On Fri, 27 Feb 2004, Swinton, Jonathan wrote: > > > > From: Prof Brian Ripley <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > Subject: Re: [Rd] package 'stats' needs import directive for 1.9.0? > > To: "Heywood, Giles" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > ... > > I suggest you don't try: there are already quite a few 1.9.0-specific > > versions of packages on CRAN, and 1.8.x will be history in a > > couple of > > months. > > > I'm not sure I understand the advice here. I have also hit the same problem, > and it seems reasonable to me to aspire to maintain a single package which > works on both 1.8.x and 1.9.x.
It is not easily possible if namespaces are involved. We failed to anticpate that we would need version-dependent namespaces until rather late and then decided not to set up an elaborate solution when most people affected had already made separate versions for 1.9.0. -- Brian D. Ripley, [EMAIL PROTECTED] Professor of Applied Statistics, http://www.stats.ox.ac.uk/~ripley/ University of Oxford, Tel: +44 1865 272861 (self) 1 South Parks Road, +44 1865 272866 (PA) Oxford OX1 3TG, UK Fax: +44 1865 272595 ______________________________________________ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list https://www.stat.math.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-devel
