I have two questions about packaging up code.
1) Weave/tangle advisable?
In the course of extending some C code already in S, I had to work out
the underlying math. It seems to me useful to keep this information
with the code, using Knuth's tangle/weave type tools. I know there is
some support
On Tue, 26 Aug 2003, Ross Boylan wrote:
I have two questions about packaging up code.
1) Weave/tangle advisable?
In the course of extending some C code already in S, I had to work out
the underlying math. It seems to me useful to keep this information
with the code, using Knuth's
On Wed, 27 Aug 2003, Prof Brian Ripley wrote:
On Tue, 26 Aug 2003, Ross Boylan wrote:
So do people have any thoughts about whether introducing this is a step
forward or back?
A useful analogue: we now distribute Fortran code not the original Ratfor.
As a footnote to Brian's comment, I
On Tue, 26 Aug 2003, Ross Boylan wrote:
2) Modifications of existing packages.
I modified the survival package (I'm not sure if that's properly called
a base package, but it's close). I know in this particular case, if
I'm serious, I probably should contact the package maintainer. But this
