Message-ID: <Pine.LNX.4.44.0402271552130.16725-100000@gannet.stats>
Date: 2004-02-27T16:57:32Z
From: Brian Ripley
Subject: package 'stats' needs import directive for 1.9.0?
In-Reply-To: <FCA5F290CE7FFD42A6F1515497B0F0A203438F32@ukapphresmsx02.ukapd.astrazeneca.net>
On Fri, 27 Feb 2004, Swinton, Jonathan wrote:
>
>
> > From: Prof Brian Ripley <ripley@stats.ox.ac.uk>
> > Subject: Re: [Rd] package 'stats' needs import directive for 1.9.0?
> > To: "Heywood, Giles" <Giles.Heywood@CommerzbankIB.com>
> > Cc: R-devel@stat.math.ethz.ch
> ...
> > I suggest you don't try: there are already quite a few 1.9.0-specific
> > versions of packages on CRAN, and 1.8.x will be history in a
> > couple of
> > months.
> >
> I'm not sure I understand the advice here. I have also hit the same problem,
> and it seems reasonable to me to aspire to maintain a single package which
> works on both 1.8.x and 1.9.x.
It is not easily possible if namespaces are involved. We failed to
anticpate that we would need version-dependent namespaces until rather
late and then decided not to set up an elaborate solution when most people
affected had already made separate versions for 1.9.0.
--
Brian D. Ripley, ripley@stats.ox.ac.uk
Professor of Applied Statistics, http://www.stats.ox.ac.uk/~ripley/
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