Re: [R-pkg-devel] Questions about making a database package (Rpolyhedra)

2018-06-29 Thread Mark van der Loo
Hi Alejandro, Brooke Anderson gave a nice talk at useR!2017 addressing this exact issue. See https://schd.ws/hosted_files/user2017/19/anderson-eddelbuettel-use_r_talk.pdf for the slides. The basic idea is to use an external CRAN-like repository for the data back-end. Brooke used 'drat' to set up s

Re: [R-pkg-devel] Checksums changed on CRAN without any visible modifications to files.

2018-06-29 Thread Joris Meys
Thx Henrik. That's indeed one of the issues: right now these minor and defendable changes are not reflected in the version or filename. Hence there's really no way to know the tarball (and hence the checksums) changed other than a build suddenly failing. Our sysadmin proposed to add eg _1 or _patc

Re: [R-pkg-devel] Questions about making a database package (Rpolyhedra)

2018-06-29 Thread Dirk Eddelbuettel
On 29 June 2018 at 09:15, Mark van der Loo wrote: | Hi Alejandro, | | Brooke Anderson gave a nice talk at useR!2017 addressing this exact issue. | See | https://schd.ws/hosted_files/user2017/19/anderson-eddelbuettel-use_r_talk.pdf | for | the slides. The basic idea is to use an external CRAN-lik

Re: [R-pkg-devel] Questions about making a database package (Rpolyhedra)

2018-06-29 Thread alejandro baranek
Hello Mark, Dirk: We will study your suggestions and write back in some days with our decided approach. Thanks! Ale 2018-06-29 8:36 GMT-03:00 Dirk Eddelbuettel : > > On 29 June 2018 at 09:15, Mark van der Loo wrote: > | Hi Alejandro, > | > | Brooke Anderson gave a nice talk at useR!2017 address