[Bioc-devel] About R-2.0.0

[Jeff Gentry]

For those who don't follow the R-devel mailing list, this was posted and
contains valuable information for package maintainers:

Prof Brian Ripley wrote:
                                                                                
> The major changes for R 2.0.0 are now in place, and we have provided a
set
> of notes for package maintainers at
>
>       http://developer.r-project.org/200update.txt
>
> on both changes needed and new opportunities.
>
> The main thing which needs to be done is to revise the DESCRIPTION file,
> in particular to ensure the Depends: field is accurate.
>
> We do run daily checks over all the CRAN packages. See
>
>       http://cran.r-project.org/src/contrib/checkSummary.html
>
> (Unfortunately although the checks have been run last week, the summary
> has not been updated since Aug 29.)
>