?maintainer in R accesses the package description file to provide maintainer info. No need to fool around with git or other software development repositories. Bert Gunter "The trouble with having an open mind is that people keep coming along and sticking things into it." -- Opus (aka Berkeley Breathed in his "Bloom County" comic strip ) On Thu, Oct 11, 2018 at 9:44 AM Amit Mittal <prof.amit.mittal at gmail.com> wrote:> You can contact them as Marc suggested by opening an account at bit > (bitbucket/Atlassian) or git (github) Most prefer strongly to have a > primary at git before going to Atlassian other code checkers so you can > discover the package team there esp if any future development is in the > pipes. > > Don't worry about it you dont have to be a founder or developer to have an > account there :) > > BR > > On Thu, Oct 11, 2018 at 9:11 PM Rich Shepard <rshepard at appl-ecosys.com> > wrote: > > > This is a question to better my understanding of the relationship > > between > > core R versions and packages that work with them. It's not a complaint or > > criticism. > > > > Installed here is R-3.5.1. There are two packages that allow > integration > > of R and GRASS that are not yet available for 3.5.1: rpy2 and spgrass7. > > > > Appreciating that package maintainers have day jobs that take priority > > over volunteer package maintenance, I ask only for thoughts on when > copies > > of those two packages _might_ be available for 3.5.1. > > > > Regards, > > > > Rich > > > > ______________________________________________ > > R-help at r-project.org mailing list -- To UNSUBSCRIBE and more, see > > 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. > > > -- > > ______________________________ > > Amit Mittal > Pursuing Ph.D. in Finance and Accounting > Indian Institute of Management, Lucknow > Visit my SSRN author page: > http://ssrn.com/author=2665511 > * Top 10% Downloaded Author on SSRN > Mob: +91 7525023664 > > This message has been sent from a mobile device. I may contact you again. > > _________________ > > [[alternative HTML version deleted]] > > ______________________________________________ > R-help at r-project.org mailing list -- To UNSUBSCRIBE and more, see > 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. >[[alternative HTML version deleted]]
Most developers like to be unavailable on email without genuine queries, one or the other we tell you to come thru git On Thu 11 Oct, 2018, 22:26 Bert Gunter, <bgunter.4567 at gmail.com> wrote:> ?maintainer > > in R accesses the package description file to provide maintainer info. No > need to fool around with git or other software development repositories. > > Bert Gunter > > "The trouble with having an open mind is that people keep coming along and > sticking things into it." > -- Opus (aka Berkeley Breathed in his "Bloom County" comic strip ) > > > On Thu, Oct 11, 2018 at 9:44 AM Amit Mittal <prof.amit.mittal at gmail.com> > wrote: > >> You can contact them as Marc suggested by opening an account at bit >> (bitbucket/Atlassian) or git (github) Most prefer strongly to have a >> primary at git before going to Atlassian other code checkers so you can >> discover the package team there esp if any future development is in the >> pipes. >> >> Don't worry about it you dont have to be a founder or developer to have an >> account there :) >> >> BR >> >> On Thu, Oct 11, 2018 at 9:11 PM Rich Shepard <rshepard at appl-ecosys.com> >> wrote: >> >> > This is a question to better my understanding of the relationship >> > between >> > core R versions and packages that work with them. It's not a complaint >> or >> > criticism. >> > >> > Installed here is R-3.5.1. There are two packages that allow >> integration >> > of R and GRASS that are not yet available for 3.5.1: rpy2 and spgrass7. >> > >> > Appreciating that package maintainers have day jobs that take >> priority >> > over volunteer package maintenance, I ask only for thoughts on when >> copies >> > of those two packages _might_ be available for 3.5.1. >> > >> > Regards, >> > >> > Rich >> > >> > ______________________________________________ >> > R-help at r-project.org mailing list -- To UNSUBSCRIBE and more, see >> > 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. >> > >> -- >> >> ______________________________ >> >> Amit Mittal >> Pursuing Ph.D. in Finance and Accounting >> Indian Institute of Management, Lucknow >> Visit my SSRN author page: >> http://ssrn.com/author=2665511 >> * Top 10% Downloaded Author on SSRN >> Mob: +91 7525023664 >> >> This message has been sent from a mobile device. I may contact you again. >> >> _________________ >> >> [[alternative HTML version deleted]] > > >> >> ______________________________________________ >> R-help at r-project.org mailing list -- To UNSUBSCRIBE and more, see >> 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. >> > --______________________________ Amit Mittal Pursuing Ph.D. in Finance and Accounting Indian Institute of Management, Lucknow Visit my SSRN author page: http://ssrn.com/author=2665511 * Top 10% Downloaded Author on SSRN Mob: +91 7525023664 This message has been sent from a mobile device. I may contact you again. _________________ [[alternative HTML version deleted]]
