Janusz Kawczak wrote:> You simply need to remove the stuff related to MS Win from zzz.R; > in partricular the lines after if( .... ) to clear your message. > As you can see, the info relates to the WinMenu under MS Win.I think people have been more than a little disingenuous in claiming that getting the Rmetrics package to go under Linux is transparent. If you have to dig into the code and edit it, then transparent it ain't. It may be perfectly easy ***once you know what you're doing***, but that's a big ``once''. It is particularly unfair to snarl exasperatedly at inquirers for not reading the instructions --- as someone did recently --- when there are in fact NO instructions telling you that you have to dig in and edit the code. And I think it is perfectly ***fair*** to say to say that the package maintainers could and should have done a better job of setting up the package to make it run out-of-the-box on Linux. cheers, Rolf Turner rolf at math.unb.ca
On Fri, May 21, 2004 at 09:02:15AM -0300, Rolf Turner wrote:> And I think it is perfectly ***fair*** to say to say that the package > maintainers could and should have done a better job of setting up the > package to make it run out-of-the-box on Linux.You are probably right in saying that they _could_ have done better, but I would not use "should" in this context. AFAIK the package is free (as in beer) software, which means that you are not paying for it. The maintainers probably do not need a Linux version (yet), so it was not easy to use it under Linux. Feel free to contribute. But if you ask nicely and propose the solution that appeared on this list, they will probably make it work from linux out-of-the-box. Best, Tamas -- Tam??s K. Papp E-mail: tpapp at axelero.hu Please try to send only (latin-2) plain text, not HTML or other garbage.
On Fri, 21 May 2004 15:41:18 +0200, Tamas Papp <tpapp at axelero.hu> wrote:>You are probably right in saying that they _could_ have done better, >but I would not use "should" in this context. AFAIK the package is >free (as in beer) software, which means that you are not paying for >it. The maintainers probably do not need a Linux version (yet), so it >was not easy to use it under Linux. Feel free to contribute.Yes, indeed! Duncan Murdoch