Re: [R-pkg-devel] CRAN check for package on Sparc Solaris (or other architectures)

2015-05-26 Thread Viechtbauer Wolfgang (STAT)
@debian.org] > Sent: Tuesday, May 26, 2015 01:14 > To: Viechtbauer Wolfgang (STAT) > Cc: r-package-devel@r-project.org > Subject: Re: [R-pkg-devel] CRAN check for package on Sparc Solaris (or > other architectures) > > On 26 May 2015 at 00:13, Viechtbauer Wolfgang (STAT) wrote:

Re: [R-pkg-devel] CRAN check for package on Sparc Solaris (or other architectures)

2015-05-26 Thread Viechtbauer Wolfgang (STAT)
n Bolker [mailto:bbol...@gmail.com] > Sent: Tuesday, May 26, 2015 00:25 > To: Viechtbauer Wolfgang (STAT) > Cc: r-package-devel@r-project.org > Subject: Re: [R-pkg-devel] CRAN check for package on Sparc Solaris (or > other architectures) > > For what it's worth I did install a So

Re: [R-pkg-devel] CRAN check for package on Sparc Solaris (or other architectures)

2015-05-25 Thread Ben Bolker
Just went back and re-read the mailing list thread -- I think my VM is Solaris x86, so doesn't address the Sparc Solaris question anyway ... On Mon, May 25, 2015 at 6:24 PM, Ben Bolker wrote: > For what it's worth I did install a Solaris VM on one of my machines > so I could run tests. This does

Re: [R-pkg-devel] CRAN check for package on Sparc Solaris (or other architectures)

2015-05-25 Thread Ben Bolker
For what it's worth I did install a Solaris VM on one of my machines so I could run tests. This does seem a little over the top as a requirement for all package developers though ... I have easy access to MacOS and Ubuntu so I usually test there and on win-builder as well. In my case, I eventuall

Re: [R-pkg-devel] CRAN check for package on Sparc Solaris (or other architectures)

2015-05-25 Thread Dirk Eddelbuettel
On 26 May 2015 at 00:13, Viechtbauer Wolfgang (STAT) wrote: | Is there any possibility of checking packages on various architectures, and | especially Sparc Solaris, before submitting? Not that I know of (apart of course from win-builder, and related services such as Travis CI and its kin) and at

[R-pkg-devel] CRAN check for package on Sparc Solaris (or other architectures)

2015-05-25 Thread Viechtbauer Wolfgang (STAT)
Hello All, First of all, thanks to Martin, Hadley, and Dirk (and everybody else involved) for setting up this new mailing list. I am sure this will become a tremendous resource for package developers. My question is in essence just a repost of what I asked on R-devel a few weeks ago: https://