I'm a little surprised by this thread.
I subscribe to the RSS feeds of changes to NEWS (as Dirk mentioned) and
that's been pretty informative in the past :
http://developer.r-project.org/RSSfeeds.html
Mainly though, I submit to winbuilder before submitting to CRAN, as the
CRAN policies advise. winbuilder's R-devel seems to be built daily,
saving me the time. Since I don't have Windows it kills two birds with
one stone. It has caught many problems for me before submitting to CRAN
and I can't remember it ever not responding in a reasonable time.
http://win-builder.r-project.org/upload.aspx
I've suggested before that winbuilder could be the mechanism to submit
to CRAN rather than an ftp upload to incoming. Only if winbuilder
passed OK on R-devel could it then go to a human. But iirc there was a
technical difficulty preventing this.
Matthew
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