[Rd] Is using devtools::release no longer allowed?

[Brian Lee Yung Rowe]

Isn't the source for CRAN itself open source? One option is to run a test server that can respond with a success or failure message based on the submission. 

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Brian Lee Yung Rowe
Founder, Zato Novo
Professor, M.S. Data Analytics, CUNY

> On Aug 19, 2014, at 3:55 PM, Kasper Daniel Hansen <kasperdanielhansen at gmail.com> wrote:
> 
> Given the seeming need for automated submission to CRAN, perhaps the repos
> maintainers could consider making a function available that allows one to
> do so, for example
>  source("http://www.cran.r-project.org/submit_to_cran.R")
>  submit_to_cran("PACKAGE.TARBALL", REQUIRED_ARGUMENTS)
> or perhaps be interested in a community developed script?  Although I
> recognize how easy it is for me to suggest work for others, it seems like
> such a script would cut down on everyones work, long-term.
> 
> Best,
> Kasper
> 
> 
> 
> 
> On Tue, Aug 19, 2014 at 2:53 PM, Duncan Murdoch <murdoch.duncan at gmail.com>
> wrote:
> 
>>> On 19/08/2014 2:40 PM, Carl Boettiger wrote:
>>> 
>>> Dirk, listeners,
>>> 
>>> Perhaps you would consider using omegahat's RHTMLForms instead?
>>> 
>>>     library("RHTMLForms")
>>>     forms <- getHTMLFormDescription("http://xmpalantir.wu.ac.at/
>>> cransubmit/
>>> ")
>>>     submit_to_cran <- createFunction(forms[[1]])
>>> 
>>> Should create a function called "submit_to_cran" with arguments
>>> corresponding to the webform blanks, e.g.
>>> 
>>> submit_to_cran(name = "packagename", email = "youremail", uploaded_file =
>>> "package.tar.gz", comment = "the optional comment")
>>> 
>>> (clearly you could fill those details in from the submitting package
>>> description).  I haven't tested this.
>> If you use this, make sure you test it well enough to get it perfect the
>> very first time you use it.  If I were a CRAN administrator and received a
>> series of bad submissions from someone who was working out the bugs, I
>> would not find it difficult either technically or morally to permanently
>> ban that user from ever submitting anything again.
>> 
>> Duncan Murdoch
>> 
>> 
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