[R] R-Forge not building packages?

Ulrich Staudinger ustaudinger at activequant.com
Mon Dec 3 19:34:09 CET 2012


Thanks for all the feedback, I have written a message to R-Forge help ...


On Mon, Dec 3, 2012 at 7:21 PM, Yihui Xie <xie at yihui.name> wrote:
> I will not be surprised if it takes longer than a week to build a
> package on R-Forge, although I have no idea why it has to be
> incredibly slow (do they have Sys.sleep(7*24*60*60) somewhere in the
> code?). I do have found an alternative solution, though, which is to
> spend these days on teaching more R users (especially Windows users)
> how to install R packages via R CMD INSTALL or
> devtools::install_github(). That is usually a lot faster than R-Forge.
>
> Regards,
> Yihui
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>
> On Mon, Dec 3, 2012 at 12:05 PM, Ulrich Staudinger
> <ustaudinger at activequant.com> wrote:
>> Hi there,
>>
>> I am waiting since days for my package to be built on R-Forge.
>> https://r-forge.r-project.org/R/?group_id=1518
>>
>> R-Forge says:
>>  Version: 0.2 | Last change: 2012-11-27 21:37:05+01 | Rev.: 32
>> Build status: Building
>>
>> But I am already at revision 37 and R-Forge doesn't move since 6 days....
>>
>> Can anyone help?
>>
>> Thanks
>> Ulrich
>>
>>
>>
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>>
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