two new packages
At 12:18 30/04/01 -0400, "Timothy H. Keitt" <Timothy.Keitt at StonyBrook.Edu> wrote:
Great! I think we should encourage people to upload complete, but not yet fully tested packages to the "devel" section of CRAN. It gets really hard to keep track of source that is scattered all over the 'net. Cheers, Tim John Fox wrote:
I've prepared preliminary versions of two packages that I plan eventually to contribute to CRAN:
I fear Tim's idea could lead to mayhem with a multitude of 'built-for-a-job, I-can-use-it' contributions sitting on the devel section. Devel is being used as a beta test repository by people who seem to eventually produce full packages. Perhaps a 'midden' might fill Tim's requirements, there is something similar for Delphi where people contribute code. Every bit of code would need to be identified logically and with the author's name and with appropriate copyright declarations (in Delphi many producers of snippets seem very proud and possessive of their frequently uninspired code ... the really good stuff comes unrestricted GNU style). My gut feeling is that unless contributors were VERY disciplined this could be a problem ... and if the lump is worthwhile it will lead to a package in the hands of a disciplined author. Maybe people with 'bits' could get together and produce an e1071 type package?, Richard Richard Rowe Senior Lecturer Department of Zoology and Tropical Ecology, James Cook University Townsville, Queensland 4811, Australia fax (61)7 47 25 1570 phone (61)7 47 81 4851 e-mail: Richard.Rowe at jcu.edu.au http://www.jcu.edu.au/school/tbiol/zoology/homepage.html -.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.- r-help mailing list -- Read http://www.ci.tuwien.ac.at/~hornik/R/R-FAQ.html Send "info", "help", or "[un]subscribe" (in the "body", not the subject !) To: r-help-request at stat.math.ethz.ch _._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._