On 11 June 2015 at 09:15, Kevin Coombes wrote: | Grumpy Observation: In reaction to (1), I went to CRAN and randomly | clicked on a dozen packages to see how many of them follow this rule. | Half of them violate it explicitly, mostly just starting with "This | package...". Most of the rest get around it by starting with a sentence | fragment that omits the subject (which is _implicitly_ "this package"). | Only one of them started with a complete sentence that gave the | background of the problem the package was intended to solve.
Also look at the Date: of those packages -- CRAN Policy changes have always been implemented on a rolling basis. So new(er) packages conform to new(er) tests, updates are always never forced on already-uploaded packages. The communication of such changes is not quite what I liked it to be. But if you care you can subscribe to the output stream of a cron job I have watching over this: https://twitter.com/CRANPolicyWatch If you don't like twitter subscription you can still glance at that page. I should probably do the same for the SVN source of Writing R Extensions in R-devel... Dirk -- http://dirk.eddelbuettel.com | @eddelbuettel | e...@debian.org ______________________________________________ R-package-devel@r-project.org mailing list https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-package-devel