On Thu, 11 Oct 2018, Bert Gunter wrote:> ?maintainerBert, I found maintainer names from the package entry in the local CRAN repo. I suspect that the above does not work well with non-installed packages. Am I wrong? Regards, Rich
I recommend reading the DESCRIPTION file or the CRAN web page for the package if it is on n CRAN, e.g. [1]. While every package on CRAN is supposed to have an email for contact, many developers do prefer alternate communication approaches. Github is NOT used universally though. [1] https://cran.r-project.org/web/packages/spgrass6/index.html On October 11, 2018 9:59:49 AM PDT, Amit Mittal <prof.amit.mittal at gmail.com> wrote:>Most developers like to be unavailable on email without genuine >queries, >one or the other we tell you to come thru git > >On Thu 11 Oct, 2018, 22:26 Bert Gunter, <bgunter.4567 at gmail.com> wrote: > >> ?maintainer >> >> in R accesses the package description file to provide maintainer >info. No >> need to fool around with git or other software development >repositories. >> >> Bert Gunter >> >> "The trouble with having an open mind is that people keep coming >along and >> sticking things into it." >> -- Opus (aka Berkeley Breathed in his "Bloom County" comic strip ) >> >> >> On Thu, Oct 11, 2018 at 9:44 AM Amit Mittal ><prof.amit.mittal at gmail.com> >> wrote: >> >>> You can contact them as Marc suggested by opening an account at bit >>> (bitbucket/Atlassian) or git (github) Most prefer strongly to have a >>> primary at git before going to Atlassian other code checkers so you >can >>> discover the package team there esp if any future development is in >the >>> pipes. >>> >>> Don't worry about it you dont have to be a founder or developer to >have an >>> account there :) >>> >>> BR >>> >>> On Thu, Oct 11, 2018 at 9:11 PM Rich Shepard ><rshepard at appl-ecosys.com> >>> wrote: >>> >>> > This is a question to better my understanding of the >relationship >>> > between >>> > core R versions and packages that work with them. It's not a >complaint >>> or >>> > criticism. >>> > >>> > Installed here is R-3.5.1. There are two packages that allow >>> integration >>> > of R and GRASS that are not yet available for 3.5.1: rpy2 and >spgrass7. >>> > >>> > Appreciating that package maintainers have day jobs that take >>> priority >>> > over volunteer package maintenance, I ask only for thoughts on >when >>> copies >>> > of those two packages _might_ be available for 3.5.1. >>> > >>> > Regards, >>> > >>> > Rich >>> > >>> > ______________________________________________ >>> > R-help at r-project.org mailing list -- To UNSUBSCRIBE and more, see >>> > 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. >>> > >>> -- >>> >>> ______________________________ >>> >>> Amit Mittal >>> Pursuing Ph.D. in Finance and Accounting >>> Indian Institute of Management, Lucknow >>> Visit my SSRN author page: >>> http://ssrn.com/author=2665511 >>> * Top 10% Downloaded Author on SSRN >>> Mob: +91 7525023664 >>> >>> This message has been sent from a mobile device. I may contact you >again. >>> >>> _________________ >>> >>> [[alternative HTML version deleted]] >> >> >>> >>> ______________________________________________ >>> R-help at r-project.org mailing list -- To UNSUBSCRIBE and more, see >>> 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. >>> >> -- > >______________________________ > >Amit Mittal >Pursuing Ph.D. in Finance and Accounting >Indian Institute of Management, Lucknow >Visit my SSRN author page: >http://ssrn.com/author=2665511 >* Top 10% Downloaded Author on SSRN >Mob: +91 7525023664 > >This message has been sent from a mobile device. I may contact you >again. > >_________________ > > [[alternative HTML version deleted]] > >______________________________________________ >R-help at r-project.org mailing list -- To UNSUBSCRIBE and more, see >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.-- Sent from my phone. Please excuse my brevity.