On 22 May 2006 at 23:24, Gabor Grothendieck wrote: | This would certainly be nice. | | Note that the BioConductor package vignettes are online: | http://www.bioconductor.org/docs/vignettes.html | but there is nothing comparable for CRAN. | | In some cases the package has a home page mentioned in the | URL field of the DESCRIPTION file and following that can sometimes | get vignette or other information although I agree we really need | a standardized way to discover that a vignette exists and to access | it without installing the package. | | It would also be nice to be able to access the ChangeLog or NEWS | file online as well as from the installed package. Currently one has | to download and unpack the source to get it in many cases and even | then one can't even be sure that it exists. That's even worse than | the sitution with vignettes.
If we agreed on a (voluntary, of course) format and location for NEWS and/or ChangeLog, then it would be easy to parse these from freshly uploaded files and do value-added tricks like RSS feeds of changes, new uploads, ... Dirk -- Hell, there are no rules here - we're trying to accomplish something. -- Thomas A. Edison ______________________________________________ R-devel@r-project.org mailing list https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-devel