[Rd] R-Forge > GitHub?

[Spencer Graves]

Hello, All:


       What's the status and future plans for R-Forge?


       I ask primarily because a problem I reported May 15 and 17 via 
two different channels has yet to be fixed, and it prevents my 
development versions of the Ecdat and Ecfun packages from building -- 
because the Windows version cannot find "Matrix";  see below. 
Secondarily, the version of R that R-Forge tried to use earlier today 
was 3.5.3 -- NOT the current version.


       Assuming you recommend migrating to GitHub, do you have a 
preferred procedure?  I found 
"https://gist.github.com/friendly/7269490".  This says it was "Last 
active 2 years ago" but seems to be the most current advice I can find 
on this right now.  That looks complicated, but I assume it preserves 
the edit history on R-Forge. ???


       Thanks,
       Spencer Graves


-------- Forwarded Message --------
Subject: 	Error : package 'Ecfun' could not be loaded
Date: 	Fri, 17 May 2019 18:41:12 -0500
From: 	Spencer Graves <spencer.graves using prodsyse.com>
To: 	r-forge using r-project.org



Hello:


       Your Windows platform cannot find "Matrix" and other packages.  See:


https://r-forge.r-project.org/R/?group_id=1439&add_log=check_x86_64_windows&pkg=Ecdat&flavor=patched&type=00install.out


       I reported this to your Support tracker two days ago:


https://r-forge.r-project.org/tracker/?atid=194&group_id=34&func=browse


       Can someone please fix this?


       Or is it now the official policy of R-Forge to ask people to go 
someplace else, e.g., GitHub?


       From what I know, the basic design of R-Forge is vastly superior 
to GitHub for packages submitted to CRAN.  However, I've encountered 
numerous reliability problems with R-Forge in recent years.


       Thanks,
       Spencer Graves



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