From thomas@biostat.washington.edu  Mon Apr 12 16:24:39 1999
From: thomas@biostat.washington.edu (Thomas Lumley)
Date: Mon, 12 Apr 1999 08:24:39 -0700 (PDT)
Subject: add-on packages
In-Reply-To: <199904120656.IAA14380@pc87.maho.magnaeu.com>
Message-ID: <Pine.GSO.4.10.9904120822210.412-100000@wompom.biostat.washington.edu>

On Mon, 12 Apr 1999, Kurt Hornik wrote:
> Another interesting fact is data duplication.  More than 10 data sets
> show up in more than one package.  Maybe we should add these to the main
> distribution then?

I don't think this follows. Disk space is much cheaper than name space
(perhaps even when we get the promised new features)

> 
> Finally (again?), please make sure that your packages do not mask system
> features.

Note that this requires quite frequent checking -- system features do keep
being added.

Thomas Lumley
Assistant Professor, Biostatistics
University of Washington, Seattle


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add-on packages
Thomas Lumley