[R-pkg-devel] CRAN Packages over 5 MB & Time Length for Manual Inspection

Sat Feb 4 01:00:22 CET 2023

Hey Rich, thank you for your response.

In my case, I explained the reasoning to justify the 
USA.state.boundaries package being over 5 MB and why it is needed by 
iemisc, including providing previous e-mail discussions between Uwe and 
myself, on the various re-submittals of the USA.state.boundaries 
package.

Part of the reason why I wrote the e-mail to this list serve is that I 
have seen Uwe respond back to e-mail threads in this R-pkg-devel list, 
but I have not received any response from him nor any other CRAN 
volunteer since 6 January (almost a month as of today, 3 February 2023).

I responded back to Uwe on 6 January 2023.

In terms of Uwe and others being volunteers, I understand that 
completely. I myself volunteer on a variety of projects and I do a 
variety of projects for pay as well & I have done that for a couple of 
decades now.

I believe that a response should be made in less than a month's time.

Irucka

On 29-01-2023 16:41, Richard Shefferson wrote:
> My understanding is that packages over 5MB are only allowed under
> exceptional circumstances. You would need to include a note in your
> submission explaining why it is over 5 MB. If it is not accepted, then
> the reason provided is not sufficient. I believe that the CRAN
> guidelines actually state this, and there may even be Stack Exchange
> cases related to this, as well.
> 
> Not sure about how long to wait for a response, but since the CRAN
> team is made up of volunteers who have plenty of other things on their
> plates, I always interpret a lack of response as meaning that I missed
> something obvious.
> 
> Rich Shefferson
> 
> On Mon, Jan 30, 2023 at 3:54 EcoC2S - Irucka Embry <iembry using ecoccs.com>
> wrote:
> 
>> Greetings!
>> 
>> I submitted my USA.state.boundaries package on 6 January 2023 and
>> Uwe
>> responded back letting me know that it was over the 5 MB CRAN
>> threshold.
>> I responded back to Uwe letting him know that as of that date there
>> were
>> 52 CRAN packages over 5 MB. As of today (29 January 2023), there are
>> 
>> actually 53 CRAN packages over 5 MB.
>> 
>> As I heard no response back from Uwe, I re-submitted my
>> USA.state.boundaries package on 12 January and 21 January. As of
>> today,
>> I have not heard any response back from Uwe or any other CRAN team
>> volunteer.
>> 
>> There are 2 questions:
>> 
>> 1) How long should it take to receive a response back from a CRAN
>> team
>> volunteer after a manual inspection of a CRAN package?
>> 
>> 2) Why has my package been denied acceptance to CRAN while a new
>> package
>> over 5 MB has been allowed to be hosted on CRAN recently?
>> 
>> Thank you in advance.
>> 
>> Irucka Embry
>> 
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-Irucka Ajani Embry, 15 March 2020

Family Partners:
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The business collaboration between EConsulting (tm)
[https://www.econsultingllc.org/] and EcoC^2S, is Getting Back to 
Nature.

Getting Back to Nature LocalHarvest --
https://www.localharvest.org/getting-back-to-nature-M73453
Getting Back to Nature -- https://www.gettingback2nature.farm/

-- Irucka and his twin brother, Obiora, are featured in the Middle
Tennessee Local Table Magazine Annual issue. The article discusses their
family farm history and the current work that they are doing under 
Getting
Back to Nature. The full magazine can be found here [the article begins 
on
page 18 of the PDF document]:

https://media.gettingback2nature.farm/pdf/LocalTable_ANNUAL_2020_lo_res.pdf

-- Obiora and Irucka were interviewed separately in early 2020 for the
Natural Resources Defense Council's (NRDC) "Regenerative Agriculture: 
Farm
Policy for the 21st Century: Policy Recommendations to Advance 
Regenerative
Agriculture" report written By Arohi Sharma, Lara Bryant, and Ellen Lee.
The PDF report is available below:

https://www.nrdc.org/sites/default/files/regenerative-agriculture-farm-policy-21st-century-report.pdf

EcoC2S -- https://www.ecoccs.com/
Principal, Irucka Embry, EIT

Services:
Growing Food
Healthy Living Mentor
Data Analysis with R
R Training
Chemistry and Mathematics Tutoring
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