On 20 Jan 2014, at 09:31, Federico Calboli <f.calb...@imperial.ac.uk> wrote:

> On 18 Jan 2014, at 14:31, Axel Urbiz <axel.ur...@gmail.com> wrote:
> 
>> Hi All,
>> 
>> 
>> I'm planning to submit my first package to R, and although I read all the
>> documentation, I'm not very clear on the following 2 items, from which I'd
>> appreciate your guidance:
>> 
>> 
>> 1)I understand it is suggested to use the R dev version to build the
>> package.
> 
> Is it?  this is news to me.  I have a grand total of 2 packages up and I 
> never ever used R-devel, and never ever had a problem, had a report of a 
> problem or had a note from CRAn about my packages not being ok because I 
> built them with R-relase (or whatever it might be called) and not R-devel.
> 

For what it's worth, I also build my packages on the release version of R, but 
I do always first upload to the frankly invaluable win-builder service at 
http://win-builder.r-project.org  - this is mainly to check 
compatibility/issues under Windows (of which there are frequently several), but 
also checks for problems against R-devel (of which I don't think I've ever had 
any).  It is also very worthwhile checking the check logs for the current 
versions of your package on CRAN, as there are often minor issues identified on 
other systems (particularly solaris).

Cheers,

Matt


> F
> 
> 
> 
>> Which one specifically should I use to build a package on a Mac
>> OS? How about package dependencies, which version should I install on the R
>> dev version (and where should I get them)?
>> 
>> 
>> 2) Not sure if this one belongs to this list. Does licensing follow the
>> logic of "inheritance" (i.e. if all the package dependencies of my package
>> are "GPL-2 | GPL-3", does my package need to use the same license agreement?
>> 
>> 
>> 
>> Thanks!
>> 
>> Axel.
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