> On Jul 6, 2015, at 5:47 AM, Dirk Eddelbuettel <e...@debian.org> wrote: > > > Hi Richie, > > On 5 July 2015 at 19:17, Richard Cotton wrote: > | One piece of feedback that I received at useR was that the assertive > | package is getting too big, and should be broken down into smaller > | pieces. > | > | I want to split the functionality into assertive.base, > | assertive.types, and a few others, then have the assertive package as > | a virtual package (suggestions for better terminology welcomed) that > | just imports and reexports the contents of the underlying pieces. > | > | That way end-users can can still type library(assertive) and have the > | same behaviour as before, and package developers who worry about > | having lightweight dependencies can just use the parts that they need. > | > | Before I do the refactoring, I wanted to check that it is OK to have a > | package without any of its own content (other than vignettes) on CRAN. > | Is it OK? > > That is a pure CRAN question; maybe someone from CRAN wants to chime in or > else you need to ask directly. > > Greg Warnes has/had such a meta package (which I look after in Debian as a > still-existing-there whole and componentds), and Henrik does too. What **I > think** the practice is now discouraged somewhere in WRE or CRP. But no > direct reference, sorry, > > Dirk
If you are referring to a package “bundle”, they were deprecated in R 2.10.0 and put into defunct status in R 2.11.0. That is from the NEWS file: https://svn.r-project.org/R/trunk/doc/NEWS.2 There is no longer any reference to them in R-Exts. Greg’s “gregmisc” bundle is no longer active on CRAN, in deference to using his component packages directly. Regards, Marc Schwartz ______________________________________________ R-package-devel@r-project.org mailing list https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-package-devel
