[datatable-help] data.table has moved to GitHub

Gene Leynes gleynes+r at gmail.com
Mon Jun 9 23:18:59 CEST 2014


I was post about a question. Do questions now go to an address on github
rather than datatable-help at lists.r-forge.r-project.org, or should we use
something else for discussion  / questions?


On Mon, Jun 9, 2014 at 8:51 AM, Matt Dowle <mdowle at mdowle.plus.com> wrote:

>
> Dear all,
>
> Arun has done an amazing job in transferring everything from R-Forge to
> GitHub. This includes the full commit history and outstanding bug and
> feature requests.
>
>     https://github.com/Rdatatable/datatable/
>
> To install the latest version from now on it's :
>
>     devtools:::install_github("datatable", "Rdatatable")
>
> As you may have noticed R-Forge has been stuck in building state for
> several days now, so you wouldn't have been able to install v1.9.3 from
> there anyway.  Arun has integrated with Travis which gives us the package
> build and check environment.  Windows users will need to install Rtools
> because install_github() compiles from source,  but that is straightforward
> we believe.  We may be able to add building and checking of a compiled .zip
> for Windows in future.  If you're a Windows user please let us know how you
> get on with Rtools and devtools::install_github().
>
> GitHub should make it easier for you to contribute :  just edit the file
> within the github website and then press "Propose file change". Project
> members will then review and accept the change.
>
> Public access to the bug and feature request trackers on R-Forge is now
> turned off.  Please use GitHub from now on.  Comments couldn't be
> transferred to GitHub but we can still see them on R-Forge.  If you raised
> an issue on R-Forge you may still get automatic emails from R-Forge as we
> close them down.
>
> Thanks,
> Matt
>
>
>
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