hi,

Am Donnerstag, 11. August 2011, 17:58:43 schrieb Thomas Friedrichsmeier:
> hm, I don't like the thought of having a duplicate structure, if we can 
> reasonably avoid it. If users start to mix editing by hand and editing via
> a  function, this will lead to inconsistencies.

yeah, i don't find this a very elegant solution either... although R packages 
have exactly that, too. the information in the DESCRIPTION file is repeated in 
man/<package_name>-package.Rd in Rd format and in tendency the same problems 
are to be expected.

i think we could effectively avoid e.g. by adding a comment to the XML version 
that it's not to be edited by hand but by calling rk.foo() only, like you find 
in some debian config files (e.g. /etc/resolv.conf on my system).

> No idea why there appear to be problems with the XML package on Windows,
> but  given that this is a rather often-used package, I would hope that
> these problems are temporary, and the XML package can at least be used for
> non- critical stuff. Or am I too optimistic, here?

don't know. all i can say is that i removed the dependency in june, and 
there's still no windows XML package in sight:
 o http://cran.r-project.org/web/packages/XML/index.html
as i understand the README info, this package doesn't compile without manual 
interaction, so CRAN cannot offer it automatically.

for me this disqualifies the package as a dependency here.

well, i'll try to write at least the paste() based function in the meantime 
;-)


viele grüße :: m.eik

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  abt. f"ur diagnostik und differentielle psychologie
  institut f"ur experimentelle psychologie
  heinrich-heine-universit"at d"usseldorf

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