From ligges at statistik.uni-dortmund.de  Sat Sep 10 16:09:31 2005
From: ligges at statistik.uni-dortmund.de (Uwe Ligges)
Date: Sat, 10 Sep 2005 16:09:31 +0200
Subject: [Rd] Issue tracking in packages [was: Re: [R] change in,
 read.spss, package foreign?]
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Frank E Harrell Jr wrote:

> I would vote for allowing a URL or external file name in in DESCRIPTION, 
> whose contents could be automatically displayed for the user when 
> needed.  Our changelogs are automatically generated by CVS and are on 
> the web.

 From a repositoriy maintainer's point of view:
Yes, if people really want it, then please something in a DESCRIPTION 
file. Lookup whether a file exists takes a lot of time, in particular if 
you do not have the source package in an extracted form.

Note that CRAN does not have to handle one or two packages, but 
processes 600 for each repository...

Uwe Ligges



[Rd] Issue tracking in packages [was: Re: [R] change in, read.spss, package foreign?]
Uwe Ligges