Message-ID: <23186.58243.15530.282444@rob.eddelbuettel.com>
Date: 2018-02-25T16:25:39Z
From: Dirk Eddelbuettel
Subject: [R-pkg-devel] [FORGED] Re: How to (conditionally) use an archived package (without Suggests)?
In-Reply-To: <CAM3-Kja9KzFWLimFS3XY-aMVN32btYpH2i-FixgKNk7Z0RzfXQ@mail.gmail.com>
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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