I emailed the CRAN hotline, and Kurt H's response was: > I see no problem with this.
> (Having packages which put lots of other packages on the search path are > a problem: but I understand you won't be doing that, and instead import > and re-export, right?) On 6 July 2015 at 14:36, Marc Schwartz <marc_schwa...@me.com> wrote: > >> On Jul 6, 2015, at 5:47 AM, Dirk Eddelbuettel <e...@debian.org> wrote: >> >> >> 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 > > > If you are referring to a package “bundle”, they were deprecated in R 2.10.0 > and put into defunct status in R 2.11.0. That is from the NEWS file: > > https://svn.r-project.org/R/trunk/doc/NEWS.2 > > There is no longer any reference to them in R-Exts. > > Greg’s “gregmisc” bundle is no longer active on CRAN, in deference to using > his component packages directly. > > > Regards, > > Marc Schwartz > -- Regards, Richie Learning R 4dpiecharts.com ______________________________________________ R-package-devel@r-project.org mailing list https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-package-devel
