[R-pkg-devel] What checks are required before uploading a package to CRAN?

[Ivan Krylov]

On Tue, 4 Apr 2023 14:28:52 -0600
John Lawson <lawsonjsl7net using gmail.com> wrote:

> ERROR: Access to the path
> 'C:\Inetpub\ftproot\R-devel\daewr_1.2-9.tar.gz' is denied. (perhaps
> you uploaded already and the file has not been processed yet?)
> 
> It has been 4 days since I uploaded the file to R-release, and I get
> automatic emails every other day from Uwe Ligges telling me my package
> has been checked and built.

This might need some help from Uwe Ligges to resolve the package queue
problems.

> What checks are required before uploading the package tar.gz file to
> the cran.r-project.org/submit.html page?

The policy strongly recommends checking the package with R-devel but
doesn't require you to use Win-Builder. You can get R-devel for Windows
from <https://cran.r-project.org/bin/windows/base/rdevel.html> and run
R CMD check from that.

If you don't want to install additional software, you can use R-hub
<https://builder.r-hub.io/advanced> and other package checking services.
They don't run exactly the same software on exactly the same hardware
as CRAN checks, but they do fulfil the requirement to have your package
checked by R-devel.

-- 
Best regards,
Ivan