From ligges at statistik.uni-dortmund.de  Thu Sep  9 09:38:26 2004
From: ligges at statistik.uni-dortmund.de (Uwe Ligges)
Date: Thu Sep  9 09:37:05 2004
Subject: [Rd] Run up to R 2.0.0 for package maintainers
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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.)
> 

Additionally, package maintainers might want to look at the checks under 
Windows:
http://cran.r-project.org/bin/windows/contrib/checkSummaryWin.html

Uwe Ligges


[Rd] Run up to R 2.0.0 for package maintainers
Uwe Ligges