Dear all, @Henrik: thanks a lot for your reply.
I did one more submission (the third) and I am posting below my answer to the automatic cran email with 2 NOTES. Looking forward to your feedback. Best regards, Vissarion. On Fri, 29 Mar 2019 at 11:04, Vissarion Fisikopoulos <fisi...@gmail.com> wrote: > > Dear all, > > We got the results from the automated check for our package. There are > two NOTEs in both checks in Windows and Debian. We are sure that the > rejections are false positive, so with this e-mail we try to explain > why. Please find our explanations below. > > On Thu, 28 Mar 2019 at 16:40, <lig...@statistik.tu-dortmund.de> wrote: > > > > Dear maintainer, > > > > package volesti_0.0.0.tar.gz does not pass the incoming checks > > automatically, please see the following pre-tests: > > Windows: > > <https://win-builder.r-project.org/incoming_pretest/volesti_0.0.0_20190328_151546/Windows/00check.log> > > Status: 2 NOTEs > > Debian: > > <https://win-builder.r-project.org/incoming_pretest/volesti_0.0.0_20190328_151546/Debian/00check.log> > > Status: 2 NOTEs > > > > > > > > Please fix all problems and resubmit a fixed version via the webform. > > If you are not sure how to fix the problems shown, please ask for help on > > the R-package-devel mailing list: > > <https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-package-devel> > > If you are fairly certain the rejection is a false positive, please > > reply-all to this message and explain. > > > > More details are given in the directory: > > <https://win-builder.r-project.org/incoming_pretest/volesti_0.0.0_20190328_151546/> > > The files will be removed after roughly 7 days. > > > > No strong reverse dependencies to be checked. > > > > Best regards, > > CRAN teams' auto-check service > > Flavor: r-devel-linux-x86_64-debian-gcc, r-devel-windows-ix86+x86_64 > > Check: CRAN incoming feasibility, Result: NOTE > > Maintainer: 'Vissarion Fisikopoulos <vissarion.fisikopou...@gmail.com>' > > > > New submission > > > > Possibly mis-spelled words in DESCRIPTION: > > Minkowski (9:17) > > Polytopes (4:49) > > Volesti (7:71) > > polytopes (8:39, 10:83) > > volesti (7:50) > > zonotopes (9:44) > These words, except of 'volesti' (which is the name of our package), > describe geometrical concepts. > > > Flavor: r-devel-windows-ix86+x86_64 > > Check: compiled code, Result: NOTE > > File 'volesti/libs/i386/volesti.dll': > > Found 'rand', possibly from 'rand' (C) > > Object: 'rotating.o' > > File 'volesti/libs/x64/volesti.dll': > > Found 'rand', possibly from 'rand' (C) > > Object: 'rotating.o' > > > > Compiled code should not call entry points which might terminate R nor > > write to stdout/stderr instead of to the console, nor use Fortran I/O > > nor system RNGs. > > > > See 'Writing portable packages' in the 'Writing R Extensions' manual. > > > > Flavor: r-devel-linux-x86_64-debian-gcc > > Check: compiled code, Result: NOTE > > File 'volesti/libs/volesti.so': > > Found 'rand', possibly from 'rand' (C) > > Object: 'rotating.o' > > > > Compiled code should not call entry points which might terminate R nor > > write to stdout/stderr instead of to the console, nor use Fortran I/O > > nor system RNGs. > > Library lpSolveAPI uses rand() and srand() in lp_utils.c. We replace > both functions with GetRNGstate(); PutRNGstate(); unif_rand(); from > R’s internal random number generation routines as it is proposed in > `Writing R Extensions`. Moreover if you run in folder `/src`: > $ grep -r 'rand()' > You just get: > `utils.c: range *= (LPSREAL) unif_rand();` > which is our replacement. If you replace `rand()` with `srand` in grep > search you get a null result. > This NOTE appears because of our functions in `/src/include/samplers` > where word `rand` appears a lot of times, for example > `rand_point_generator()`. > > Best regards, > Vissarion Fisikopoulos On Fri, 22 Mar 2019 at 22:03, Henrik Bengtsson <henrik.bengts...@gmail.com> wrote: > > Not a CRAN maintainer, but from my experience, it sounds like you're > hitting some very unusual hiccup here - that's unfortunate. I just > had a look around at ftp://cran.r-project.org/incoming/ and your > package is not there anymore. Just a wild guess but I wonder if your > email reply back to CRAN ends up in their spam folders? > > BTW, what are the two NOTEs you're getting? Maybe they're avoidable. > Since packages with all OKs can go straight through the CRAN incoming > checks and be published automatically (at least if the package is > already on CRAN), I try to walk an extra mile just avoid NOTEs in my > packages even if I know they're false positives. > > My $.02 > > /Henrik > > On Fri, Mar 22, 2019 at 6:28 AM Vissarion Fisikopoulos > <fisi...@gmail.com> wrote: > > > > Hello, > > > > we have resubmitted the package 'volesti'. I got the email and > > confirmed submission. Later I got the confirmation email starting: > > "The following package was uploaded to CRAN:..." and then the email on > > automated check complaining about the same 2 notes as in the previous > > submission. I answered (reply to all) explaining why those notes are > > false positives. Then no news for 9 days. Could you please update us > > on this. > > > > Best regards, > > Vissarion > > > > > > On Wed, 13 Mar 2019 at 10:15, Τόλης Χαλκής <tolis.c...