[Rd] CRAN policies
Uwe Ligges
ligges at statistik.tu-dortmund.de
Wed Mar 28 16:00:02 CEST 2012
On 28.03.2012 00:07, Hadley Wickham wrote:
> On Tue, Mar 27, 2012 at 6:52 AM, Prof Brian Ripley
> <ripley at stats.ox.ac.uk> wrote:
>> CRAN has for some time had a policies page at
>> http://cran.r-project.org/web/packages/policies.html
>> and we would like to draw this to the attention of package maintainers. In
>> particular, please
>
> Thanks for the pointer - I did not know that this page existed. In
> general, is there some easy way to track changes to this page and the
> R extension manual over time? It is difficult to keep track of the
> best practices.
>
> I'd also like to get clarification on "Packages should not write in
> the users' home filespace, nor anywhere else on the file system apart
> from the R session's temporary directory (or during installation in
> the location pointed to by TMPDIR: and such usage should be cleaned
> up)." - what is recommended practice for packages to maintain state
> across instances? Operating systems have standards for where
> applications can store settings (e.g. as described in
> http://pypi.python.org/pypi/appdirs/1.2.0). Is it acceptable to for
> packages to follow these conventions?
The policy is meant not to overwrite user data or generate loads of
temporary files from examples and pollute, e.g., the owkring directory.
Uwe Ligges
> Hadley
>
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