Re: [R-pkg-devel] Rolling Back an Archived Package

2024-09-23 Thread Duncan Murdoch
On 2024-09-23 4:13 p.m., Ben Bolker wrote: Hmmm. Assuming the previous version of the package (without the extensions/updates) avoids all of the testing errors, I would say that RAW ("rules as written") the only constraint I can see on submitting a "rollback" version of the package would be the C

Re: [R-pkg-devel] Rolling Back an Archived Package

2024-09-23 Thread Ben Bolker
I can imagine a (perhaps overly complicated) scenario: * version 1 passes tests OK when it is submitted to CRAN * version 2 passes tests OK when it is submitted to CRAN * CRAN introduces new tests (compiler versions, etc. etc.) that break version 2 but not version 1. Now version 1 would still pa

[R-pkg-devel] bit, bit64, ff and greeNsort

2024-09-23 Thread Jens Oehlschlägel
Dear package maintainers, Dear users of packages `bit`, `bit64`, `ff`, Everyone interested in sustainable sorting algorithms, I submitted updated versions for the upcoming R 4.5.0. The are only minor changes (see the NEWS files) but there is one important change in bit64:     o setting opti

Re: [R-pkg-devel] Rolling Back an Archived Package

2024-09-23 Thread Ben Bolker
Hmmm. Assuming the previous version of the package (without the extensions/updates) avoids all of the testing errors, I would say that RAW ("rules as written") the only constraint I can see on submitting a "rollback" version of the package would be the CRAN request for updates “no more than every 1

[R-pkg-devel] Rolling Back an Archived Package

2024-09-23 Thread Eric Giunta
Hello all, Recently I submitted a large update to the package I maintain and was unable to resolve the testing errors prior to it being archived. I've been unable to reproduce the errors, so I expect to have to setup my own fedora_clang virtual machine to debug my package. Ideally I'd want a pr