I'm trying to keep debugging of a development package relatively sane. I see that some packages manage to incorporate what appears to be Subversion (SVN) revision information in the package description; for example,
> library(MASS) > sessionInfo()$otherPkgs$MASS$Revision [1] "$Rev: 3016 $" which looks like an auto-generated revision number. On the other hand, the rgl package (for example) appears to manually encode the SVN revision in the package number: > library(rgl) > sessionInfo()$otherPkgs$rgl$Version [1] "0.92.829" I'd love an automatic strategy, if possible, so I can be lazy about updating the DESCRIPTION file every time I commit a change to SVN ... I searched the R extensions manual (and the r-forge manual), but I'm sure I could have missed something ... Or can people suggest other useful strategies for keeping track of which development (micro-)version a random user might be working with? thanks, Ben Bolker ______________________________________________ R-devel@r-project.org mailing list https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-devel
