On Mon, 30 Jan 2006, Liaw, Andy wrote: > Perhaps you do not understand why the documentations in base R do/can not > refer to contributed packages (as Achim stated). There are several, but the > more obvious one is that contributed packages are not guanranteed to be > there: Each package is required to have a maintainer, who is responsible > for making necessary updates to keep the package up-to-date with R versions. > A package not actively maintained is subject to removal from CRAN. Can you > reasonably expect base R to cite contributed packages in such a setup?
As a general principle this is indeed so, but we do have some exceptions (look in the R Data Import/Export Manual for several), especially to the recommended packages. Where there is enhanced methodology in a package and as a result there are no plans to enhance the main R version and the package is stable and has maintainers with a track record of being responsive, we do consider adding a cross-reference (and indeed a cross-ref from mosaicplot to vcd has been floated before). And possibly under other circumstances too .... -- Brian D. Ripley, [EMAIL PROTECTED] Professor of Applied Statistics, http://www.stats.ox.ac.uk/~ripley/ University of Oxford, Tel: +44 1865 272861 (self) 1 South Parks Road, +44 1865 272866 (PA) Oxford OX1 3TG, UK Fax: +44 1865 272595 ______________________________________________ R-devel@r-project.org mailing list https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-devel
