Re: [R] Migrating R packages from svn/R-Forge to git/Github

2013-02-10 Thread Joshua Wiley
Hi Michael, Just to add to what Yihui suggested, I have used Cygwin on all my Windows machines to create a Linux environment for years. It is stable and allows for many features. You can easily get git, svn, and ruby --- I'm not sure about rubygems. Anyway, with a bit of work, I suspect you cou

Re: [R] Migrating R packages from svn/R-Forge to git/Github

2013-02-10 Thread Yihui Xie
In the past Github allows one to import from an existing SVN repository automatically via its web interface, but I just checked it and it seems to have gone. What is left is: https://help.github.com/articles/importing-from-subversion Perhaps it is best for you to do the conversion under Linux and t

[R] Migrating R packages from svn/R-Forge to git/Github

2013-02-10 Thread Michael Friendly
[I'm not sure if this post should go to R-devel, but thought I'd start here for wider readership.] I have a collection of R packages that I maintain using the eclipse/StatET IDE (mainly on Windows) with SVN on the R-Forge system, https://r-forge.r-project.org/users/friendly/ I'd like to cons