[Rd] declaring package dependencies

Duncan Murdoch murdoch.duncan at gmail.com
Mon Sep 16 12:38:41 CEST 2013


On 13-09-16 3:59 AM, Göran Broström wrote:
>
>
> On 09/15/2013 11:09 AM, Matthew Dowle wrote:
>>
>> I'm a little surprised by this thread.
>>
>> I subscribe to the RSS feeds of changes to NEWS (as Dirk mentioned) and
>> that's been pretty informative in the past :
>> http://developer.r-project.org/RSSfeeds.html
>>
>> Mainly though, I submit to winbuilder before submitting to CRAN, as the
>> CRAN policies advise.
>
> Right, but
>
> "Please _do not_ upload BioConductor packages or CRAN packages."
>
> from the winbuilder page.

 From the context, that message is about packages that are already on 
CRAN without Windows binaries already built.

Duncan Murdoch

>
> Göran
>
>> winbuilder's R-devel seems to be built daily,
>> saving me the time. Since I don't have Windows it kills two birds with
>> one stone.  It has caught many problems for me before submitting to CRAN
>> and I can't remember it ever not responding in a reasonable time.
>> http://win-builder.r-project.org/upload.aspx
>>
>> I've suggested before that winbuilder could be the mechanism to submit
>> to CRAN rather than an ftp upload to incoming.  Only if winbuilder
>> passed OK on R-devel could it then go to a human.   But iirc there was a
>> technical difficulty preventing this.
>>
>> Matthew
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