[R-pkg-devel] Appropriate place to post about CRAN check environments etc.

[Gavin Simpson]

Perhaps I have missed some detail, but would Gabor Csardi's r-builder code
not provide this (or something close to it) for Linux at least? See:
https://github.com/metacran/r-builder

This builds on the R support for Travis CI, and allows for testing against
R-release and R-devel (plus R-oldrelease IIRC)

It's pretty trivial to set-up but you do need your code in a github repo
(for the Travis deployment - I don't know anything about Semaphore, the
other option r-builder allows for).

G

On 21 July 2015 at 09:04, MAURICIO ZAMBRANO BIGIARINI <
mauricio.zambrano at ufrontera.cl> wrote:

> On 21 July 2015 at 11:46, Duncan Murdoch <murdoch.duncan at gmail.com> wrote:
> > On 21/07/2015 9:01 AM, ProfJCNash wrote:
> >>
> >> There has been some disagreement on where it is appropriate to post
> >> questions about package checking procedures, including the building of
> >> the environment e.g., R-devel under Linux Mint.
> >>
> >> In looking at https://www.r-project.org/mail.html, it seems to me that
> >> the procedures belong with r-package-devel, but there doesn't seem to be
> >> a good home for the consequent need to build R-devel to do this. Have I
> >> missed the appropriate list?
> >>
> >> It seems to me that the volume of queries of this sort, and the success
> >> of WinBuilder, suggest we could seriously use similar a Linbuilder and
> >> MacBuilder (and possibly others). There's a lot of duplicated effort
> >> being wasted on the R-devel side in particular.
> >>
> >> Is there sufficient interest to
> >> - make the effort to emulate Winbuilder for Linux and/or Mac
> >> - coordinate the volunteer effort
> >> - fund/support the necessary infrastructure (it could be worth a modest
> >> contribution to save effort)?
> >>
> >> For the record, I'm willing to participate. I've managed to set up Linux
> >> Mint VirtualBox instances that run R current and R devel for testing,
> >> though I find I must do more work than I'd like to maintain things,
> >> likely as a result of my own limited skills.
> >
> > That sounds like the sort of project the R Consortium would support.
> > They are just getting started, but soon they will have a committee set
> > up to decide on projects, and presumably soon after that will have a
> > process in place to solicit them.
> >
> > Duncan Murdoch
>
> In my humble opinion, such a project could be of great utility to
> several people that is starting to migrate to GNU/Linux, or to people
> willing to test their packages with the latest development version of
> R but without all the knowledge to properly set up the environment on
> their local machines.
>
> If I can contribute to a "LinBuilder" (e.g., testing), I would be
> willing to do it.
>
> Kind regards,
>
>
> Mauricio Zambrano-Bigiarini, PhD
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