From gmbecker at ucdavis.edu  Tue May 26 19:18:35 2015
From: gmbecker at ucdavis.edu (Gabriel Becker)
Date: Tue, 26 May 2015 10:18:35 -0700
Subject: [Rd] MetaCran website v1.0.0-alpha
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On Tue, May 26, 2015 at 9:25 AM, Yihui Xie <xie at yihui.name> wrote:

> I cannot speak for other package authors, but for all my own packages,
> I have provided the BugReports field in DESCRIPTION that points to the
> Github issues page. You can probably use this field to check if a
> package is on Github or not. If it is, you may just fork the original
> repo instead of creating a new one from the CRAN package.


Maybe I'm missing something, but why would you fork the repo instead of
just using the existing repo?

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Gabriel Becker, PhD
Computational Biologist
Bioinformatics and Computational Biology
Genentech, Inc.

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