Re: [Rd] Is using devtools::release no longer allowed?

2014-08-19 Thread Uwe Ligges
On 20.08.2014 00:05, Jeroen Ooms wrote: On Tue, Aug 19, 2014 at 8:14 PM, Dirk Eddelbuettel wrote: I hereby offer one beer to the first person who shows me how to use RSelenium to drive the webform from a script. Below is a simple script that simulates the form. No crazy RSelenium browser i

Re: [Rd] Is using devtools::release no longer allowed?

2014-08-19 Thread Gabriel Becker
On Tue, Aug 19, 2014 at 3:05 PM, Jeroen Ooms wrote: > On Tue, Aug 19, 2014 at 8:14 PM, Dirk Eddelbuettel wrote: > > https://gist.github.com/jeroenooms/48be418e87100d7ea1a2 > > Not sure if CRAN maintainers will appreciate this, though. The "I have > read the CRAN policies" confirmation page is pr

Re: [Rd] Is using devtools::release no longer allowed?

2014-08-19 Thread Dirk Eddelbuettel
On 20 August 2014 at 00:05, Jeroen Ooms wrote: | On Tue, Aug 19, 2014 at 8:14 PM, Dirk Eddelbuettel wrote: | > | > I hereby offer one beer to the first person who shows me how to use RSelenium | > to drive the webform from a script. | | Below is a simple script that simulates the form. I pres

Re: [Rd] Is using devtools::release no longer allowed?

2014-08-19 Thread Jeroen Ooms
On Tue, Aug 19, 2014 at 8:14 PM, Dirk Eddelbuettel wrote: > > I hereby offer one beer to the first person who shows me how to use RSelenium > to drive the webform from a script. Below is a simple script that simulates the form. No crazy RSelenium browser interactions; I just reverse engineered th

Re: [Rd] Is using devtools::release no longer allowed?

2014-08-19 Thread Brian Lee Yung Rowe
Isn't the source for CRAN itself open source? One option is to run a test server that can respond with a success or failure message based on the submission. • Brian Lee Yung Rowe Founder, Zato Novo Professor, M.S. Data Analytics, CUNY > On Aug 19, 2014, at 3:55 PM, Kasper Daniel Hansen >

Re: [Rd] capture.output on S4 slot

2014-08-19 Thread Thomas Lumley
On Fri, Jul 18, 2014 at 4:00 PM, Dario Strbenac wrote: > Hello, > > capture.output produces a different result if the S4 object was created with > a constructor than if the body of the constructor is copied and pasted. > > setClass("TransformParams", representation( > transform = "function", >

Re: [Rd] Is using devtools::release no longer allowed?

2014-08-19 Thread Kasper Daniel Hansen
Given the seeming need for automated submission to CRAN, perhaps the repos maintainers could consider making a function available that allows one to do so, for example source("http://www.cran.r-project.org/submit_to_cran.R";) submit_to_cran("PACKAGE.TARBALL", REQUIRED_ARGUMENTS) or perhaps be i

Re: [Rd] Is using devtools::release no longer allowed?

2014-08-19 Thread Duncan Murdoch
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 crea

Re: [Rd] Is using devtools::release no longer allowed?

2014-08-19 Thread Carl Boettiger
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 argumen

Re: [Rd] Is using devtools::release no longer allowed?

2014-08-19 Thread Dirk Eddelbuettel
On 19 August 2014 at 19:51, Uwe Ligges wrote: | So to all listeners: Future submission by means of the webform, please. I hereby offer one beer to the first person who shows me how to use RSelenium to drive the webform from a script. Dirk (who used the webform in textmode earlier today over a s

Re: [Rd] Is using devtools::release no longer allowed?

2014-08-19 Thread Uwe Ligges
On 19.08.2014 15:54, Duncan Murdoch wrote: On 19/08/2014 9:28 AM, Richard Cotton wrote: I recently tried to submit a package to CRAN using the release function in the devtools package and got the response: > The policies asked you to use the webform: do so in future. I think that the relevan

Re: [Rd] Is using devtools::release no longer allowed?

2014-08-19 Thread Dirk Eddelbuettel
Hi Richie, On 19 August 2014 at 16:28, Richard Cotton wrote: | I recently tried to submit a package to CRAN using the release | function in the devtools package and got the response: | | > The policies asked you to use the webform: do so in future. | | I think that the relevant line in the poli

Re: [Rd] Is using devtools::release no longer allowed?

2014-08-19 Thread Duncan Murdoch
On 19/08/2014 9:28 AM, Richard Cotton wrote: I recently tried to submit a package to CRAN using the release function in the devtools package and got the response: > The policies asked you to use the webform: do so in future. I think that the relevant line in the policies are: > When submitting

[Rd] Is using devtools::release no longer allowed?

2014-08-19 Thread Richard Cotton
I recently tried to submit a package to CRAN using the release function in the devtools package and got the response: > The policies asked you to use the webform: do so in future. I think that the relevant line in the policies are: > When submitting a package to CRAN you should use the submissio