[R-pkg-devel] How do I prevent macOS from attempting to build my package?

2018-09-04 Thread Dirk Eddelbuettel
Package status reports come in three different severities: NOTE, WARNING, and ERROR. Motivated by Brodie's nice (dependency-free) accessor function for per-maintainer status [1], I have looked into reducing the number of ERRORs. I hit a road block. Several of my packages depend on external libr

Re: [R-pkg-devel] Downloading software as part of package installation

2018-09-04 Thread Uwe Ligges
On 04.09.2018 04:18, David B. Dahl wrote: I would like advise and help in interpreting a part of the CRAN Repository Policy. It states, "Downloads of additional software or data as part of package installation or startup should only use secure download mechanisms (e.g., ‘https’ or ‘ftps’)."

Re: [R-pkg-devel] How do I prevent macOS from attempting to build my package?

2018-09-04 Thread Uwe Ligges
On 04.09.2018 16:36, Dirk Eddelbuettel wrote: Package status reports come in three different severities: NOTE, WARNING, and ERROR. Motivated by Brodie's nice (dependency-free) accessor function for per-maintainer status [1], I have looked into reducing the number of ERRORs. I hit a road blo

Re: [R-pkg-devel] How do I prevent macOS from attempting to build my package?

2018-09-04 Thread Dirk Eddelbuettel
On 4 September 2018 at 17:07, Uwe Ligges wrote: | Disclaimer for this field in general (as others are listening, too): we | should always try not to use it alt all and produce cross platform code. It would be nice if the CRAN system was more open so that contributed builds could be used. With m

Re: [R-pkg-devel] Downloading software as part of package installation

2018-09-04 Thread David B. Dahl
Uwe: Oh, right, I wasn't thinking about binary packages. Thanks! -- David On Tue, Sep 4, 2018 at 9:02 AM Uwe Ligges wrote: > > > > On 04.09.2018 04:18, David B. Dahl wrote: > > I would like advise and help in interpreting a part of the CRAN > > Repository Policy. It states, "Downloads of addit