[R] Contributing to R

[Ben Bolker]

Aleksey Vorona <voronaam <at> gmail.com> writes:

> 
> Hi all,
> 
> Could anyone describe what is the proper way to contribute to R? So
> far I was going over r-bugs and trying to write patches for bugs I can
> fix. My questions is should I also send an email to somebody?
> 
> It seems that for some old bugs Bugzilla does not send emails. For
> example, I went over an old bug #412 and most of it is fixed. I left a
> comment about its current status and Bugzilla notified me that no
> email has been sent.
> 
> Also, I would really like to get a feedback on the proposed patch to
> bug #15211. It would be interesting to see the patch logistic, since
> the bug is in Lapack code, not in R itself.
> 
> The "developers" page is more for svn committers. And I am feeling a
> bit lost here. If there are casual contributors on this list, could
> you sent the best practice description, please? Better still would be
> to document it somewhere.
> 

  (1) This might be a better question for the r-devel at -project.org
list ...
  (2) Some (slightly related) discussion on StackOverflow:

stackoverflow.com/questions/8065835/
  proposing-feature-requests-to-the-r-core-team



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