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 package bigIntegerAlgos. It has a depends on the package gmp as bigIntegerAlgos is simply an extension of this package (it adds two specialized functions). The decision to have gmp as a depends really boiled down to the type of work one would be doing if they really wanted to factor large numbers. It is almost inconceivable that they wouldn't be using the various tools in the gmp package, hence the depends. Currently, I would grade the level of code in bigIntegerAlgos as "Rookie-Level" at best and I wouldn't expect the maintainer of gmp to associate with it. However, as the level improves and certainly before the next release, I will contact the maintainer to ask what the best course of action is. Again, thanks for all of the great feedback. Joseph Wood ______________________________________________ R-package-devel@r-project.org mailing list https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-package-devel
