[Rd] Issue tracking in packages [was: Re: [R] change in read.spss, package foreign?]

[Thomas Lumley]

On Fri, 9 Sep 2005, Gabor Grothendieck wrote:
> How about if there were just a standard location and name such as inst/NEWS,
> inst/WISHLIST, inst/THANKS (which has the advantage that they are automatically
> made available in the built package under the current way packages are
> built)

The problem is that there *isn't* a standard location. As Robert Gentleman 
has pointed out, if you only maintain two or three packages it isn't too 
bad to change them to some new layout, but if you are the bioconductor 
project it gets painful quite quickly.

Also, there are good reasons for having NEWS in the top level directory. 
Nearly everything that isn't an R package does this, because it's a useful 
standard.

 	-thomas