Re: [Bioc-devel] showAsCell, character feature request [Re: Possible bug in showAsCell, character]

2019-05-06 Thread Boris Steipe
Ummm ... substr(x, 1, n) ? :-) > On 2019-05-06, at 18:03, Laurent Gatto wrote: > > paste0(paste(strsplit(x, "")[[1]][1:n], collapse = "") ___ Bioc-devel@r-project.org mailing list https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/bioc-devel

Re: [Bioc-devel] When to use generics?

2019-05-01 Thread Boris Steipe
I am more and more emphasizing ::() syntax in my teaching, to avoid the issues that library() have wrt. order of loading, and clarity of code. It's my understanding that that's a general trend. Now, do correct me if I'm wrong but IIRC, that doesn't work well with generics because they don't ge

Re: [Bioc-devel] package size issue

2019-04-26 Thread Boris Steipe
I've recently been struggling with this and found to my surprise that even basically empty HTML vignettes are 1Mb in size due to the extensive Javascript they contain. PDF vignettes are much smaller. Perhaps this helps. Cheers, Boris > On 2019-04-26, at 17:44, Jianhai Zhang wrote: > > Hel

Re: [Bioc-devel] Using non-CRAN/Bioc package

2016-02-26 Thread Boris Steipe
... or simply incorporate the code (with proper attribution, as stipulated by its license) :-) B. On Feb 25, 2016, at 11:55 PM, Dan Tenenbaum wrote: > You cannot. All dependencies of Bioconductor packages must be available in > CRAN or Bioconductor. > > You could ask the maintainer of tha