Re: [R-pkg-devel] how to notify users of obsolete and new package

2025-02-10 Thread Kevin Coombes
Does the old package give incorrect results? Or does it just give slower results? What makes the new one better? Unless the old one is actually wrong, as a user, I would be unhappy with it being replaced by a shell. I have this obsession with reproducibility. So, if you force me to change to the n

Re: [R-pkg-devel] Case of package name

2024-12-30 Thread Kevin Coombes
Thanks. I was already using a monospace font when I referred specifically to the package. On Mon, Dec 30, 2024, 12:07 PM Dirk Eddelbuettel wrote: > > On 30 December 2024 at 11:24, Kevin Coombes wrote: > | Thanks; I suspected as much. I will try changing the name of the > algorithm

Re: [R-pkg-devel] Case of package name

2024-12-30 Thread Kevin Coombes
Thanks; I suspected as much. I will try changing the name of the algorithm (in the manuscript) to uppercase, and leave the package name alone. On Mon, Dec 30, 2024, 10:59 AM Duncan Murdoch wrote: > On 2024-12-30 10:36 a.m., Kevin R. Coombes wrote: > > Hi, > > > > I currently have a package on CR

Re: [R-pkg-devel] Mysterious "invalid z limit"

2023-01-08 Thread Kevin Coombes
I have been using R-Forge for many years for package development. And I have been using GitLab for other projects almost as long. However, over the past few months, the R-Forge support seems to be decaying, and I now have several projects that won't currently build there because of various items t

[R-pkg-devel] NAMESPACE issue and grDevices

2019-08-24 Thread Kevin Coombes
Hi, I've been building a package and hit a NAMESPACE issue that took a while to resolve. My package implements a (new) generic function, and the method for a package in the class calls the "smoothScatter" function from the "graphics" package. I could build and install the package successfull

Re: [R-pkg-devel] testing coercion

2018-12-06 Thread Kevin Coombes
lt; "3.6.0" > could solve the issue of an inconsistent test result and is descriptive. > > Best regards, > > Sebastian > > > Am 06.12.18 um 16:59 schrieb Kevin Coombes: >> Hi, >> >> A package I recently submitted to CRAN includes an S4 class

[R-pkg-devel] testing coercion

2018-12-06 Thread Kevin Coombes
Hi, A package I recently submitted to CRAN includes an S4 class that defines a method to coerce from that class to a numeric vector, basically through > setAs("myClass", "numeric", function(from) from@psi) Being perhaps overly compulsive about trying to test everything while documenting behavi

Re: [R-pkg-devel] mvrnorm, eigen, tests, and R CMD check

2018-05-17 Thread Kevin Coombes
those get through? Did they make sense? > > On Thu, May 17, 2018 at 3:30 PM, Kevin Coombes > wrote: > > Yes; I'm pretty sure that it is exactly the repeated eigenvalues that are > > the issue. The matrices I am using are all nonsingular, and the various > > algorithm

Re: [R-pkg-devel] mvrnorm, eigen, tests, and R CMD check

2018-05-17 Thread Kevin Coombes
] 0.000 0.00e+00 0.00e+00 -1 0.0 > [5,] 0.8660254 4.464109e-17 -1.112441e-160 0.5 > > > > > > Bill Dunlap > TIBCO Software > wdunlap tibco.com > > On Thu, May 17, 2018 at 10:14 AM, Martin Maechler < > maech...@stat.math.ethz.ch> wrote: >

[R-pkg-devel] mvrnorm, eigen, tests, and R CMD check

2018-05-17 Thread Kevin Coombes
Hi, I wrote and maintain the Thresher package. It includes code to do simulations. In the "tests" directory of the package, I do some simple simulations and run the main algorithm, then write out summaries of the results The initial submission of the package to CRAN was delayed because the "Rout.

Re: [R-pkg-devel] Data-generating scripts in R packages

2016-03-23 Thread Kevin Coombes
Hi, I'm going to start by summarizing the suggestions (for where to put the script) that have been presented so far: [1] in the /demo directory [2] in /inst/SOMETHING, where Dirk lists four possible values for SOMETHING [3] in /R , but hidden using .Rbuildignore [4] in the Example section of a

[R-pkg-devel] Data-generating scripts in R packages

2016-03-22 Thread Kevin Coombes
Hi, I'm currently developing an R package that includes a small data set along with the functions that I want to export. I have an R script that generates the data set; the computation time is long (well, relative to the size of the data set). So, my plan is to run the script and save() the d

Re: [R-pkg-devel] R CMD check package subdirectory warning on filenames

2015-06-18 Thread Kevin Coombes
s added ... Ben Bolker On 15-06-18 08:45 AM, Kevin Coombes wrote: Hello, In putting together my latest package, I'm getting the following warning from "R CMD check --as-cran" * checking package subdirectories ... WARNING Subdirectory 'inst/doc' contains invalid fil

[R-pkg-devel] R CMD check package subdirectory warning on filenames

2015-06-18 Thread Kevin Coombes
Hello, In putting together my latest package, I'm getting the following warning from "R CMD check --as-cran" * checking package subdirectories ... WARNING Subdirectory 'inst/doc' contains invalid file names: '02oneGeneSims.Rnw' '02oneGeneSims.pdf' Please remove or rename the files. See secti

[R-pkg-devel] R CMD check "no-nanny" option?

2015-06-11 Thread Kevin Coombes
Hi, When I run "R CMD check --as-cran" on my packages in R 3.2.0, I now get a new series of NOTE's telling me that (1) the Description field in the DESCRIPTION should file should not start with "This package" or with the package name, and (2) the Title field in the DESCRIPTION file should be