[Phylobase-devl] Planning the next release of phylobase

[Thibaut Jombart]

Peter Cowan wrote:

>On Feb 22, 2008, at 10:25 AM, Ben Bolker wrote:
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>>>2. Automagical subsetting of phylo4d objects.
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>>OK, what do you mean by this?
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>I mean that if I have a phylo4d object name foo, I should be able to  
>do something like foo[-c('taxa1', 'taxa2'), ].  This should probably  
>have a bit of discussion about how exactly it should work.  I would  
>think that using the data frame sub-setting as a models is a good start.
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I think both "foo[tips]" and "foo[tips,traits]" could be used. But as a 
start, I would prefer "foo[tips]" as this is the less easy to do 
manually. Plus, I don't know if both can be implemented, but I'll try 
this afternoon if I have time.

>>>3. A final decision on how nodes will be referred to by other  
>>>commands.
>>>What does everyone think the best way to track and discuss these   
>>>issues?  Via the mailing list?  A chat-room or telephone  
>>>conference?   Or by the R-forge issue tracker?  Personally I'm  
>>>interested in giving  the tracker a try, it would allow us to claim  
>>>tasks and have  conversation about particular features/bugs.  What  
>>>do other people  think?
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>>Tracker is fine with me for now.
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For me too.

>We can have custom categories in the tracker, are there particular  
>areas we would like to separate the package into, or should we just  
>have a flat list for the time being?
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>I will look into getting changes in the tracker forwarded to the  
>mailing list.
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That would be nice. Categories in the tracker could just match those of 
the TODO file. On the other hand, we may just give it a try and then see 
if categories are actually needed (which I am not sure: is the package 
that big already?).

Cheers,

Thibaut.