Hi, On Mon, Oct 25, 2010 at 1:29 PM, Jason Kwok <jayk...@gmail.com> wrote: > What's the difference between the packages you get from CRAN and R-Forge? > Are the packages you get from CRAN fully developed and R-Forge > work-in-progress?
You pretty much got it right. R-forge provides "an ecosystem" to help develop your packages: (i) a source control management system (ii) bug tracking (iii) forums/mailing lists (iv) etc. Developers might choose to put release candidate/beta/other versions of their libraries there to facilitate testing, etc. As you suspected, CRAN is simply a place to put the *release* versions of packages. Once a milestone in development has been reached for a project on r-forge, I guess the devs using r-forge could then choose to send a specific version over to CRAN. -steve -- Steve Lianoglou Graduate Student: Computational Systems Biology | Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center | Weill Medical College of Cornell University Contact Info: http://cbio.mskcc.org/~lianos/contact ______________________________________________ R-help@r-project.org mailing list https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-help PLEASE do read the posting guide http://www.R-project.org/posting-guide.html and provide commented, minimal, self-contained, reproducible code.
