Version control (git, mercurial) for R packages

Dear Peter,

Trying to respond to your original question

Thanks for staying on thread :)

I have a git repositiory in the root of my packages:

ie

package-foo/.git
package-foo/R
package-foo/inst

Running make check in place warns about the presence of binary files, but
that is the only problem I have found ? have you come across another
problem.

Same warning here. Which made me think that R CMD build will probably
tar up the git repository along with the package, which is not
something I would like to do, and which CRAN people most likely won't
tolerate in a package on CRAN.

 I have also switched to using Hadley Wickham's devtools (+ roxygen

for docs). Both highly recommended. devtools can build a package and check
it in a temporary location ? this is safer than checking in place and avoids
that warning.

I'll check that out.

You can see layouts for Hadley's packages on github e.g. :

https://github.com/hadley/devtools

Best wishes,

Greg.

Thanks for the suggestions. It occurred to me that I can write a short
script that will copy the package minus the git repository into a
temporary location and check or build it there, but I'll look into
devtools as well.

Peter