I've tried to summarize the information in this thread into a Wiki page: http://wiki.r-project.org/rwiki/doku.php?id=misc:rpatch
Please make an additions or alterations as appropriate! -- Tony Plate Duncan Murdoch wrote: > 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 > ______________________________________________ R-devel@r-project.org mailing list https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-devel