[R] I'd like to request that my R CRAN package is not tested on Solaris OS

[Eric Berger]

Hi Lampros,
I cannot answer your question but I believe the correct place to post
such a question would be the r-package-devel list

https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-package-devel

Good luck


On Fri, Oct 22, 2021 at 2:13 PM lampros mouselimis
<mouselimislampros using gmail.com> wrote:
>
> Dear R-help team,
>
> I'm the maintainer of the textTinyR package. Currently the package fails on
> the Solaris Operating System (OS), you can see the results in the following
> weblink: https://cran.r-project.org/web/checks/check_results_textTinyR.html
>
> All my packages are tested on Solaris OS automatically but I never check my
> R packages before submitting to CRAN on Solaris OS because I don't have any
> experience using it. I also won't be in place to fix this error (even if I
> utilize a Virtual Machine). Due to the fact that my package works on Linux,
> Windows and Macintosh (I can fix the errors in all these three OS because I
> have installations in my Computer) can I request to exclude the textTinyR
> package from the Solaris OS testing / CRAN checking (that means the Solaris
> test frameworks will not appear in the CRAN Package test results page)?
> Moreover, whom should I send an e-mail to make this request?
>
> I processed the data of all current packages on CRAN
> <https://cran.r-project.org/web/checks/check_summary_by_package.html> and
> there are 153 submitted packages that are not tested on Solaris (I attach
> the csv file of these packages in this e-mail), which means it's possible
> for a package to not be tested on this OS.
>
> I'd like an answer before the 27th October otherwise the package will be
> removed from CRAN.
>
> Thank you in advance and for your time,
> Lampros Mouselimis
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