[R-pkg-devel] Suggestion: improving checks during actual package submission

[Leo Mada]

Dear CRAN Team,

Please find below some ideas how to improve the checks during a package submission.

I recently submitted a new version of package Rpbd, but made some trivial mistakes during the first 2 attempts. Both could have been easily caught during the actual submission process - before even running any tests.

1. Forgot to update date
The user should be warned if date is older than 1 week (and raise error if date is older than ... whatever triggers the error).

2. Version with leading zeroes
I resubmitted as version 2.4.01 - as it was just a minor update and was not aware of the generated error.

Both fields can be easily checked when uploading the file with the package: the DESCRIPTION file is processed anyway. The user can easily correct these errors, avoiding unnecessary checks, including additional manual checks.

Many thanks,

Leonard

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The new version of Rpdb is now on CRAN:
https://cran.r-project.org/web/packages/Rpdb/index.html



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