On 7/23/2006 6:04 PM, Andrew Robinson wrote: > Dear R developers, > > is there a preferred format or strategy for making a patch to > contribute to a package that is maintained by R-core? Berwin Turlach > and I have written a very minor extension to lmeControl to allow it to > pass an argument to nlminb for the maximum number of evaluations of > the objective function. I've edited the nlme/R/lme.R and > nlme/man/lmeControl.Rd files. I can diff the files, but the options > seem numerous. I haven't been able to find any hinst on the preferred > approach. Any advice would be welcomed.
Gregor pointed out a description of the suggested format. But the strategy is also important: in order for your patch to be incorporated, you need to convince someone to accept it. To do that, you should post the following sort of information along with your patch: - what the patch does - what problem it solves - what problems it may cause You should also make sure your patch is complete, e.g. if it changes lmeControl, then you should also include a patch to the documentation for lmeControl. Duncan Murdoch ______________________________________________ R-devel@r-project.org mailing list https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-devel