The canonical form [1] of an R package Makefile includes the
following:
- The first stanza includes R_PKGNAME, R_PKGVER, PKGREVISION (as
needed), and CATEGORIES.
- HOMEPAGE is not present but defined in math/R/Makefile.extension to
refer to the CRAN web page describing the package. Other relevant
web pages are often linked from there via the URL field.
This updates all current R packages to this form, which will make
regular updates _much_ easier, especially using pkgtools/R2pkg.
[1] http://mail-index.netbsd.org/tech-pkg/2019/08/02/msg021711.html
Each R package should include ../../math/R/Makefile.extension, which also
defines MASTER_SITES. Consequently, it is redundant for the individual
packages to do the same. Package-specific definitions also prevent
redefining MASTER_SITES in a single common place.
The 'timeDate' class fulfils the conventions of the ISO 8601 standard
as well as of the ANSI C and POSIX standards. Beyond these standards
it provides the "Financial Center" concept which allows to handle data
records collected in different time zones and mix them up to have
always the proper time stamps with respect to your personal financial
center, or alternatively to the GMT reference time. It can thus also
handle time stamps from historical data records from the same time
zone, even if the financial centers changed day light saving times at
different calendar dates.
