are you looking for the 'old sources' link shown on every package homepage on CRAN?
http://cran.r-project.org/web/packages/ggplot2/ > 'old sources' > http://cran.r-project.org/src/contrib/Archive/ggplot2/ On Thu, Jan 3, 2013 at 9:33 AM, Mario Bourgoin <m...@media.mit.edu> wrote: > Dear Sir or Madam, > > The group of people with whom I work is now convinced of the usefulness of > using R and its packages to meet our needs for statistical analysis. It > has become important that R programs and scripts we create today can be run > by someone else tomorrow, so need to use version-control. For this to work > well, we need to version-control not just our code, but also R and the CRAN > packages we use. (We only use CRAN for now.) Fortunately, R is under > Subversion, and many CRAN packages are under Subversion in R-Forge. > However, many CRAN packages do not appear to be available from R-Forge. > > 1- Are all CRAN packages available from some repository under version > control? (My guess is ``no.'') > 2- Is there an identifier on CRAN that flags a package as under version > control in a repository? (My guess is ``no.'') > 3- How does CRAN do version control for non-repository packages? (My guess > is ``through the generosity of volunteer administrators'' though I would > prefer that some version control software be involved.) > 4- Should we decide to create a local source repository to meet our needs? > (My guess is ``that depends.'') > 5- Where might I find examples of groups creating and maintaining local > source repositories for R and its packages? > > Sincerely, > -- > Mario Bourgoin > > [[alternative HTML version deleted]] > > ______________________________________________ > R-help@r-project.org mailing list > https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-help > PLEASE do read the posting guide > http://www.R-project.org/posting-guide.html > and provide commented, minimal, self-contained, reproducible code. > [[alternative HTML version deleted]] ______________________________________________ R-help@r-project.org mailing list https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-help PLEASE do read the posting guide http://www.R-project.org/posting-guide.html and provide commented, minimal, self-contained, reproducible code.