[Rd] how to test packages under platforms we don't have?

[Thomas Lumley]

On Fri, 4 Aug 2006, Kevin B. Hendricks wrote:
> One final question ... is there an automated build system anyplace
> for package developers and R -developers to make sure their code
> works on all platforms.  I was able to check with Linux, and MacOSX
> (both Intel and PPC) but I do not own a Windows box and was unable to
> test/debug the build in any way on that platform.
>

Not really.  CRAN does check packages on Linux, Mac OSX and Windows, but 
there isn't a mechanism for users (or R-developers) to do this on systems 
they don't have.

 	-thomas

Thomas Lumley			Assoc. Professor, Biostatistics
tlumley at u.washington.edu	University of Washington, Seattle