenc} to handle the special characters, but you need that anyway because every textu

Re: [Rd] literate programming

2008-08-06 Thread Friedrich . Leisch
> On Tue, 5 Aug 2008 09:38:23 -0500 (CDT), > Terry Therneau (TT) wrote: > I'm working on the next iteration of coxme. (Rather slowly during > the summer). This is the most subtle code I've done in S, both > mathematically and technically, and seems a perfect vehicle for > t

Re: [Rd] literate programming

2008-08-06 Thread Friedrich . Leisch
> On Wed, 6 Aug 2008 10:25:38 -0500 (CDT), > Terry Therneau (TT) wrote: > "ESS supported noweb before Sweave existed." >That is the bit I didn't know. What I was rather looking for was a noweb > mode that knows about S formatting, and here it was available all along. I've

[Rd] Google Summer of Code 2009

2009-02-18 Thread Friedrich Leisch
and we are not there yet. Please don't send any ideas to me right now, wait for the above mentioned email by Manuel on the technical details for idea submission. Best, Fritz -- ------- Prof. Dr. Friedrich Leisch Institut für St

Re: [Rd] vignette compilation times

2009-02-19 Thread Friedrich Leisch
> On Thu, 19 Feb 2009 11:47:12 +, > Robin Hankin (RH) wrote: > thanks for this clarification Uwe > Could I include the r_env_cache/ directory in the package > and then assume that the CRAN checks use > Sweave( , driver=weaver()) > in which case the process takes about

Re: [Rd] Google Summer of Code 2009

2009-02-19 Thread Friedrich Leisch
> On Thu, 19 Feb 2009 10:52:19 -0600, > Dirk Eddelbuettel (DE) wrote: > [ Cool how nobody cared about Fritz' request not to post ideas yet :) ] Well, I kind of expected that ;-) See also below. > [ I broadly share Oleg's "wouldn't it be nice to have better plot devices" > wish

Re: [Rd] vignette compilation times

2009-02-19 Thread Friedrich Leisch
>>>>> On Thu, 19 Feb 2009 17:47:53 -0500, >>>>> Gabor Grothendieck (GG) wrote: > On Thu, Feb 19, 2009 at 5:36 PM, Friedrich Leisch > wrote: >>>>>>> On Thu, 19 Feb 2009 11:47:12 +, >>>>>>> Robin Hankin (RH

Re: [Rd] Google Summer of Code 2009

2009-02-19 Thread Friedrich Leisch
>>>>> On Thu, 19 Feb 2009 20:25:35 -0600, >>>>> Dirk Eddelbuettel (DE) wrote: > On 20 February 2009 at 12:06, Friedrich Leisch wrote: > | >>>>> On Thu, 19 Feb 2009 10:52:19 -0600, > | >>>>> Dirk Eddelbuettel (DE) wrote:

Re: [Rd] R tutorial

2009-02-22 Thread Friedrich Leisch
us by the original authors. So if you want to see it on CRAN, please contact the author (and perhaps ask for the status while doing so). Best, Fritz -- ------- Prof. Dr. Friedrich Leisch Institut für Statistik

Re: [Rd] Citation for R

2005-06-14 Thread Friedrich . Leisch
is true for the help pages anyway), and be rather pragmatic. Hence we assigned a new ISBN to version 2.0.0 and will do so again for 3.0.0. Best, -- --- Friedrich Leisch Institut für Statistik

Re: [Rd] Citation for R

2005-06-14 Thread Friedrich . Leisch
> On Tue, 14 Jun 2005 08:42:59 +1000 (EST), > Gordon K Smyth (GKS) wrote: > On Tue, June 14, 2005 12:49 am, Thomas Lumley said: >> On Mon, 13 Jun 2005, Gordon K Smyth wrote: >> >>> This is just a note that R would get a lot more citations if the >>> recommended citation was an a

Re: [Rd] Additional Books on R for Web Site Listing

2005-08-29 Thread Friedrich . Leisch
e created some bib entries consistent with the style used > on the site. The abstract sections were copied from the publisher > sites. Thanks a lot, I have added them to the list (will go live later today). Best, Fritz -- --------

Re: [Rd] Issue tracking in packages [was: Re: [R] change in read.spss, package foreign?]

2005-09-10 Thread Friedrich . Leisch
> On Fri, 9 Sep 2005 10:33:03 -0700 (PDT), > Thomas Lumley (TL) wrote: > On Fri, 9 Sep 2005, Gabor Grothendieck wrote: >> >> I personally put NEWS, WISHLIST and THANKS files in the 'inst' >> directory of all my source packages. This has the effect of copying them to the >> top

Re: [Rd] Issue tracking in packages [was: Re: [R] change in read.spss, package foreign?]

