From pgilbert902 at gmail.com  Tue Mar 27 17:22:06 2012
From: pgilbert902 at gmail.com (Paul Gilbert)
Date: Tue, 27 Mar 2012 11:22:06 -0400
Subject: [Rd] CRAN policies
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On 12-03-27 10:59 AM, Uwe Ligges wrote:
>
>
> On 27.03.2012 16:17, Paul Gilbert wrote:
>> One of the things I have noticed with the R 2.15.0 RC and --as-cran is
>> that the I have to bump the version number of the working copy of my
>> packages immediately after putting a version on CRAN, or I get an
>> message about version suitability. This is probably a good thing for
>> packages that I have changed, compared with my old habit of bumping the
>> version number at arbitrary times, although the mechanics are a nuisance
>> because I do not actually want to commit to the next version number at
>> that point. For packages that I have not changed it is a bit worse,
>> because I have to change the version number even though I have not yet
>> made any changes to the package. This will mean, for example, that on
>> R-forge it will look like there is a slightly newer version, even though
>> there is not really.
>>
>> I am curious how other developers approach this. Is it better to not
>> specify --as-cran most of the time? My feeling is that it is better to
>> specify it all of the time so that I catch errors sooner rather than
>> later, but maybe there is a better solution?
>
>
> --as-cran is modelled rather closely after the CRAN incoming checks.
> CRAN checks if a new version has a new version number. Of course, you
> can ignore its result if you do not want to submit. The idea of using
> --as-cran is to apply it before you actually submit. Some parts require
> network connection etc.
>
> Uwe

Yes but, for example, will R-forge run checks with --as-cran, and thus 
give warnings for any package unchanged from the one on CRAN, or run 
without --as-cran, and thus not give a true indication of whether the 
package is good to submit?

(No doubt R-forge will customise more, but I am trying to work out a 
strategy for my own automatic testing.)

Paul
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>
>
>
>> Paul
>>
>> On 12-03-27 07:52 AM, Prof Brian Ripley wrote:
>>> CRAN has for some time had a policies page at
>>> http://cran.r-project.org/web/packages/policies.html
>>> and we would like to draw this to the attention of package maintainers.
>>> In particular, please
>>>
>>> - always send a submission email to CRAN at r-project.org with the package
>>> name and version on the subject line. Emails sent to individual members
>>> of the team will result in delays at best.
>>>
>>> - run R CMD check --as-cran on the tarball before you submit it. Do
>>> this with the latest version of R possible: definitely R 2.14.2,
>>> preferably R 2.15.0 RC or a recent R-devel. (Later versions of R are
>>> able to give better diagnostics, e.g. for compiled code and especially
>>> on Windows. They may also have extra checks for recently uncovered
>>> problems.)
>>>
>>> Also, please note that CRAN has a very heavy workload (186 packages were
>>> published last week) and to remain viable needs package maintainers to
>>> make its life as easy as possible.
>>>
>>> Kurt Hornik
>>> Uwe Ligges
>>> Brian Ripley
>>>
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>>> https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-devel
>>
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[Rd] CRAN policies
Paul Gilbert