[Rd] CRAN scripts?

2003-03-04 Thread Ben Bolker
For various reasons, I've opted to make my packages available from my own web page rather than submitting them to CRAN (mostly laziness -- for a long time I didn't have the packages quite cleaned up enough to pass all the tests). It occurred to me to wonder about the scripts used by CRAN

Re: [Rd] CRAN scripts?

2003-03-04 Thread Dirk Eddelbuettel
On Tue, Mar 04, 2003 at 11:39:51AM -0500, Ben Bolker wrote: do people think that I should bite the bullet and submit my packages to CRAN instead? Yes please. Dirk -- Prediction is very difficult, especially about the future. -- Niels Bohr

Re: [Rd] CRAN scripts?

2003-03-04 Thread Thomas Lumley
On Tue, 4 Mar 2003, Dirk Eddelbuettel wrote: On Tue, Mar 04, 2003 at 11:39:51AM -0500, Ben Bolker wrote: do people think that I should bite the bullet and submit my packages to CRAN instead? Yes please. Though you might also want to look at Bioconductor's reposTools package, which is

Re: [Rd] CRAN scripts?

2003-03-04 Thread Jeff Gentry
maintainers to generate the PACKAGES file, and to generate PACKAGES.html from PACKAGES. Are those something that could be made available? Or do people think that I should bite the bullet and submit my packages to CRAN instead? You might want to take a peak at the 'reposTools' package

Re: [Rd] CRAN scripts?

2003-03-04 Thread Barry Rowlingson
Thomas Lumley wrote: Though you might also want to look at Bioconductor's reposTools package, which is designed to manage packages with multiple repositories. Is there any chance of a CVS repository for public but not necessarily CRAN-quality R Code? Or better still, a sourceforge-type site

Re: [Rd] CRAN scripts?

2003-03-04 Thread Ben Bolker
OK, then, one more concern: I'm trying to decide on an appropriate level of resolution for distributing packages. At the moment I have bbmisc, which is a package bundle consisting of about 6 packages of varying size and specificity -- does that seem reasonable? Or do people prefer more,

[Rd] order of package loading and printing messages to console on startup

2003-03-04 Thread Roger Peng
Recently in R-devel, I've noticed that when I start up R, code in .Rprofile (in the working directory) gets sourced but any messages printed out by that code (e.g. by `cat') are printed *before* the introductory statement about R. For example, if I put the line library(KernSmooth) in my

Re: [Rd] order of package loading and printing messages to consoleon startup

2003-03-04 Thread ripley
What's changed is when the introductory message is printed, not when code in .Rprofile is run: revision 1.118 date: 2003/02/26 15:51:17; author: pd; state: Exp; lines: +6 -6 RNG change + delayed greeting So it was intentional, but Peter D will have to explain why (as I wasn't paying