[Rd] install_github and survival

[Jim Hester]

I just sent a PR that makes a few small changes to the package and
fixes the installation with `install_github()` (and also `R CMD
INSTALL`) and other ways of installing the package.

https://github.com/therneau/survival/pull/84

Jim

On Thu, Sep 5, 2019 at 1:53 PM Therneau, Terry M., Ph.D. via R-devel
<r-devel using r-project.org> wrote:
>
> I treat CRAN as the main repository for survival, but I have also had a github
> (therneau/survival) version for a couple of years.  It has a vignette2 directory, for
> instance, that contains extra vignettes that either take too long to run or depend on
> other packages.  It also gets updated more often than CRAN (though those updates mght not
> be as well tested yet).
>
> In any case, since it is there, people will of course run install_github against it.
> I've added a config script to do the one extra step necessary, but when I try
> install_github it fails.   I'm clearly doing something wrong.  If someone were willing to
> contribute a fix I would be most grateful.
>
> survival3.1-0 is almost ready for CRAN, by the way.   Reverse dependency checks of hdnom
> turned up one last thing to repair...
>
>
> Terry Therneau
>
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