[R-pkg-devel] stringi update

2018-09-09 Thread Patrick Giraudoux
Since weeks the package stringi stays on the following versions: > update.packages(ask='graphics',checkBuilt=TRUE)   There is a binary version available but the source version is later:     binary source needs_compilation stringi  1.1.7  1.2.4  TRUE Do you want to install from

Re: [R-pkg-devel] Package Etiquette

2018-09-09 Thread Spencer Graves
On 2018-09-09 09:30, Dirk Eddelbuettel wrote: Hi Joseph, On 8 September 2018 at 21:11, Joseph Wood wrote: | I’m a new developer and this is my first post. I have a question regarding | package development with regards to duplication of functionality. I read | the posting guide

Re: [R-pkg-devel] Package Etiquette

2018-09-09 Thread Dirk Eddelbuettel
Hi Joseph, On 8 September 2018 at 21:11, Joseph Wood wrote: | I’m a new developer and this is my first post. I have a question regarding | package development with regards to duplication of functionality. I read | the posting guide (https://www.r-project.org/posting-guide.html) and didn’t | see

Re: [R-pkg-devel] Package Etiquette

2018-09-09 Thread Duncan Murdoch
On 08/09/2018 9:11 PM, Joseph Wood wrote: Hi all, I’m a new developer and this is my first post. I have a question regarding package development with regards to duplication of functionality. I read the posting guide (https://www.r-project.org/posting-guide.html) and didn’t see anything

[R-pkg-devel] Package Etiquette

2018-09-09 Thread Joseph Wood
Hi all, I’m a new developer and this is my first post. I have a question regarding package development with regards to duplication of functionality. I read the posting guide (https://www.r-project.org/posting-guide.html) and didn’t see anything addressing this. Is this the right place to ask?