Re: [Rd] Update CRAN submission process

2016-05-27 Thread Michael Sumner
On Sat, 28 May 2016 at 05:59 Patrick Perry wrote: > > The CRAN submission process seems in need of a massive overhaul. Why has > this process not been automated yet? > > Many improvements to R come via extensions to R. See Hadley Wickham's R Packages book for ways to improve the process with d

Re: [Rd] Update CRAN submission process

2016-05-27 Thread Gavin Simpson
In the interests of, well, everyone, I will just mention that this is the wrong list. CRAN != R Core and asking questions about CRAN is OT for this list as this is for topics related to developing R, the software. You should address CRAN questions to the CRAN maintainers, but I suggest you don't i

[Rd] Update CRAN submission process

2016-05-27 Thread Patrick Perry
The CRAN submission process seems in need of a massive overhaul. Why has this process not been automated yet? — Patrick Perry Assistant Professor NYU Stern School of Business __ R-devel@r-project.org mailing list https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo

[Rd] Evolution of the R native interface

2016-05-27 Thread Lukas Stadler
Hi! I hope you don’t mind me posting this call for participation - I do think the matter at hand is very important for the people on this list, and the people on this list are very important for the matter at hand. For historical reasons, the native API provided by R for use by applications an