>>>>> "DM" == Duncan Murdoch <murd...@stats.uwo.ca>
>>>>> on Sat, 28 Nov 2009 13:23:39 -0500 writes:
DM> On 26/11/2009 12:38 PM, Barry Rowlingson wrote:
>> On Thu, Nov 26, 2009 at 1:39 PM, Duncan Murdoch <murd...@stats.uwo.ca>
wrote:
>>
>>> This sounds like a good idea, though I would add a "package" parameter
to
>>> the bug.report() function, rather than creating a new function.
>>
>> I'm sure when I did help.search("bug") and help.search("report") this
>> morning I didn't see this function! Otherwise I would have suggested
>> that. bug.report(package="bazbrain"). Oh dear, no maintainer.
>>
>>> Does the logic below sound right for bug.report() with the package
>>> specified?
>>>
>>> If there's a BugReports field, bug.report() calls browseURL() on that
page.
>>>
>>> If not, it does more or less what it does now, but
>>> - it defaults "address" to the package maintainer. - it adds a line in
the
>>> intro to the message pointing to the URL field if there was one.
>>
>> Martin Maechler's reservation about not being able to fill in the R
>> details for bug reports on trackers isn't too much of a problem, since
>> the bug tracker form could have fields for R version, session info
>> etc, or at least a big warning saying "Please include the following
>> info" (inside a <blink> tag).
>>
>> So how about if bug.report(package="foo") has a BugReports: field,
>> you print out 'The following information may be useful to your bug
>> report' and dump the relevant things ready for cut n paste into a bug
>> tracker, then browseURL().
DM> I've just committed this to R-devel. Thanks for the suggestion, and
DM> thanks in advance for any improvements.
DM> Duncan Murdoch
Thank you, Duncan, and Barry! This seems really useful now.
As a package maintainer, I'd definitely want the user to provide
the sessionInfo() etc.
Hence providing that to the user for cut'n'paste into a web form
seems a nice approach.
Martin Maechler, ETH Zurich
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