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

[MAURICIO ZAMBRANO BIGIARINI]

Probably I'm too distrustful, but yesterday I tried to use Travis CI
and at the end I didn't do it, because of the permissions you're
requested to give to the application:

Review permissions:

Personal user data                         : Email addresses (read-only)
Repository webhooks and services: Read and write access
Commit statuses                             : Read and write access
Deployments                                   : Manage deployments and
deployment status
Organizations and teams                : Read-only access


Mauricio

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On 21 July 2015 at 15:45, Gábor Csárdi <csardi.gabor at gmail.com> wrote:
> On Tue, Jul 21, 2015 at 2:35 PM, Gavin Simpson <ucfagls at gmail.com> wrote:
>> 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
>
> It does, although it only does Ubuntu 12.04 if you use Travis, because
> that's what Travis has. IMHO this does not really matter for 95% of
> the packages, and having R-devel in addition to R-release and R-oldrel
> is more important.
>
>> This builds on the R support for Travis CI, and allows for testing against
>> R-release and R-devel (plus R-oldrelease IIRC)
>
> It actually does not build on R support for Travis CI. Since it needs
> its own R installations, it does not make much sense to use the
> built-in R support.
>
>> 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).
>
> Yeah, it needs to be on GitHub.
>
> Gabor
>
>> 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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