[Roxygen-devel] roxygen2

Peter Danenberg pcd at roxygen.org
Thu Aug 4 10:23:59 CEST 2011


Thanks, Rainer; I'm going to CC the list.

Would you guys mind if we bring back the Rgraphviz dependency, or is
this problematic for Windows users?

If so, what's a viable alternative?

Quoth Rainer M Krug on Sweetmorn, the 70th of Confusion:
> On Thu, Aug 4, 2011 at 9:48 AM, Peter Danenberg <pcd at roxygen.org> wrote:
> 
> > Quoth Rainer M Krug on Setting Orange, the 69th of Confusion:
> > > If possible, I would appreciate the re-inclusion of callgraph - or
> > > is there an alternative way to generate these?
> >
> 
> Thanks for responding so quickly.
> 
> 
> >
> > We removed that because of the onerous Rgraphviz dependency; is
> > Rgraphviz acceptable,
> 
> 
> For me, rgraphviz is acceptable, and a reference in the manual
> http://www.bioconductor.org/packages/release/bioc/html/Rgraphviz.html and
> how to install it as described on this page, would be fine.
> 
> 
> > or should we investigate some native R package
> > for rendering graphs?
> >
> 
> I think that is not necessary.  As it is working with rgraphviz, I would
> leave it for the moment. And installing rgraphviz as described in the link
> above, is not that difficult.
> 
> So I would suggest to leave it with rgraphviz, and in the medium to long run
> investigating alternatives if need be.
> 
> By the way: where does the quote "on Setting Orange, the 69th of Confusion"
> come from? it sounds interesting.
> 
> Cheers,
> 
> Rainer
> 
> 
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