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Re: Bug#690544: ITP: xts -- GNU R package for time series analysis



On 15 October 2012 at 14:37, Julien Cristau wrote:
| On Mon, Oct 15, 2012 at 20:13:33 +0800, Lifeng Sun wrote:
| 
| > Package: wnpp
| > Severity: wishlist
| > Owner: Lifeng Sun <lifongsun@gmail.com>
| > X-Debbugs-Cc: debian-devel@lists.debian.org, debian-science@lists.debian.org
| > 
| > * Package name    : xts

All (newer) R CRAN package use the r-cran-$foo naming style. Please follow
suit here too.

Dirk

| >   Version         : 0.8-6
| >   Upstream Author : Jeffrey A. Ryan <jeff.a.ryan@gmail.com>
| >                     Josh M. Ulrich
| > * URL             : http://r-forge.r-project.org/projects/xts/
| > * License         : GPL-2
| >   Description     : GNU R package for time series analysis -- xts
| > 
| > This package provide uniform handling of R's different time-based data
| > classes by extending r-cran-zoo, maximizing native format information
| > preservation and allowing for user level customization and extension,
| > while simplifying cross-class interoperability.
| > 
| Any chance you could choose a better package name?  Something that hints
| at this being related to R.  xts to me is the X Test Suite, which has
| nothing to do with this.
| 
| Thanks,
| Julien
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Dirk Eddelbuettel | edd@debian.org | http://dirk.eddelbuettel.com  


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