From ripley at stats.ox.ac.uk  Thu Sep  9 12:43:40 2004
From: ripley at stats.ox.ac.uk (Prof Brian Ripley)
Date: Thu Sep  9 12:43:43 2004
Subject: [Rd] Run up to R 2.0.0 for package maintainers
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On Thu, 9 Sep 2004, Liaw, Andy wrote:

> > From: Uwe Ligges
> > 
> > Prof Brian Ripley wrote:
> > 
> > > The major changes for R 2.0.0 are now in place, and we have 
> > provided a set 
> > > of notes for package maintainers at
> > > 
> > > 	http://developer.r-project.org/200update.txt
> > > 
> > > on both changes needed and new opportunities.
> > > 
> > > The main thing which needs to be done is to revise the 
> > DESCRIPTION file, 
> > > in particular to ensure the Depends: field is accurate.
> > > 
> > > We do run daily checks over all the CRAN packages. See
> > > 
> > > 	http://cran.r-project.org/src/contrib/checkSummary.html
> > > 
> > > (Unfortunately although the checks have been run last week, 
> > the summary 
> > > has not been updated since Aug 29.)
> 
> Am I missing something?  I just checked, and the summary ends at
> `logistf'...
> 
> (The top of that page now says "Last updated on 2004-09-06 20:26:18".)

It didn't when I sent that message.  I did note there was a problem,
and it said it had been updated last week even when it had not.

It looks like we need to wait until CRAN is manned again (next week) for 
this to be resolved.

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[Rd] Run up to R 2.0.0 for package maintainers
Prof Brian Ripley