@gmail.com> wrote: > > > > > > Of course we will resubmit. Thank you all for the info. > > > > > > Chalkis Apostolos > > > > > > On Wed, 13 Mar 2019 at 10:05, Maëlle SALMON via R-package-devel < > > > r-package-devel@r-project.org> wrote: > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > ---------- Forwarded message ---------- > > > > From: "Maëlle SALMON" <maelle.sal...@yahoo.se> > > > > To: Duncan Murdoch <murdoch.dun...@gmail.com>, Henrik Bengtsson < > > > > henrik.bengts...@gmail.com> > > > > Cc: r-package-devel@r-project.org > > > > Bcc: > > > > Date: Wed, 13 Mar 2019 07:56:45 +0000 (UTC) > > > > Subject: Re: [R-pkg-devel] CRAN review > > > > Sorry, the link was removed (by my copy-pasting it wrongly): > > > > https://itsalocke.com/cransays/articles/dashboard > > > > > > > > Den onsdag 13 mars 2019 08:54:00 CET, Maëlle SALMON via > > > > R-package-devel <r-package-devel@r-project.org> skrev: > > > > > > > > We at Locke Data have made an hourly updated dashboard based on the > > > > FTP > > > > server > > > > CRAN incoming dashboard • cransays > > > > > > > > | > > > > | > > > > | | > > > > CRAN incoming dashboard • cransays > > > > > > > > > > > > | > > > > > > > > | > > > > > > > > | > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > We hope it makes data more accessible whilst reducing load on the FTP > > > > server. > > > > Maëlle. > > > > > > > > Den tisdag 12 mars 2019 21:37:12 CET, Henrik Bengtsson < > > > > henrik.bengts...@gmail.com> skrev: > > > > > > > > You can also "follow" your package submission on the CRAN FTP server: > > > > > > > > ftp://cran.r-project.org/incoming/ > > > > > > > > /Henrik > > > > > > > > On Tue, Mar 12, 2019 at 1:26 PM Duncan Murdoch > > > > <murdoch.dun...@gmail.com> > > > > wrote: > > > > > > > > > > On 12/03/2019 2:57 p.m., Τόλης Χαλκής wrote: > > > > > > Dear all, > > > > > > > > > > > > We have submitted a package to CRAN in 25th of February and we have > > > > not got > > > > > > a > > > > > > positive or a negative answer for the submission since then. Is this > > > > > > normal? Is > > > > > > there any way to get informed for the review process? > > > > > > > > > > Did you get the two messages after submission (one to confirm that you > > > > > are the maintainer, the second to let you know the review has > > > > > started)? > > > > > They'll both have subject lines like > > > > > > > > > > CRAN submission .... > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > The first one will start out saying something like > > > > > > > > > > > > Dear Duncan Murdoch > > > > > > Someone has submitted the package rgl to CRAN. > > > > > > You are receiving this email to confirm the submission as the > > > > maintainer of > > > > > > this package. > > > > > > > > > > and then ask you to confirm submission. > > > > > > > > > > The second one will start like > > > > > > > > > > > [This was generated from CRAN.R-project.org/submit.html] > > > > > > > > > > > > The following package was uploaded to CRAN: > > > > > > =========================================== > > > > > > > > > > > > Package Information: > > > > > > Package: rgl > > > > > > > > > > A while later you should get a third message about the automatic > > > > > checks. > > > > > > > > > > Duncan Murdoch > > > > > > > > > > ______________________________________________ > > > > > R-package-devel@r-project.org mailing list > > > > > https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-package-devel > > > > > > > > ______________________________________________ > > > > R-package-devel@r-project.org mailing list > > > > https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-package-devel > > > > [[alternative HTML version deleted]] > > > > > > > > ______________________________________________ > > > > R-package-devel@r-project.org mailing list > > > > https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-package-devel > > > > > > > > [[alternative HTML version deleted]] > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > ---------- Forwarded message ---------- > > > > From: "Maëlle SALMON via R-package-devel" > > > > <r-package-devel@r-project.org> > > > > To: Duncan Murdoch <murdoch.dun...@gmail.com>, Henrik Bengtsson < > > > > henrik.bengts...@gmail.com> > > > > Cc: r-package-devel@r-project.org > > > > Bcc: > > > > Date: Wed, 13 Mar 2019 07:56:45 +0000 (UTC) > > > > Subject: Re: [R-pkg-devel] CRAN review > > > > ______________________________________________ > > > > R-package-devel@r-project.org mailing list > > > > https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-package-devel > > > > > > > > > > [[alternative HTML version deleted]] > > > > > > ______________________________________________ > > > R-package-devel@r-project.org mailing list > > > https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-package-devel > > > > ______________________________________________ > > R-package-devel@r-project.org mailing list > > https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-package-devel ______________________________________________ R-package-devel@r-project.org mailing list https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-package-devel