[R] Package updates for new versions

[Jeff Newmiller]

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 using 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 using 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 using 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 using 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
>>> >
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>>> > and provide commented, minimal, self-contained, reproducible code.
>>> >
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