Actually, now that I think about it, 'R CMD build' already adds the 'Packaged:' field, so perhaps it wouldn't really make sense to add yet another field with exactly the same information....
-roger Robert Gentleman wrote: > > Kurt Hornik wrote: >>>>>>> hadley wickham writes: >>>> I recently thought about this. I see several issues. >>>> >>>> * How can we determine if it is "old"? Relative to the time when the >>>> package was uploaded to a repository? >>>> >>>> * Some developers might actually want a different date for a variety of >>>> reasons ... >>>> >>>> * What we currently say in R-exts is >>>> >>>> The optional `Date' field gives the release date of the current >>>> version of the package. It is strongly recommended to use the >>>> yyyy-mm-dd format conforming to the ISO standard. >>>> >>>> Many packages do not comply with the latter (but I have some code to >>>> sanitize most of these), and "release date" may be a moving target. >>>> >>>> The best that I could think of is to teach R CMD build to *add* a Date >>>> field if there was none. >>> That sounds like a good solution to me. >> Ok. However, 2.7.0 feature freeze soon ... > > Please no. If people want one then they should add it manually. It > is optional, and some of us have explicitly opted out and would like to > continue to do so. > > >>> Otherwise, maybe just a message from R CMD check? i.e. just like >>> failing the codetools checks, it might be perfectly ok, but you should >>> be doing it consciously, not by mistake. >> I am working on that, too (e.g. a simple NOTE in case the date spec >> cannot be canonicalized, etc.). If file time stamps were realiable, we >> could compare these to the given date. This is I guess all we can do >> for e.g. CRAN's daily checking (where comparing to the date the check >> is run is not too useful) ... > > But definitely not a warning. > > Robert > >> Best >> -k >> >> ______________________________________________ >> R-devel@r-project.org mailing list >> https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-devel >> > -- Roger D. Peng | http://www.biostat.jhsph.edu/~rpeng/ ______________________________________________ R-devel@r-project.org mailing list https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-devel
