Re: [Rd] NEWS.md support on CRAN

2015-05-29 Thread Imanuel Costigan
So I assume this commit means NEWS.md is now no longer on blacklist? https://github.com/wch/r-source/commit/9ffe87264a1cd59a31a829f72d57af0f1bfa327a Sent from my iPad On 23 May 2015, at 6:05 pm, Kurt Hornik wrote: >>>>>> Duncan Murdoch writes: > >>> On 22/05/

Re: [Rd] NEWS.md support on CRAN

2015-05-23 Thread Imanuel Costigan
> On 24 May 2015, at 12:07 pm, Duncan Murdoch wrote: > > On 23/05/2015 9:15 PM, Imanuel Costigan wrote: >> While a parsed HTML version of the NEWS.md file would be nice, I would like >> something much simpler: being able to "see” this file in the Help pane in &

Re: [Rd] NEWS.md support on CRAN

2015-05-23 Thread Imanuel Costigan
I’d suggest going with CommonMark if this will be the basis of broader support for Markdown as it is well defined whereas GruberMarkdown is defined by broad conventions with specifics determined by parsers. > On 24 May 2015, at 12:01 pm, Duncan Murdoch wrote: > > On 23/05/2015 8:51 PM, Baptis

Re: [Rd] NEWS.md support on CRAN

2015-05-23 Thread Imanuel Costigan
While a parsed HTML version of the NEWS.md file would be nice, I would like something much simpler: being able to "see” this file in the Help pane in RStudio or being about to run something like show_news(“packagename”). Duncan mentioned issues with the news() function being able to process meta

Re: [Rd] NEWS.md support on CRAN

2015-05-22 Thread Imanuel Costigan
What about treating it as a plain text file (i.e. no need for CRAN to support parsing)? > On 23 May 2015, at 11:08 am, Duncan Murdoch wrote: > > On 22/05/2015 8:49 PM, Imanuel Costigan wrote: >> Are there any plans for CRAN to support NEWS files in markdown? Bit of a >>

[Rd] NEWS.md support on CRAN

2015-05-22 Thread Imanuel Costigan
Are there any plans for CRAN to support NEWS files in markdown? Bit of a hassle to go the the package’s Github (or other like) site to read NEWS. __ R-devel@r-project.org mailing list https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-devel

Re: [Rd] Running examples with R5 constructor from package failing

2014-02-01 Thread Imanuel Costigan
You referred to another package that exports an R5 class. Which one? Thanks for your help. On 02 Feb, 2014,at 12:57 AM, Duncan Murdoch wrote: On 14-01-31 10:14 PM, Imanuel Costigan wrote:> I am having an issue with reference classes (R5) in a package I am developing. They have both b

[Rd] Running examples with R5 constructor from package failing

2014-02-01 Thread Imanuel Costigan
I am having an issue with reference classes (R5) in a package I am developing. They have both been illustrated in the `roxygentest` package I've got hosted on Github [1].  When I run `R CMD check .` on the source directory of my package I am told that: Error: could not find function "Blob" H

Re: [Rd] Possible POSIXlt / wday glitch & bugs.r-project.org status

2013-10-05 Thread Imanuel Costigan
ding some cases where conversions hit the system libraries (that > may truncate to integers) and some cases may be worked around - and that > remains to be investigated. > > Cheers, > Simon > > > >> On 5 October 2013 02:37, Joshua Ulrich wrote: >>> O

Re: [Rd] Possible POSIXlt / wday glitch & bugs.r-project.org status

2013-10-04 Thread Imanuel Costigan
013 at 8:02 PM, Imanuel Costigan wrote: >> Thanks for the responses and quoting the timezone help file. >> >> I am assuming that in order to determine the wday element of POSIXlt, R does >> the necessary calculations in Julian time (via POSIXct). Based on this >> e

Re: [Rd] Possible POSIXlt / wday glitch & bugs.r-project.org status

2013-10-04 Thread Imanuel Costigan
ted to the OS > services where possible. This always covers the period 1970-2037, > and on most machines back to 1902 (when time zones were in their > infancy). Outside the platform limits we use our own C code. On 05/10/2013, at 12:59 AM, Scott Kostyshak wrote: > O

[Rd] Possible POSIXlt / wday glitch & bugs.r-project.org status

2013-10-04 Thread Imanuel Costigan
Wanted to raise two questions: 1. Is bugs.r-project.org down? I haven't been able to reach it for two or three days: ``` ping bugs.r-project.org PING rbugs.research.att.com (207.140.168.137): 56 data bytes Request timeout for icmp_seq 0 Request timeout for icmp_seq 1 Request timeout for icmp_seq

Re: [Rd] Can't install.packages() from local repo in 2.15.2

2012-11-05 Thread Imanuel Costigan
ut no binary package available. > > This check can be suppressed: see the help page. > > I guess you did not do so. Try > options(install.packages.check.source = FALSE) > which works for me. > > You could also specify contriburl, as you have a partial repository. >

[Rd] Can't install.packages() from local repo in 2.15.2

2012-11-02 Thread Imanuel Costigan
Hi guys I think there's a high chance this is a bug. But I can't rule out that I can be blamed for this. I've posted this to bugzilla (#15092). Then I read that I probably should have posted it to R-develop first. Sorry for doing this in the wrong order. I've set up a local repo on my local