Our firm would like to route support requests through a website instead of using email. However R will refuse to install a package if DESCRIPTION's Maintainer field does not have a valid email adress or the special value "ORPHANED". (The check is done with tools:::.valid_maintainer_field_regexp.)
I imagine a typical Maintainer line for the package "foo" might be something like Maintainer: Amalgamated Widget's Support Team <http://support.amalgamatedwidgets.com/spackage?name=foo> How much does the package system (or CRAN) depend on the Maintainer field being an email address? I can imagine programs would find mailing to an address easier than dealing with a website, but humans would have a better experience with a well designed website. Perhaps we could add an optional %s field to the website so a program could post a small message. Bill Dunlap TIBCO Spotfire Inc. wdunlap tibco.com ______________________________________________ R-devel@r-project.org mailing list https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-devel
