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.
Upstream changes:
Version 0.6-2
o dbGetQuery do not return NULL.
o use registration mechanism to call native routines.
Version 0.5-3
o Update the libpq library so that the package can be compiled in new versions of R and macOS.
Version 0.5-2
o Support dbBegin() API
version 0.5-1 --2014-02-08
o Remove segmentationfault when NULL is passed as host argument.
o Conversion routine for raw in R and bytea in PostgreSQL
o Use accompanied libpq when either of libpq and header is not found on darwin
Version 0.5 -- 2013-10-12
o postgresqlWriteTable: send column names at COPY
o System library header search path for OS X 10.9 (Mavericks)
o Memory leak was reduced
o Close the socket on failure
Version 0.4 -- 2013-03-27
o Initial implementation of prepared statement
o Use system libpq library when available on OS X (darwin)
o Force ISO datestyle for PostgreSQL-R communication by default
o Time zone aware Timestamp POSIXct conversion
Version 0.3-3 -- 2012-10-05
o Bugfix on dbColumnInfo and others reproducible by gctorture(TRUE)
o Do not implicitly make new connections, which interfere with transaction.
o Change the notation of the LICENSE
Database interface and PostgreSQL driver for R. This package provides
a Database Interface (DBI) compliant driver for R to access PostgreSQL
database systems. A wiki and issue tracking system for the package
are available at Google Code at https://code.google.com/p/rpostgresql/.
