On Mon, Jan 20, 2014 at 9:58 AM, Federico Calboli
<f.calboli@imperial.ac.uk>wrote:
[...]

> I do that *with the current release of R* and I never had an issue
> whatsoever.  Incidentally the words 'This should be done with the current
> version of R-devel (or if that is not possible, current R-patched or the
> current release of R' translate in plainspeak 'run R CMD check --as-cran
> with whatever version of R provided it's not outdated'.


That's an interesting "translation". Are you a CRAN maintainer?

I guess you were just lucky so far. Most packages are small and not
affected by changes between R-release and R-devel. But some of them are.

Also, R-devel typically has more rigorous package checks than R-release. My
package was delayed several times because it did not pass checks in R-devel
(it did in R-release). I guess this happened to other packages as well,
hence the sentence above was included in the policies.

Gabor

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