[R-pkg-devel] UseR! Session: Navigating the jungle of R packages.

2017-01-16 Thread ProfJCNash
Navigating the Jungle of R Packages The R ecosystem has many packages in various collections, especially CRAN, Bioconductor, and GitHub. While this richness of choice speaks to the popularity and importance of R, the large number of contributed packages makes it difficult for users to find appropr

Re: [R-pkg-devel] using optimx in a package

2016-10-17 Thread ProfJCNash
You are calling an optimizer that wants gradients without specifying the gradient method. I've not done any work on optimx for a couple of years -- on R-forge I've put optimrx which has a more maintainable design and allows more solvers to be called using the optim() syntax, including parameter s

Re: [R-pkg-devel] Recommendation on qr method export

2016-08-03 Thread ProfJCNash
Closely related to the different QR variations, Claudia Beleites and I have a very crude start on some attempts to categorize different svd approaches in R. Perhaps it's worth combining efforts with QR because of the overlap and producing a sort of enlarged vignette or even a Task View. I suggest c

Re: [R-pkg-devel] duplicate function during build

2016-07-23 Thread ProfJCNash
because you >> can easily see if the changes you think you made align with the changes you >> actually made. Learning svn or git is a lot of work, but the payoff is >> worth it. >> >> Hadley >> >> On Friday, July 22, 2016, ProfJCNash wrote: >> >>

[R-pkg-devel] duplicate function during build

2016-07-22 Thread ProfJCNash
In trying to rationalize some files in a package I'm working on, I copied a function from one file to another, but forgot to change the name of one of them. It turns out the name of the file containing the "old" function was later in collation sequence than the one I was planning to be the "new" on

Re: [R-pkg-devel] Definition of "reverse imports"

2016-05-03 Thread ProfJCNash
t them as warnings rather than errors. The package date is 2006, so rather old.) Cheers, JN On 16-05-03 03:40 PM, Uwe Ligges wrote: > > > On 03.05.2016 21:31, ProfJCNash wrote: >> I noted that my nlmrt package on CRAN has package usl as a "reverse >> imports&quo

[R-pkg-devel] Definition of "reverse imports"

2016-05-03 Thread ProfJCNash
I noted that my nlmrt package on CRAN has package usl as a "reverse imports". In a modest search I have yet to find a definition of the term. Does anyone have a pointer? JN __ R-package-devel@r-project.org mailing list https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listi

[R-pkg-devel] Appropriate place to post about CRAN check environments etc.

2015-07-21 Thread ProfJCNash
There has been some disagreement on where it is appropriate to post questions about package checking procedures, including the building of the environment e.g., R-devel under Linux Mint. In looking at https://www.r-project.org/mail.html, it seems to me that the procedures belong with r-package-de

Re: [R-pkg-devel] query about package design

2015-07-10 Thread ProfJCNash
On 15-07-10 04:17 PM, Hadley Wickham wrote: > On Fri, Jul 10, 2015 at 12:50 PM, ProfJCNash wrote: >> I have a general question about appropriate design for a fairly >> complicated package, as I am redesigning and rebuilding the optimx >> package. It will get a new name as it

[R-pkg-devel] query about package design

2015-07-10 Thread ProfJCNash
I have a general question about appropriate design for a fairly complicated package, as I am redesigning and rebuilding the optimx package. It will get a new name as it appears that the calls will change in order to accommodate new functionality. I plan to make it fairly easy to add new optimizatio