On 19/08/2014 2:40 PM, Carl Boettiger wrote:
Dirk, listeners,Perhaps you would consider using omegahat's RHTMLForms instead? library("RHTMLForms") forms <- getHTMLFormDescription("http://xmpalantir.wu.ac.at/cransubmit/ ") submit_to_cran <- createFunction(forms[[1]]) Should create a function called "submit_to_cran" with arguments corresponding to the webform blanks, e.g. submit_to_cran(name = "packagename", email = "youremail", uploaded_file = "package.tar.gz", comment = "the optional comment") (clearly you could fill those details in from the submitting package description). I haven't tested this.
If you use this, make sure you test it well enough to get it perfect the very first time you use it. If I were a CRAN administrator and received a series of bad submissions from someone who was working out the bugs, I would not find it difficult either technically or morally to permanently ban that user from ever submitting anything again.
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