[R] Making a contributed library part of R-base

[Kurt Hornik]

>>>>> M Edward Borasky writes:

> How are the libraries that are distributed with R-base chosen for
> inclusion?  There is one, "sm", that I use quite often, and it would
> be a minor convenience if this one was included with R-base. Would it
> be possible to distribute all the GPL contributed libraries with
> R-base and allow the user to choose the ones to be included on the
> destination system at install time?

With R 1.3.0, to be out by the end of June, we will have a new category
of `recommended' packages which should be available for each binary
distribution of R.  These will include

	KernSmooth VR boot cluster foreign mgcv nlme rpart survival

Criteria for adding to this list include an acceptable license status,
quality, and amount of ``general'' interest for a package.

Hope this helps.

-k

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