Re: [Rd] Suggestion: use mustWork = TRUE as the default for system.file

2018-09-16 Thread Tomas Kalibera
Hello Irene, we can only change the documented behavior when there is a very strong reason to do so, because it indeed can break existing code. A lot of existing code would depend on the current behavior, using e.g. nzchar() to check the output of system.file(). Changing the behavior that is

Re: [R-pkg-devel] Package Etiquette

2018-09-16 Thread Joseph Wood
Hello All, I appreciate all of the feedback. The many examples from personal experience really help. My gut feeling of contacting the maintainer was indeed confirmed. My particular situation is regarding ideas I have for a few packages. For example, I'm not very happy with how I handled the