While waiting to get this message posted to the list, I've solved the
problem by copying the stdlib rand() and srand() functions into my
package under a different name. This makes the check pass and ensures my
RNG does not interfere with R's RNG.
I do think that if this NOTE causes immediate dismissal of a package, it
shouldn't be a NOTE but an ERROR. Otherwise it just leads to a lot of
wasted time waiting for a reply from the maintainers to respond to the note.
Dear all,
My CRAN submission doesn't pass the pre-tests and gets archived. I've
emailed cran-submissi...@r-project.org explaining that these are false
positives, but since I haven't heard back in 10 days I don't think anyone
read that. Same thing for the submission comments (which also explained it).
The first note is:
* checking CRAN incoming feasibility ... NOTE
Maintainer: ‘Gertjan van den Burg <gertjanvandenb...@gmail.com>’
New submission
Possibly mis-spelled words in DESCRIPTION:
GenSVM (8:18, 10:61, 15:2, 16:26, 19:11)
Multiclass (4:22)
SVMs (14:25, 15:42)
misclassifications (11:49)
multiclass (8:53, 14:14, 15:31)
These words are not mis-spelled, so this is a false positive.
The second note is:
* checking compiled code ... NOTE
File ‘gensvm/libs/gensvm_wrapper.so’:
Found ‘rand’, possibly from ‘rand’ (C)
Objects: ‘gensvm/src/gensvm_cv_util.o’, ‘gensvm/src/gensvm_init.o’,
‘gensvm/lib/libgensvm.a’
Found ‘srand’, possibly from ‘srand’ (C)
Objects: ‘gensvm/src/gensvm_train.o’, ‘gensvm/lib/libgensvm.a’
Compiled code should not call entry points which might terminate R nor
write to stdout/stderr instead of to the console, nor use Fortran I/O
nor system RNGs.
See ‘Writing portable packages’ in the ‘Writing R Extensions’ manual.
This is probably why the package is rejected. I have a valid use case for
using rand() and srand(): I'm trying to maintain compatibility of this
package with the corresponding Python package. By using rand en srand users
can reproduce models in both languages.
Does anyone have any ideas on how I can get the package excepted to CRAN?
Thanks,
Gertjan van den Burg
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