[Rd] CRAN policies

Gabor Grothendieck ggrothendieck at gmail.com
Tue Mar 27 20:36:40 CEST 2012


2012/3/27 Uwe Ligges <ligges at statistik.tu-dortmund.de>:
>
>
> On 27.03.2012 19:10, Jeffrey Ryan wrote:
>>
>> Is there a distinction as to NOTE vs. WARNING that is documented?  I've
>> always assumed (wrongly?) that NOTES weren't an issue with publishing on
>> CRAN, but that they may change to WARNINGS at some point.
>
>
> We won't kick packages off CRAN for Notes (but we will if Warnings are not
> fixed), but we may not accept new submissions with significant Notes.

Yes, I understand that but that does not really address the problem
that one has no idea of whether a Note is significant or not so the
only way to determine its significance is to submit your package and
see if its accepted or not.

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