>>>>> hadley wickham writes: > I'm always forgetting to update the date in DESCRIPTION. Would it be > possible to add a warning to R CMD check if it's old?
I recently thought about this. I see several issues. * How can we determine if it is "old"? Relative to the time when the package was uploaded to a repository? * Some developers might actually want a different date for a variety of reasons ... * What we currently say in R-exts is The optional `Date' field gives the release date of the current version of the package. It is strongly recommended to use the yyyy-mm-dd format conforming to the ISO standard. Many packages do not comply with the latter (but I have some code to sanitize most of these), and "release date" may be a moving target. The best that I could think of is to teach R CMD build to *add* a Date field if there was none. Best -k > Hadley > -- > http://had.co.nz/ > ______________________________________________ > 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