Re: [Rd] Programming Tools CTV

2015-01-23 Thread Dirk Eddelbuettel
On 23 January 2015 at 05:55, Hadley Wickham wrote: | I'd strongly second the notion of using github. The biggest advantage | is that others can easily contribute changes through pull requests | which lifts much of the burden from your shoulders. That's "The Theory". "The Practice" for eight week

Re: [Rd] Programming Tools CTV

2015-01-23 Thread Achim Zeileis
Willem, thanks for volunteering! Sorry if this doesn't end up in the thread. Tobias Verbeke forwarded that e-mail to me, because he thought I would be interested in maintaining the Programming Tools CTV. I wasn't subscribed to R-devel yet, but I would indeed like to volunteer to maintain the

Re: [Rd] Programming Tools CTV

2015-01-23 Thread Hadley Wickham
I'd strongly second the notion of using github. The biggest advantage is that others can easily contribute changes through pull requests which lifts much of the burden from your shoulders. Hadley On Fri, Jan 23, 2015 at 3:49 AM, Luca Braglia wrote: > Hi Willem > > thanks for volounteering. > > T

Re: [Rd] Programming Tools CTV

2015-01-23 Thread Michael Dewey
Dear Willem I maintain the MetaAnalysis CTV. I have found it quite practicable to do this without special tools. I use an editor for the XML. I use CRANberries to catch updates and I usually email people to check I have understood a new package. People also kindly email me occasionally with n

Re: [Rd] Programming Tools CTV

2015-01-23 Thread Christophe Dutang
Dear Willem, Personally, I use the R-forge project for the distribution CTV : https://r-forge.r-project.org/projects/ctv/ It’s an alternative option to github. Regards, Christophe --- Christophe Dutang LMM, UdM, Le Mans, France web: http://dutangc.free.fr Le

Re: [Rd] Programming Tools CTV

2015-01-23 Thread Luca Braglia
... BTW you should install the ctv package and read the vignette at first :) ... 2015-01-23 12:49 GMT+01:00 Luca Braglia : > Hi Willem > > thanks for volounteering. > > To the best of my knowledge (regarding the machinery side), if you're > planning to use github (and maybe even if you don't) you

Re: [Rd] Programming Tools CTV

2015-01-23 Thread Luca Braglia
Hi Willem thanks for volounteering. To the best of my knowledge (regarding the machinery side), if you're planning to use github (and maybe even if you don't) you can "stole" ideas from https://github.com/ropensci/webservices https://github.com/lbraglia/PackageDevelopmentTaskView (minor modifica

[Rd] Programming Tools CTV

2015-01-23 Thread Willem Ligtenberg
Hi all, Sorry if this doesn't end up in the thread. Tobias Verbeke forwarded that e-mail to me, because he thought I would be interested in maintaining the Programming Tools CTV. I wasn't subscribed to R-devel yet, but I would indeed like to volunteer to maintain the Programming Tools CTV. It

Re: [Rd] Programming Tools CTV

2015-01-22 Thread Achim Zeileis
On Thu, 22 Jan 2015, Max Kuhn wrote: On Thu, Jan 22, 2015 at 1:05 PM, Achim Zeileis wrote: On Thu, 22 Jan 2015, Max Kuhn wrote: On Thu, Jan 22, 2015 at 12:45 PM, Achim Zeileis wrote: On Thu, 22 Jan 2015, Max Kuhn wrote: I've had a lot of requests for additions to the reproducible resear

Re: [Rd] Programming Tools CTV

2015-01-22 Thread Max Kuhn
On Thu, Jan 22, 2015 at 1:05 PM, Achim Zeileis wrote: > On Thu, 22 Jan 2015, Max Kuhn wrote: > >> On Thu, Jan 22, 2015 at 12:45 PM, Achim Zeileis >> wrote: >>> >>> On Thu, 22 Jan 2015, Max Kuhn wrote: >>> I've had a lot of requests for additions to the reproducible research task view th

Re: [Rd] Programming Tools CTV

2015-01-22 Thread Achim Zeileis
On Thu, 22 Jan 2015, Max Kuhn wrote: On Thu, Jan 22, 2015 at 12:45 PM, Achim Zeileis wrote: On Thu, 22 Jan 2015, Max Kuhn wrote: I've had a lot of requests for additions to the reproducible research task view that fall into a grey area (to me at least). For example, roxygen2 is a tool that

Re: [Rd] Programming Tools CTV

2015-01-22 Thread Max Kuhn
On Thu, Jan 22, 2015 at 12:45 PM, Achim Zeileis wrote: > On Thu, 22 Jan 2015, Max Kuhn wrote: > >> I've had a lot of requests for additions to the reproducible research >> task view that fall into a grey area (to me at least). >> >> For example, roxygen2 is a tool that broadly enable reproducibili

Re: [Rd] Programming Tools CTV

2015-01-22 Thread Achim Zeileis
On Thu, 22 Jan 2015, Max Kuhn wrote: I've had a lot of requests for additions to the reproducible research task view that fall into a grey area (to me at least). For example, roxygen2 is a tool that broadly enable reproducibility but I see it more as a tool for better programming. I'm about to

Re: [Rd] Programming Tools CTV

2015-01-22 Thread Luca Braglia
Hi, this summer, after few mails on this list, i started something similar (feeling the same need)... here is the repo https://github.com/lbraglia/PackageDevelopmentTaskView Currently it's quite freezed since i'm working on other projects in my free software spare time (and likely i won't return

Re: [Rd] Programming Tools CTV

2015-01-22 Thread Henrik Bengtsson
On Thu, Jan 22, 2015 at 7:20 AM, Max Kuhn wrote: > I've had a lot of requests for additions to the reproducible research > task view that fall into a grey area (to me at least). > > For example, roxygen2 is a tool that broadly enable reproducibility > but I see it more as a tool for better program

Re: [Rd] Programming Tools CTV

2015-01-22 Thread Gregory R. Warnes
I second the motion for a Programming Tools CRAN Task View. I would also think it could contain things like Rcpp, R6, etc. -Greg > On Jan 22, 2015, at 10:20 AM, Max Kuhn wrote: > > I've had a lot of requests for additions to the reproducible research > task view that fall into a grey area (t

[Rd] Programming Tools CTV

2015-01-22 Thread Max Kuhn
I've had a lot of requests for additions to the reproducible research task view that fall into a grey area (to me at least). For example, roxygen2 is a tool that broadly enable reproducibility but I see it more as a tool for better programming. I'm about to check in a new version of the task view