On Thu, Aug 22, 2013 at 2:03 PM, Hadley Wickham <[email protected]> wrote: >> To avoid the NOTEs (which often triggers a 'pls fix' upon submission to >> CRAN), I simply copied/pasted these functions to my package, but this seems >> wasteful. > > Wasteful of disk space, but disk space is cheap. It's less wasteful of > your time, if the referenced code breaks in an unexpected time. Your > time is much more valuable than disk space. > > A gigabyte of disk space costs about $0.10, so even if you value your > time at a very conservative rate of $100 / hour, you should only spend > an hour of your time reducing package size if it saves at least 1 TB > of disk space. That's a lot of copies of a function!
A bigger issue is source-code license conflicts; you may cut'n'paste GPL code into a distribution that is under another license. /Henrik > > Hadley > > -- > Chief Scientist, RStudio > http://had.co.nz/ > > ______________________________________________ > [email protected] mailing list > https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-devel ______________________________________________ [email protected] mailing list https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-devel
