Re: [R-pkg-devel] Reverse dependencies - again

2018-07-16 Thread Dirk Eddelbuettel
On 11 July 2018 at 10:00, J C Nash wrote: | 2) Is it time to consider an effort to provide online revdep checking | that would avoid pressure on CRAN team directly and would provide | clearer indicators of the issues raised by a particular package? That is very close to my R Foundation Summit ta

[R-pkg-devel] Reverse dependencies - again

2018-07-11 Thread J C Nash
Excuses for the length of this, but optimx has a lot of packages using it. Over the past couple of months, I have been struggling with checking a new, and much augmented, optimx package. It offers some serious improvements: - parameter scaling on all methods - two safeguarded Newton methods