[Rd] declaring package dependencies

[Uwe Ligges]

On 16.09.2013 13:52, Göran Broström wrote:
>
>
> On 09/16/2013 12:38 PM, Duncan Murdoch wrote:
>> On 13-09-16 3:59 AM, Göran Broström wrote:
>>>
>>>
>>> On 09/15/2013 11:09 AM, Matthew Dowle wrote:
>>>>
>>>> I'm a little surprised by this thread.
>>>>
>>>> I subscribe to the RSS feeds of changes to NEWS (as Dirk mentioned) and
>>>> that's been pretty informative in the past :
>>>> http://developer.r-project.org/RSSfeeds.html
>>>>
>>>> Mainly though, I submit to winbuilder before submitting to CRAN, as the
>>>> CRAN policies advise.
>>>
>>> Right, but
>>>
>>> "Please _do not_ upload BioConductor packages or CRAN packages."
>>>
>>> from the winbuilder page.
>>
>>   From the context, that message is about packages that are already on
>> CRAN without Windows binaries already built.
>
> Maybe, but that is not what the page says.
>
> Anyway, may I use this facility to check new versions of my CRAN
> packages or not?

Yes, before submission, but not if the version is on CRAN already (i.e. 
if the version became a CRAN package).

Best,
Uwe Ligges



>
> Göran
>
>> Duncan Murdoch
>>
>>>
>>> Göran
>>>
>>>> winbuilder's R-devel seems to be built daily,
>>>> saving me the time. Since I don't have Windows it kills two birds with
>>>> one stone.  It has caught many problems for me before submitting to
>>>> CRAN
>>>> and I can't remember it ever not responding in a reasonable time.
>>>> http://win-builder.r-project.org/upload.aspx
>>>>
>>>> I've suggested before that winbuilder could be the mechanism to submit
>>>> to CRAN rather than an ftp upload to incoming.  Only if winbuilder
>>>> passed OK on R-devel could it then go to a human.   But iirc there
>>>> was a
>>>> technical difficulty preventing this.
>>>>
>>>> Matthew
>>>>
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