On Tue, Mar 27, 2012 at 6:52 AM, Prof Brian Ripley <rip...@stats.ox.ac.uk> wrote: > CRAN has for some time had a policies page at > http://cran.r-project.org/web/packages/policies.html > and we would like to draw this to the attention of package maintainers. In > particular, please
Thanks for the pointer - I did not know that this page existed. In general, is there some easy way to track changes to this page and the R extension manual over time? It is difficult to keep track of the best practices. I'd also like to get clarification on "Packages should not write in the users' home filespace, nor anywhere else on the file system apart from the R session's temporary directory (or during installation in the location pointed to by TMPDIR: and such usage should be cleaned up)." - what is recommended practice for packages to maintain state across instances? Operating systems have standards for where applications can store settings (e.g. as described in http://pypi.python.org/pypi/appdirs/1.2.0). Is it acceptable to for packages to follow these conventions? Hadley -- Assistant Professor / Dobelman Family Junior Chair Department of Statistics / Rice University http://had.co.nz/ ______________________________________________ R-devel@r-project.org mailing list https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-devel
