From ggrothendieck at gmail.com  Tue Mar 27 17:09:28 2012
From: ggrothendieck at gmail.com (Gabor Grothendieck)
Date: Tue, 27 Mar 2012 11:09:28 -0400
Subject: [Rd] CRAN policies
In-Reply-To: <4F71AA0A.9050702@stats.ox.ac.uk>
References: <4F71A2F3.2000203@stats.ox.ac.uk> <4F71AA0A.9050702@stats.ox.ac.uk>
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On Tue, Mar 27, 2012 at 7:52 AM, Prof Brian Ripley
<ripley at stats.ox.ac.uk> 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.
>

Regarding the part about "warnings or significant notes" in that page,
its impossible to know which notes are significant and which ones are
not significant except by trial and error.

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[Rd] CRAN policies
Gabor Grothendieck