2005-09-11 Thread Friedrich . Leisch
> On Sat, 10 Sep 2005 19:06:51 +0200, > Martin Maechler (MM) wrote: > "TL" == Thomas Lumley <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > on Sat, 10 Sep 2005 09:32:29 -0700 (PDT) writes: >>> Standard location or a mechachanism like the one you >>> describe are both similar amount of work (and not

Re: [Rd] Problem Sweaving vignettes: MiKTeX's texi2dvi reports errors

2005-10-03 Thread Friedrich . Leisch
> On Mon, 3 Oct 2005 11:31:40 -0400, > Gabor Grothendieck (GG) wrote: > I have R installed in c:\Program Files\R and I use MiKTeX and texi2dvi > to process my vignettes. I do keep my package sources elsewhere; > e.g. I would keep the source for mypkg in c:\Rpkgs\mypkg . > and I wo

Re: [Rd] Problem Sweaving vignettes: MiKTeX's texi2dvi reports errors

2005-10-03 Thread Friedrich . Leisch
ld rerun the whole Sweave example, >> which forces a number of additional required items to be downloaded. > Indeed as the path is hardcoded in the .tex file generated by Sweave. In > my case > % -*- mode: noweb; noweb-default-code-mode: R-mode; -*- > \documentcla

[Rd] CRAN mirror at StatLib

2006-01-17 Thread Friedrich . Leisch
cannot be fixed it is perhaps the easiest solution if you stop mirroring CRAN, as download problems from StatLib get reported to us as "bugs in R". With best regards, Fritz Leisch -- --- Friedr

[Rd] StatLib mirror now OK

2006-01-18 Thread Friedrich . Leisch
, -- --- Friedrich Leisch Institut für Statistik Tel: (+43 1) 58801 10715 Technische Universität WienFax: (+43 1) 58801 10798 Wiedner Hauptstraße 8-10/1071 A-1040 Wien, Austria http

Re: [Rd] Citation of R packages

2006-02-04 Thread Friedrich . Leisch
tions of those three are very similar anyway. Maybe you could give an example what your candidate for a bibtex entry for packages should look like? Best, Fritz -- --- Friedrich Leisch Institut für Sta

Re: [Rd] What about a bib file

2006-02-04 Thread Friedrich . Leisch
> On Mon, 30 Jan 2006 17:49:37 -0500 (EST), > Vincent Carey 525-2265 (VC5) wrote: > Romain Francois suggests that a central bibliographic database > (possibly in bibtex format) might be useful for reference inclusion > in R package man pages. This has been discussed by a small > g

Re: [Rd] Citation of R packages

2006-02-10 Thread Friedrich . Leisch
iously have not included a CITATION file in their package which overrides the default (extracted from the DESCRIPTION file). E.g., package flexclust has DESCRIPTION Package: flexclust Version: 0.8-1 Date: 2006-01-11 Author: Friedrich Leisch, parts based on code by Evgenia Dimitriadou but R&

Re: [Rd] Bug in Sweave? -- scoping problem? (PR#8615)

2006-02-20 Thread Friedrich . Leisch
I will add it to the FAQ. fritz > On Sun, 19 Feb 2006 08:42:09 -0500, > Duncan Murdoch (DM) wrote: [...] > Code in chunks that produce pictures is executed several times. > First, to produce the output in the text. And then once more > for *each* format in which the

Re: [Rd] Wishlist - Give R a name that shows up in search engines ...

2006-03-12 Thread Friedrich . Leisch
> On Wed, 08 Mar 2006 14:55:51 +, > Hin-Tak Leung (HL) wrote: > roger bos wrote: >> Indeed, when I was writing code in Java or VBA and I needed code, say to >> buble sort or invert a CDF, I could find many examples on the web since >> the user base was so large. R has someth

Re: [Rd] Sweaving in png

2006-03-26 Thread Friedrich . Leisch
Yes, I have that on mmy 2do list for quite some time now. Could you send me your patches to the code? Fritz > On Sun, 26 Mar 2006 19:58:40 -0500, > Roger Peng (RP) wrote: > For what it's worth, I would find such a adaptation useful. > -roger > Thibaut Jombart wrote: >> Hello l

Re: [Rd] compress defaults for save() and save.image()

2006-03-31 Thread Friedrich . Leisch
> On Thu, 30 Mar 2006 18:23:11 +0100 (BST), > Prof Brian Ripley (PBR) wrote: > I have changed the default in save() to compress = !ascii. This seems > quite safe, as almost always save() is called explicitly and people will > appreciate that it might take a little time to save larg

Re: [Rd] Extending www.r-project.org features with a Wiki (PR#8744)

