Re: [R-pkg-devel] Spelling and manual CRAN inspection

2021-07-19 Thread Sebastian Meyer
Note that the spell checks are not run by default in R CMD check. To trigger these, you need to set the (undocumented) environment variable _R_CHECK_CRAN_INCOMING_USE_ASPELL_=TRUE and have aspell (or alternatives) installed. No worries about a potential pain of rechecking the same flagged

Re: [R-pkg-devel] Scrapping R CRAN website from package

2021-07-19 Thread Gábor Csárdi
On Sat, Jul 17, 2021 at 2:21 AM wrote: > > Maciej: > > There are other packages that query the CRAN site (cranlogs, etc.). So it > seems the queries/fetches are generally allowed. I can only find a couple > relevant mentions in the CRAN policies: [...] For the record, the cranlogs package does

Re: [R-pkg-devel] Scrapping R CRAN website from package

2021-07-19 Thread Maëlle SALMON via R-package-devel
Could pkgsearch http://r-hub.github.io/pkgsearch/ help with what you're doing, as it can queries all versions of CRAN packages? See http://r-hub.github.io/pkgsearch/reference/cran_package_history.html for the docs of the function cran_package_history(). It does not scrape CRAN pages, it uses