What do you think about adding this to section 1.1.1 of "Writing R Extensions", something like the following, between the paragraphs on "The 'package' and 'version' fields" and "The 'License' field:
The optional 'Date' field can be either a fixed date (preferably in the yyyy-mm-dd format conforming to the ISO standard) or as "Date: $Date$" or "Date: $LastChangedDate$" so this field caries the package build date or last changed date, respectively. Spencer Dirk Eddelbuettel wrote: > On 4 April 2008 at 14:05, hadley wickham wrote: > | 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? > > As I mentioned to Hadley in private mail, a version control system can update > a field like $Date$ or $LastChangedDate$ automagically on writes or > checkins. I use that as I also tend to forget to update the field manually. > For SVN one must set one of the arcane propset fields. > > Hth, Dirk > > -- > Three out of two people have difficulties with fractions. > > ______________________________________________ > 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