2006-04-03 Thread Friedrich . Leisch
[removed from r-bugs] > On Mon, 3 Apr 2006 17:36:35 +0200 (CEST), > ripley (r) wrote: > Try http://wiki.r-project.org (which you might have guessed or Googled: > it came up as the first item for me). > You might want to report to the webmaster of www.r-project.org where you

Re: [Rd] Bug#361968: Wrong name in manpage

2006-04-12 Thread friedrich . leisch
> On Tue, 11 Apr 2006 20:56:27 -0400, > Duncan Murdoch (DM) wrote: > On 4/11/2006 7:45 PM, Dirk Eddelbuettel wrote: >> R-devel'ers, >> >> On 11 April 2006 at 10:24, Dirk Eddelbuettel wrote: >> | >> | Kanru, >> | >> | Thanks for the bugreport. >> | >> | On 11 April

Re: [Rd] Bug#361968: Wrong name in manpage

2006-04-12 Thread friedrich . leisch
Thanks for spotting the bug. Best, Fritz >>>>> On Wed, 12 Apr 2006 13:53:08 +0200, >>>>> friedrich leisch (fl) wrote: >>>>> On Tue, 11 Apr 2006 20:56:27 -0400, >>>>> Duncan Murdoch (DM) wrote: >> On 4/11/2006 7:45 PM, Dir

Re: [Rd] Suggesting changes to HELP files?

2006-05-24 Thread Friedrich Leisch
> On 5/21/06, Spencer Graves <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> Is there a procedure for suggesting changes to HELP files of the core >> R distribution? If yes, what is it? If it would be considered a >> friendly gesture, I could find the relevant *.Rd file and submit a >> suggested modifica

Re: [Rd] Wishlist: Vignettes on CRAN

2006-05-24 Thread Friedrich Leisch
> On Mon, 22 May 2006 21:42:34 -0700, > Seth Falcon (SF) wrote: > "Gabor Grothendieck" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: >> This would certainly be nice. >> >> Note that the BioConductor package vignettes are online: >> http://www.bioconductor.org/docs/vignettes.html >> but there is

Re: [Rd] Bitmap device available for R CMD check?

2006-06-01 Thread Friedrich Leisch
assume we have all packages the author of a vignette has, and we do not want to limit the typesetting. HTH, Fritz -- ------- Prof. Dr. Friedrich Leisch Institut für Statistik Tel: (+49 89) 2180 3165 Lud

Re: [Rd] Bitmap device available for R CMD check?

2006-06-01 Thread Friedrich Leisch
Most of the above is explained in "Writing R Extensions". Best, Fritz -- ------- Prof. Dr. Friedrich Leisch Institut für Statistik Tel: (+49 89) 2180 3165 Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität Fax: (+49 89) 2180 5308 Ludwig

Re: [Rd] Wish/suggestion: add output of citation() to package "manuals" (PR#9009)

2006-06-20 Thread Friedrich Leisch
> On Tue, 20 Jun 2006 12:22:42 +0200 (CEST), > gregor gorjanc (gg) wrote: > Dear R core, > influenced by recent panel discussion in Vienna I think that it would be > nice to add package specific output of citation() function to package > reference manuals. I think that apropriate p

Re: [Rd] Wish/suggestion: add output of citation() to package "manuals" (PR#9010)

2006-06-20 Thread friedrich . leisch
> On Tue, 20 Jun 2006 12:22:42 +0200 (CEST), > gregor gorjanc (gg) wrote: > Dear R core, > influenced by recent panel discussion in Vienna I think that it would be > nice to add package specific output of citation() function to package > reference manuals. I think that apropriate p

Re: [Rd] vignette("introduction") causes "Error in sprintf(" (PR#9069)

2006-07-10 Thread Friedrich Leisch
> On Sun, 09 Jul 2006 19:21:25 +0100, > Chris Evans (CE) wrote: > Gabor Grothendieck sent the following at 09/07/2006 19:02: >> Same for me. Looking through the output of vignette >> I noticed that both the ggplot and reshape packages have >> a vignette called "introduction" in m

Re: [Rd] Sweave processes comments incorrectly (PR#9073)

2006-07-12 Thread Friedrich Leisch
> On Tue, 11 Jul 2006 16:46:02 +0200 (CEST), > krc (k) wrote: > Full_Name: Kevin R. Coombes > Version: 2.1.0 ^ Please note that this version of R is very outdated, please only report bugs which are verified for the most recent version of R (in this case it was still

Re: [Rd] CRAN down ?

2019-07-05 Thread Friedrich Leisch
> On Fri, 5 Jul 2019 11:45:41 -0500, > Dirk Eddelbuettel (DE) wrote: > There seems to be another outage of the Vienna CRAN server [1] though from > what I can from afar not related to DNS outage [2]. > Could anyone confirm and possibly alert the local team in Vienna? Seems to wor