Some (unofficial) tips. Some of the hardware and software they use is listed here: http://cran.r-project.org/web/checks/check_flavors.html#r-devel-linux-x86_64-debian-clang
You can get the current R-release and R-oldrel versions from here: http://rversions.r-pkg.org/r-release http://rversions.r-pkg.org/r-oldrel The environment variables they use for the checks are listed here: http://cran.r-project.org/doc/manuals/r-release/R-ints.html#Tools The win-builder page also has some hints about what is installed on the windows test machines: http://win-builder.r-project.org/ I hope this is useful. I would interested to hear about the progress of this project, if you don't mind. So if you have an open repo or web page, please let me know. Thanks. Gabor On Fri, Jun 12, 2015 at 1:24 AM, Mick Jordan <mick.jor...@oracle.com> wrote: > Is the mechanism by which packages are tested on CRAN described > anywhere? Is it by any chance written in R? The FastR > <https://bitbucket.org/allr/fastr/wiki/Home> team is interested in > running a virtual CRAN where we can test all the CRAN packages on FastR. > > Thanks > Mick Jordan > > > [[alternative HTML version deleted]] > > ______________________________________________ > R-devel@r-project.org mailing list > https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-devel ______________________________________________ R-devel@r-project.org mailing list https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-devel