urls, browsers ... :( how about a variation on utils:: bug.report in biobase? each package could have a bugReportHandle method that is called when reportBug is called with the package name as argument. the biobase version would gather key environmental information at the time of the call and could prompt for specifics. bug data could be centralized and decentralized depending on how these tools are crafted.
On Fri, May 23, 2014 at 4:10 PM, Yihui Xie <x...@yihui.name> wrote: > The CRAN page for a package also includes the BugReports field > (besides the URL field), and I believe that is certainly a better link > for bug reporting purposes. > > Regards, > Yihui > -- > Yihui Xie <xieyi...@gmail.com> > Web: http://yihui.name > > > On Fri, May 23, 2014 at 2:58 PM, Dan Tenenbaum <dtene...@fhcrc.org> wrote: > > > > > > ----- Original Message ----- > >> From: "Michael Lawrence" <lawrence.mich...@gene.com> > >> To: "Kasper Daniel Hansen" <kasperdanielhan...@gmail.com> > >> Cc: "Michael Lawrence" <lawrence.mich...@gene.com>, > bioc-devel@r-project.org > >> Sent: Friday, May 23, 2014 12:48:55 PM > >> Subject: Re: [Bioc-devel] Bug tracker for Bioconductor? > >> > >> To support the decentralized model, it would be nice to have a > >> standard way > >> of directing users to the right bug tracker. Perhaps this could be > >> specified as a URL in the DESCRIPTION and the Bioc package page could > >> link > >> to it. > > > > Already done; see for example the ACME package landing page: > > > > http://www.bioconductor.org/packages/release/bioc/html/ACME.html > > > > The URL is a clickable link. This could be the link to the github issue > tracker. Note that you can have multiple URLs in the URL field, I believe > comma separated. See also > > http://www.bioconductor.org/developers/how-to/git-svn/#advertise > > > > Dan > > _______________________________________________ > Bioc-devel@r-project.org mailing list > https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/bioc-devel > [[alternative HTML version deleted]] _______________________________________________ Bioc-devel@r-project.org mailing list https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/bioc-devel