[Rd] Fortune! (Re: declaring package dependencies)

[Achim Zeileis]

Thanks, added to the devel-version on R-Forge.
Z

On Fri, 13 Sep 2013, Dirk Eddelbuettel wrote:

>
> On 13 September 2013 at 08:31, Michael Friendly wrote:
> | Thanks for this explanation, but I'm still confused about how to avoid
> | the wrath of the CRAN-devel daemon, whose appetite for new morsels of
> | developer flesh seems ever increasing and makes keeping even a stable
> | package up-to-date a moving target.
>
> _Obviously_ a fortunes candidate. CCing Achim.
>
> [ And I informed my first-born that her time with us will surely be limited
>  as I expect CRAN to demand every submitters first child any day now ... ]
>
> | Perhaps such changes in R devel should be announced on this list for public
> | comment before they are enforced in R CMD check.
>
> Many of us have suggested that many times before, but CRAN has the longer
> stick and simply refuses to play along.
>
> "Eventually" the tides will turn and some of us will be fed up enough and
> stop uploading.  But so far we still have an (uneasy?) truce, and everybody
> is playing (fighting?) along.
>
> And don't even get me started on the state of r-forge build services...
>
> Dirk
>
> -- 
> Dirk Eddelbuettel | edd at debian.org | http://dirk.eddelbuettel.com
>