[okfn-discuss] datapkg metadata: what does R do?

James Casbon casbon at gmail.com
Wed Nov 25 14:31:31 UTC 2009


Have a look at section 5 in
http://cran.r-project.org/doc/contrib/Leisch-CreatingPackages.pdf

Looks quite reasonable to me as a distribution format, and may be more
appropriate than setup.py / ini based metadata?

Also, the ability to use the data in R straight off seems a big plus to me.

James




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