From ggrothendieck at gmail.com  Fri Oct  7 18:23:47 2005
From: ggrothendieck at gmail.com (Gabor Grothendieck)
Date: Fri, 7 Oct 2005 12:23:47 -0400
Subject: [Rd] svn version number
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On 10/7/05, Duncan Murdoch <murdoch at stats.uwo.ca> wrote:
> Gabor Grothendieck wrote:
> > Is there some way of automatically including the svn version number
> > of a package in the DESCRIPTION file or otherwise so that one
> > can check from within R which svn version number one has?
>
> You could do this by writing it into your Makefile, but there's no other
> existing support for it.  I'd recommend combining the URL reported by
> "svn info" with the result of svnversion to get the most informative
> version.  Watch out for cases of people who are trying to make your
> package from a tarfile, rather than an svn checkout.  We have ended up
> with some fairly tricky Makefile programming to get what we want into
> the R banner.

There is no makefile at all currently as my package is all R.  Also, I
currently use TortoiseSVN.



[Rd] svn version number
Gabor Grothendieck