On 4 April 2008 at 23:15, Antonio, Fabio Di Narzo wrote: | 2008/4/4, Dirk Eddelbuettel <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: | > | > 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. | | That's not completely true. As far as I remember (git misses keywords) | svn keywords are always referred only to the file they appear in. So | this way the description file would contain the last date the | description file itself has been modified, not the last date 'any of | the package file s has been modified'.
I think you are correct. But as one has to augment the version number in DESCRIPTION anyway, the subsequent check-in will set the date for free. It's a kludge, but one that has been working independently of R CMD ... for years. 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