[rkward-devel] In progress to add "item response theory plugin" by m.eik

[meik michalke]

Am Dienstag 18 November 2008 18:48:56 schrieb Prasenjit Kapat:
> > one issue that will probably come up: eRm won't be found in the standard
> > cran repo, if you want to use it, you'll have to add
> > http://r-forge.r-project.org to the repositories.
>
> Would it be helpful to include something to the order of:
>
> install.packages("packagename",repos="http://R-Forge.R-project.org")
>
> either in the associated help file or on the plugin itself?

i did not create help pages for all dialogs yet, i'll work on that. and 
well... i'm not that happy with the idea that a plugin invokes package 
installation directly, especially since rkward comes with a useful frontend 
for package management, don't you think?

so, i'd rather see something like a "use development repository" checkbox in 
the rkward repo configuration, to add R-forge there. it would be nice if the 
plugin could somehow check whether this repository is available (when it's 
needed), and come up with a message if it isn't.

i don't think this is a major issue now. but while R-forge will certainly 
attract more and more projects, it's probably worthwhile to discuss how to 
generally deal with it in the most useful manner.


viele grüße :: m.eik

-- 
  dipl. psych. meik michalke
  abt. f"ur diagnostik und differentielle psychologie
  institut f"ur experimentelle psychologie
  heinrich-heine-universit"at d"usseldorf
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