3 This file explains the repository structure of your project. A more
4 detailed guide to R-Forge is available by
5 Theußl and Zeileis (2010) [1] and the R-Forge Administration and
6 Development Team (2009) [2].
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10 R is free software distributed under a GNU-style copyleft. R-Forge is
11 a central platform for the development of R packages, R-related
12 software and further projects. Among many other web-based features it
13 provides facilities for collaborative source code management via
16 2. The directory you're in
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18 This is the repository of your project. It contains two important
19 pre-defined directories namely 'pkg' and 'www'. These directories must
20 not be deleted otherwise R-Forge's core functionality will not be
21 available (i.e., daily checking and building of your package or the
23 'pkg' and 'www' are standardized and therefore are going to be
24 described in this README. The rest of your repository can be used as
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29 To make use of the package building and checking feature the package
30 source code has to be put into the 'pkg' directory of your repository
31 (i.e., 'pkg/DESCRIPTION', 'pkg/R', 'pkg/man', etc.) or, alternatively,
32 a subdirectory of 'pkg'. The latter structure allows for having more
33 than one package in a single project, e.g., if a project consists of
34 the packages foo and bar then the source code will be located in
35 'pkg/foo' and 'pkg/bar', respectively.
37 R-Forge automatically examines the 'pkg' directory of every repository
38 and builds the package sources as well as the package binaries on a
39 daily basis for Mac OS X and Windows (if applicable). The package builds
40 are provided in the 'R Packages' tab for download or can be installed
41 directly in R from a CRAN-style repository using
42 'install.packages("foo", repos="http://R-Forge.R-project.org")'.
43 Furthermore, in the 'R Packages' tab developers can examine logs
44 generated on different platforms by the build and check process.
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48 Developers may present their project on a subdomain of R-Forge, e.g.,
49 'http://foo.R-Forge.R-project.org', or via a link to an external
52 This directory contains the project homepage which gets updated hourly
53 on R-Forge, so please take into consideration that it will not be
54 available right after you commit your changes or additions.
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58 If you need help don't hesitate to submit a support request at
59 https://r-forge.r-project.org/tracker/?func=add&group_id=34&atid=194,
61 https://r-forge.r-project.org/forum/forum.php?forum_id=78&group_id=34,
62 or contact us at R-Forge@R-project.org.
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67 [1] Stefan Theußl and Achim Zeileis. Collaborative software development
68 using R-Forge. The R Journal, 1(1):9-14, May 2009. URL
69 http://journal.r-project.org/2009-1/RJournal_2009-1_Theussl+Zeileis.pdf
71 [2] R-Forge Administration and Development Team. RForge User’s Manual,
72 2008. URL http://download.R-Forge.R-project.org/R-Forge.pdf
74 [3] C. M. Pilato, B. Collins-Sussman, and B. W. Fitzpatrick. Version
75 Control with Subversion. O’Reilly, 2004. Full book available online at
76 http://svnbook.red-bean.com/