r-devel@r-project.org discussions for December 2014

14	[Rd] UTF8 markdown vignette

Dear all, I'm trying to use a Markdown vignette with UTF-8 encoding. It compiles well when knitting the vignette in RStudio, but it fails to recognize the UTF-8 settings when building the source ...

ONKELINX, Thierry
Dec 9, 2014 at 9:48 am
Dec 19, 2014 at 9:37 pm

10	[Rd] SUGGESTION: Force install.packages() to use ASCII encoding when parse():ing code?

SUGGESTION: Would it make sense if install.packages() and friends always use an "ascii"(*) encoding when parse():ing R package source code files? I believe this should be safe, because R code files ...

Henrik Bengtsson
Dec 11, 2014 at 5:59 pm
Dec 12, 2014 at 7:39 pm

9	[Rd] R on the Cydia Store

Hi, We have published an Android app called R Console on the Play Store since D?cember 2013. https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.appsopensource.R ...

Apps Embedded
Dec 9, 2014 at 2:38 pm
Dec 10, 2014 at 12:18 pm

8	[Rd] how useful could be a fast and embedded database for the R community?

Dear all, I'm developing a new database with the ability to perform very fast seek, insert, and delete operations. Also is able to perform very fast comparison of datasets. It has been designed to ...

Joanv
Dec 23, 2014 at 5:31 pm
Dec 25, 2014 at 11:43 am

7	[Rd] Significant memory leak when using XML on Windows

Dear list, I'm sorry to keep coming back with this time and time again, but this bug is still not fixed even though the root cause of the issue has been around for 2-3 years now. And as the number of ...

Janko Thyson
Dec 11, 2014 at 8:13 pm
Dec 15, 2014 at 12:02 pm

6	[Rd] Making iconv portable?

Hello, All: What would it take to make ?iconv? portable? I ask, because I want to convert accented characters to vanilla ASCII, thereby converting, e.g., ?Ra?l? to ?Raul?, and Milan Bouchet-Valet ...

Spencer Graves
Dec 15, 2014 at 5:15 pm
Dec 16, 2014 at 8:18 am

5	[Rd] CRAN packages mis-using \donttest : falsy

Hi all, anyone has an idea how I could fix this? \donttest{ ## Set colors from colorspace package with a fallback col <- try(colorspace::rainbow_hcl(5), silent = TRUE) %||% rainbow(5) } The problem ...

Gábor Csárdi
Dec 8, 2014 at 2:40 pm
Dec 8, 2014 at 9:29 pm

5	[Rd] \U with more than 4 digits returns the wrong character

If I type a character using \U syntax that has more than 4 digits, I get the wrong character. For example, "\U1d4d0" should print a mathematical bold script capital A. See ...

Richard Cotton
Dec 4, 2014 at 7:00 pm
Dec 4, 2014 at 9:21 pm

4	[Rd] we need an exists/get hybrid

Hi All, I've been looking into speeding up the loading of packages that use a lot of S4. After profiling I noticed the "exists" function accounts for a surprising fraction of the time. I have some ...

Peter Haverty
Dec 3, 2014 at 2:46 am
Dec 4, 2014 at 7:04 pm

3	[Rd] vapply definition question

vapply <- function(X, FUN, FUN.VALUE, ..., USE.NAMES = TRUE) { FUN <- match.fun(FUN) if(!is.vector(X) || is.object(X)) X <- as.list(X) .Internal(vapply(X, FUN, FUN.VALUE, USE.NAMES)) } This is an ...

Mick Jordan
Dec 17, 2014 at 4:20 am
Dec 17, 2014 at 5:17 pm

3	[Rd] Bundling system dependencies in binary packages

I've been hunting round for the accepted method of bundling system dependencies into binary packages. For example, there are some CRAN packages (e.g. gmp, RcppArmadillo, ...) which don't require the ...

Louis Aslett
Dec 2, 2014 at 6:34 pm
Dec 3, 2014 at 7:40 pm

2	[Rd] call r function in c++ application

hi, Am a software developer having 4 yr experience in c++.I want to integrate R environment in my c++ application,please help me to do so. thanks&regards blesson [[alternative HTML version deleted]]

Blesson thomas
Dec 30, 2014 at 11:08 am
Dec 30, 2014 at 3:20 pm

2	[Rd] CRAN and ggplot2 geom and stat extensions

I am thinking about adding several geom and stat extensions to ggplot2 in the Hmisc package. To do this requires using non-exported ggplot2 functions as discussed in ...

Frank Harrell
Dec 23, 2014 at 3:34 pm
Dec 23, 2014 at 4:59 pm

2	[Rd] Unexplained difference between results of dppsv and dpotri LAPACK routines

Dear R contributors, Considering the following sample C code, that illustrates two possible uses of a Cholesky decomp for inverting a matrix, equally valid at least in theory: SEXP test() { int d = ...

Pierrick Bruneau
Dec 20, 2014 at 9:06 pm
Dec 20, 2014 at 10:09 pm

2	[Rd] segfault when trying to allocate a large vector

Dear R contributors, I'm running into trouble when trying to allocate some large (but in theory viable) vector in the context of C code bound to R through .Call(). Here is some sample code ...

