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?)
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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contents are actively managed (including removing outdated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
