Hello, Does the (core) designation in the CRAN Task View indicate packages that provide basic/recommended functionality in that domain? I don't see it documented anywhere on the site. Thanks for your help.
They indicate that they are part of the core distribution that comes with every R installation. Don't know where this is documented. -- Bert On Tue, Sep 25, 2012 at 8:24 AM, k schoenfelder <kschoenf at gmail.com> wrote:> Hello, > > Does the (core) designation in the CRAN Task View indicate packages > that provide basic/recommended functionality in that domain? > > I don't see it documented anywhere on the site. > > Thanks for your help. > > ______________________________________________ > R-help at r-project.org mailing list > https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-help > PLEASE do read the posting guide http://www.R-project.org/posting-guide.html > and provide commented, minimal, self-contained, reproducible code.-- Bert Gunter Genentech Nonclinical Biostatistics Internal Contact Info: Phone: 467-7374 Website: http://pharmadevelopment.roche.com/index/pdb/pdb-functional-groups/pdb-biostatistics/pdb-ncb-home.htm
I retract my previous claim. I don't know what it means either. -- Bert On Tue, Sep 25, 2012 at 8:24 AM, k schoenfelder <kschoenf at gmail.com> wrote:> Hello, > > Does the (core) designation in the CRAN Task View indicate packages > that provide basic/recommended functionality in that domain? > > I don't see it documented anywhere on the site. > > Thanks for your help. > > ______________________________________________ > R-help at r-project.org mailing list > https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-help > PLEASE do read the posting guide http://www.R-project.org/posting-guide.html > and provide commented, minimal, self-contained, reproducible code.-- Bert Gunter Genentech Nonclinical Biostatistics Internal Contact Info: Phone: 467-7374 Website: http://pharmadevelopment.roche.com/index/pdb/pdb-functional-groups/pdb-biostatistics/pdb-ncb-home.htm
On Tue, 25 Sep 2012, k schoenfelder wrote:> Hello, > > Does the (core) designation in the CRAN Task View indicate packages > that provide basic/recommended functionality in that domain?Sort of. It's really just a switch for giving the user a choice to just install "the most important" or "all" packages.> I don't see it documented anywhere on the site.It's not on the web page but the "ctv" package documentation gives some more information. E.g., the vignette says: ----- It ... allows for a distinction between "core" and "normal" (default) priority packages. The distinction is only important for the installation of certain views because the user can specify whether all packages (default) or only the most important core packages should be installed (with all their dependencies). ----- hth, Z> Thanks for your help. > > ______________________________________________ > R-help at r-project.org mailing list > https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-help > PLEASE do read the posting guide http://www.R-project.org/posting-guide.html > and provide commented, minimal, self-contained, reproducible code. >