On Fri, 24 Jun 2005, John Marsland wrote: > I was reading with interest Prof. Ripley's article in the May 2005 > edition R News entitled "Packages and their Management in R2.1.0". > > Does anybody know if it is possible to install.packages() directly > from a Subversion repository; I thought it might be possible to add > an option method="svn" to the function?
It's download.file that is used to retrieve packages (see the help file). You would need a suitable client and a suitable syntax to specify the tree you wanted, but it would be possible. I would be surprised if you put actual sources of a package into svn: R CMD build both adds things and changes the DESCRIPTION file. > Ideally, one might want to add the Subversion version number to the R > package version in the DESCRIPTION file for consistency. You are allowed to do that: just add a field for your own use. The vast majority of packages are not under svn, of course, and I tag a released package with its released number (just as the R sources do). -- Brian D. Ripley, [EMAIL PROTECTED] Professor of Applied Statistics, http://www.stats.ox.ac.uk/~ripley/ University of Oxford, Tel: +44 1865 272861 (self) 1 South Parks Road, +44 1865 272866 (PA) Oxford OX1 3TG, UK Fax: +44 1865 272595 ______________________________________________ [email protected] mailing list https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-help PLEASE do read the posting guide! http://www.R-project.org/posting-guide.html
