From tlumley at u.washington.edu  Sat Sep 10 18:44:41 2005
From: tlumley at u.washington.edu (Thomas Lumley)
Date: Sat, 10 Sep 2005 09:44:41 -0700 (PDT)
Subject: [Rd] Issue tracking in packages [was: Re: [R] change in,
 read.spss, package foreign?]
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On Sat, 10 Sep 2005, 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.

Yes, this would be nice.

However, a URL facility is already present (and you already use it, and 
link changelogs to the URL, as do I).

 	-thomas



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