-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 CCd to r-devel as suggested by Peter.
On 09/02/12 19:28, Hadley Wickham wrote: >>> I'm exploring using a version control system to keep better >>> track of changes to the packages I maintain. I'm leaning >>> towards git (although mercurial also looks good) but am not >>> sure what is the best way to set up the repository. It seems I >>> can't set the repository directly within the R package main >>> directory, since it will be incompatible with the standard >>> package structure. I can set the repository in the directory >>> that contains my R packages, but then I have a single >>> repository for all of my packages, which is not ideal. >> >> Git is nice - but if you ar looking for simplicity in usage for >> R packages, I guess r-forge and rforge are the easiest to use. > > I think git + github is substantially easier to use, especially if > you want to incorporate patches from the community. > >> But I would be interested in the workflow when using github as >> the main VCS. > > The thing that has made this really successful for me is the > install_github function in devtools. Then it's easy for people to > try out development versions: > > install.packages("devtools") library(devtools) > install_github("myrepo", "myusername") Thanks Hadley - I should definitely look closer into the devtools package - there really seem to be some gems in there. One example is this function - sounds perfect for small scale usages and for developers. But what I was thinking about (in my other post as well) is to include github (or any other git repo provider) into r-forge for the automatic creation of packages. So is there an easy way to kind of push a certain revision up to r-forge to have the automatic builds? One could do it manualy, but automatic would be so much nicer. > > This requires a working R development environment but thanks to > the hard work of Simon Urbanek, Duncan Murdoch, Brian Ripley and > others, this is a one-install process on all major platforms. True - no problem for developers. Cheers, Rainer > > Hadley > > - -- Rainer M. Krug, PhD (Conservation Ecology, SUN), MSc (Conservation Biology, UCT), Dipl. Phys. (Germany) Centre of Excellence for Invasion Biology Stellenbosch University South Africa Tel : +33 - (0)9 53 10 27 44 Cell: +33 - (0)6 85 62 59 98 Fax : +33 - (0)9 58 10 27 44 Fax (D): +49 - (0)3 21 21 25 22 44 email: rai...@krugs.de Skype: RMkrug -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.11 (GNU/Linux) Comment: Using GnuPG with Mozilla - http://enigmail.mozdev.org/ iEYEARECAAYFAk800TcACgkQoYgNqgF2ego0QgCfcDIpUlxmVHfYMHi/IlCNKSJ3 1sIAnjQEmBYoTXIE5SlvRUqs/eAioibC =38uA -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- ______________________________________________ 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.