[R] keeping github packages up to date

[Amit Mittal]

I'd just check with a strip script checking for updates with devtools,
maybe every week and maybe when a mail pops from the git team, if
subscribed (pretty powerful about merges into the final software )

BR

On Fri 12 Oct, 2018, 21:03 Jeff Newmiller, <jdnewmil using dcn.davis.ca.us> wrote:

> Reinstall the updated versions however you originally did. The "obstacles"
> imposed by CRAN that cause package developers to forgo sharing there came
> about to confirm documentation, cross-platform compatibility and
> dependencies. With no referee enforcing such care in the environments you
> are pulling from, you cannot expect automated dependency management to
> work. You are riding a mustang in the Wild West... so have fun while it
> lasts... eventually bit-rot will break your library unless you freeze it
> (use packrat and keep old versions of R?).
>
> On October 12, 2018 8:00:11 AM PDT, Federico Calboli <
> federico.calboli using kuleuven.be> wrote:
> >Hi all,
> >
> >more and more people (sadly) are putting stuff on github, with either
> >no CRAN upload or an package.  So I am stuck with using devtools and
> >install_github.
> >
> >I know how to keep stuff from CRAN updated — how do I do the same for
> >github stuff?
> >
> >Cheers
> >
> >F
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