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Hi, is it possible to have non-Sweave vignettes(*) in inst/doc/ be listed under 'Downloads' on CRAN package pages? For instance, in my R.rsp package I have a inst/doc/report.pdf (part of the source *.tar.gz) that is not detected/listed. The PDF is not based on a Sweave vignette but an *.tex.rsp vignette that is dynamically created via inst/doc/Makefile. It is listed (*) BTW, can the

Just an observation/FYI on the new DESCRIPTION field 'VignetteBuilder' available in R devel: Unlike other package fields (Depends, Imports and Suggests), VignetteBuilder does not support version specifiers, e.g. VignetteBuilder: R.rsp (>= 0.8.2) but only VignetteBuilder: R.rsp If adding a version specifier, 'R CMD build' complaints with an: ** installing vignettes Error in

Hi, I get * excluding invalid files from 'R.oo' Subdirectory 'R' contains invalid file names: attachLocally.Object.Rex Exception.Rex extend.default.Rex InternalErrorException.reportBug.Rex Package.Rex Person.Rex Rdoc.Rex setMethodS3.Rex StaticFields.Rex when running R CMD build in R v2.3.0 devel. I do understand what is going on. In my *.R files I keep so called Rdoc

Hi, in 'Writing R Extensions" of R v2.10.0, under Section 'Cross-references' (2009-09-07) it says: 1. "The markup \link{foo} (usually in the combination \code{\link{foo}}) produces a hyperlink to the help for foo. Here foo is a topic, that is the argument of \alias markup in another Rd file (possibly in another package)." 2. "You can specify a link to a different

I noted Duncan's comment that an answer had been provided, and went to the archives to find his earlier comment, which I am fairly sure I saw a day or two ago. However, neither May nor June archives show Duncan in the thread except for the msg below (edited for space). Possibly tech failures are causing misunderstandings. JN On 14-06-02 06:00 AM, r-devel-request at r-project.org wrote: >

Continuing the tradition to post millennia milestones on CRAN: So, it happened. Today (January 27, 2017 PCT) CRAN reached 10,000 packages [1]. Needless to say, the rate with which new packages are added to CRAN keeps increasing and so does the number of contributors (maintainers). Somewhere out there, there are ~3 persons who are about to submit their first packages to CRAN today and ~3 persons

Hi, as far as I understand it, the new R devel feature of processing non-Sweave vignettes will (a) locate any "[.][RrSs](nw|tex)$" or ".Rmd" files, (b) check for a registered vignette engine, (c) process the file using the registered "weave" function, (d) and possibly post process the generated weave artifact (e.g. a *.tex file). I'd like to propose to extend

Full_Name: Henrik Bengtsson Version: 1.3.1 OS: WinMe Submission from: (NULL) (130.235.2.229) I found the following bug on WinMe (I call it a bug, since the behavior is different on WinMe than for instance Sun Solaris): When calling file.exists() with an existing directory name ending with a "/" (slash) [R] on WinMe will return FALSE, but when doing the same without the ending

The entirety of humanity lives a little better today, because of problems solved using CRAN software. Some of those problems would still await solution, because some of the people involved in developing and disseminating those solutions would not have been as effective or efficient without CRAN and R. We're not just laying brick: We're building a cathedral. Spencer

I want to share this knowledge to save you the hours it took me to troubleshoot the following problem. Maybe you already know about this, but I certainly didn't. In the end I also suggest an update fix. PROBLEM: I have been building packages for a couple of months now without any problems. However, a couple of hours ago I ran into a strange problem, which I first couldn't understand or

Hi, I have a couple of new errors in our package when I check it on R 2.13-rc (r55310). The first one that's mystifying me is * checking R code for possible problems ... NOTE Error : object normalizePath is not exported by 'namespace:utils' Error : object normalizePath is not exported by 'namespace:utils' Firstly, it's strange to see NOTE and Error being used

Hi, I'm developing a package whose API is only meant to be used in other packages via imports or pkg::foo(). There should be no need to attach this package so that its API appears on the search() path. As a maintainer, I want to avoid having it appear in search() conflicts by mistake. This means that, for instance, other packages should declare this package under 'Imports' or

Calling library(..., quietly=TRUE) may still output: Loading required package: <other pkg> in some cases, e.g. > library("R.utils", quietly=TRUE) Loading required package: R.methodsS3 [...] I traced this to base:::.getRequiredPackages2(), which forgets to pass 'quietly' to an internal library() call: if (!attached) { if (!quietly)

Hi, right now it is actually a bit tricky to locate and view the NEWS and the CHANGES files, especially if you are a beginning and don't even know that you are supposed to look for them. I'd like to recommend that links to (local) NEWS and CHANGES are added to the help.start() overview pages. help("NEWS")/help("CHANGE LOG") and help("CHANGES") could

In R 3.1.0 (~April 2014), support for vignettes in inst/doc/ will go away (and probably much sooner for CRAN submission), e.g. checking for old-style vignette sources ... NOTE Vignette sources only in ?inst/doc?: ?R.devices-overview.tex.rsp? A ?vignettes? directory is required as from R 3.1.0 and these will not be indexed nor checked I've been sticking with inst/doc/ for backward compatible

Dear all, In my package I have a computational expensive Rnw file which can't pass R CMD check. Therefore I set eval=FALSE in the Rnw file. But I would like to have the pdf vignette generated by the Rnw file with eval=TRUE. It seems to me a static pdf vignette is an option. Any suggestions on this? Thanks, Zhu Wang **Connecticut Children's Confidentiality Notice** This e-mail

On 3/14/06, Uwe Ligges <ligges at statistik.uni-dortmund.de> wrote: > Henrik Bengtsson wrote: > > > Hi, > > > > does anyone know if it is possible to write example code (in Rd > > examples) such that one can stop the example without generating an > > error? Example: > > > > code A > > if (cond) > > niceStop() > > code B

Another 1000 packages were added to CRAN, which took less than 7 months. Today (February 29, 2017), the Comprehensive R Archive Network (CRAN) [1] reports: ?Currently, the CRAN package repository features 8002 available packages.? The rate with which new packages are added to CRAN is increasing. In 2014-2015 we had 1000 packages added to CRAN in 355 days (2.8 per day), the following 1000

An additional 1000 packages have been added to CRAN. This time, it took less than 6 months. Today (August 22, 2016), the Comprehensive R Archive Network (CRAN) [1] reports: ?Currently, the CRAN package repository features 9004 available packages.? The rate with which new packages are added to CRAN is increasing. During 2007-2009 we went from 1000 to 2000 packages in 906 days (1.1 per day) and

Hi, I agree with Henrik that his suggestion to have "dimension vector attributes" working like dimnames (see below) would be an extremely useful infrastructure adittion to R. If this is not considered for R-core, I am happy to try to implement this in a package, as a new class. And possibly do the same thing for data frames. Should you have any comments, ideas or suggestions about it,