Message-ID: <loom.20060724T013432-266@post.gmane.org>
Date: 2006-07-23T23:37:42Z
From: Gregor Gorjanc
Subject: Making a patch
Hi,
Andrew Robinson <A.Robinson <at> ms.unimelb.edu.au> writes:
>
> Dear R developers,
>
> is there a preferred format or strategy for making a patch to
> contribute to a package that is maintained by R-core? Berwin Turlach
> and I have written a very minor extension to lmeControl to allow it to
> pass an argument to nlminb for the maximum number of evaluations of
> the objective function. I've edited the nlme/R/lme.R and
> nlme/man/lmeControl.Rd files. I can diff the files, but the options
> seem numerous. I haven't been able to find any hinst on the preferred
> approach. Any advice would be welcomed.
>
look at
http://article.gmane.org/gmane.comp.lang.r.devel/8858
perhaps this (with modifications if necesarry) could be added to developer page
http://developer.r-project.org/
Afterall, there is a good guide on posting mails to r-mailing lists and it would
be good to have the same for pacthes.
Gregor