Dear Terry,
You misunderstand the note. The problem is that your tar.gz is too
large. The critical bit is:
Size of tarball: 7528635 bytes
The CRAN repository policies state:
"Packages should be of the minimum necessary size. Reasonable
compression should be used for data (not just .rda files) and
When I run R CMD check on the survival package I invariably get a note:
...
* checking for file ‘survival/DESCRIPTION’ ... OK
* this is package ‘survival’ version ‘3.2-6’
* checking CRAN incoming feasibility ... NOTE
Maintainer: ‘Terry M Therneau ’
...
This is sufficient for the auto-check process
