Re: [Rd] CRAN policies

2012-03-28 Thread jing hua zhao
> From: x...@yihui.name > Date: Tue, 27 Mar 2012 16:40:04 -0500 > To: r-devel@r-project.org > Subject: Re: [Rd] CRAN policies > > I have been wondering if it is possible to automate the checking > process to reduce human efforts, e.g. automatically check the packages > submitted to FTP, and send

Re: [Rd] CRAN policies

2012-03-28 Thread Uwe Ligges
On 28.03.2012 00:07, Hadley Wickham wrote: On Tue, Mar 27, 2012 at 6:52 AM, Prof Brian Ripley wrote: CRAN has for some time had a policies page at http://cran.r-project.org/web/packages/policies.html and we would like to draw this to the attention of package maintainers. In particular, plea

Re: [Rd] CRAN policies

2012-03-28 Thread Uwe Ligges
On 27.03.2012 20:33, Jeffrey Ryan wrote: Thanks Uwe for the clarification on what goes and what stays. Still fuzzy on the notion of "significant" though. Do you have an example or two for the list? We have to look at those notes again and again in order to find if something important is n

Re: [Rd] CRAN policies

2012-03-28 Thread Uwe Ligges
On 27.03.2012 20:36, Gabor Grothendieck wrote: 2012/3/27 Uwe Ligges: On 27.03.2012 19:10, Jeffrey Ryan wrote: Is there a distinction as to NOTE vs. WARNING that is documented? I've always assumed (wrongly?) that NOTES weren't an issue with publishing on CRAN, but that they may change to W

Re: [Rd] CRAN policies

2012-03-28 Thread Gabor Grothendieck
2012/3/28 Uwe Ligges : > > > On 27.03.2012 20:33, Jeffrey Ryan wrote: >> >> Thanks Uwe for the clarification on what goes and what stays. >> >> Still fuzzy on the notion of "significant" though.  Do you have an example >> or two for the list? > > > > We have to look at those notes again and again i

Re: [Rd] serialization regression in 2.15.0 beta

2012-03-28 Thread Ben Goodrich
Quoting Prof Brian Ripley : On 27/03/2012 22:01, Ben Goodrich wrote: In case anyone is concerned that this regression will affect them, the code was reverted to the 2.14.x behavior by r58842 | ripley | 2012-03-26 08:12:43

[Rd] --as-cran / BuildVignettes: false

2012-03-28 Thread Paul Gilbert
I have packages where I know CRAN and other test platforms do not have all the resources to build the vignettes, for example, access to databases. Previously I think putting BuildVignettes: false in the DESCRIPTION file resolved this, by preventing CRAN checks from attempting to run the vi

Re: [Rd] --as-cran / BuildVignettes: false

2012-03-28 Thread Uwe Ligges
On 28.03.2012 18:07, Paul Gilbert wrote: I have packages where I know CRAN and other test platforms do not have all the resources to build the vignettes, for example, access to databases. Previously I think putting BuildVignettes: false in the DESCRIPTION file resolved this, by preventing CR

Re: [Rd] CRAN policies

2012-03-28 Thread Uwe Ligges
On 28.03.2012 16:30, Gabor Grothendieck wrote: 2012/3/28 Uwe Ligges: On 27.03.2012 20:33, Jeffrey Ryan wrote: Thanks Uwe for the clarification on what goes and what stays. Still fuzzy on the notion of "significant" though. Do you have an example or two for the list? We have to look a

Re: [Rd] CRAN policies

2012-03-28 Thread Thomas Lumley
On Thu, Mar 29, 2012 at 3:30 AM, Gabor Grothendieck wrote: > 2012/3/28 Uwe Ligges : >> >> >> On 27.03.2012 20:33, Jeffrey Ryan wrote: >>> >>> Thanks Uwe for the clarification on what goes and what stays. >>> >>> Still fuzzy on the notion of "significant" though.  Do you have an example >>> or two