Re: [Rd] DESCRIPTION and PACKAGES files.

2006-07-20 Thread Seth Falcon
[EMAIL PROTECTED] (Allen S. Rout) writes: > Prof Brian Ripley <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > >> And that is the reason: everyone who downloads pays the price for unneeded >> fields in that file. It was a deliberate decision to minimize download >> times, which are already substantial for people

Re: [Rd] DESCRIPTION and PACKAGES files.

2006-07-20 Thread Allen S. Rout
Prof Brian Ripley <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > And that is the reason: everyone who downloads pays the price for unneeded > fields in that file. It was a deliberate decision to minimize download > times, which are already substantial for people on a dialup connection. OK, that meets the defin

Re: [Rd] DESCRIPTION and PACKAGES files.

2006-07-20 Thread Prof Brian Ripley
On Thu, 20 Jul 2006, Allen S. Rout wrote: > > Greetings; I'm working on translating the heirarchy of R packages into > the Gentoo Ebuild environment, currently working from a 2.3.1 install. > > There are several data which it would be nice to see provided > alongside the existing output of avail

[Rd] DESCRIPTION and PACKAGES files.

2006-07-20 Thread Allen S. Rout
Greetings; I'm working on translating the heirarchy of R packages into the Gentoo Ebuild environment, currently working from a 2.3.1 install. There are several data which it would be nice to see provided alongside the existing output of available.packages; at the moment I think I'm going to have