Re: [Rd] Test suite failures in R-rc_2017-02-28_r72286.tar.gz

2017-03-01 Thread Peter Simons
Hi Brian, > R-devel (your subject line) is not a pre-release of R 3.3.3: it is 'R > Under development' for what is planned as R 3.4.0. Pre-release > tarballs for 3.3.3 are things like R-rc_2017-02-26_r72260.tar.gz (and > were previously labelled R-beta). I did not realize this distinction exi

Re: [Rd] Test suite failures in R-devel_2017-02-25_r72256

2017-03-01 Thread Peter Simons
Hi Martin, > Is it necessary to also run the 'make check' part in that restricted > environment? Or could that ('checking") not get more priviledges? in NixOS, there is no way to run any kind of build process in an environment that has network access. On one hand, that is a security considerati

Re: [Rd] stats::median

2017-03-01 Thread Martin Maechler
> Martin Maechler > on Mon, 27 Feb 2017 10:42:19 +0100 writes: > Rob J Hyndman > on Wed, 15 Feb 2017 21:48:56 +1100 writes: >> The generic stats::median method is defined as median <- >> function (x, na.rm = FALSE) {UseMethod("median")} >> I suggest that thi

Re: [Rd] stats::median

2017-03-01 Thread Adrian Baddeley
I agree it seems sensible to add an ellipsis to the formal arguments of the generic median(). The spatstat package has median.im(x, na.rm=TRUE) median.linim(x, ...) These are both accepted by the package checker. During the transition, perhaps metho