[Bioc-devel] Byte compiling of packages

2014-01-08 Thread Julian Gehring
Hi, R-2.13 introduced the byte code compiler package 'compiler' [1], which can be used to precompile the R code of a package at installation time (using the ByteCompile field in the Description file or '--byte-compile' with R CMD INSTALL). I have been using this lately with my own packages,

Re: [Bioc-devel] Byte compiling of packages

2014-01-08 Thread Martin Morgan
On 01/08/2014 07:43 AM, Julian Gehring wrote: Hi, R-2.13 introduced the byte code compiler package 'compiler' [1], which can be used to precompile the R code of a package at installation time (using the ByteCompile field in the Description file or '--byte-compile' with R CMD INSTALL). I have be

[Bioc-devel] droplevels,DataFrame, no?

2014-01-08 Thread Steve Lianoglou
Greetings, (surprised this hasn't come up before ... which probably means that it has but I didn't see (or just forgot) it) I was surprised that `droplevels(mcols(something))` didn't work ... We should define such a droplevels generic + droplevels,DataFrame, no? While we're at it, maybe droplev

Re: [Bioc-devel] droplevels,DataFrame, no?

2014-01-08 Thread Michael Lawrence
That's the first I've heard of that function. I've always done factor(f), but I can see this as a convenience for tables. Just added methods for DataFrame and Rle. Michael On Wed, Jan 8, 2014 at 11:28 AM, Steve Lianoglou wrote: > Greetings, > > (surprised this hasn't come up before ... which p

Re: [Bioc-devel] droplevels,DataFrame, no?

2014-01-08 Thread Steve Lianoglou
On Wed, Jan 8, 2014 at 3:32 PM, Michael Lawrence wrote: > That's the first I've heard of that function. Wow. It truly must be a cold day in Hell: http://www.wunderground.com/US/MI/Hell.html (yup ... ~14 degrees F right now[1]) I will not soon forget this day where I've identified a coRner of t