Pierrick Bruneau
Dec 18, 2014 at 8:00 am
Dec 18, 2014 at 9:53 am

2	[Rd] Fwd: No source view when using gdb

Dear R contributors, Say I want to debug some C code invoked through .Call() - say "varbayes" in the VBmix package. following the instructions in "Writing R Extensions", I perform the following ...

Pierrick Bruneau
Dec 11, 2014 at 1:00 pm
Dec 11, 2014 at 2:07 pm

2	[Rd] install.packages deletes PACKAGES file in local repo

Hi, running install.packages() to install a package from a local repository (i.e., starts with file:///) appears to delete the PACKAGES file that is in the src/contrib/ directory. This happens on a ...

Renaud Gaujoux
Dec 5, 2014 at 3:45 pm
Dec 6, 2014 at 5:27 am

2	[Rd] Use of tools:::httpdPort in a package for CRAN.

Hello, I wrote a function to show the help/index page of a package in a browser (and want to include this in an update for a CRAN package). I asked in R-help how to obtain the 00Index.html file, ...

Sven E. Templer
Dec 5, 2014 at 4:24 pm
Dec 5, 2014 at 6:03 pm

1	[Rd] R build failure under gcc 4.9's link time optimization

R fails to build with visibility on and gcc 4.9's link time optimzation, because of its practice of building part of it as archive first. Specifically it builds some bundled libraries as archive ...

Hin-Tak Leung
Dec 15, 2014 at 3:04 am
Dec 23, 2014 at 8:38 pm

1	[Rd] R CMD check --as-cran and (a)spell checking

Does anyone know if it is possible to add a dictionary file of known words that becomes part of the *built* package to tell 'R CMD check --as-cran' not to report these words as misspelled. I want ...

Henrik Bengtsson
Dec 6, 2014 at 2:17 am
Dec 11, 2014 at 10:40 am

1	[Rd] does parLapplyLB do load-balancing?

Looking at parLapplyLB, one sees that it takes in X and then passes splitList(X, length(cl)) to clusterApplyLB, which then calls dynamicClusterApply. Thus while dynamicClusterApply does handle tasks ...

Chris Paciorek
Dec 6, 2014 at 1:36 am
Dec 6, 2014 at 6:22 am

0	[Rd] Inconsistent Parse Behavior

Under some specific conditions, `parse` seems to produce inconsistent and potentially incorrect results the first time it is run in a fresh clean R session.? Consider this code where we parse the ...

Brodie gaslam
Dec 24, 2014 at 2:00 pm
Dec 24, 2014 at 2:00 pm

0	[Rd] loadNamespace and versionChecking and the otherpackage::otherfun syntax

This is an enquiry not so much about what the code for loadNamespace does, but rather about the intent and design of loadNamespace, and how it interacts with the `::` function, which seems to me to ...

Geoff Lee
Dec 21, 2014 at 12:41 am
Dec 21, 2014 at 12:41 am

0	[Rd] Building R on Windows: mkdir of Rtools creates directories with read-only permissions [WEIRD]

With reference to the issue first reported by Henrik Bengtsson (see https://stat.ethz.ch/pipermail/r-devel/2014-January/068184.html), I would like to report that I am experiencing the very same ...

C
Dec 15, 2014 at 5:57 pm
Dec 15, 2014 at 5:57 pm

0	[Rd] package.skeleton leads to R CMD check aborting

The package.skeleton() base function is useful for creating empty packages. The fact that the help files generated by the function cause errors was long an annoyance, but I noticed last month (while ...

Dirk Eddelbuettel
Dec 11, 2014 at 12:53 pm
Dec 11, 2014 at 12:53 pm

0	[Rd] Using FPP preprocessor for Fortran Code

'Writing R Extensions' advises you not to use system RNGs, so this is a good time to comply. ?6.6 of 'Writing R Extensions' describes how to use the R RNG from Fortran. Many compilers do not know ...

Prof Brian Ripley
Dec 1, 2014 at 9:45 am
Dec 1, 2014 at 9:45 am

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[Rd] UTF8 markdown vignette

[Rd] SUGGESTION: Force install.packages() to use ASCII encoding when parse():ing code?

[Rd] R on the Cydia Store

[Rd] how useful could be a fast and embedded database for the R community?

[Rd] Significant memory leak when using XML on Windows

[Rd] Making iconv portable?

[Rd] CRAN packages mis-using \donttest : falsy

[Rd] \U with more than 4 digits returns the wrong character

[Rd] we need an exists/get hybrid

[Rd] vapply definition question

[Rd] Bundling system dependencies in binary packages

[Rd] call r function in c++ application

[Rd] CRAN and ggplot2 geom and stat extensions

[Rd] Unexplained difference between results of dppsv and dpotri LAPACK routines

[Rd] segfault when trying to allocate a large vector

[Rd] Fwd: No source view when using gdb

[Rd] install.packages deletes PACKAGES file in local repo

[Rd] Use of tools:::httpdPort in a package for CRAN.

[Rd] R build failure under gcc 4.9's link time optimization

[Rd] R CMD check --as-cran and (a)spell checking

[Rd] does parLapplyLB do load-balancing?

[Rd] Inconsistent Parse Behavior

[Rd] loadNamespace and versionChecking and the otherpackage::otherfun syntax

[Rd] Building R on Windows: mkdir of Rtools creates directories with read-only permissions [WEIRD]

[Rd] package.skeleton leads to R CMD check aborting

[Rd] Using FPP preprocessor for Fortran Code

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