[R-pkg-devel] registering native routines

[Charles Geyer]

Sorry.  I am a moron.  It was an illusion.  I was checking R package
foo with the Makevars for R package fooRegister via the
R_MAKEVARS_USER mechanism and got confused.  In fact R package foo,
when checked with --as-cran only gives warnings not errors about
registering native routines.

So AFAICS, CRAN warns against not using registration of native
routines but that is not yet an ERROR.  So that is what I am going to
tell the students.

All of my CRAN packages properly register native routines, and I teach
this to my advisees and students.  But my github packages I use as
teaching examples don't (except for the aforementioned fooRegister)
and I was suddenly worried about them.


On Sat, Feb 16, 2019 at 9:41 PM Avraham Adler <avraham.adler using gmail.com> wrote:
>
> https://stat.ethz.ch/pipermail/r-devel/2017-February/073755.html
>
> On Sat, Feb 16, 2019 at 3:22 PM Charles Geyer <charlie using stat.umn.edu> wrote:
> >
> > I just noticed that R package foo in the github repo
> > https://github.com/cjgeyer/foo no longer passes R CMD check --as-cran.  The
> > problem seems to be that it does not register native routines and thus the
> > C routines cannot be found.  It does pass R CMD check (without --as-cran).
> > The version of the package that does register native routines (package
> > fooRegister) in the same repo passes with or without --as-cran.  So did I
> > miss the announcement?  Is registration of native routines now mandatory
> > for CRAN?
> >
> > Just asking because I am currently teaching about R packages in PhD level
> > statistical confusing and don't want to provide erroneous info.
> >
> > These packages are toy packages to introduce the class to R packages.  I
> > don't actually want to put them on CRAN.
> >
> > --
> > Charles Geyer
> > Professor, School of Statistics
> > Resident Fellow, Minnesota Center for Philosophy of Science
> > University of Minnesota
> > charlie using stat.umn.edu
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Charles Geyer
Professor, School of Statistics
Resident Fellow, Minnesota Center for Philosophy of Science
University of Minnesota
charlie using stat.umn.edu