Re: [Rd] Contributors on R-Forge

2011-10-21 Thread Spencer Graves
Hi, Charles: On 10/21/2011 7:54 AM, Steve Lianoglou wrote: Looke like Yihui and I are on the same page. Just wanted to add another comment with respect to his point here: I'd encourage you to consider using github as the place for development, and sync to r-forge so users can install the dev

Re: [Rd] Contributors on R-Forge

2011-10-21 Thread Steve Lianoglou
Looke like Yihui and I are on the same page. Just wanted to add another comment with respect to his point here: > I'd encourage you to consider using github as the place for > development, and sync to r-forge so users can install the devel > version by install.packages(..., repos = > 'http://r-fo

Re: [Rd] Contributors on R-Forge

2011-10-21 Thread Steve Lianoglou
Hi, I know you mentioned you just set this up on r-forge, but I think using something like github works better in "these types" of scenarios. The ability for an external entity to clone a repository, change it, provide the patch via a "pull request" I think is great. You (as the project owner) c

Re: [Rd] Contributors on R-Forge

2011-10-21 Thread Yihui Xie
Hi, I'd encourage you to consider using github as the place for development, and sync to r-forge so users can install the devel version by install.packages(..., repos = 'http://r-forge.r-project.org') and r-forge can also do R CMD build/check for you once in a while. The reason to use github is t

Re: [Rd] Contributors on R-Forge

2011-10-21 Thread Matthew Dowle
"Milan Bouchet-Valat" wrote in message news:1319202026.9174.6.camel@milan... > Le vendredi 21 octobre 2011 à 13:39 +0100, Charles Roosen a écrit : >> Hi, >> >> >> I've recently taken over maintenance for the "xtable" package, and have >> set it up on R-Forge. At the moment I'm pondering what th

Re: [Rd] Contributors on R-Forge

2011-10-21 Thread Milan Bouchet-Valat
Le vendredi 21 octobre 2011 à 13:39 +0100, Charles Roosen a écrit : > Hi, > > > I've recently taken over maintenance for the "xtable" package, and have > set it up on R-Forge. At the moment I'm pondering what the best way is > to handle submitted patches. Basically, is it better to: > > > 1