Re: [R-pkg-devel] Questions about third-party package distribution, especially with respect to security

2017-09-17 Thread Mark van der Loo
Dear Robert, R supports package repositories out of the box. A repository is just a way of organizing files. The most popular repositories are CRAN and Bioconductor. There is even a package that allows you to set up your own repository on Github (the drat package). It depends on the repository ma

[R-pkg-devel] Questions about third-party package distribution, especially with respect to security

2017-09-17 Thread Robert Dodier
Hi, people other than the R developers can create packages which use R to do interesting things. I gather such packages are mostly distributed via CRAN, is that right? I am curious to know about the process for approving such packages. How much effort goes into reviewing and vetting packages? Is t

Re: [R-pkg-devel] New Package Proposal: Feather with Matrix Notation ( [ , ] $ ) Access

2017-09-17 Thread Mark van der Loo
You could first have a look at the LaF packge. It does a lot of what you want already. -M Op zo 17 sep. 2017 om 04:41 schreef Juan Telleria : > Dear R Developers, > > I am writing as I would like to propose a github project for the creation > of on-disk data.frames/tibbles. > > These new S3 class