From mdowle at mdowle.plus.com  Sun Sep 15 11:09:48 2013
From: mdowle at mdowle.plus.com (Matthew Dowle)
Date: Sun, 15 Sep 2013 10:09:48 +0100
Subject: [Rd] declaring package dependencies
Message-ID: <5235795C.3050903@mdowle.plus.com>


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.  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



[Rd] declaring package dependencies
Matthew Dowle