[R] Unbundling gregmisc

Seth Falcon sethfalcon at comcast.net
Wed May 4 17:33:06 CEST 2005


"Warnes, Gregory R" <gregory.r.warnes at pfizer.com> writes:
> Let me redirect the topic a bit.  I've been considering unbundling
> gregmisc.  The pro would be that people would find the component
> packages (i.e. gdata) more easily.  The con is that the packages
> have a number of interdependencies, so you pretty much will need to
> get most of them anyway.

I'm +1, heck, +2.  

Given R's new ability to follow dependencies, I think the most likely
outcome is a friendlier user experience: it will be easier to find the
packages.  

As Duncan pointed out, another pro is that if some of the packages
change less, then users won't have to update them.


+ seth




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