Hi, Would it make sense to add a MailingList field in the DESCRIPTION file so that we can indicate where the package can be discussed. More and more packages have dedicated mailing lists (mostly thanks to r[-]?forge ). Romain -- Romain Francois Professional R Enthusiast +33(0) 6 28 91 30 30 http://romainfrancois.blog.free.fr |- http://tr.im/BcPw : celebrating R commit #50000 |- http://tr.im/ztCu : RGG #158:161: examples of package IDPmisc `- http://tr.im/yw8E : New R package : sos
On Thu, 5 Nov 2009, Romain Francois wrote:> Hi, > > Would it make sense to add a MailingList field in the DESCRIPTION file so > that we can indicate where the package can be discussed.You can add whatever fields you like, and many authors do.> More and more packages have dedicated mailing lists (mostly thanks to > r[-]?forge ).But those have a URL on R-forge, and surely giving that is more useful (and URL: is a documented field).> Romain Francois-- Brian D. Ripley, ripley at stats.ox.ac.uk Professor of Applied Statistics, http://www.stats.ox.ac.uk/~ripley/ University of Oxford, Tel: +44 1865 272861 (self) 1 South Parks Road, +44 1865 272866 (PA) Oxford OX1 3TG, UK Fax: +44 1865 272595
On 11/05/2009 12:44 PM, Prof Brian Ripley wrote:> > On Thu, 5 Nov 2009, Romain Francois wrote: > >> Hi, >> >> Would it make sense to add a MailingList field in the DESCRIPTION file >> so that we can indicate where the package can be discussed. > > You can add whatever fields you like, and many authors do. > >> More and more packages have dedicated mailing lists (mostly thanks to >> r[-]?forge ). > > But those have a URL on R-forge, and surely giving that is more useful > (and URL: is a documented field). > >> Romain FrancoisSure. I was thinking of coupling this field with some code along the lines of bug.report. BTW, since Maintainer is required, what about a "package" argument in bug.report, that if given just sets the address to the maintainer field (maybe making a separate case for core packages). I can submit a patch for this. Romain -- Romain Francois Professional R Enthusiast +33(0) 6 28 91 30 30 http://romainfrancois.blog.free.fr |- http://tr.im/BcPw : celebrating R commit #50000 |- http://tr.im/ztCu : RGG #158:161: examples of package IDPmisc `- http://tr.im/yw8E : New R package : sos