I notice compositions was removed on CRAN, that's one I want to try out. I downloaded the last tarball, the build output doesn't look that bad. A warning, no errors.
$ R CMD build compositions * checking for file ‘compositions/DESCRIPTION’ ... OK * preparing ‘compositions’: * checking DESCRIPTION meta-information ... OK * cleaning src * checking for LF line-endings in source and make files * checking for empty or unneeded directories * looking to see if a ‘data/datalist’ file should be added * building ‘compositions_1.40-0.tar.gz’ $ R CMD check --as-cran compositions_1.40-0.tar.gz * using log directory ‘/tmp/compositions.Rcheck’ * using R version 3.1.0 (2014-04-10) * using platform: x86_64-pc-linux-gnu (64-bit) * using session charset: UTF-8 * checking for file ‘compositions/DESCRIPTION’ ... OK * this is package ‘compositions’ version ‘1.40-0’ * checking CRAN incoming feasibility ... WARNING Maintainer: ‘K. Gerald van den Boogaart <supp...@boogaart.de>’ New submission Package was archived on CRAN Insufficient package version (submitted: 1.40.0, existing: 1.40.0) CRAN repository db overrides: X-CRAN-Comment: Archived on 2014-05-01 as undefined-behaviour errors were not corrected (and previouslu archived on 2014-03-07). * checking package namespace information ... OK * checking package dependencies ... NOTE No repository set, so cyclic dependency check skipped * checking if this is a source package ... OK * checking if there is a namespace ... OK * checking for executable files ... OK * checking for hidden files and directories ... OK * checking for portable file names ... OK * checking for sufficient/correct file permissions ... OK * checking whether package ‘compositions’ can be installed ... OK * checking installed package size ... OK * checking package directory ... OK * checking DESCRIPTION meta-information ... OK * checking top-level files ... OK * checking for left-over files ... OK * checking index information ... OK * checking package subdirectories ... OK * checking R files for non-ASCII characters ... OK * checking R files for syntax errors ... OK * checking whether the package can be loaded ... OK * checking whether the package can be loaded with stated dependencies ... OK * checking whether the package can be unloaded cleanly ... OK * checking whether the namespace can be loaded with stated dependencies ... OK * checking whether the namespace can be unloaded cleanly ... OK * checking loading without being on the library search path ... OK * checking dependencies in R code ... OK * checking S3 generic/method consistency ... OK * checking replacement functions ... OK * checking foreign function calls ... OK * checking R code for possible problems ... OK * checking Rd files ... OK * checking Rd metadata ... OK * checking Rd line widths ... OK * checking Rd cross-references ... OK * checking for missing documentation entries ... OK * checking for code/documentation mismatches ... OK * checking Rd \usage sections ... OK * checking Rd contents ... OK * checking for unstated dependencies in examples ... OK * checking contents of ‘data’ directory ... OK * checking data for non-ASCII characters ... OK * checking data for ASCII and uncompressed saves ... OK * checking line endings in C/C++/Fortran sources/headers ... OK * checking line endings in Makefiles ... OK * checking compilation flags in Makevars ... OK * checking for portable use of $(BLAS_LIBS) and $(LAPACK_LIBS) ... OK * checking compiled code ... OK * checking sizes of PDF files under ‘inst/doc’ ... OK * checking installed files from ‘inst/doc’ ... OK * checking files in ‘vignettes’ ... OK * checking examples ... OK Examples with CPU or elapsed time > 5s user system elapsed SimulatedAmounts 18.810 0.188 19.064 rmahalanobis 8.573 0.016 8.619 replot 7.078 0.012 7.113 * checking for unstated dependencies in tests ... OK * checking tests ... Running ‘AitchisonTest.R’ Running ‘CheckGeometry.R’ [38s/38s] Running ‘RobustTest.R’ Running ‘TestMissing.R’ [39s/40s] Running ‘TestSimp.R’ [12s/12s] Running ‘acheck.R’ Running ‘geostat.R’ Running ‘missings.R’ Running ‘quickcheck.R’ OK * checking PDF version of manual ... OK WARNING: There was 1 warning. NOTE: There was 1 note. See ‘/tmp/compositions.Rcheck/00check.log’ for details. -- Paul E. Johnson Professor, Political Science Assoc. Director 1541 Lilac Lane, Room 504 Center for Research Methods University of Kansas University of Kansas http://pj.freefaculty.org http://quant.ku.edu ______________________________________________ R-devel@r-project.org mailing list https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-devel