[Rd] [Suggestion] Installation of CRAN packages that depend on Bioconductor packages

2012-06-28 Thread Renaud Gaujoux
Hi, as far as I know, calling a plain: install.packages('packageA') with packageA having a dependency to packageB from Bioconductor will not complete without having a Bioc mirror setup in options('repos') or specifying it in argument 'repos'. CRAN/R-forge checks resolve such dependencies au

Re: [Rd] Fast Kendall's Tau

2012-06-28 Thread David Simcha
Sorry for the late reply. I've been extremely busy, out of town, etc. lately. I wrote the core algorithm for this function back in 2010, but did not make any attempt to integrate it into R-base, for several reasons: 1. I was having difficulty figuring out what all the missing value options (whi

[Rd] semi-trivial documentation suggestion

2012-06-28 Thread Ben Bolker
Since there is an identity() function, which new users might find in the course of trying to figure out how to construct an identity matrix, it might make sense to add a "See also" to diag(). (And, on the same topic, perhaps an \alias{diagonal} in diag.Rd?) If there is interest in this I cou