On 9 June 2017 at 15:47, Prof Brian Ripley wrote: | On 09/06/2017 07:44, Joshua Bradley wrote: | > I'm not trying to create a mirror of the CRAN. I also do not want to create | > a "subset" of CRAN packages. Sorry if my explanation was confusing. There | > are internal proprietary R packages that I would like to host on a private | > repo. I like the CRAN web pages that allow a user to browse the various | > packages from a browser without having to first install them. I want to | > duplicate the process that CRAN goes through when it generate the webpages. | | But for a repository of your own packages, not CRAN's packages? | Everyone who has replied so far seems to have assumed the latter ....
I didn't. | The scripts CRAN uses to make its 'web' area are not public. If you can | formulate a crystal-clear message, you could ask them for a copy. No, write it anew, and make it prettier than the still rather awful CRAN pages which even two years (?) after the overhaul of www.r-project.org have the pristine and crisp look of 1998 about them. We can do better. It is 2017. As I showed, turning packageDescription() into a paragraph of text is trivial. Displaying reverseDepends and what is too (per CRAN_package_db()). So just do it. Make it pretty enough, and hopefully one day someone will give us a prettier version of CRAN too (beating the combination of inertia, already having something "good enough", not enough time, and more important things to do -- really not blaming anyone here). Dirk -- http://dirk.eddelbuettel.com | @eddelbuettel | e...@debian.org ______________________________________________ R-devel@r-project.org mailing list https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-devel
