From: Martin Maechler [maech...@stat.math.ethz.ch]
> Indeed nowadays, packageDescription() *) *does*
> use the correct package version, by inspecting the "path"
> attribute of the package, in the same way as
> searchpaths()
Yeah, that's what
> Roebuck,Paul L
> on Thu, 12 Apr 2012 14:17:45 -0500 writes:
> On 4/12/12 1:56 PM, "Ken Williams" wrote:
>> On April 12, 2012 1:48 PM, Paul Roebuck wrote:
>>
>>> Not sure I follow you here. The packageVersion() method is
>>> essentially a shortcut to packageDesc
On 4/12/12 1:56 PM, "Ken Williams" wrote:
> On April 12, 2012 1:48 PM, Paul Roebuck wrote:
>
>> Not sure I follow you here. The packageVersion() method is essentially a
>> shortcut to packageDescription("MyPackage")$Version. I generally avoid
>> doing package upgrades in my scripts so the loaded
> -Original Message-
> From: Roebuck,Paul L [mailto:proeb...@mdanderson.org]
> Sent: Thursday, April 12, 2012 1:03 PM
> To: R-devel
> Cc: Ken Williams
> Subject: Re: [Rd] [patch] giving library() a 'version' argument
>
> On 4/12/12 10:11 AM, Ken William
On 12/04/2012 1:46 PM, Ken Williams wrote:
> -Original Message-
> From: Duncan Murdoch [mailto:murdoch.dun...@gmail.com]
> Sent: Thursday, April 12, 2012 12:27 PM
> To: Ken Williams
> Cc: r-devel@r-project.org
> Subject: Re: [Rd] [patch] giving library() a
On 4/12/12 10:11 AM, Ken Williams wrote:
>> On 4/12/12 7:22 AM, Duncan Murdoch wrote:
> [SNIP]
> ...
> The main hats targeted here are really people (like me, of course) who are
> trying to "productionize" results, not so much people who are doing offline
> analysis. In a production system
>
>>
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> From: Duncan Murdoch [mailto:murdoch.dun...@gmail.com]
> Sent: Thursday, April 12, 2012 12:27 PM
> To: Ken Williams
> Cc: r-devel@r-project.org
> Subject: Re: [Rd] [patch] giving library() a 'version' argument
>
> I haven
On 12/04/2012 11:11 AM, Ken Williams wrote:
> -Original Message-
> From: Duncan Murdoch [mailto:murdoch.dun...@gmail.com]
> Sent: Thursday, April 12, 2012 7:22 AM
> To: Ken Williams
> Cc: r-devel@r-project.org
> Subject: Re: [Rd] [patch] giving library() a
> -Original Message-
> From: Duncan Murdoch [mailto:murdoch.dun...@gmail.com]
> Sent: Thursday, April 12, 2012 7:22 AM
> To: Ken Williams
> Cc: r-devel@r-project.org
> Subject: Re: [Rd] [patch] giving library() a 'version' argument
>
> On 12-
> -Original Message-
> From: Prof Brian Ripley [mailto:rip...@stats.ox.ac.uk]
> Sent: Thursday, April 12, 2012 7:54 AM
> To: Duncan Murdoch
> Cc: Ken Williams; r-devel@r-project.org
> Subject: Re: [Rd] [patch] giving library() a 'version' argument
>
&
A very important point is that library() *had* a 'version' argument for
several years, and this is not what it did. So Mr Williams needs to do
his homework
From such a version of R:
version: A character string denoting a version number of the package
to be loaded, for use wit
On 12-04-11 11:28 AM, Ken Williams wrote:
I've made a small enhancement to R that would help developers better control
what versions of code we're using where. Basically, to load a package in R,
one currently does:
library(whateverPackage)
and with the enhancement, you can e
Apparently the patch file got eaten. Let me try again with a .txt extension.
-Ken
> -Original Message-
> From: Ken Williams
> Sent: Wednesday, April 11, 2012 10:28 AM
> To: r-devel@r-project.org
> Subject: [patch] giving library() a 'version' argument
>
> I've made a small enhancement t
I've made a small enhancement to R that would help developers better control
what versions of code we're using where. Basically, to load a package in R,
one currently does:
library(whateverPackage)
and with the enhancement, you can ensure that you're getting at least version X
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