Re: [R] modifying code in contributed libraries - changes from versions 1.* to 2.*

2005-11-23 Thread Seth Falcon
On 23 Nov 2005, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > I didn't understand this either. Perhaps Seth could explain it. > [I've added Seth back to the recipients.] Easily, I was confused and wrong about this. Somehow I must have been thinking about installed packages, but I don't know why. + seth

Re: [R] modifying code in contributed libraries - changes from versions 1.* to 2.*

2005-11-23 Thread Prof Brian Ripley
I didn't understand this either. Perhaps Seth could explain it. [I've added Seth back to the recipients.] In particular, GPL requires the sources to be made available, and if the source package is not the sources, where are they made available? So for a GPL-ed package it seems completely re

Re: [R] modifying code in contributed libraries - changes from versions 1.* to 2.*

2005-11-23 Thread Bjørn-Helge Mevik
Seth Falcon wrote: > Actually, R source packages are also mangled. While the source is > readable, it is not in the form used to develop the package. I haven't seen this behaviour. At least for the simple package I'm maintaining (pls), the only file in the source package that is changed by R CM

Re: [R] modifying code in contributed libraries - changes from versions 1.* to 2.*

2005-11-22 Thread Seth Falcon
On 22 Nov 2005, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Due to lazy loading (see a corresponding R News article) code is > stored in databases for some time now, if you are looking into > binary packages. > > In order to modify/fix something, download the source version of a > package, change the code, and INS

Re: [R] modifying code in contributed libraries - changes from versions 1.* to 2.*

2005-11-22 Thread Martyn Plummer
On Tue, 2005-11-22 at 08:35 -0700, Brian S Cade wrote: > Having finally updated from R 1.91 to R 2.2.0 with my installation of a > new computer, I discovered that something has changed drastically about > the way code for contributed packages is stored when installed in a local > version of R.

Re: [R] modifying code in contributed libraries - changes from versions 1.* to 2.*

2005-11-22 Thread Uwe Ligges
Brian S Cade wrote: > Having finally updated from R 1.91 to R 2.2.0 with my installation of a > new computer, I discovered that something has changed drastically about > the way code for contributed packages is stored when installed in a local > version of R. In the 1.* versions it was easy for

Re: [R] modifying code in contributed libraries - changes from versions 1.* to 2.*

2005-11-22 Thread Jari Oksanen
On 22 Nov 2005, at 17:35, Brian S Cade wrote: > Having finally updated from R 1.91 to R 2.2.0 with my installation of a > new computer, I discovered that something has changed drastically about > the way code for contributed packages is stored when installed in a > local > version of R. In the

[R] modifying code in contributed libraries - changes from versions 1.* to 2.*

2005-11-22 Thread Brian S Cade
Having finally updated from R 1.91 to R 2.2.0 with my installation of a new computer, I discovered that something has changed drastically about the way code for contributed packages is stored when installed in a local version of R. In the 1.* versions it was easy for me to go in and modify som