From hadley at rice.edu  Tue Mar 27 23:58:39 2012
From: hadley at rice.edu (Hadley Wickham)
Date: Tue, 27 Mar 2012 16:58:39 -0500
Subject: [Rd] CRAN policies
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> I have been wondering if it is possible to automate the checking
> process to reduce human efforts, e.g. automatically check the packages
> submitted to FTP, and send the package maintainer an email in case of
> warnings or errors (otherwise just move it to CRAN); package
> maintainers can appeal for a manual check by CRAN maintainers in case
> of false positives.

I've started using win-builder before submitting to CRAN.  This often
picks up problems that I don't see locally.

Hadley

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[Rd] CRAN policies
Hadley Wickham