Re: [Rd] if(!CRAN()){...}

2012-11-03 Thread Prof Brian Ripley
On 01/11/2012 23:37, Duncan Murdoch wrote: On 12-11-01 6:20 PM, Hadley Wickham wrote: You're writing to the wrong place: you should be asking CRAN this question. Their email is c...@r-project.org. They generally don't discuss their operations in R-devel. Who is CRAN? Is that publicly availa

Re: [Rd] if(!CRAN()){...} / Repository policies

2012-11-02 Thread U30A J C Nash
If CRAN were a passive repository, the discussion about its policies would not be relevant to this list e.g., SourceForge. However, the development of R and its packages are very intimately connected to the CRAN repository policy. I doubt any of the players in building our current R ecosystem

Re: [Rd] if(!CRAN()){...}

2012-11-01 Thread Dirk Eddelbuettel
On 1 November 2012 at 17:20, Hadley Wickham wrote: | > You're writing to the wrong place: you should be asking CRAN this question. | > Their email is c...@r-project.org. They generally don't discuss their | > operations in R-devel. | | Who is CRAN? Is that publicly available information? "Sor

Re: [Rd] if(!CRAN()){...}

2012-11-01 Thread Duncan Murdoch
On 12-11-01 6:20 PM, Hadley Wickham wrote: You're writing to the wrong place: you should be asking CRAN this question. Their email is c...@r-project.org. They generally don't discuss their operations in R-devel. Who is CRAN? Is that publicly available information? Why don't you ask them?

Re: [Rd] if(!CRAN()){...}

2012-11-01 Thread Hadley Wickham
> You're writing to the wrong place: you should be asking CRAN this question. > Their email is c...@r-project.org. They generally don't discuss their > operations in R-devel. Who is CRAN? Is that publicly available information? Hadley -- RStudio / Rice University http://had.co.nz/ _

Re: [Rd] if(!CRAN()){...}

2012-11-01 Thread Duncan Murdoch
On 01/11/2012 3:00 PM, Spencer Graves wrote: Hello, All: What changes are being considered / planned in the management and funding of CRAN and R-Forge to handle the near-exponential growth in the number of packages? I ask, because the developers for fda were asked to cut the t