On 4/6/07, Stefan Theussl <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > hadley wickham wrote: > >> > I have recently found RForge.net (http://www.rforge.net/) by Simon > >> > Urbanek and found out today that the site is accepting subscriptions. > >> > Great! However, browsing a bit on the site I found a link to another > >> > forge: R-Forge (http://r-forge.r-project.org/). > >> > > >> > Is/will the last one be the "offcial" forge for R packages, given that > >> > it has domain r-project.org? > >> > >> Yes, we're currently still testing the functionality and improving the > >> documentation, but an article for R News that announces the > >> functionality > >> is under preparation. There is already a user's manual available on the > >> main page which explains how you can register and set up your project > >> etc. > >> Just as Simon's site this already offers an SVN and nightly builds in a > >> CRAN-style repository, and additionally there is the whole GForge system > >> with other features such as project forums, mailing lists etc. > > > > Is it possible to use r-forge just for the nightly builds? (ie. with > > svn hosted elsewhere) That would be really handy. > > > > Hadley > We have never thought about it, but this would be technically difficult. > > But you may migrate your svn (or the part which contains the package) to > R-Forge and have the advantage of daily build and checked packages with > the possibility to install it directly from R-Forge: > |install.packages("/packagename/",repos="http://r-forge.r-project.org";)|
I guess I'm not really comfortable moving my code to an external repository completely out of my control. It would be really convenient to be able to upload a source package, and have it built, with out R CMD check being enforced. Hadley ______________________________________________ R-devel@r-project.org mailing list https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-devel
