[Rd] Making a patch

[Gregor Gorjanc]

Hi,

Andrew Robinson <A.Robinson <at> ms.unimelb.edu.au> writes:
> 
> Dear R developers,
> 
> is there a preferred format or strategy for making a patch to
> contribute to a package that is maintained by R-core?  Berwin Turlach
> and I have written a very minor extension to lmeControl to allow it to
> pass an argument to nlminb for the maximum number of evaluations of
> the objective function.  I've edited the nlme/R/lme.R and
> nlme/man/lmeControl.Rd files.  I can diff the files, but the options
> seem numerous.  I haven't been able to find any hinst on the preferred
> approach.  Any advice would be welcomed.
> 

look at 

http://article.gmane.org/gmane.comp.lang.r.devel/8858

perhaps this (with modifications if necesarry) could be added to developer page 

http://developer.r-project.org/

Afterall, there is a good guide on posting mails to r-mailing lists and it would
be good to have the same for pacthes.

Gregor