From h.wickham at gmail.com  Sat Apr  5 00:13:22 2008
From: h.wickham at gmail.com (hadley wickham)
Date: Fri, 4 Apr 2008 17:13:22 -0500
Subject: [Rd] R CMD check should check date in description
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> > To clarify, do you mean you have decided not to provide a date field
> > in the DESCRIPTION file?  If so, would you mind elaborating why?
> >
>
>   Sure: The date of what?

That's a good question.  Another possible solution would be to remove
(or down-weight the importance of) the date field, and instead use the
date from the built field.  This would affect the display of (at
least) the output from help(package=x) and the CRAN package page.

Hadley

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[Rd] R CMD check should check date in description
hadley wickham