>>>>> "PaulG" == Paul Gilbert <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
>>>>> on Tue, 29 Aug 2006 09:55:09 -0400 writes:
PaulG> Martin Maechler wrote:
>> ...
>>
>> The idea was a field related to but weaker than 'Suggests' :
>> Something like
>> 'canMakeUseOf: <pkg1> [, <pkg2>, ... ]
>> which is *not* used in any QA/QC checking, but is purely
>> informative: If <pkg1> is require()able, then some examples may
>> look nicer, a function may provide another feature, etc, etc.
>> Alternatives to 'canMakeUseOf' would have been
>> 'isHappilyCoworkingWith' ....
>>
>> What do you (R-devel listeners) think about the idea?
PaulG> I still like this idea. I prefer 'canMakeUseOf' to
PaulG> 'isHappilyCoworkingWith' mainly because it seems less ambiguous.
Thanks, Paul.
As you may have guessed I should have put a " :-) " beside the
'isHappily...' .
Of course, even 'CanMakeUseOf' {we should capitalize the first letter}
is rather too long, but before finding the proper term, we should
agree on usefulness of such a new field.
Apart from the use of package authors {some could note that
other packages make use of theirs, without already depending on
or suggesting them}, it's one of those fields that should help
in the future to explore (e.g. cluster or neighborhood-graph)
the growing high-dimensional space of R packages.
Martin
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