Wolfgang, Joris,
This may not necessarily work -- see "Goodhart's Law" [1] Once you impose something like this, (some) will skirt it with just the minimum requirement of an (essentially) empty file. An existing set of examples is provided by the vignettes of (at least) one developer which each consist (or consisted ?) of just a single line with a hyperlink to the corresponding package website. Passes the letter of the law (hey, look, a vignette) and all possible tests, but clearly violates the spirit of the law that documentation and package should be self-contained (and no, connectivity should not be assumed). Moral persuasion may be better. We should encourage best practices and highlight packages that follow them. Dirk [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Goodhart%27s_law -- http://dirk.eddelbuettel.com | @eddelbuettel | e...@debian.org ______________________________________________ R-package-devel@r-project.org mailing list https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-package-devel
