I agree. It sounds odd to explicitely ask someone to set the 'Date:' field and then worring because it doesn't match your precise expectation that it should equal the build time.
A.F. 2008/4/4, Roger D. Peng <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > I don't think having 'R CMD check' spit out a warning about the date would be > all that productive. I do think it would be nice to have 'R CMD build' add a > Date: field to the DESCRIPTION file if there isn't already a Date: field. > And I > think such an addition would solve the first problem since maintainers > wouldn't > have to bother maintaining a date field. > > -roger > > > Kurt Hornik wrote: > >>>>>> 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 > > > > > -- > Roger D. Peng | http://www.biostat.jhsph.edu/~rpeng/ > > > ______________________________________________ > R-devel@r-project.org mailing list > https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-devel > -- Antonio, Fabio Di Narzo Ph.D. student at Department of Statistical Sciences University of Bologna, Italy ______________________________________________ R-devel@r-project.org mailing list https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-devel