[Rd] CRAN updates?

Uwe Ligges ligges at statistik.tu-dortmund.de
Thu Jul 29 13:43:29 CEST 2010



On 27.07.2010 22:15, Simon Urbanek wrote:
>
> On Jul 27, 2010, at 9:56 AM, Dominick Samperi wrote:
>
>> It appears that after a package is updated the CRAN binaries for some OS's
>> are built
>> automatically and shortly after the update, while other OS's are not updated
>> for
>> some time (weeks in some cases).
>>
>> Is the process automated or is it partially manual for some OS's (like
>> Windows/w64
>> and Mac OS X)?
>>
>
> It is automated on Mac OS X (currently R builds start at midnight and package builds at 2am ET).


... as well as automated under all flavours for/of Windows.

Uwe



> Cheers,
> Simon
>
> PS: If you see delays (i.e. the check result is not available more than two days after the package is available on CRAN) it's a good idea to contact the corresponding binary maintainer (for OS X it's me) since things can break (packages can run mad and external servers can die).
>
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