> From: x...@yihui.name > Date: Tue, 27 Mar 2012 16:40:04 -0500 > To: r-devel@r-project.org > Subject: Re: [Rd] CRAN policies > > I have been wondering if it is possible to automate the checking > process to reduce human efforts, e.g. automatically check the packages > submitted to FTP, and send the package maintainer an email in case of > warnings or errors (otherwise just move it to CRAN); package > maintainers can appeal for a manual check by CRAN maintainers in case > of false positives. As a package author, I really hate to bother CRAN > maintainers each time I upload a new version and it passes R CMD check > successfully, in which case I should have received an automatic email > instead of Kurt's "hand-writing" "thanks, on CRAN now". Frankly > speaking, it makes me feel guilty sometimes to update my packages, > thinking of other 3700 packages on CRAN and how much time you CRAN > maintainers are spending on checking the packages. >
Indeed it is a good summary of how I felt for so long and in particular my recent experience, which involved Kurt, Brian, and Uwe. I think win-builder certainly helps, but it is feasible with a Linux counterpart "to have a final say"? > I do not know how many package authors actually read this mailing > list, so these policies may not really reach some authors at all. > Certainly more colleagues read the list than have been revealed by the postings. Kind regards, Jing Hua > Regards, > Yihui > -- > Yihui Xie <xieyi...@gmail.com> > Phone: 515-294-2465 Web: http://yihui.name > Department of Statistics, Iowa State University > 2215 Snedecor Hall, Ames, IA > > ______________________________________________ > R-devel@r-project.org mailing list > https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-devel [[alternative HTML version deleted]] ______________________________________________ R-devel@r-project.org mailing list https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-devel
