Re: [R] Version control (git, mercurial) for R packages

2012-02-10 Thread Rainer M Krug
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 CCd to r-devel as suggested by Peter. On 09/02/12 19:28, Hadley Wickham wrote: I'm exploring using a version control system to keep better track of changes to the packages I maintain. I'm leaning towards git (although mercurial also looks good)

Re: [R] Version control (git, mercurial) for R packages

2012-02-09 Thread Rainer M Krug
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 09/02/12 00:01, Peter Langfelder wrote: Hi all, in particular package developers, I'm exploring using a version control system to keep better track of changes to the packages I maintain. I'm leaning towards git (although mercurial also looks

Re: [R] Version control (git, mercurial) for R packages

2012-02-09 Thread Rainer M Krug
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 09/02/12 00:33, Tom Roche wrote: Peter Langfelder Thu Feb 9 00:01:31 CET 2012 I'm exploring using a version control system +1! welcome to the new millenium :-) to keep better track of changes to the [R] packages I maintain. I'm leaning

Re: [R] Version control (git, mercurial) for R packages

2012-02-09 Thread baptiste auguie
Once upon a time r-forge had the option to sync from an external svn repository, e.g. hosted on googlecode. I haven't seen it available for some time, sadly. I'm sure many users would appreciate if this feature came back with the new interface. Not sure if it could work with git as well, though.

Re: [R] Version control (git, mercurial) for R packages

2012-02-09 Thread Rainer M Krug
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 09/02/12 10:09, baptiste auguie wrote: Once upon a time r-forge had the option to sync from an external svn repository, e.g. hosted on googlecode. I haven't seen it available for some time, sadly. I'm sure many users would appreciate if this

Re: [R] Version control (git, mercurial) for R packages

2012-02-09 Thread Peter Langfelder
On Thu, Feb 9, 2012 at 1:46 AM, Gregory Jefferis jeffe...@gmail.com wrote: Dear Peter, Trying to respond to your original question Thanks for staying on thread :) I have a git repositiory in the root of my packages: ie package-foo/.git package-foo/R package-foo/inst Running make

Re: [R] Version control (git, mercurial) for R packages

2012-02-09 Thread Hadley Wickham
Same warning here. Which made me think that R CMD build will probably tar up the git repository along with the package, which is not something I would like to do, and which CRAN people most likely won't tolerate in a package on CRAN. It doesn't. And you can always use .Rbuildignore to ignore

Re: [R] Version control (git, mercurial) for R packages

2012-02-09 Thread Hadley Wickham
I'm exploring using a version control system to keep better track of changes to the packages I maintain. I'm leaning towards git (although mercurial also looks good) but am not sure what is the best way to set up the repository. It seems I can't set the repository directly within the R

Re: [R] Version control (git, mercurial) for R packages

2012-02-09 Thread peter dalgaard
Could I gently remind you guys about the R-help litmus test: If an ordinary R _user_ has no clue what you are on about, you are on the wrong list. R-devel would be right. -pd On Feb 9, 2012, at 19:28 , Hadley Wickham wrote: I'm exploring using a version control system to keep better track

[R] Version control (git, mercurial) for R packages

2012-02-08 Thread Peter Langfelder
Hi all, in particular package developers, I'm exploring using a version control system to keep better track of changes to the packages I maintain. I'm leaning towards git (although mercurial also looks good) but am not sure what is the best way to set up the repository. It seems I can't set the

Re: [R] Version control (git, mercurial) for R packages

2012-02-08 Thread Tom Roche
Peter Langfelder Thu Feb 9 00:01:31 CET 2012 I'm exploring using a version control system +1! welcome to the new millenium :-) to keep better track of changes to the [R] packages I maintain. I'm leaning towards git I like 'git' too, but one thing to consider (though keep in mind that I'm

Re: [R] Version control (git, mercurial) for R packages

2012-02-08 Thread David Winsemius
On Feb 8, 2012, at 6:33 PM, Tom Roche wrote: Peter Langfelder Thu Feb 9 00:01:31 CET 2012 I'm exploring using a version control system +1! welcome to the new millenium :-) to keep better track of changes to the [R] packages I maintain. I'm leaning towards git I like 'git' too, but one

Re: [R] Version control (git, mercurial) for R packages

2012-02-08 Thread baptiste auguie
On 9 February 2012 13:02, David Winsemius dwinsem...@comcast.net wrote: On Feb 8, 2012, at 6:33 PM, Tom Roche wrote: Peter Langfelder Thu Feb 9 00:01:31 CET 2012 I'm exploring using a version control system +1! welcome to the new millenium :-) to keep better track of changes to the [R]