Not to mention a drat repository you can just fork with a single click! On Mon, 26 Feb 2018 at 3:25 am, Dirk Eddelbuettel <e...@debian.org> wrote:
> > On 25 February 2018 at 15:00, Marius Hofert wrote: > | okay, so (afaik) this is just a github repos which contains an exact > | copy of the github version of the problematic package (here: loon). I > > Be very careful with terminology here: > > -- "github repo" is to most people a source code repo > -- drat uses github and its "automatic webserver" to provide an "R repo", > ie > a repository for R packages (ie .tar.gz, binaries for macOS and windows > work too if you build them). > > I have long joked that I wrote more documentation than code for drat, and > it > still confused the hell out of people. But there are numerous vignettes, a > useR talk I have and of course the long and very detailed paper. > > 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 > [[alternative HTML version deleted]] ______________________________________________ R-package-devel@r-project.org mailing list https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-package-devel
