On Tue, May 26, 2015 at 12:18 PM, Gabriel Becker <gmbec...@ucdavis.edu> wrote: > On Tue, May 26, 2015 at 9:25 AM, Yihui Xie <x...@yihui.name> wrote: > >> I cannot speak for other package authors, but for all my own packages, >> I have provided the BugReports field in DESCRIPTION that points to the >> Github issues page. You can probably use this field to check if a >> package is on Github or not. If it is, you may just fork the original >> repo instead of creating a new one from the CRAN package. > > > Maybe I'm missing something, but why would you fork the repo instead of > just using the existing repo?
One advantage of a fork is that you have permanent archive even if the original goes away. Hadley -- http://had.co.nz/ ______________________________________________ R-devel@r-project.org mailing list https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-devel