Hi Duncan, Of course I appreciate the value of a centralised repository, and I acknowledge the hard work that goes into maintaining it. That does not mean that it should be beyond criticism. I wrote out of frustration, but also because I hope things could be better.
David On Wed, 12 Jun 2019 at 23:26, Duncan Murdoch <murdoch.dun...@gmail.com> wrote: > On 12/06/2019 4:57 p.m., David Hugh-Jones wrote: > > Hi all, > > > > Not for the first time, my package has a bug that isn't found on rhub, > > travis, appveyor, or my local machine, but is found on CRAN. This time > it's > > Windows-only, so I can't even download a Docker image and investigate > that > > way. > > > > TBH I am not very enthused by having to treat CRAN servers as "ground > > truth", when there seems no way to reliably reproduce their > configuration, > > figure out what versions of packages are used, etc. Am I missing > something? > > Is another world possible? > > Nothing is forcing you to release your package on CRAN. The only > advantage to doing so is that they maintain high standards, which means > people trust them. > > Just put your package on Github, and anyone can use it, no matter how > bad it is. > > Duncan Murdoch > > > > > Anyway, the error is at: > > > https://win-builder.r-project.org/incoming_pretest/huxtable_4.6.0_20190612_195453/Windows/examples_and_tests/ > > and it seems to relate to the openxlsx package, which is on 4.1.0.1 since > > May 28 - presumably long enough for the latest version to be available on > > win-builder. Any ideas would be welcome.... > > > > David > > > > [[alternative HTML version deleted]] > > > > ______________________________________________ > > R-package-devel@r-project.org mailing list > > https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-package-devel > > > > -- Sent from Gmail Mobile [[alternative HTML version deleted]] ______________________________________________ R-package-devel@r-project.org mailing list https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-package-devel