Re: [Rd] Vignette problem and CRAN policies

2013-09-23 Thread Spencer Graves
Hi, Marc: That's great. I just did update.packages, then tried "writeFindFn2xls", and it worked! "writeFindFn2xls" is programmed to try WriteXLS. Previously, it failed on my 64-bit installation of R, because of that very problem. I was planning to modify "writeFindFn2xls" to

Re: [Rd] Vignette problem and CRAN policies

2013-09-23 Thread Joshua Ulrich
As Berend Hasselman already told you, "Then surf to the address given at the end of each posting; go to the bottom of that page and follow the instructions for unsubscribing." Here's the link, so you don't have to scroll to the bottom of this message: https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-devel

Re: [Rd] Vignette problem and CRAN policies

2013-09-23 Thread Eric Malitz
take me off here On Mon, Sep 23, 2013 at 4:44 PM, Marc Schwartz wrote: > Spencer, > > FYI. I just noted in your post below the error message from WriteXLS > regarding TEXT::CSV_XS missing. > > Please note that in version >=3.0 of WriteXLS (current is 3.2.1), that is > no longer required and has

Re: [Rd] Vignette problem and CRAN policies

2013-09-23 Thread Marc Schwartz
Spencer, FYI. I just noted in your post below the error message from WriteXLS regarding TEXT::CSV_XS missing. Please note that in version >=3.0 of WriteXLS (current is 3.2.1), that is no longer required and has been replaced by Text::CSV_PP, which is a Pure Perl module and is included in the W

Re: [Rd] Vignette problem and CRAN policies

2013-09-23 Thread Spencer Graves
Hello, All: Professor Ripley is correct as usual: I misunderstood his original statement of the problem. He gave two possible solutions. I could not make the first solution work, and I didn't try the second until someone else on this list explained it in slightly more detail.

Re: [Rd] Vignette problem and CRAN policies

2013-09-19 Thread Prof Brian Ripley
This is nothing to do with CRAN policies (nor R). The issue is that the current upquote.sty does not play with 'ae' fonts as used by default by Sweave. The change is in TeX. And that was what Spencer Graves was informed. On 19/09/2013 04:35, Spencer Graves wrote: Hello, All: The v

[Rd] Vignette problem and CRAN policies

2013-09-18 Thread Spencer Graves
Hello, All: The vignette with the sos package used "upquote.sty", required for R Journal when it was published in 2009. Current CRAN policy disallows "upquote.sty", and I've so far not found a way to pass "R CMD check" with sos without upquote.sty. I changed sos.Rnw per an email exc