[Rd] silly SVN question

Romain Francois romain.francois at dbmail.com
Tue Dec 15 17:19:33 CET 2009


Maybe you are looking for ./tools/rsync-recommended

I think only the base set of packages (lower priority than recommended) 
are in src/library.

 > packageDescription( "utils" )[["Priority"]]
[1] "base"
 > packageDescription( "Matrix" )[["Priority"]]
[1] "recommended"

Romain

On 12/15/2009 05:14 PM, Ben Bolker wrote:
>
>    Yes, but ... on my system at least the Recommended folder has a recent
> version of the Makefile, but the packages are old tarballs.  I have a
> fuzzy memory that I needed to download the packages from somewhere else
> to build a complete/up-to-date version, but I have forgotten where I
> read that.  And
> https://svn.r-project.org/R/trunk/src/library/Recommended/ shows that
> only Makefile.in and Makefile.win live here.
>
>    Does your  src/library/Recommended have up-to-date source code for all
> the packages ... ?
>
>   cheers
>     Ben
>
> Kasper Daniel Hansen wrote:
>> The obvious: the recommended packages are inside
>>    src/library
>>
>> Kasper
>>
>> On Dec 15, 2009, at 10:57 AM, Ben Bolker wrote:
>>
>>>   I followed the suggestions at
>>> http://developer.r-project.org/SVNtips.html to check out an anonymous
>>> copy of the development branch of R, but so far I have been unable to
>>> figure out an analogous way to track the development branch of the
>>> recommended packages. (I'm assuming they actually live somewhere on the
>>> same SVN server, which might not be true ...) Any ideas (including
>>> pointing out the obvious, or the obvious-in-hindsight)?
>>>
>>>   thanks
>>>     Ben Bolker


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