From ripley at stats.ox.ac.uk  Mon May  5 12:56:47 2008
From: ripley at stats.ox.ac.uk (Prof Brian Ripley)
Date: Mon, 5 May 2008 11:56:47 +0100 (BST)
Subject: [Rd] OS_type
Message-ID: <alpine.LFD.1.10.0805051128220.6217@gannet.stats.ox.ac.uk>

We've now implemented an OS_type field in a package's DESCRIPTION file, 
which if set has to match .Platform$OS.type (possible values "unix" and 
"windows").  CRAN has set up some overrides and added this field to 
packages known to be Unix-only or Windows-only, but authors should do so 
for themselves in future.

Unsuitable packages will not be offered by available.packages(), will not 
be installed by R CMD INSTALL, and R CMD check will select --no-install.

This happens in R-devel and R-patched, and is intended to simplify 
automated installation and checking.


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[Rd] OS_type
Prof Brian Ripley