[Rd] cross-platform portable code in CRAN Repository Policy

[Da Zheng]

Thank you very much for all your responses. It's very clear to me what I
need to do and what service I should use for testing now.

Thanks,
Da

On Fri, Jan 27, 2017 at 5:40 PM, Henrik Bengtsson <
henrik.bengtsson at gmail.com> wrote:

> Second this.  As the CRAN Policies suggests, there's also the very
> handy winbuilder service (https://win-builder.r-project.org/) you can
> use to check your package on Windows.  This service has been a
> valuable workhorse for years.
>
> We should also mention the continuous integration (CI) services
> provided for free by Travis (Linux and macOS) and AppVeyor (Windows)
> in combination with GitHub (or GitLab, ...).  By adding simple
> .travis.yml and appveyor.yml to your Git repos (e.g.
> https://github.com/HenrikBengtsson/globals), they run R CMD check
> --as-cran and covr::package_coverage() etc for you more or less on the
> fly, e.g.
>
> * https://travis-ci.org/HenrikBengtsson/globals
> * https://ci.appveyor.com/project/HenrikBengtsson/globals
>
> /Henrik
>
> PS. Thanks to everyone who made all of the above possible.
>
> On Fri, Jan 27, 2017 at 2:17 PM, Dirk Eddelbuettel <edd at debian.org> wrote:
> >
> > On 27 January 2017 at 21:54, Gábor Csárdi wrote:
> > | On Fri, Jan 27, 2017 at 9:28 PM, Da Zheng <zhengda1936 at gmail.com>
> wrote:
> > | > What major R platforms does this policy refer to?
> > | >
> > |
> > | Linux, macOS, Windows.
> > |
> > |
> > | > Currently, my package runs in Ubuntu. If it works on both Ubuntu and
> > | > Redhat, does it count as two platforms?
> > | >
> > |
> > | I think that Linux is just one. Is it hard to make it work on macOS?
> > |
> > | I am not saying that if it is Linux-only then it definitely cannot
> make it
> > | to CRAN.
> > | A CRAN maintainer will decide that.
> >
> > Gabor is *way* too modest here to not mention the *fabulous* tool he has
> > written (with the [financial] support of the R Consortium):  R Hub.
> >
> > These days I just do    'rhub::check_for_cran()'   and four tests launch
> > covering the three required OSs as well as the required r-devel and
> r-release
> > versions.  Results tickle in within minutes by mail; the windows one
> (which
> > is slowest) is also display.  You need a one-time token handshake.
> >
> > I strongly recommend the service.
> >
> > Dirk
> >
> > --
> > http://dirk.eddelbuettel.com | @eddelbuettel | edd at debian.org
> >
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