Any suggestion or comment on this? They are going to remove the package by
6-28
Seems to me if we have a switch to opt in to install (and not by default
on), or prompt the user in interactive session, should be good as user
confirmation.
On Sun, Jun 13, 2021 at 11:25 PM Felix Cheung <felixche...@apache.org>
wrote:
> It looks like they would not allow caching the Spark
> Distribution.
>
> I’m not sure what can be done about this.
>
> If I recall, the package should remove this during test. Or maybe
> spark.install() ie optional (hence getting user confirmation?)
>
>
> ---------- Forwarded message ---------
> Date: Sun, Jun 13, 2021 at 10:19 PM
> Subject: CRAN package SparkR
> To: Felix Cheung <felixche...@apache.org>
> CC: <c...@r-project.org>
>
>
> Dear maintainer,
>
> Checking this apparently creates the default directory as per
>
> #' @param localDir a local directory where Spark is installed. The
> directory con
> tains
> #' version-specific folders of Spark packages. Default is
> path t
> o
> #' the cache directory:
> #' \itemize{
> #' \item Mac OS X: \file{~/Library/Caches/spark}
> #' \item Unix: \env{$XDG_CACHE_HOME} if defined,
> otherwise \file{~/.cache/spark}
> #' \item Windows:
> \file{\%LOCALAPPDATA\%\\Apache\\Spark\\Cache}.
> #' }
>
> However, the CRAN Policy says
>
> - Packages should not write in the user’s home filespace (including
> clipboards), nor anywhere else on the file system apart from the R
> session’s temporary directory (or during installation in the
> location pointed to by TMPDIR: and such usage should be cleaned
> up). Installing into the system’s R installation (e.g., scripts to
> its bin directory) is not allowed.
>
> Limited exceptions may be allowed in interactive sessions if the
> package obtains confirmation from the user.
>
> For R version 4.0 or later (hence a version dependency is required
> or only conditional use is possible), packages may store
> user-specific data, configuration and cache files in their
> respective user directories obtained from tools::R_user_dir(),
> provided that by default sizes are kept as small as possible and the
> contents are actively managed (including removing outdated
> material).
>
> Can you pls fix as necessary?
>
> Please fix before 2021-06-28 to safely retain your package on CRAN.
>
> Best
> -k
>
