Re: [R-pkg-devel] UseR! Session: Navigating the jungle of R packages.

2017-02-10 Thread Jonathon Love
hi, first up let me apologise for breaking the thread. i subscribed to this list after the initial email went out. i'm not completely sure if the original post was to prompt a discussion here, but now there's a discussion, i'm jumping in! i'm a psychologist, and one of the challenges is the

Re: [R-pkg-devel] ω, α, η, ² in .Rd files

2017-02-10 Thread Jonathon Love
hi duncan, yup, although if the encoding of the comments in the .R files are completely misunderstood by system, it shouldn't make any difference to the resultant package. Or is there a way that it could interfere? Roxygen2 will take the comments and write out .Rd files. Those files need to b

Re: [R-pkg-devel] ω, α, η, ² in .Rd files

2017-02-10 Thread Duncan Murdoch
On 10/02/2017 5:28 PM, Jonathon Love wrote: hi duncan, On 11/2/17 01:44, Duncan Murdoch wrote: On 10/02/2017 8:52 AM, Jonathon Love wrote: hi uwe, On 10/2/17 23:40, Uwe Ligges wrote: On 10.02.2017 03:19, Jonathon Love wrote: hi, i'm trying to include some greek characters in my package

Re: [R-pkg-devel] UseR! Session: Navigating the jungle of R packages.

2017-02-10 Thread Marc Schwartz
Hi All, A few points: 1. With respect to the CRAN Task Views, they are arguably buried a bit in the menus and that may contribute to low traffic. There is no direct link from the R Home page, albeit, there is a link on the main CRAN page, which is not prominent. I wonder if it might be reasona

Re: [R-pkg-devel] ω, α, η, ² in .Rd files

2017-02-10 Thread Jonathon Love
hi duncan, On 11/2/17 01:44, Duncan Murdoch wrote: On 10/02/2017 8:52 AM, Jonathon Love wrote: hi uwe, On 10/2/17 23:40, Uwe Ligges wrote: On 10.02.2017 03:19, Jonathon Love wrote: hi, i'm trying to include some greek characters in my package documentation, but am having difficulty get

Re: [R-pkg-devel] UseR! Session: Navigating the jungle of R packages.

2017-02-10 Thread Jim Lemon
This discussion started me thinking about searching for a function or package, as many questions on the R help list indicate the that poster couldn't find (or hasn't searched for) what they want. I don't think I have ever used task views. If I haven't got a clue where to look for something, I use G

Re: [R-pkg-devel] UseR! Session: Navigating the jungle of R packages.

2017-02-10 Thread Ben Bolker
I definitely read the task views and advise others to do so. I don't know how representative my little corner of the world is, though. I have an embryonic task view on mixed models at https://github.com/bbolker/mixedmodels-misc/blob/master/MixedModels.ctv but the perfect is the enemy of the g

Re: [R-pkg-devel] UseR! Session: Navigating the jungle of R packages.

2017-02-10 Thread J C Nash
We'd be more than happy to have you contribute directly. The goal is not just an information session, but to get some movement to ways to make the package collection(s) easier to use effectively. Note to selves: "effectively" is important -- we could make things easy by only recommending a few p

Re: [R-pkg-devel] ω, α, η, ² in .Rd files

2017-02-10 Thread Duncan Murdoch
On 10/02/2017 8:52 AM, Jonathon Love wrote: hi uwe, On 10/2/17 23:40, Uwe Ligges wrote: On 10.02.2017 03:19, Jonathon Love wrote: hi, i'm trying to include some greek characters in my package documentation, but am having difficulty getting it to work on windows. it works find on macOS, lin

Re: [R-pkg-devel] UseR! Session: Navigating the jungle of R packages.

2017-02-10 Thread Michael Dewey
Dear all That seems an interesting session. I am the maintainer of one of the CRAN Task Views (MetaAnalysis) and will attend unless I am successful in the draw for Wimbledon tickets. Just in case I strike lucky one question I would have raised from the floor if I were there would have been "

Re: [R-pkg-devel] ω, α, η, ² in .Rd files

2017-02-10 Thread Uwe Ligges
On 10.02.2017 14:52, Jonathon Love wrote: hi uwe, On 10/2/17 23:40, Uwe Ligges wrote: On 10.02.2017 03:19, Jonathon Love wrote: hi, i'm trying to include some greek characters in my package documentation, but am having difficulty getting it to work on windows. it works find on macOS, lin

Re: [R-pkg-devel] ω, α, η, ² in .Rd files

2017-02-10 Thread Jonathon Love
hi uwe, On 10/2/17 23:40, Uwe Ligges wrote: On 10.02.2017 03:19, Jonathon Love wrote: hi, i'm trying to include some greek characters in my package documentation, but am having difficulty getting it to work on windows. it works find on macOS, linux, but throws errors on windows: https://wi

Re: [R-pkg-devel] ω, α, η, ² in .Rd files

2017-02-10 Thread Uwe Ligges
On 10.02.2017 03:19, Jonathon Love wrote: hi, i'm trying to include some greek characters in my package documentation, but am having difficulty getting it to work on windows. it works find on macOS, linux, but throws errors on windows: https://win-builder.r-project.org/guwReC6lhQaU/00check.lo