On Tue, Mar 27, 2012 at 7:52 AM, Prof Brian Ripley <rip...@stats.ox.ac.uk> wrote: > CRAN has for some time had a policies page at > http://cran.r-project.org/web/packages/policies.html > and we would like to draw this to the attention of package maintainers. In > particular, please > > - always send a submission email to c...@r-project.org with the package > name and version on the subject line. Emails sent to individual members of > the team will result in delays at best. > > - run R CMD check --as-cran on the tarball before you submit it. Do > this with the latest version of R possible: definitely R 2.14.2, > preferably R 2.15.0 RC or a recent R-devel. (Later versions of R are > able to give better diagnostics, e.g. for compiled code and especially > on Windows. They may also have extra checks for recently uncovered > problems.) > > Also, please note that CRAN has a very heavy workload (186 packages were > published last week) and to remain viable needs package maintainers to make > its life as easy as possible. >
Regarding the part about "warnings or significant notes" in that page, its impossible to know which notes are significant and which ones are not significant except by trial and error. -- Statistics & Software Consulting GKX Group, GKX Associates Inc. tel: 1-877-GKX-GROUP email: ggrothendieck at gmail.com ______________________________________________ R-devel@r-project.org mailing list https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-devel