From Friedrich.Leisch@ci.tuwien.ac.at  Tue Jan  5 11:33:18 1999
From: Friedrich.Leisch@ci.tuwien.ac.at (Friedrich Leisch)
Date: Tue, 5 Jan 1999 12:33:18 +0100 (CET)
Subject: [R] Submissions to CRAN
In-Reply-To: <199901051131.LAA05774@genin.mrc-bsu.cam.ac.uk>
References: <13968.54110.875286.934700@galadriel.ci.tuwien.ac.at>
 <199901051131.LAA05774@genin.mrc-bsu.cam.ac.uk>
Message-ID: <13969.63614.464999.987027@galadriel.ci.tuwien.ac.at>

>>>>> On Tue, 5 Jan 1999 11:31:10 GMT,
>>>>> Jonathan Myles (JM) wrote:

>> *) I know that the packaging standards for CRAN may seem a little bit
>> pedantic, but only this way the `R INSTALL' interface can work without
>> troubles. Hence, the standards make life a little bit harder for
>> contributors, but we think it makes life much easier for the average
>> user (and these are the ones with less knowledge on how to fix
>> things).

JM> I'm sorry to be dim, but are the "packaging standards for CRAN" the s=
ame
JM> thing as the "How can I create an R package" section of the FAQ? If n=
ot,
JM> where are they?

Yes, that's exactly what I meant ... sorr for using different
words. With standards I just meant file name conventions, dirs in a
package and all the other stuff that's mentioned in the FAQ or the
help(library) page ...

best,
fritz

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