On 10/7/05, Duncan Murdoch <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Gabor Grothendieck wrote: > > Is there some way of automatically including the svn version number > > of a package in the DESCRIPTION file or otherwise so that one > > can check from within R which svn version number one has? > > You could do this by writing it into your Makefile, but there's no other > existing support for it. I'd recommend combining the URL reported by > "svn info" with the result of svnversion to get the most informative > version. Watch out for cases of people who are trying to make your > package from a tarfile, rather than an svn checkout. We have ended up > with some fairly tricky Makefile programming to get what we want into > the R banner.
There is no makefile at all currently as my package is all R. Also, I currently use TortoiseSVN. ______________________________________________ R-devel@r-project.org mailing list https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-devel