[Rd] how to test packages under platforms we don't have?

[Uwe Ligges]

Thomas Lumley wrote:
> On Fri, 4 Aug 2006, Kevin B. Hendricks wrote:
>> One final question ... is there an automated build system anyplace
>> for package developers and R -developers to make sure their code
>> works on all platforms.  I was able to check with Linux, and MacOSX
>> (both Intel and PPC) but I do not own a Windows box and was unable to
>> test/debug the build in any way on that platform.
>>
> 
> Not really.  CRAN does check packages on Linux, Mac OSX and Windows, but 
> there isn't a mechanism for users (or R-developers) to do this on systems 
> they don't have,

because "CRAN does check" is used in a wide sense and includes, among 
others, also my *Windows* server in Dortmund that does the Windows checks.

(If you have some Windows license, a virtual machine can do the job.)

Uwe Ligges



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>  	-thomas
> 
> Thomas Lumley			Assoc. Professor, Biostatistics
> tlumley at u.washington.edu	University of Washington, Seattle
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