Tamas Papp wrote:
I spend nearly no time supporting the Windows versions of my packages, so it would be unreasonable for me to suggest that the maintainers should do something special to support systems they don't use. However, they *should* put the code in a standard R package format for there own purposes. The package support tools are extremely powerful and make a big difference in the amount of support time necessary to maintain code. There are additional benefits to doing this and putting it on CRAN, to name a few:On Fri, May 21, 2004 at 09:02:15AM -0300, Rolf Turner wrote:
And I think it is perfectly ***fair*** to say to say that the package
maintainers could and should have done a better job of setting up the
package to make it run out-of-the-box on Linux.
You are probably right in saying that they _could_ have done better,
but I would not use "should" in this context. AFAIK the package is
free (as in beer) software, which means that you are not paying for
it. The maintainers probably do not need a Linux version (yet), so it
was not easy to use it under Linux. Feel free to contribute.
- the code will run on all R platforms with almost no effort.
- several aspects of the code and documentario will be checked automatically
- the code will be automatically tested with beta releases of R, so there will be an early warning of potential problems.
(BTW, I would be curious to see the data supporting the claim that "In the financial community Windows is the mostly used operating system." I would be especially interested if the data is specific to the financial engineering and computational finance communities. Is anyone aware of a source for this data?)
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