From pgilbert at bank-banque-canada.ca  Thu Apr  1 17:59:44 2010
From: pgilbert at bank-banque-canada.ca (Paul Gilbert)
Date: Thu, 1 Apr 2010 11:59:44 -0400
Subject: [Rd] Difference Linux / Windows
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Since this seems more like a wish-list discussion, if someone actually
starts thinking about the issue I would like to add the following
somewhat related point:

It would be nice if there were a mechanism, in task views or that could
be used by task views, to avoid attempting to install packages that will
fail on the platform. The current ctv mechanism is difficult for system
administrators because they actually have to know enough about R
packages to decide which failures are ok and which ones are not.

Paul

>-----Original Message-----
>From: r-devel-bounces at r-project.org [mailto:r-devel-bounces at r-
>project.org] On Behalf Of Simon Urbanek
>Sent: April 1, 2010 11:38 AM
>To: Seth Falcon
>Cc: r-devel at r-project.org
>Subject: Re: [Rd] Difference Linux / Windows
>
>
>On Mar 31, 2010, at 18:38 , Seth Falcon wrote:
>
>> On 3/31/10 1:12 PM, Christophe Genolini wrote:
>>> Hi the list,
>>> I am writing a package that happen to not be compatible with linux
>>> because I did not know that the function "savePlot" was available
>>> only
>>> on windows. Is there a list of "incompatible" function? How can I
get
>>> this kind of information?
>>
>> One way is to obtain a copy of the R sources and then grep the Rd
>> files for '#ifdef'.
>>
>> I don't claim this is convenient.
>>
>
>nor sufficient - lot of it is simply in the windows directory (such as
>savePlot).
>The safest approach right now is simply to read the documentation -
>savePlot does tell you that it works only for the Windows device. I'm
>not aware of an automated list (save for dumping the function lists
>per-package on each platform).
>
>Cheers,
>Simon
>
>
>> There has been discussion, and I believe general consensus, that
>> we'd like to eliminate the conditional documentation.  This requires
>> editing the Rd files to make the contents sensible (you can't just
>> remove the #ifdef's).  Patches along these lines would be welcome.
>>
>> + seth
>>
>> --
>> Seth Falcon | @sfalcon | http://userprimary.net/
>>
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[Rd] Difference Linux / Windows
Paul Gilbert