Hi Richie, On 5 July 2015 at 19:17, Richard Cotton wrote: | One piece of feedback that I received at useR was that the assertive | package is getting too big, and should be broken down into smaller | pieces. | | I want to split the functionality into assertive.base, | assertive.types, and a few others, then have the assertive package as | a virtual package (suggestions for better terminology welcomed) that | just imports and reexports the contents of the underlying pieces. | | That way end-users can can still type library(assertive) and have the | same behaviour as before, and package developers who worry about | having lightweight dependencies can just use the parts that they need. | | Before I do the refactoring, I wanted to check that it is OK to have a | package without any of its own content (other than vignettes) on CRAN. | Is it OK?
That is a pure CRAN question; maybe someone from CRAN wants to chime in or else you need to ask directly. Greg Warnes has/had such a meta package (which I look after in Debian as a still-existing-there whole and componentds), and Henrik does too. What **I think** the practice is now discouraged somewhere in WRE or CRP. But no direct reference, sorry, 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
