On Mon, May 05, 2008 at 11:56:47AM +0100, Prof Brian Ripley wrote: > We've now implemented an OS_type field in a package's DESCRIPTION file, > which if set has to match .Platform$OS.type (possible values "unix" and > "windows"). CRAN has set up some overrides and added this field to > packages known to be Unix-only or Windows-only, but authors should do so > for themselves in future. > > Unsuitable packages will not be offered by available.packages(), will not > be installed by R CMD INSTALL, and R CMD check will select --no-install. > > This happens in R-devel and R-patched, and is intended to simplify > automated installation and checking.
Good idea. Just yesterday, someone was just wondering on the r-sig-finance list why his Linux box was bringing in RBloomberg and thusly RDCOMClient when retrieving the default task view set for Finance. As maintainer of the task view, I had no good answer other than the default of howling at Achim and calling it a ctv feature. But yes, it really was a design issue and this should fix it. So thanks. Dirk -- Three out of two people have difficulties with fractions. ______________________________________________ R-devel@r-project.org mailing list https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-devel
