Message-ID: <6.1.2.0.0.20041119075123.0198bd20@hermes.nos.noaa.gov>
Date: 2004-11-19T12:57:27Z
From: Mike Prager
Subject: The hidden costs of GPL software?
In-Reply-To: <20041119024548.EUZS1919.tomts22-srv.bellnexxia.net@JohnDes ktop8300>
At 09:45 PM 11/18/2004, John Fox wrote:
[...]
>6) As has been pointed out, e.g., by Duncan Murdoch, solving the
>function-locating problem is best done by a method or methods that
>automatically accommodate the growing and changing set of contributed
>packages on CRAN. Why not, as previously has been proposed, replace the
>current static (and, in my view, not very useful) set of keywords in R
>documentation with the requirement that package authors supply their own
>keywords for each documented object? I believe that this is the intent of
>the concept entries in Rd files, but their use certainly is not required or
>even actively encouraged. (They're just mentioned in passing in the Writing
>R Extensions manual.) [...]
That should prove extremely helpful. Would it be practical to have the
complete index installed with base R? That would help identify useful
packages not yet in a user's installation.
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Michael Prager, Ph.D. <Mike.Prager at noaa.gov>
NOAA Beaufort Laboratory
Beaufort, North Carolina 28516
http://shrimp.ccfhrb.noaa.gov/~mprager/
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