[R-pkg-devel] [FORGED] Re: How to (conditionally) use an archived package (without Suggests)?
Not to mention a drat repository you can just fork with a single click!
On Mon, 26 Feb 2018 at 3:25 am, Dirk Eddelbuettel <edd at debian.org> wrote:
On 25 February 2018 at 15:00, Marius Hofert wrote:
| okay, so (afaik) this is just a github repos which contains an exact
| copy of the github version of the problematic package (here: loon). I
Be very careful with terminology here:
-- "github repo" is to most people a source code repo
-- drat uses github and its "automatic webserver" to provide an "R repo",
ie
a repository for R packages (ie .tar.gz, binaries for macOS and windows
work too if you build them).
I have long joked that I wrote more documentation than code for drat, and
it
still confused the hell out of people. But there are numerous vignettes, a
useR talk I have and of course the long and very detailed paper.
Dirk
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