>> - there are lots of packages without one, so this would create a lot of >> work for people to add them. > > No, I don't think that this is too much work. Positively speaking, it's one > small contribution to bring more light into the exponentially growing > haystack.
It may not be much work for you, but I find any additional requirements to the package format to be a real pain. I have ~10 packages on CRAN and having to go through and add this extra information all at once is a big hassle. R releases tend to happen in the middle of the US academic semester when I have a lot of other things on my plate. Additionally, I find that rdoc is the wrong format for lengthy explanation and exposition - a pdf is much better - and I think that the packages already have a abstract: the description field in DESCRIPTION. The main problem with vignettes at the moment is that they must be sweave, a format which I don't really like. I wish I could supply my own pdf + R code file produced using whatever tools I choose. Hadley -- http://had.co.nz/ ______________________________________________ R-devel@r-project.org mailing list https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-devel