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2008 Oct 03
3
Can DESCRIPTION Maintainer: field contain general URL instead of only email address?
Our firm would like to route support requests through
a website instead of using email. However R will refuse
to install a package if DESCRIPTION's Maintainer field
does not have a valid email adress or the special value
"ORPHANED". (The check is done with
tools:::.valid_maintainer_field_regexp.)
I imagine a typical Maintainer line for the package "foo"
might be something like
Maintainer: Amalgamated Widget's Support Team
<http://support.amalgamatedwidgets.com/spackage?name=foo>
How much does the package system (or CRAN) depend on
the Maintainer field being an ema...
2008 Oct 04
0
Attributes of top level environments clobbered (was Re: [R] possible bug in function 'var' in R 2.7.2?)
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>> > a website instead of using email. However R will refuse
>> > to install a package if DESCRIPTION's Maintainer field
>> > does not have a valid email adress or the special value
>> > "ORPHANED". (The check is done with
>> > tools:::.valid_maintainer_field_regexp.)
>> >
>> > I imagine a typical Maintainer line for the package "foo"
>> > might be something like
>> > Maintainer: Amalgamated Widget's Support Team
>> > <http://support.amalgamatedwidgets.com/spackage?name=foo>
>> >
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