[Rd] CRAN policies

[Uwe Ligges]

On 27.03.2012 16:17, Paul Gilbert wrote:
> One of the things I have noticed with the R 2.15.0 RC and --as-cran is
> that the I have to bump the version number of the working copy of my
> packages immediately after putting a version on CRAN, or I get an
> message about version suitability. This is probably a good thing for
> packages that I have changed, compared with my old habit of bumping the
> version number at arbitrary times, although the mechanics are a nuisance
> because I do not actually want to commit to the next version number at
> that point. For packages that I have not changed it is a bit worse,
> because I have to change the version number even though I have not yet
> made any changes to the package. This will mean, for example, that on
> R-forge it will look like there is a slightly newer version, even though
> there is not really.
>
> I am curious how other developers approach this. Is it better to not
> specify --as-cran most of the time? My feeling is that it is better to
> specify it all of the time so that I catch errors sooner rather than
> later, but maybe there is a better solution?


--as-cran is modelled rather closely after the CRAN incoming checks. 
CRAN checks if a new version has a new version number. Of course, you 
can ignore its result if you do not want to submit. The idea of using 
--as-cran is to apply it before you actually submit. Some parts require 
network connection etc.

Uwe




> Paul
>
> On 12-03-27 07:52 AM, Prof Brian Ripley wrote:
>> CRAN has for some time had a policies page at
>> http://cran.r-project.org/web/packages/policies.html
>> and we would like to draw this to the attention of package maintainers.
>> In particular, please
>>
>> - always send a submission email to CRAN at r-project.org with the package
>> name and version on the subject line. Emails sent to individual members
>> of the team will result in delays at best.
>>
>> - run R CMD check --as-cran on the tarball before you submit it. Do
>> this with the latest version of R possible: definitely R 2.14.2,
>> preferably R 2.15.0 RC or a recent R-devel. (Later versions of R are
>> able to give better diagnostics, e.g. for compiled code and especially
>> on Windows. They may also have extra checks for recently uncovered
>> problems.)
>>
>> Also, please note that CRAN has a very heavy workload (186 packages were
>> published last week) and to remain viable needs package maintainers to
>> make its life as easy as possible.
>>
>> Kurt Hornik
>> Uwe Ligges
>> Brian Ripley
>>
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