R help - Feb 2008 - "revision control software" for managing R-code?

Does anyone use "revision control software" to manage their R-code?
Any suggestions?

Ideally, I'm looking for a, effective yet easy to implement/maintain
package.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Revision_control
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Comparison_of_revision_control_software


       
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On 2/7/2008 11:18 AM, Thomas Pujol wrote:
> Does anyone use "revision control software" to manage their
R-code?
> Any suggestions?
> 
> Ideally, I'm looking for a, effective yet easy to implement/maintain
package.
> 
> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Revision_control
> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Comparison_of_revision_control_software
The R sources themselves are maintained in Subversion, and it works 
well.  If you want to use Subversion, I recommend reading the Subversion 
book, available online at svnbook.com, or on paper at a bookstore.

The build scripts for packages also recognize and work around the 
metadata for a few other version control systems:  CVS (which R used to 
use, I like Subversion better), arch, git, and bzr.  I've never tried 
any of the latter three.

Duncan Murdoch

On Thu, 2008-02-07 at 08:18 -0800, Thomas Pujol wrote:
> Does anyone use "revision control software" to manage their
R-code?
> Any suggestions?
> 
> Ideally, I'm looking for a, effective yet easy to implement/maintain
package.
> 
> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Revision_control
> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Comparison_of_revision_control_software
I use Subversion and the excellent collaborative R-forge site:

http://r-forge.r-project.org

The R project itself uses Subversion, but it is just at home with
smaller applications like a simple R package.

And using R-forge, you don't need to set all the infrastructure up
yourself, you just need a subversion client on your machine to check
out/in files/changes etc. You get extra goodies from R-forge like
nightly builds of your packages etc which is also very handy.

HTH

G
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If its a publicly available R package you will likely
want to make use of google code or r-forge subversion
(svn) hosting to host the repository together with one of
the many svn clients on the subversion site that others
have pointed you to.  Here are links and two sample
project links:

http://code.google.com/
http://code.google.com/hosting/search?q=label:R
http://r-proto.googlecode.com

http://R-forge.r-project.org
http://r-forge.r-project.org/softwaremap/trove_list.php
http://r-forge.r-project.org/projects/zoo/

On Feb 7, 2008 11:18 AM, Thomas Pujol <thomas.pujol at yahoo.com>
wrote:
> Does anyone use "revision control software" to manage their
R-code?
> Any suggestions?
>
> Ideally, I'm looking for a, effective yet easy to implement/maintain
package.
>
> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Revision_control
> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Comparison_of_revision_control_software
On Feb 7, 2008 11:18 AM, Thomas Pujol <thomas.pujol at yahoo.com>
wrote:
> Does anyone use "revision control software" to manage their
R-code?
> Any suggestions?
>
> Ideally, I'm looking for a, effective yet easy to implement/maintain
package.
>
> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Revision_control
> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Comparison_of_revision_control_software
>
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On Thu, 7 Feb 2008, Thomas Pujol wrote:
> Does anyone use "revision control software" to manage their
R-code?
> Any suggestions?
>
R-core used to use CVS and now uses Subversion. I use Subversion.  I know 
some other people use git.

 	-thomas

This is a "religion question" in some sense. Personally, i used 
CVS and a bit Subversion too, but arch and bazaar look much better.
Especially if you're not always in online connection with the central
repository, or you don't really want a central repository at all.

Gabor

On Thu, Feb 07, 2008 at 08:18:49AM -0800, Thomas Pujol
wrote:
> Does anyone use "revision control software" to manage their
R-code?
> Any suggestions?
> 
> Ideally, I'm looking for a, effective yet easy to implement/maintain
package.
> 
> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Revision_control
> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Comparison_of_revision_control_software
> 
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