On 18/04/2008, at 2:19 AM, Julien Barnier wrote:
> Hi to all,
>
> I recently created a small package which contains some simple R
> functions in order to help students in my research unit to use R. The
> package is pure R, it passes R CMD check, but it is really designed
> for internal use and, moreover, it is entirely documented in french.
>
> Is it possible to upload and to host this kind of package to CRAN ? Or
> is it better, as it is quite a private tool and not really designed
> for widespread adoption, to set up my own repository ?
It is of course *possible*. There is no vetting of quality or
relevance of packages submitted to CRAN --- as long as a submitted
package passes R CMD check it is ``accepted''.
There *might* be a requirement that documentation be written, or
be available, in English. For better or for worse, English is the
``official'' language of the R project. I have never heard of the
existence of such a rule however; perhaps the issue has never arisen.
However I think it would be bad manners to clutter CRAN with
packages which are not of general interest. So it would be better
to set up your own ``repository''. How to do this would depend
on how your system is structured, but it should be almost trivial
to do. E.g. I have made packages available to others via my personal
web page, and this seems to work just fine.
cheers,
Rolf Turner
######################################################################
Attention:\ This e-mail message is privileged and confid...{{dropped:9}}
______________________________________________
R-help@r-project.org mailing list
https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-help
PLEASE do read the posting guide http://www.R-project.org/posting-guide.html
and provide commented, minimal, self-contained, reproducible code.
